 To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world...  Books 3 & 4 - Page 369by William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1860 - 436 pages
...guilty of a misdemeanour. " The thing itself," says our great commentator, speaking on this subject, " is a truth to which every nation in the world hath...prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." And let us listen, moreover, with reverential faith to the voice of... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 pages
...at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and Xew Testament ; and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its tarn, borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at... | |
 | American periodicals - 1861 - 606 pages
...is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament; and the thing itself is a truth to which...prohibitory laws which at least suppose the possibility of commune with evil spirits." Before that century closed, unsanctified philosophy had attained the acme... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 770 pages
...IV. U would be to contradict [the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament ; and the thing itself, is a truth to which...prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits. The civil law punishes with death not only the sorcerers themselves,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and Xew Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which...or by prohibitory laws ; which at least suppose the possibiîitj- of commerce with evil spirits. The civil law punishes with death not only the sorcerers... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Salem (Mass.) - 1867 - 578 pages
...at once flatly to contradict the revealed Word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which...suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits." It is related, in "White's " Natural History of Selborne," that, in the year 1751, the people of Tring,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Salem (Mass.) - 1867 - 582 pages
...various passages both of the Old nnd New Testament; and the thing itself is a truth to which ey.ry nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples scemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Planchette - 1869 - 134 pages
...is at once flatly to contradict the revealed Word of God in various passages of both the Old and New Testament ; and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which, at least,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Psychology - 1869 - 412 pages
...is at once flatly to contradict the revealed Word of God in various passages of both the Old and New Testament ; and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath borne testimony, either by examples seemingly 'well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which, at least,... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Apparitions - 1871 - 468 pages
...alleged crime against man's allegiance to God? that a jurist so eminent as Blackstone declared it to be a " truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony ?''* that Sir Thomas Browne, physician, philosopher, and scholar, testified in court to the same effect... | |
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