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Argum. 4. It is certain both from scripture and history that magicians by their enchantments & hellish conjurations may cause a false representation of persons and things. An enchanted 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 spectral sight. Mr. Glanvill (f) speaks of a Dutchman that could see ghosts which others could perceive nothing of. Mr. George Sinclare in his book entitled "Satan's Invisible World Discovered" (h) hath these words "I am undoubtedly informed that men & women in the highlands can discern fatality approaching others by seeing them in the waters or with winding sheets about them and that others can lecture in a sheep's shoulder bone a death within the parish seven or eight days before it come. It is not improbable but that such preternatural knowledge comes first by a compact with the Devil, and is derived downward by succession to their posterity. Many such I suppose are innocent and have this sight against their will and inclination." Thus Mr. Sinclare. I concur with his supposal that such knowledge is originally from Satan, and perhaps the effect of some old enchantment. There are some at this day in the world, that if they come into a house, where one in the family will die 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 near 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