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an Evidence Supposed to be in the Testimony which is heavily to be Weighed, & if it does​ not infallibly prove the Crime against the person accused, it ought not to determine him guilty of it for so righteous men may be condemned unjustly. In case of Witchcraft we know that the Devil is the immediate agent in the mischief done, the consent or compact of the witch is the thing to be demonstrated. Among many arguments to evince this that which is most under present debate, is that which -- something vulgarly called spectre evidence and a certain sort of ordeal or trial by this sight and touch. The principal plea to justify the convictive evidence is fetched from the consideration of the wisdom and justice of God in governing the works in which they suppose would fair if such things were permitted to befall an innocent person, but it is certain that too [absolute?] conclusions drawn from Hence, are bold usurpations upon Spotless Sovereignty , & tho some things if suffered to be common would subvert this Government and disband yea ruine Humane Society; yet God doth sometime suffer such things.