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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 Long used in many Nations Especially in the dark times of Pagancy and Popery which the righteous God ne- ver approved of: but which (as Judicious Mr. Per- kins expresseth it in plain English) were [intend?]- ed by the Divel that so inocent persons might be Condemned and Some notorious Witches E= =scape