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1681 · Saducismus Triumphatus

Joseph Glanvill; with Henry More and Anthony Horneck · 1681

Saducismus Triumphatus

Joseph Glanvill, Anglican clergyman and Fellow of the Royal Society, believed that denying witches and spirits led straight to denying God. After his death in 1680 his friend the Cambridge Platonist Henry More completed and published this book. It opens with More's long letter, followed by Glanvill's philosophical considerations on the possibility of witchcraft and More's account of the nature of a spirit. The second part offers proof from Scripture and a large collection of modern relations, among them the drummer of Tedworth and many English cases, and closes with Anthony Horneck's translation of the Swedish account of the witches of Mohra. The text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription of the 1681 edition.

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Contents

  1. 1.Title page, dedication, and the publisher to the reader1,115 w.
  2. 2.Dr Henry More’s letter, with the postscript, to Mr J. G., part 1 of 34,328 w.
  3. 3.Dr Henry More’s letter, with the postscript, to Mr J. G., part 2 of 34,895 w.
  4. 4.Dr Henry More’s letter, with the postscript, to Mr J. G., part 3 of 34,846 w.
  5. 5.Part I: title page, dedication to the Duke of Richmond, and preface2,511 w.
  6. 6.Part I: Some considerations about witchcraft, in a letter to Robert Hunt, part 1 of 54,517 w.
  7. 7.Part I: Some considerations about witchcraft, in a letter to Robert Hunt, part 2 of 54,683 w.
  8. 8.Part I: Some considerations about witchcraft, in a letter to Robert Hunt, part 3 of 54,073 w.
  9. 9.Part I: Some considerations about witchcraft, in a letter to Robert Hunt, part 4 of 53,607 w.
  10. 10.Part I: Some considerations about witchcraft, in a letter to Robert Hunt, part 5 of 54,803 w.
  11. 11.The easie, true and genuine notion of the nature of a spirit, part 1 of 44,133 w.
  12. 12.The easie, true and genuine notion of the nature of a spirit, part 2 of 44,450 w.
  13. 13.The easie, true and genuine notion of the nature of a spirit, part 3 of 44,347 w.
  14. 14.The easie, true and genuine notion of the nature of a spirit, part 4 of 44,179 w.
  15. 15.Part II: introduction, and the proof of apparitions, spirits and witches from Scripture, part 1 of 44,472 w.
  16. 16.Part II: introduction, and the proof of apparitions, spirits and witches from Scripture, part 2 of 44,954 w.
  17. 17.Part II: introduction, and the proof of apparitions, spirits and witches from Scripture, part 3 of 45,040 w.
  18. 18.Part II: introduction, and the proof of apparitions, spirits and witches from Scripture, part 4 of 44,463 w.
  19. 19.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 1 of 124,300 w.
  20. 20.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 2 of 124,336 w.
  21. 21.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 3 of 124,193 w.
  22. 22.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 4 of 124,506 w.
  23. 23.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 5 of 125,154 w.
  24. 24.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 6 of 124,892 w.
  25. 25.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 7 of 124,434 w.
  26. 26.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 8 of 124,639 w.
  27. 27.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 9 of 123,854 w.
  28. 28.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 10 of 124,713 w.
  29. 29.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 11 of 124,201 w.
  30. 30.Part II: a choice collection of modern relations, part 12 of 124,759 w.
  31. 31.A relation of the strange witchcraft discovered at Mohra in Sweden5,723 w.