_Os homini sublime dedit, cœlúmque videre Jussit, & erectos ad sydera tollere vultus._ The effect of which verses is this; [*]_The Lord did set mans face so hie, That he the heavens might behold, And looke up to the starrie skie, To see his woonders manifold._ ♦1. Cor. 6, 19 verse. 15, &c verse. 2. verse. 13. ♦Psalm. 8. verses 5, 6, 7, 8.♦ ♦[*] [Rom.]♦ Now, if a witch or a divell can so alter the shape of a man, as contrarilie to make him looke downe to hell, like a beast; Gods works should not onelie be defaced and disgraced, but his ordinance should be woonderfullie altered, and thereby confounded. The sixt Chapter. _The witchmongers objections, concerning Nabuchadnez-zar answered, and their errour concerning Lycanthropia confuted._ _Malleus Maleficarum_, _Bodin_, and manie other of them that mainteine witchcraft, triumph upon the storie of _Nabuchadnez-zar_; as though _Circes_ had transformed him with hir sorceries into an oxe, as she did others into swine, &c. I answer, that he was neither in bodie nor shape transformed at all, according to their grosse imagination; as appeareth both by the plaine words of the text, and also by the opinions of the best interpretors thereof: but that he was, for his beastlie government and conditions, throwne out of his kingdome and banished for a time, and driven to hide himselfe in the wildernesse, there in exile to lead his life in beastlie sort, among beasts of the field, and fowles of the aire (for by the waie I tell you it appeareth by the text, that he was rather turned into the shape of a fowle than of a beast) untill he rejecting his beastlie conditions, was upon his repentance and amendment called home, and restored unto his kingdome. Howbeit, this (by their confession) was neither divels nor witches dooing; but a miracle wrought by God, whom alone I acknowledge to be able to bring to passe such workes at his pleasure. Wherein I would know what our witchmongers have gained. ♦Their groundworke is as sure as to hold a quick eele by the taile.♦ ♦Dan. 4.♦