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Whether ther are any discoveries of this crime which Jurors and Judges may with a safe conscience proceed upon, to the conviction and condemnation of the persons under suspicion. Set mee here premise two things 1 the Evidence in this crime ought be as Cleer as in any Other Crime of a Capital nature. The word of God doth nowher intimate that a less clear Evidence or that ferver or other witnesses may may be taken as sufficient to con vict a man of sorcery ^or witchcraft which would not be enoughto convict him were he charged with a- nother Evil worthy of Death. Numb. 35. 30. If wee may not take the oath of a distracted person or of a Possessed person in case of murder [illegible] [lony?] of any sort. Then neither may we doe it in case of witchcraft. 2 Let me premise this also that ther have been wayes of trying? Witches L:ong used in many Nations Especially in the dark times of [?]ayan[?]y and Popery which the righteous God ne- ver approved of: but which (as Judicious Mr. Per- kins expresseth it in plain English) were [illegible]- ed by the Divel that so inocent persons might be Condemned and Some notorious Witches E= =scape