Howbeit, you shall heare the opinion of others, that have beene as much deceived as your selves in this matter: and yet are driven to confesse, that GOD hath constituted his sonne to beat downe the power of divels, and to satisfie Gods justice, and to heale our wound received by the fall of _Adam_, according to Gods promise in _Genesis._ 3. The seed of the woman shall tread downe the serpent, or the divell. _Eusebius_ (in his fift booke _De prædicatione Evangelii_, the title whereof is this, that the power of divels is taken awaie by the comming of Christ) saith; All answers made by divels, all soothsaiengs and divinations of men are gon and vanished awaie. Item he citeth _Porphyrie_ in his booke against christian religion, wherein these words are rehearsed; It is no mervell, though the plague be so hot in this citie: for ever since Jesus hath beene worshipped, we can obteine nothing that good is at the hands of our gods. And of this defection and ceasing of oracles writeth _Cicero_ long before, and that to have happened also before his time. Howbeit, _Chrysostome_ living long since _Cicero_, saith, that _Apollo_ was forced to grant, that so long as anie relike of a martyr was held to his nose, he could not make anie answer or oracle. So as one may perceive, that the heathen were wiser in this behalfe than manie christians, who in times past were called _Oppugnatores incantamentorum_, as the English princes are called _Defensores fidei_. _Plutarch_ calleth _Bœotia_ (as we call bablers) by the name of manie words, bicause of the multitude of oracles there, which now (saith he) are like to a spring or fountaine which is dried up. If anie one remained, I would ride five hundred miles to see it: but in the whole world there is not one to be seene at this houre; popish cousenages excepted. ♦Gen. 3.♦ ♦_Euseb. lib. 5, cap. 1._♦ ♦_Idem. Ibid._♦ ♦_Porphyr. in lib. contra christ. relig._♦ ♦_Cic. de divin. lib. 2._♦ ♦_J. Chrysost. de laud. Paul. hom 4._♦ But _Plutarch_ saith, that the cause of this defection of oracles, was the divels death, whose life he held to be determinable and mortall, saieng they died for verie age; and that the divining preests were blowne up with a whirlewind, and soonke with an earthquake. Others imputed it to the site or the place of the planets, which when they passed over them, carried awaie that art with them, and by revolution may returne, &c. _Eusebius_ also citeth out of him the storie of _Pan_, which bicause it is to this purpose, I will insert the same; and since it mentioneth the divels death, you may beleeve it if you list: for I will not, as being assured that he is reserved alive to punish the wicked, and such as impute unto those idols the power of almightie God. ♦_Porphyr._ writeth verses in _Apollos_ name, of the death of _Apollo_: cited by _J. Bod. fol. 6_.♦ The fourth Chapter.