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Thread #119459   Message #2591944
Posted By: Stringsinger
18-Mar-09 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Witch girl re buried.
Subject: RE: Folklore: Witch girl re buried.
Greg,

"In his Journal, Wesley bemoaned the decline of superstition, the advance of human thought and the more peaceable reign of Christ on the earth, in the following words: "It is true likewise, that the English in general, and, indeed, most of the men of learning in Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions as mere wives' fables. I am sorry for it. . . . The giving up of witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible!"

There is another quote that I'll try to find for you advocating the burning of witches.
He was a Calvinist.

Frank