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A MEDLEY, igi
ascertains the different degrees of heat in the blood
of an enthusiast. When the liquid ascends, it
rises from luke-rvarm, to love-heat,—ecstacy! con-
vulsion-jits,—madness,—and terminates in raving,
which is properly obscured by clouds, and above
the ken of human comprehension. In its falling
state, the progress of religious depression is most
accurately marked. From loin spirits it sinks to
sorrow, agony, settled'grief, despair, madness,—
suicide! The whole rests-on Wesley's sermons,
and Glanville on witches,*
" On the late John Westers particular opinions I do not
presume to make any comment; but his zealous and unre-
mitting exertions in what he deemed a good cause, added to
the primitive simplicity of his manners, entitled him to high
respect. Mr. Gtaaville was the patriarch of witchcraft, and
therefore a very proper high-priest in the temple of credu-
lity. As his book gained him a good benefice! and as a num-
ber of his proselytes consider Saddacismus Triumpbattis
entitled to equal credence with holy writ, I have subjoined
a few extracts for the edification of those who may not think
the whole volume from which ihey are taken worth perusal.
It abounds, with examples of barbarity, flowing from a-
blind and bigotted credulity, at which human nature
A relation of the strange witchcraft, discovered in the
village of Mohra, in Swedeland, about the year 1670.
*' The news of this witchcraft coming to the king's ear,
" his majesty was pleased to appoint commissioners, some of
" the clergy, and some of the laity, to make a journey to the
" town abovementioned to examine the whole business. The
" commissioners met on the 12th of August, at the parson's
" house, and to them the minister, and several people of fa-
ascertains the different degrees of heat in the blood
of an enthusiast. When the liquid ascends, it
rises from luke-rvarm, to love-heat,—ecstacy! con-
vulsion-jits,—madness,—and terminates in raving,
which is properly obscured by clouds, and above
the ken of human comprehension. In its falling
state, the progress of religious depression is most
accurately marked. From loin spirits it sinks to
sorrow, agony, settled'grief, despair, madness,—
suicide! The whole rests-on Wesley's sermons,
and Glanville on witches,*
" On the late John Westers particular opinions I do not
presume to make any comment; but his zealous and unre-
mitting exertions in what he deemed a good cause, added to
the primitive simplicity of his manners, entitled him to high
respect. Mr. Gtaaville was the patriarch of witchcraft, and
therefore a very proper high-priest in the temple of credu-
lity. As his book gained him a good benefice! and as a num-
ber of his proselytes consider Saddacismus Triumpbattis
entitled to equal credence with holy writ, I have subjoined
a few extracts for the edification of those who may not think
the whole volume from which ihey are taken worth perusal.
It abounds, with examples of barbarity, flowing from a-
blind and bigotted credulity, at which human nature
A relation of the strange witchcraft, discovered in the
village of Mohra, in Swedeland, about the year 1670.
*' The news of this witchcraft coming to the king's ear,
" his majesty was pleased to appoint commissioners, some of
" the clergy, and some of the laity, to make a journey to the
" town abovementioned to examine the whole business. The
" commissioners met on the 12th of August, at the parson's
" house, and to them the minister, and several people of fa-