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the truth of that Gospel: but that Such a gift-- Should be annoseed so that Touch of [smear] wicked witches as an infallible Sign of their guilt is not easie to be believed. It is a thing ever known that if a per- son possessed by an Evil Spirit is (as often it so happen) never so outragious while a good man is praying with and for the afflicted, Let him Lay his hand on them and the Evil Spirit is Quiet. I hope this is no Evidence of any Covenant or voluntary Commu nion between the good man that is praying and that Evil Spirit. No more doth that Case before us Evince any Such Thing. 4. Ther are that question the Lawfullness of the Expe- riment. For if this healing power in the witch is not a Divine but a Diabolical gift it may be dangerous to meddle too much with it. If the witch may be ordered to touch the afflicted persons in order to their healing or recovery out of a Sick fitt, why may not the deseased person be ordered to touch the witch for the Same Cause? & if touch him why not to Scratch him and to [??] blood out of him which is but an harder kind of touch? But as for this Jerkins doubts not to call it a practice of witchcraft. It is not safe to medd dle with any of the Divine Sacraments or institu tions