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From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors concerning that subject?
Answ. From neither of both, but from experience, which though it be meanly esteemed of, yet the surest and safest way to judge by.

— Matthew Hopkins The Discovery of Witches (1647)

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That he must needs be the greatest Witch, Sorcerer, and Wizzard himselfe, else hee could not doe it.
Answ. If Satans kingdome be divided against it selfe, how shall it stand?

The Discovery of Witches (1647)

Exod.22.18,
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

The Discovery of Witches (1647)

Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like an Oxe, with a long taile and broad eyes, who when this discoverer spoke to, and bade him goe to the place provided for him and his Angels, immediately transformed himselfe into the shape of a child of foure yeeres old without a head, and gave halfe a dozen turnes about the house, and vanished at the doore.

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