12. Though those that ascribe so large a power unto Devils and Witches, do take it for granted that they are only under a bare passive permission, and that the faln Angels do act, what, when, where and how they list, yet is it a meer falsity, for they are under the rule of Gods Divine Will, decree and providence, and do act nothing, but as and so far as they are licensed, ordered and limited by his will and providence, and are under a punctual restraint, nay kept in the chains of everlasting darkness unto the judgment of the great day, as we shall prove at full in that Chapter where we handle the knowledge and power of faln Angels. And therefore here we shall only say this, that if Devils could do as much mischief as they would, and were under no restraint or chains, then none of the godly would be left alive. But it is manifest that Devils do act nothing (excepting the obliquity and evil of their own wills) but meerly as instruments of the Divine Will and Providence, for as the Christian Philosopher saith: _Illa est impietas; nimirum ea falso attribuere creaturis, quæ radicaliter Deo soli sunt propria, & inter cætera, actum aliquem peculiarem in diabolo esse existimare, qui non est originaliter à Deo, & consequenter immediatè, cum essentialis Dei actus sit per se sine divisione in omni re_. [Sidenote: _Greg. in Dialog._] [Sidenote: Isai. 42. 9.] [Sidenote: Acts 15. 18.] [Sidenote: _August. de. Trinit._ _l._ 15. _c._ 7.] [Sidenote: Ephes. 1. 11.] [Sidenote: Psal. 115. 3.] [Sidenote: Psal. 33. 13, 14, 15.] [Sidenote: _Vid. Rivet. de Provid. Disput._ 1.] [Sidenote: _August. de lib. arbitr._ _l._ 3.]