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The first _case_ which I am desired to express my judgmen^t in, is this, _Whether it is not possible for the Divel to impose on the im aginations of persons bewitched and to cause them to beleive y^t an Inocent, yea that a pious person does torment them = when y^e Div^l himself doth it, or whether Satan may not appear in the shape of a pious & Inocent as well as in the shape of a nocent & wicked person to afflict such as suffer - by Diabolical molestations?_

The _Answer_ to the Question must be _Affirma tive._ Let the following Arguments bee duely= weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary.

Argum. 1. Ther are severall Scriptures

from which wee may infer the possibility of 

what is affirmed. 1. Wee find _that the Divel by the instigation of the witch at Endor ap= peard in the Likeness of the Prophet Samuel. I am not Ignorant that some have offered that which if it were proved would evert this ar= gum^t viz: that it was the true and [scratched out word] not a de= lusive Samuel which the witch brought to converse with Saul. Of this Opinion are