I am also well assured, that if all the old women in the world were witches; and all the priests, conjurers: we should not have a drop of raine, nor a blast of wind the more or the lesse for them. For [l]the Lord hath bound the waters in the clouds, and hath set bounds about the waters, untill the daie and night come to an end: yea it is God that raiseth the winds and stilleth them: and he saith to the raine and snowe; Be upon the earth, and it falleth. The [m]wind of the Lord, and not the wind of witches, shall destroie the treasures of their plesant vessels, and drie up the fountaines; saith _Oseas_. Let us also learne and confesse with the Prophet _David_, that we[n] our selves are the causes of our afflictions; and not exclaime upon witches, when we should call upon God for mercie. ♦[l] Job. 26, 8. Job. 37. Psalme. 135. Jer. 10 & 15.♦ ♦[m] Ose. 13.♦ ♦[n] Psa. 39, &c.♦ The Imperiall lawe (saith _Brentius_) condemneth them to death that trouble and infect the aire: but I affirme (saith he) that it is neither in the power of witch not divell so to doo, but in God onelie. Though (besides _Bodin_, and all the popish writers in generall) it please _Danæus_, _Hyperius_, _Hemingius_, _Erastus_, &c. to conclude otherwise. The clouds[o] are called the pillers of Gods tents, Gods chariots, and his pavillions. And if it be so, what witch or divell can make maisteries therof? S. _Augustine_ saith, _Non est putandum istis transgressoribus angelis servire hanc rerum visibilium materiem, sed soli Deo_: We must not thinke that these visible things are at the commandement of the angels that fell, but are obedient to the onelie God. ♦_In epist. ad Jo. Wierum._♦ [o] Exod. 13. Isai. 66. Ps. 18, 11. 19. ♦_August. 3. de sancta Trinit._♦ Finallie, if witches could accomplish these things; what needed it seeme so strange to the people, when Christ by miracle [p]commanded both seas and winds, &c. For it is written; Who is this? for both wind and sea obeie him. ♦[p] Mar. 4, 41.♦ The second Chapter. _The inconvenience growing by mens credulitie herein, with a reproofe of some churchmen, which are inclined to the common conceived opinion of witches omnipotencie, and a familiar example thereof._