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" Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay... "
The Life and Times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley, M.A.: Rector of Epworth and ... - Page 350
by Luke Tyerman - 1866 - 472 pages
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The Ordeal of Prohibition

Clarence Darrow - 1925 - 70 pages
...in witches, but he still contended that witchcraft was a fact. He regarded the general disbelief "a compliment which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it," and said that the "giving up ot witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible." The story of witchcraft...
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John Wesley: A Portrait

Abram Lipsky - 1928 - 336 pages
...witchcraft. "I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest," he wrote, "against the violent compliment which so many that believe the Bible pay to those that do not believe it. With my last breath will I bear testimony against giving up to infidels one...
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Beiblatt zur Anglia, Volume 29

1918 - 396 pages
...in Europe, have given up all accounts of -witches and apparitions äs mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it, and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solenm protest against this violent compliment which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who...
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What Is Spiritualism, Who Are These Spiritualists, and What Has Spiritualism ...

J. M. Peebles - 1996 - 142 pages
...have given tip all ;v counts of apparitions as mere old wives' fables. I am •sorry for it, and 1 willingly take this opportunity of entering my .solemn...violent compliment which so many that believe the Piible pay to those who do not believe it. I owe them no such service. They well know (whether Christians...
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You Are Sentenced to Life

W. D. Chesney - 1996 - 144 pages
...have given up all accounts of apparitions as mere old wives tales. I am sorry for it, and willing to take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest...this violent compliment which so many that believe in the Bible pay to those who do not believe it. They know that if but one account of the intercourse...
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Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951

Owen Davies - 1999 - 358 pages
...all account of witches and apparitions as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it, and I willing take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest...this violent compliment which so many that believe in the Bible pay to those who do not believe it ... the giving up of witchcraft is in effect giving...
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Salem Witchcraft, Volume 1

Charles Wentworth Upham - 2000 - 808 pages
...men in Enrope, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it; and I willingly take this opportunity...to those who do not believe it. I owe them no such senice. I take knowledge, these are at the bottom of the outcry which has been raised, and with such...
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New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft ..., Volume 5

Levack, Brian Paul Levack - 2001 - 556 pages
...learning in fcurnpe, have given up all accoonts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives fahles. I am sorry for it, and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn prutest agaiast this violent compliment which so many that helieve in the Bihle pay t0 those who do...
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Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief

Walter Stephens - 2002 - 473 pages
...accounts of witches and apparitions as mere old wives' fables." "I am sorry for it," he thundered, "and I willingly take this opportunity of entering...believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it." If only one account of ghosts or witchcraft could be proved true, Wesley fantasized, "all theirDeism,...
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The Church of England in Industrialising Society: The Lancashire Parish of ...

Michael Francis Snape - 2003 - 246 pages
...learning in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions as mere old-wives' fables. I am sorry for it, and I willingly take this opportunity...believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it ... these are at the bottom of the outcry which has been raised and with such insolence spread throughout...
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