| William Harris - 1814 - 470 pages
...crime : so that it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof: no, not so much as their eyes are able to shed tears (threaten... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...out blood ; so it appears, that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof. No, not so much as there eyes are able to shed teares (threaten... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...out blood; so it appears, that God hath appointed (fora supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof. No, not so much as there eyes are able to shed teares (threaten... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 492 pages
...murderer : so it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof." It is amusing, in these enlightened times, to find his Majesty... | |
| Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...the murderer: so it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof." It is amusing, in these enlightened times, to find his majesty... | |
| John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...ie " fleeting on the water," observes that " it appeares that God hath appointed for a snpernatural signe of the monstrous impietie of Witches, that the...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof." In " Molinaei Vates," p. 237 : "Crasso sane errore pntantur... | |
| John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...of trying a witch, ie "fleeting on the water," observes that " it appeares that God hath appointed for a supernatural signe of the monstrous impietie...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof." Other methods of detecting a witch were by burning the thatch... | |
| Charles Mackay - Delusions - 1850 - 772 pages
...appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom, that...have ' shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof ; no, not so much as their eyes are able to shed tears (threaten... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...crime) ; so that it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof ; no, not SO much as their eyes are able to shed tears (threaten... | |
| John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1853 - 520 pages
...; — so that it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive...have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and •wilfully refused the benefit thereof." Yet the guilt of not a single person, executed for that... | |
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