The Damned Art of Witchcraft — William Perkins

The Damned Art of Witchcraft · William Perkins

The Table of the Texts of Scripture.

Chap.	vers.	Pag.
Genesis.
3	20.	226
12	8	226
30	37	141
37	7	94	9	94
41	25	94
44	5	69
Exodus.
7	21	166	11	163	12	165
8	14	166	19	40. 164	8	165
14	21	13
22	18	1	20	182
32	28	254
9	11	164
Leuiticus.
16	8	106
19	31	121
20	27	121
29	19	182
Numbers.
12	6	93
22	6	129
23	23	130
25	8	254
35	31	180. 183
Deuteronom.
1	17	93
13	1	38	2	103	3	93	5	182	6	250
17	3	249
18	9	220	10	67. 73. 92	11	43. 108	121. 127	18	228
20	5	225
Iosh…a.
7	15	106
10	13	14
14	2	106
I. Samuel.
10	21	106
15	23	8
28	8	126	9	122	19	62.108
I. Kings.
17	21	116
22	22	40
II. Kings.
2	21	245
4	34	116
13	21	242
20	11	14
II. Chron.
30	18	226
Iob.
1	16	28	21	157
33	15	94
Psalmes.
58	5	42. 143
92	10	221
106	30	235
136	4	15
Proverbes.
16	33	106
18	18	106
Ecclesiastes.
1	9	64
9	2	223
10	11	128
Isaiah.
8	19	108	20	ibid.
47	13	74
Ieremie.
23	25	93
Ezekiel.
21	21	67
Daniel.
2	1	102	2	74
3	25	14
4	30	34
6	22	14
8	16	102
11	3	58
Matthew.
1	20	94
2	13	ibid.
4	9	43
7	22	23. 35
12	27	234
14	20	14
20	34	17
Marke.
5	12	41
16	17	234. 237
16	18	232	19	ibid.
Luke.
10	17	36	18	227
12	54	71
13	16	222
Iohn.
11	43	17
Acts.
3	6	151	12	16	16	151
5	15	242
7	22	82
8	9	173
10	11	126
13	6	173	8	ibid.
16	16	122. 151
19	12	242	13	2…5. 240
Romanes.
8	1	199
I. Corinth.
6	5	230
12	vlt.	36
14	22	233
II. Corinth.
4	4	5
11	14	147
12	2	124
Galatians.
3	1	23. 158
5	20	179
Ephesians.
6	12	5
Philippians.
2	10	241
Colossians.
2	15	198
II. Thessal.
2	9	28. 238	10	39	11	ibid.
I. Timoth.
1	20	230
4	4	245
II. Timoth.
3	8	160. 163
Hebrewes.
10	28	182
Reuelat.
14	13	110. 115
21	8	179
22	15	ibid.
"Ecclesiasticus."
46	20	112
Tobit.
6	7	226

FINIS.

A Discourse of Witchcraft.

Exod. 22. 18.

Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to liue.

THis text containeth one of the Iudiciall Lawes of Moses touching the punishment of Witchcraft: which argument I hauehave chosen to intreat of, for these causes:

First, because Witchcraft is arife and common sinne in these our daies, and very many are intangled with it, beeing either practitioners thereof in their owne persons, or at the least, yeilding to seeke for helpe and counsell of such as practise it.

Againe, there be sundrie men who receiue it for a truth, that Witchcraft is nothing else but a meere illusion, and Witches nothing but persons deluded by the Deuill: and this opinion takes place not onelyonly with the ignorant, but is holden and maintained by such as are learned, who doe auouch it by word and writing, that there be no witches, but as I said before.

VponUpon these and such like considerations, I hauehave beene mooued to vndertake the Interpretation of this Iudiciall law, as a sufficient ground of the doctrine which shall be deliuered. In handling whereof, two things are distinctly to be considered. The first, what is a Witch. The second, what is her due and deserued punishment. And both these beeing opened and handled, the whole meaning of the law will the better appeare.

For the first. To giuegive the true descriptiō of a Witch, is a matter of great difficultie, because there be many differences and diuersities of opinions touching this point; and therefore that we may properly and truly define a Witch, we must first pause a while in opening the nature of Witchcraft, so farre forth as it is deliuered in the bookes of the Old and New Testament, and may be gathered out of the true experience of learned and godly men.

Touching Witchcraft therefore I will consider three points:

I. What witchcraft is.

II. What is the ground of the whole practise thereof.

III. How many kinds and differences there be of it.

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p. 1A Discourse of Witchcraft.

A Discourse of Witchcraft.