#Melampronoea, or, A discourse of the polity and kingdom of darkness together with a solution of the chiefest objections brought against the being of witches / by Henry Hallywell.#

##Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?## Melampronoea, or, A discourse of the polity and kingdom of darkness together with a solution of the chiefest objections brought against the being of witches / by Henry Hallywell. Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?

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1. TO THE Right Worshipful Sir Iames Morton, OF SLAVGHAM, IN THE County of Sussex, Knight.

2. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.

3. THE CONTENTS.

4. The Introduction.

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1. A DISCOURSE OF THE POLITY AND Kingdom of Darkness.

   _ CHAP. 1.

   _ CHAP. II. That these lapsed Angels have formed themselves into a Polity or Kingdom of Darkness.

   _ CHAP. III. That these wicked Spirits being supposed Rational Creatures, must needs be studious in diffusing their own sinful Nature upon all capable subjects, and thereby of enlarging the bounds of their usurped Dominions.

   _ CHAP. IV. That the great end of our Saviour's coming into the World was to rescue men from the Tyranny, Slavery and Oppression of the Dark Kingdom.

   _ CHAP. V. That though men by the Gospel are freed from that slavery under the Prince of Darkness, that yet he strives to countermine the Kingdom of Light; and when men will so far reject and despise the admonitions and assistances that God affords them, he may justly suffer them to be acted and guided by evil Spirits.

   _ CHAP. VI. That nothing hinders, but having full Possession of the Minds of Men, these Evil Spirits may likewise enslave their Bodies.

   _ CHAP. VII. Of Witchcraft.

   _ OBJECTION I. That these Witches are supposed to be present at their Nocturnal Conventicles and Diabolical meetings, when their Bodies are at home; which is impossible.

   _ OBJECTION II. That these Airy Spirits are too remote, and of a Nature too sublime to have any Communication with Mortals.

   _ OBJECTION III. That it supposes Witches by the help of evil Spirits may do real Miracles.

   _ OBJECTION IV. That it gives evil Spirits and Witches too great and exorbitant a power over mankind, in that it supposes that these wicked Daemons may afflict the Bodies of others with divers diseases and torments, that they may raise Thunders, Storms and Tempests, killing Cattel and spoiling the Fruits of the Earth, and many such like pernicious and destructive things, and all this at the desire and request of a Magician or Witch.

   _ OBJECTION V. That it is very ridiculous to imagine, that Devils (though never so foul and unclean) should delight in sucking the Bloud of these accursed Hags.

   _ CHAP. VIII. Inferences drawn from the foregoing Treatise.

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