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42 Luke 4.30. See in Bernards Guide to Juries in Cases of Witchcraft p. 136. 134. 135. Altho^ the Divels accusation may be so far regarded as to cause an Enquiry into the truth of things, Job. 1. 11&12 & 1.5, b. yet not so as to be [crossed out] Evidence ^or ground of Conviction. The Persons concerning whom the Question is so things [there]on Diabolicall Mediums, on which ac- count their Evidence is not meer Humane Testimo ny, and If in any part Diabolicall, it is not to be owned as Authentick, for the Divels testimony ought not to be received neither in whole nor in part. 6 Let them that say this is an Infallible proof produce any word out of the Law of God to prove such an assertion. The word of God instructs Juries and Judges to proceed upon Cleer [?] Humane Testi mony. Num. 35.90 But the word gives us nowhere intimation, that everyone is a witch at whose Looke the bewitched person shall fall into fitts. Nor yet that any other means should be used for the dis- covering of witches, then what may be used for find ing out of murderers, ^secret Adulterers, or Other Criminally. Wee proceed now to the Third Case proposed to consi deration. If the things which have been mentioned are not infallible proofs of guilt in the accused party. It is the Queried whether