Demonology -- Early works to 1800; Magic -- Early works to 1800; Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
Of inchanting or bewitching eies. pag. 485.
Of naturall witchcraft for love, &c. pag. 487.
• • • • •
A discourse upon divels and spirits, and first of philosophers
opinions, also the maner of their reasoning hereupon, and the same
confuted. Pag. 489.
Mine owne opinion concerning this argument, to the disproofe of some
writers hereupon. pag. 491.
The opinion of Psellus touching spirits, of their severall orders, and
a confutation of his errors therein. pag. 492.
More absurd assertions of Psellus and such others, concerning the
actions and passions of spirits, his definition of them, and of his
experience therein. pag. 495.
The opinion of Fascius Cardanus touching spirits, and of his familiar
divell. pag. 497.
The opinion of Plato concerning spirits, divels and angels, what
sacrifices they like best, what they feare, and of Socrates his
familiar divell. pag. 498.
Platos nine orders of spirits and angels, Dionysius his division
thereof not much differing from the same, all disprooved by learned
divines. pag. 500.
The commensement of divels fondlie gathered out of the 14. of Isaie, of
Lucifer and of his fall, the Cabalists the Thalmudists and Schoolemens
opinions of the creation of angels. pag. 501.
Of the cōtention betweene the Greeke and Latine church touching
the fall of angels, the variance among papists themselves herein, a
conflict betweene Michael and Lucifer. pag. 503.
Where the battell betweene Michael and Lucifer was fought, how long it
continued, and of their power, how fondlie papists and infidels write
of them, and how reverentlie Christians ought to thinke of them.
p. 504.
Whether they became divels which being angels kept not their vocation,
in Jude and Peter; of the fond opinions of the Rabbins touching
spirits and bugs, with a confutation thereof. pag. 506.
That the divels assaults are spirituall and not temporall, and how
grosselie some understand those parts of the scripture. pag. 508.
The equivocation of this word spirit, how diverslie it is taken in the
scriptures, where (by the waie) is taught that the scripture is not
alwaies literallie to be interpreted, nor yet allegoricallie to be
understood. pa. 509.
That it pleased God to manifest the power of his sonne and not of
witches by miracles. pag. 512.
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