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an Evidence Supposed to be in the Testimony which is the only to be Weighed, & if it does not infallibly prove the Crime against the person accused, it ought not to determine him Guilty of it forso righteous, men may be condemned unjustly. In case of witchcraft we know that the Divel is the imediate agent in the mischeif done, the Consent or Compact of the witch is the thing to be demonstratted. Among many Arguments to evince this that which is most under present debate is that which refers to something vulgarly called _Spec- tre evidence_ and a certain sort of ordeal or tryall by the Sight and Touch. The princi- pal plea to justify the convictive evidence of[?] those is fetched from the consideration of the wis- dome and Justice of God in Governing the work which they suppose would fail if such things were permitted to befall an incocent person. but it is certain that too resolute conclusi- ons drawn from Hence, are bold usurpations upon spotless[?] _Soveraignty_, & the somethings if suffered to be common would subvert this Government & disband yea ruins Humane Society; yet God doth sometimes suffer such things.