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the least reasonable doubt remaining, whether the Divel alone or with the consent and contrast of the suspected person hath produced that wonder- ful effect; with what Religion or Reason [illegible] man incline rather to credit the Divels mouth in the bewitched, then to pity the accused, and so [illegible] them against the subtilty of a deceitful divel? If the Divel of Divine [illegible], may cause supernaturall concomitance and consequence to attend the natural actions of men without their allowance, as is [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] per- son how is it reasonable and [illegible], that [illegible] positions of the Divel should be [illegible] unto any man? And saith he / God forbid that the Divels signs and wonders [illegible] [illegible] his [illegible] should become [illegible] all allegations or evidences in sane. we may therfore [illegible] it unjust that the fore named miraculory effect by the Divell wrought and [illegible] by the bewitched, should be [illegible] an infallible mark against any man as therfore convinced a witch. for that the Divel and the bewitched have so decyphered him! [illegible] [illegible] learn- ed man. But to the case in hand I have [illegible]- [illegible] all things to offer. It is possible that the persons [illegible] may be possessed with a [illegible]daemon. That bewitched per- sons [illegible] many [illegible] possessed with evil spirits is most certain. And as M Perkins ob- serves, no man can prove but that witchcraft might