or walking together, as they went begging) perswade and advise this Examinate to let a Devil or a Familiar appear to her, and that she this Examinate would let him suck at some part of her, and she might have and do what she would.” But besides these two sorts of Witches, whose Existence we deny not, there is an acceptation of the word _Witch_ in another sense, the Existence of which I absolutely deny, and that is this according to Mr. _Perkins_. “A Witch is a Magician, who either by open or secret League wittingly and willingly consenteth to use the aid and assistance of the Devil in the working of Wonders.” But the full Description and Notion that the common Witchmongers give a Witch is this. “That a Witch is such a person to whom the Devil doth appear in some visible shape, with whom the Witch maketh a League or Covenant, sometimes by Bond signed with the Witches blood, and that thereby he doth after suck upon some part of their bodies, and that they have carnal Copulation together, and that by virtue of that League the Witch can be changed into an Hare, Dog, Cat, Wolf, or such like Creatures; that they can flye in the air, raise storms and tempests, kill men or cattel, and such like wonders.” This notion of a Witch may be gathered from the Writings of these persons, _Delrio_ the Jesuit, _Bodinus_, _Jacobus Springerus_, _Johannes Niderus_, _Bartholomeus Spineus_, _Paulus Grillandus_, _Lambertus Danæus_, _Hemmingius_, _Erastus_, _Sennertus_, and many others. As also from the Writings of our own Country-men, Mr. _Perkins_, Mr. _Bernard_ of _Balcombe_, the Author of the Book called Demonology, Mr. _Gaule_, Mr. _Giffard_, and divers others, who have from one to another lickt up the Vomit of the first Broacher of this vain and false opinion, and without due consideration have laboured to obtrude it upon others. Yet was it in a manner rejected by the most of the Learned, who had duly weighed the matter, and read the strong and convincing arguments of _Wierus_, _Tandlerus_, _Nymannus_, _Biermannus_, _Gutierrius_, Mr. _Scot_, and the like, until of late years Dr. _Casaubon_ and Mr. _Glanvil_ have taken up Weapons to defend these false, absurd, impossible, impious, and bloody opinions withal, against whose arguments we now principally direct our Pen, and after the answering of their groundless and unjust scandals, we shall labour to overthrow their chief Bulwarks and Fortifications. CHAP. III. _The denying of such a Witch as is last described in the foregoing Chapter, doth not infer the denying of Angels or Spirits. Apparitions no warrantable ground for a Christian to believe the Existence of Angels or Devils by, but the Word of God._ [Sidenote: Of Credulity and Incredulity, pag. 7.] [Sidenote: Preface.]