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<note>7. Religious impostures | <note>(a) Simple mental injuries —<lb/>Offences tending to misapply the<lb/>force of the religious sanction.<lb/>See Princ. of legisl. Introd.<lb/>Ch. 16. [Division] 33. 33 n.<lb/>55. n.<lb/></note> | ||
<note>7. Religious impostures</note><p>Instructions <del>shewing</del> apprising the people of<lb/>the villainies that have been committed under favour<lb/>of the apprehensions entertained of the power<lb/>and malice of spiritual agents <add>beings</add>. <del>or as likewise</del><lb/>Histories of this kind are unhappily but too numerous:<lb/>though not near so much so as of the instances<lb/>in which equal or greater miseries have been inflicted<lb/><del>through</del> by process <add>under authority</add> of law through the<lb/>influence of similar delusions sincerely entertained.<lb/>There is <del>no nation</del> <add>scarce a Christian nation</add> which has not <add>had</add> tragedies of this<lb/>sort to answer for that have been occasioned by<lb/>the belief of witchcraft. Histories of the former class<lb/><del>would</del> might furnish the matter of another homily<lb/>or set of homilies which might be read in churches,<lb/>and against which in Protestant countries at least<lb/>there ought to be no objection. <add>To</add> Those of the latter class<lb/>one should be afraid of giving the like publicity: the<lb/>suffrages of so many grave and upright judges as<lb/>have been dupes of this deplorable superstition would<lb/>be apt rather to confirm <del>this prejudice</del> <add>or introduce the error</add> than to exclude<lb/>it. <note>It were much to be <lb/>wished it were possible<lb/> to get rid of the Witch<lb/> of Endor<lb/></note>I know not what mischief may have been done<lb/><del>by the Witch of Endor</del> <add><del>to hav</del> by that enchantress </add> to <add>in</add> the little country of Palestine:<lb/>but it is certain she has <add>done</add> been the occasion<lb/> <note>of</note></p> | |||
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Indirect
Corpus delicti
7. Religious impostures (a)
(a) Simple mental injuries —
Offences tending to misapply the
force of the religious sanction.
See Princ. of legisl. Introd.
Ch. 16. [Division] 33. 33 n.
55. n.
7. Religious impostures
Instructions shewing apprising the people of
the villainies that have been committed under favour
of the apprehensions entertained of the power
and malice of spiritual agents beings. or as likewise
Histories of this kind are unhappily but too numerous:
though not near so much so as of the instances
in which equal or greater miseries have been inflicted
through by process under authority of law through the
influence of similar delusions sincerely entertained.
There is no nation scarce a Christian nation which has not had tragedies of this
sort to answer for that have been occasioned by
the belief of witchcraft. Histories of the former class
would might furnish the matter of another homily
or set of homilies which might be read in churches,
and against which in Protestant countries at least
there ought to be no objection. To Those of the latter class
one should be afraid of giving the like publicity: the
suffrages of so many grave and upright judges as
have been dupes of this deplorable superstition would
be apt rather to confirm this prejudice or introduce the error than to exclude
it. It were much to be
wished it were possible
to get rid of the Witch
of Endor
I know not what mischief may have been done
by the Witch of Endor to hav by that enchantress to in the little country of Palestine:
but it is certain she has done been the occasion
of
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