Essays On Various Subjects of Ecclesiastical History And Antiquity
Essays On Various Subjects of Ecclesiastical History And Antiquity
James Townley
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'"^^ But whatever opinion may be formed of such acts as the preceding, every one, w^ho seriously reflects upon the subject, must condemn those irreverent and low modes of divination or fortune- telling by the Bible, which in opposition to its condemnation of all such arts, have been prac- tised, and in some instances, still are practised by those who profess to venerate its holy and sublime doctrines. In the '^ Dialogue of Dives and Pauper, '' printed by Richard Pynson, 1493, fol. Among superst...itious practices then in use, we find the following censured: — "Or use any charmes in gadering of herbes, or hangyng of scrowes (scrolls) aboute man or woman, or childe, or beest, for any sicknesse, with any Scripture, or figures and Carectes, * but if it be Pater Nos- (13) Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities, by EUis, pp. 627, 628. * '* Carectes. "' See p. 70, preceding ; to v/hich we may add, that Lodge, in his " Incarnate Devils, '' 4to. Lond. 159G, speaking of Curiosity, says ; " If you long to know this Slave, you shall never take him without a Book of Characters in his bosome.
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