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 destroyed innocent persons for Witches, and that watching and Torture have extorted extraordinay Confessions from some that were not guilty.

Seventhly and Lastly, I grant the Transactions of Spirits with Witches, which we affirm to be true and certain, are many of them very strange and uncouth, and that we can scarce give any account of the Reasons of them, or well reconcile many of those passages to the commonly received Notion of Spirits, and the State of the next World.

If these Concessions will do mine Adversaries in this Question any good, they have them freely. And by them I have already almost spoiled all Mr. Webster's and Mr. Wagstaff's, and the other Witch-Advocates Books, which prove little else than what I have here granted. And having, been so free in Concessions, I may expect that something should be granted me from the other party.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Those that are mentioned in the second Concession, though they are not Atheists, Sadducees nor Hobbists, yet if they deny Witches, it is plainly they are Antiscripturists, the Scripture so plainly attesting the contrary.

SECT. V.

The Postulata which the Author demands of his Adversaries as his just right.

The demands that I make are; First, That whether Witches are or are not, is a question of Fact: For it is in effect, whether any Men or Women have been, or are in Covenant with Evil Spirits, and whether they by the Spirits help, or he on their account performs such or such things.