And whereas the storie of _Job_ in this case is alledged against me (wherein a witch is not once named) I have particularlie answered it else-where. And therefore thus much onelie I say heere; that Even there, where it pleased God (as _Calvine_ saith) to set downe circumstances for the instruction of our grosse capacities, which are not able to conceive of spirituall communication, or heavenlie affaires; the divell desireth God to stretch out his hand, and touch all that _Job_ hath. And though he seemeth to grant sathans desire, yet God himselfe sent fire from heaven, &c. Where, it is to be gathered, that although God said, He is in thine hand: it was the Lords hand that punished _Job_, and not the hand of the divell, who said not, Give me leave to plague him; but, Laie thine hand upon him. And when _Job_ continued faithfull notwithstanding all his afflictions, in his children, bodie and goods; the divell is said to come againe to God, and to saie as before, to wit: Now stretch out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh. Which argueth as well that he could not doo it, as that he himselfe did it not before. And be it here remembred, that _M. Mal._ and the residue of the witchmongers denie, that there were any witches in _Jobs_ time. But see more hereof elsewhere. ♦Job 1, 11.♦ ♦Ib. verse 16.♦ ♦Job 2, 5.♦ ♦_Mal. Malef. pa. 1, quæ. 2._♦ The xiiii. Chapter. _What would ensue, if witches confessions or wi[t]chmongers opinions were true, concerning the effects of witchcraft, inchantments, &c._ If it were true that witches confesse, or that all writers write, or that witchmongers report, or that fooles beleeve, we should never have butter in the chearne, nor cow in the close, nor corne in the field, nor faire weather abroad, nor health within doores. Or if that which is conteined in _M. Mal. Bodin_, &c: or in the pamphlets late set foorth in English, of witches executions, shuld be true in those things that witches are said to confesse, what creature could live in securitie? Or what needed such preparation of warres, or such trouble, or charge in that behalfe? No prince should be able to reigne or live in the land. For (as _Danæus_ saith) that one _Martine_ a witch killed the emperour of _Germanie_ with witchcraft: so would our witches (if they could) destroie all our magistrates. One old witch might overthrowe an armie roiall: and then what needed we any guns, or wild fire, or any other instruments of warre? A witch might supplie all wants, and accomplish a princes will in this behalfe, even without charge or bloudshed of his people. ♦But these suppositiōs are false, _Ergo_ the consequencies are not true.♦