Howbeit, _Erastus_ saith, and so dooth _Hyperius_, _Hemingius_, _Danæus_, _M. Mal. Bodin_, _&c._ that evill spirits eate, drinke, and keepe companie with men, and that they can take palpable formes of bodies, producing examples thereof, to wit: _Spectrum Germanicum seu Augustanum_, and the angell whose feet _Lot_ washed; as though bicause God can indue his messengers with bodies at his pleasure, therefore the divell and everie spirit can doo the like. How the eleven apostles were in this case deceived, appeareth in _Luke._ 24. and in _Mark._ 16. as also in _Matth._ 14. where the apostles and disciples were all deceived, taking Christ to be a spirit, when he walked on the sea. And why might they not be deceived herein, as well as in that they thought Christ had spoken of a temporall kingdome, when he preached of the kingdome of heaven? Which thing they also much misconceived; as likewise when he did bid them beware of the leven of the Pharisies, they understood that he spake of materiall bread. ♦_Erast. fol. 62._♦ ♦Luk. 24, 37. Mark. 16, 14. Mat. 14, 16.♦ ♦Matth. 20.♦ ♦Matt. 16, 11.♦ The fift Chapter. _Why Apollo was called Pytho whereof those witches were called Pythonists: Gregorie his letter to the divell._ But to returne to our oracle of _Apollo_ at _Delphos_, who was called _Pytho_, for that _Apollo_ slue a serpent so called, whereof the _Pythonists_ take their name: I praie you consider well of this tale, which I will trulie rehearse out of the ecclesiasticall historie, written by _Eusebius_, wherein you shall see the absurditie of the opinion, the cousenage of these oraclers, and the deceived mind or vaine opinion of so great a doctor bewraied and deciphered altogither as followeth. ♦_Euseb. lib. 7. cap. 25._♦