1. Could ever any rational man have thought or believed, that Mr. _Glanvil_, a person who pretends to such high parts, would have expressed so much weakness and impudence, as to have charged Mr. _Scot_ with the flat denial of the existence of Witches; as he doth in these words speaking of him? and pretends this to be a Confutation of the being of Witches and Apparitions; and this he intimates in divers other places, but without any quotation, to shew where or in what words _Scot_ doth simply deny the Being of Witches, which he doth no where maintain: so confident are many to charge others with that which they neither hold nor write. 2. Mr. _Scot_ and _Wierus_ do not state the Question, _An sint_, Whether there be Witches or not, but _Quomodo sint_, in what manner they act. So that their Question is only, What kind of power supposed Witches have, or do act by, and what the things are that they do or can perform: so that the state of the question is not simply of the Being of Witches, or _de existentia_, but only _de modo existendi_: wherein it is plain, that every Dispute de modo existendi, doth necessarily grant and suppose the certainty of the Existence, otherwise the Dispute of the manner of their Being, Properties, Power, or Acts would have no ground or foundation at all. As if I and another should dispute about the extent, buildings, and situation of the great City _Peking_ in _China_, or about the length, breadth, and height of the great Wall dividing _China_ from _Tartary_; we both do take for granted, that there is such a City, and such a Wall, otherwise our Dispute would be wild, vain, and groundless: like the two Wise-men of _Gotham_, who strove and argued about the driving of sheep over a bridge; the one affirming he would drive his sheep over the bridge, and the other protesting against it, and so begun, one as it were to drive, and the other to stay and stop them, when there were no sheep betwixt them. And this might be a sufficient document to Mr. _Glanvil_, to have been more sober, than to have charged _Scot_ so falsely. And do not the ancient Fathers differ in their opinions _circa Angelorum modum existendi_, some of them holding them to be corporeal, and some incorporeal? yet both these parties did firmly hold their existence: so that this is a false and improper charge, and hath no basis to stand upon at all.