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" ... it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the 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... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 141
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1924
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 29

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...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 1

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...
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Waldie's Select Circulating Library, Volume 15

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...
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 3

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...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 3

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...
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Volumes 1-2

Charles Mackay - Delusions - 1850 - 776 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...
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Chambers's papers for the people, Parts 13-18

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...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

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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