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Argum. 4. It is certain both from Scripture & History that Magicians by their Inchantments & hellish Conjurations may cause a false representation of per sons & things. An inchanted by shall see such things as others cannot discern. It is a thing too well known to be denied that some by rubbing their eyes with a bewitched water have immediately thereupon seen that which others could not discern. And there are persons in the world who have a Strange Spectrall Sight. Mr Glanvill (f) speaks of a Dutchman that could see Ghosts which others could percieve nothing of. Mr George Sinclare in his book intituled Satans Invisi ble world discovered (h) hath these words "I am undoub tedly inform'd that men & women in the highlands can discern fatality approaching others by Seeing them in the waters or wth winding sheets about them. & that others can Lecture in a sheeps shoulder bone a death within the parish seven or eight days before it come. It is not improba ble but that such preternaturall knowledge comes first by a compact wth ye Devil, & is derived downward by succes sion to their posterity. many such I suppose are innocent & have this sight against their will and inclination." Thus Mr Sinclare. I concurr wth his supposall yt such Knowledge is originally from Satan, and perhaps the effect of some old inchantment. There are some at this day in the world, that if they come into an house, where one in the family will dy within a fortnight, the smell of a dead corpse offends them to such a degree as that they cannot stay in that house. It is reported that neare unto the Abby of St Maurice in Burgundy (i) there is a fishpond

(f) in his Sad- ducism triumph p (h) p. 215 (i) Vairus de Trascius. lib 2