3. It is not certainly known what diversity of Creatures there may be that are _mediæ naturæ_ betwixt Angels and Men, that may sometimes appear, and then vanish: so that if it be granted, that there be Apparitions really and truly, yet it will not necessarily follow, that these are caused by good or bad Angels, because they may be effected by Creatures of another and middle Nature; and so Apparitions no certain ground for the believing of the Existence of Angels or Spirits. For the most learned _Drusius_ gives us this account from one of the Commentators upon the Book _Aboth_. “_Debet homo intelligere ac scire à terra usq; ad firmamentum, quod Rakia, id est, Expansum appellant, omnia plena esse turmis & præfectis, & infrà plurimas esse creaturas lædentes & accusantes, omnésq; stare ac volare in aëre, neq; à terra usq; ad firmamentum locum esse vacuum: sed omnia plena esse præpositis, quorum alii ad pacem, alii ad bellum, alii ad bonum, alii ad malum; ad vitam & ad mortem incitant. Ob id compositum fuit canticum occursuum, quod incipit, Sedet in occulto Supremus._” And if this be a truth, here are orders and numbers enough of several sorts to make Apparitions, and yet be neither the good or bad Angels. And if there may any credit be given to the relation that _Cardan_ gives of his Father _Facius Cardanus_, which he had from his own mouth, and also had left it in writing; then “there are mortal Demons, that are born and do die as men do, that can appear and disappear, and are of such most tenuious bodies, that they can afford us neither help nor, hurt, excepting terrors, and spectres, and knowledge”. And if there may be credit given to _Plutarch_ (so highly magnified by Dr. _Casaubon_) the God _Pan_ of the Heathens must have been one of these mortal Demons, because he tells us upon the credit of _Epotherses_ (a Tale of hear-say) “That _Thamus_ was by a voice thrice calling upon him, commanded that when he came to _Palodes_, he should tell them, that the great God _Pan_ was dead”. And that there are such mortal Demons, is strongly asserted by _Paracelsus_, and by him called _Nymphæ_, _Sylphi_, _Pygmæi_, and _Salamandræ_, and that they are not of _Adams_ Generation, and that they have wonderful power and skill. And to this opinion do the Schools both of the ancient and later Academicks wholly incline, and seems to be favoured both by Dr. _Moor_ and Mr. _Glanvil_ himself; and if there be any such matters, doubtless from thence did arise all the strange stories and gests that former Generations have told and believed concerning the Apparition of these kind of Creatures, which the common people call _Fayries_: of which the Reverend and Learned person Bishop _Hall_ giveth us this touch: “The times are not past the ken of our memory, since the frequent (and in some part true) reports of those familiar Devils, Fayries, and Goblins, wherewith many places were commonly haunted; the rarity whereof in these