First, God himselfe hath enacted that p[oe]nall statute, _Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue. Exod. 22 18._ and nameth here a [k]woman practising this damnable Art for two reasons: First, they are more inclinable hereunto then man. Secondly, that though their fault may seeme, as being the weaker, excuseable, and is in this respect extenuated by some, yet is not therefore to bee spared, whether of that sort which they call [l]good, or bad (for so are they distinguished) & there be some who neuer brought[m] harme vpon any in body, goods, or minde. The cause of this so sharpe a doome, is their compacting with the Diuell, openly or secretly, whereby they couenant to vse his helpe, in fulfilling their desires, and by this meanes make themselues guilty of horrible impiety: for in this they renounce the Lord, who hath created them; make no account of his fauour and protection, cut themselues off from the couenant made with him in baptisme, from the communion of Saints, the true fellowship and seruice of God; and on the contrary yeeld themselues by this confederacy, to Sathan, as their God (and therefore nothing more frequent and vsuall in their mouthes, then my God will do this and that for me) him they continually feare and honour. And thus do at the last become professed enemies both to God and Man. You may adde to this former law, that which is _Leuit. 19. 26._ & _cap. 6_. _You shall vse no inchantment: the soule that turneth after such as haue familiar spirits, and are Wisards, to goe a whooring after them, I will set my face against that soule, and will cut him off from among his people, &c._ Againe, _Deut. 18. 10_. _There shall not bee found among you any that vseth Diuination, nor an obseruer of times, or an inchanter, or a Witch, or a Charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, a Wisard, or Necromancer._ And that God might shew how[n] much _Manasses_ had prouoked him to wrath, through his transcendent and outragious sinnes in the Catalogue thereof, his conspiring with Diuels is mentioned _1. King 21. 8_. And therefore is depriued of his kingdome, bound in fetters, and carried captiue vnto _Babel_, _2. Chron. 33. 6.11._ and though he repented of these outragious and enormious transgressions, yet God would not bee appeased for them fiftie yeares after he was dead, _Ierem. 15. 4._ [Footnote k: _Hironimus Oleaster in locum, & Iunius & Tremelius in eundem._] [Footnote l: _Perkins_ of Witch-craft.] [Footnote m: _Binfeldius in Commentarium ad titulum codicis de Mathematicis & Maleficis._] [Footnote n: _Godelmannus de Magis & veneficis, lib. 3. cap. 11. nº. 14. 15. 16. & seq._]