A Guide to Grand-Jury Men

...as He did the Egyptians; or for the earth to open and swallow us up, as it did the rebel Korah original: "Corah"; Korah led a rebellion against Moses and was swallowed by the earth, as described in Numbers 16. and his company. He can make the wicked of the world rise up and kill one another, as seen in 2 Chronicles 20:23. Indeed, He has devils at His command to go out and torment men, as in 1 Samuel 16:15. He can even let them loose to work for witches, so that they may fulfill their desires upon the wicked, to ensure that men always fear and tremble before Him.

II. When afflicted, we must not curse or blaspheme, as Satan labors to make men do, and as the wicked will do. Nor should we be furiously enraged against suspected instruments In the context of the 17th century, "instruments" refers to the human beings—the suspected witches—believed to be the cause of one's misfortune., as vain, dissolute, and irreligious people commonly do. Such people immediately desire to be revenged on them, as if those individuals were the only ones who afflicted them. Instead, men ought first, with all reverence and fear, to acknowledge that everything that happens...