the Womb is attended with many Inconveniencies, for Nature not having
sufficient room to frame her Work in, the Child is rumpled up, which
occasions some to have hump'd Backs, crooked Arms, and Legs, round
Shoulders, Wry Necks, and the like.

The divine Cause of these Monstrous Generations, proceeds from the
permissive Will of our Great Creator, who many times suffers Parents to
bring forth such Deform'd Creatures as a Punishment for their Lust: And
some Authors are of Opinion, that outward deformity of Body is generally
a Sign of the Pollution of the Heart, as a Curse upon the Child for the
Incontinency of the Parents.

In the Writings of some Authors mention is made of Monsters engender'd
by infernal Spirits; and as the Scriptures give us to understand that
the Angels being taken with the Beauty of the Daughters of Men, went in
unto them, and that from such a Conjunction, Giants were Born, so we may
infer that if Angels can mix Amorously with Women, and engender
Children, the Devils who only differ from Angels by their Fall, may also
draw Women into immodest Pleasures, and Defile them with their Embraces:
But it is highly inconsistent to suppose that our Creator who is all
Purity, would permit the worst of Spirits to propogate his diabolical
Offspring.

Devils assuming to themselves Human Shapes, in the opinion of Ancient
Writers, may abuse both Men and Women, and with wicked People use carnal
Copulation. St. _Austin_ yields to this Notion, and that Generation may
thereby be effected; but his Opinion was grounded more upon the
depositions of Melancholly superstitious Persons, than from any
demonstrable Proofs; and 'tis impossible that such an unnatural
Conjunction can produce a humane Creature, though some will have it that