. 51. 516.

Let me further add here; It has very seldom been known, that Satan has
Personated innocent Men doing an ill thing, but Providence has found
out some way for their Vindication; either they have been able to prove
that they were in another place when that Fact was done, or the like. So
that perhaps there never was an Instance of any innocent Person
Condemned in any Court of Judicature on Earth, only through Satans
deluding and imposing on the Imaginations of Men, when nevertheless, the
Witnesses, Juries, and Judges, were all to be excused from blame.

Arg. 4. _It is certain both from Scripture and History, that Magicians
by their Inchantments and Hellish Conjurations, may cause a false
Representation of Persons and Things._ An inchanted eye shall see such
things as others cannot discern; it is a thing too well known to be
denied, that some by rubbing their eyes with a bewitched Water, have
immediately thereupon seen that which others could not discern; and
there are Persons in the World, who have a strange _Spectral sight_. Mr.
_Glanvil_[28] speaks of a Dutchman that could see Ghosts which others
could perceive nothing of. There are in _Spain_ a sort of men whom they
call _Zahurs_, these can see into the Bowels of the Earth; they are able
to discover Minerals and hidden Treasures; nevertheless, they have their
extraordinary sight only on _Tuesdays_ and _Fridays_, and not on the
other days of the Week. _Delrio_ saith, that when he was at _Madrid_,
_Anno Dom. 1575._ he saw some of these strange sighted Creatures. Mr.
_George Sinclare_, in his Book Entituled, _Satans Invisible World
discovered_,[29] has these Words, 'I am undoubtedly informed, that men
and women in the High-lands can discern Fatality approaching others, by
seeing them in the Waters or with Winding Sheets about them. And that
others can lecture in a Sheeps shoulder-bone a Death within the Parish
seven or eight Days before it come. It is not improbable but that such
Preternatural Knowledge comes first by a Compact with the Devil, and is
derived downward by Succession to their Posterity: Many such I suppose
are Innocent, and have this sight against their Will and Inclination.'
Thus Mr. _Sinclare_, I concur with his supposal, that such Knowledge is
originally from Satan, and perhaps the Effect of some old Inchantment.
There are some at this day in the World, that if they come into a House
where one of the Family will die within a Fortnight, the sme