And this hee doth of set purpose, that so his sophisticall & doubtfull
words might be the lesse perceiued.
Neither can this seeme strange to any, that the Diuell should speake,
who brought a voyce from Trees to salute[r] _Apollonius_, and inspired
that talkatiue Oke in _Dodona_, famous for the Oracles vttered there in
Heroicall verse, to the Grecians, and to euery nation in his owne
language, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Armenians, and other people who were led
by him, and depended vpon his resolution.
[Footnote r: _Philostratus de vita Apollonius lib. 6. cap. 13._]
And thus the [s]Image of _Memnon_, when the Sunne did shine vpon it, and
his beames touched the lips thereof, (which was at the arising in the
East) speake vnto them who were present.
[Footnote s: _Sophocles in Trachinijs vocat +drun poluglôsson+,
quia ut eius Scholiastes interpretatur +êtoi polla manteuomenos,
kai dia touto polla phthengomenos, ê tês diaphorais dialektais
chrêsmodêsês kai kata tên hekasta tôn manteuomenôn glôssan.+ Et
hinc Argo Lycophron in Alexandra sua +lalêtrin kissan+ nominat quæ
ex Didones quercu malum habuisse traditur quæ aliqoties locuta est
vt apud Apollonium Argonautic+ô+n quarto ideo & +eulalon Argos+
Orpheus appelat, vide plura apud Strabonem lib. 17. & eius de hoc
sono iudicium perpende. Pausanias in descriptione decem regionum
veteris Græciæ, libro primo in Atticis. Iuuenalis Satyro 15.
Psellus de Dæmonum natura. Tacitus libro secundo Annalium._]
And considering, as hath beene mentioned before, that there passeth
betweene the Witch and her Diuell, a compact, as with a Maister and a
Seruant, it must therefore consist vppon prescript tearmes of
commaunding, and obeying; and then of necessity is required a conuersing
together; and conference whereby the same couenant may be ratified.
_The sixt Proposition._
God giueth, both the diuell, and his seruants the witches, power
sometimes to trouble his owne children; so [a]Christ our blessed
Sauiour, was by Sathan carryed from place to place, _Math. 4. 5_.
_Iob_[b] in strange manner afflicted, and his children slaine, through
his power, whom none can conceiue but were Gods seruants, religiously
brought vp in his feare: and their father hath an honourable testimonie
from the mouth of God himselfe, _Iob 1. ver. 8_. _Dauid_, a man
according to Gods owne heart, _Acts 13. 22._ is by Sathan stirred vp to
number the people, _1. Chron. 21. 1._ and that incuriosity and the pride
of his heart, onelie to know the multitude of his subiects, _2. Sam.
24. 2._
[Footnote a: _Iaquerius in flagello hereticorum fascinariorum,
cap. 19 & 20._]
[Footnote b: _Binfeldius de confessionibus maleficorum._]
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