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that before God, and that not only of such faults as they really of; as he accused Joshua of his filthy garments, when through his indulgence some of his family had transgressed by unfaithful marriage, Zech. 3:2,3 Ezra 10:18, but also with such crimes as they are altogether free from. He represents too the primitive Christians as the vilest of men and as if at their meetings they did commit the most nefarious villainies that ever were known. And that not only innocent but eminently pious persons should through the malice of the Devil be accused with the Crime of witchcraft is no new thing. Such an affliction did the Lord see meet to exercise the great Athanasius with (t) only the providence of God did wonderfully vindicate him from that as well as from some other foul aspersions. The Waldenses (although the Scriptures call them Saints, Rev.13:7) have been traduced by Satan and by the world as horrible witches. So have many others in other places, only because they have done extraordinary things by their prayers. It is, by many authors, related that a city in France was molested with a Diabolical Specter, which though people were wont to call "Hugon" for in that place a number of Protestants were wont to meet to seek God; whence the professors of the true reformed Religion were wont to be called "Huguenots", by the papists who designed to render them before the world