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[underlined: by some providence discovers the fraud of the Devils that to the Innocent may be vindicated, or if not it is to bring to Repentance for some sin or to try their patience.] It is hard to see such words dropping from the pen of a Jesuit. As for Protestant writers, I cannot call to mind one of any note that doth deny the possibility of the affirmative in the question before us. [margin note: a/ printed at Frankfurt anon 1689] Dr. [Henkelius?] hath lately published (a) learned & elaborate discourse concerning [underlined: the right method of turning such as are obsessed with {illegible} demons] in which (page 105) he asserts that [underlined: Satan may possibly assume the form of innocent & pious persons that so thereby he might destroy their reputations & {illegible} to undue punishments.] As for our English [Didmos?] there are not many greater [Casuists?] then Mr. Perkins. Nor do I know any one that hath written on the case of witchcraft with more [illegible] general & clearness of understanding. He hath these words (b) [underlined: If a man being dangerously sick & like to dy upon suspition will take it upon his death, that such an one hath bewitched him , why an allegation with may move the Judge to examine the party, but is of no moment for conviction.] The like [illegible] by Mr. Cooper (c) Mr. Bernard (once a famous minister at Batcomb in Somerset his book called [underlined: A Guide to Grand Jury men in cases of witchcraft], [illegibile]