HALE'S A MODEST INQUIRY
A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft, and
How Persons Guilty of that Crime may be Convicted: And the means used for
their Discovery Discussed, both Negatively and Affirmatively, according to
Scripture and Experience.
By John Hale, Pastor of the Church of Christ in
Beverley, Anno Domini 1697.
When they say unto you, seek unto them that have
Familiar Spirits and unto Wizzards, that peep, etc., To the Law and to the
Testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light
in them. Isaiah VIII. 19. 20. That which I see not
teach thou me, Job 34. 32.
Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green and J. Allen,
for Benjamin Eliot under the Town House. 1702[356]
Any general Custom against the Law of God is void. St. Germans, Abridgment of Common Law. Lib. 1. C. 6.
Omnium legum est inanis censura nisi Divinæ legis imaginem
gerat.[357]
Finch, Common Law. Lib. 4. C. 3.
Where a Law is grounded upon a Presumption, if the Presumption fail the
Law is not to be holden in Conscience. Abridgment of C.
Law. Lib. 1. C. 19.[358]
Notes
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Title-page of original.
[[357].]
“No law hath any validity unless it bear the image of divine
law.”
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Reverse of title-page.
