Of credulity and incredulity, in things natural, civil, and divine. Wherein, among other things, the sadducism of these times, in denying spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances, and evidences, is fully confuted: Epicurus his cause, discussed, and the jugling and false dealing, lately used, to bring him and atheism, into credit, clearly discovered: the use and necessity of ancient learning, against the innovating humour, all along proved, and asserted
Meric Casaubon's 1668 London treatise, printed for T. Garthwait, argues against the denial of spirits and witches and defends ancient learning for English scholarly and clerical readers. Its printed ornament consists of woodcut initials — capitals set in squares of dense curling acanthus, plus a foliate H — and an engraved quartered coat of arms with lions, scrollwork and ribbon, useful as drop caps, borders and heraldic devices.




