It is, then, to the history of Adam that the critical Examinant of the Atonement theory should first direct his attention.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
On the Wednesday, he the said Francis Blandy took physick, and about two of the clock the same day, the said Mary Blandy would have had her said father taken the remainder of the said water gruel, but the other servant would not let him take it, and was going to throw it away, when she espied at the bottom of the basen some white stuff, and called to this Examinant to look at it, which she did, and the same was very white and gritty; and saith, that she heard the said Mary Blandy, declare to Doctor Addington, that she never attempted to give her said father any powder but once before, and that she then put it into his tea, which he did not drink, as it would not mix well.
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William
This examination, more, perhaps, than any of the rest, exhibits the atrocious method employed by the Examinant of causing the poor ignorant accused to own and acknowledge things put into their mouths by a manner of questioning as much to be condemned as perjury itself, inasmuch as it was sure to produce that crime.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam