2. In the New Testament there is mention made of several sorts of deceiving Impostors, Diviners, or Witches, who were all discovered and conquered by that power that Christ had given unto the Apostles; as for instance: _Simon, which before-time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched_ μαγεύων κὶ ἐξισῶν _the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one. To whom they gave heed from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries_; τῶς μαγείαις ἐξεσακέναι αὐτὺς, _seducebat populum suis magicis præstigiis_, saith _Tremellius_; and _Beza_, _Exercuerat artem magicam, & gentem Samariæ obstupefecerat_; who when he would have bought the gift of the Holy Ghost with money, was rejected by _Peter_ as an Impostor and Counterfeit, and declared, _that he was in the gall of bitterness_. Such another was _Elymas_ the Sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) ὁ μάγος who was stricken blind by St. _Paul_. Such an one was the Damsel that was possessed with a Spirit of Divination, which St. _Paul_ cast forth. And such were the Jewish Exorcists, that took upon them to call over them which had evil Spirits, the Name of the Lord Jesus, saying, _We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. But the man in whom the evil spirit was, leapt on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded._ But amongst these several sorts of Diviners, Impostors, or Witches, there were none that had made a visible League with the Devil, nor upon whose bodies he suckt, nor that had carnal Copulation with him, nor were changed into Cats, Dogs, or Wolves: but if the Devil had had any such power, or had there been any such sort of Witches, the divine Wisdom and Providence would have ordained some of them then to have been made apparent, that his power by Christ and the Apostles, might have been shewed as well in the greater as in the less: and that for the more full manifestation of the Works of God, as for a more triumphant declaration of the power of Christ in conquering him and his Kingdom, and for a more ample warning and instruction to the Children of God to avoid the snares and wiles of the Devil; but there being no such, then we must rationally conclude, that there now is not, nor ever was, or can be any such matter, but the vain believing of such figments and forgeries, is only the cunning and delusion of Satan, who works by lying and deceiving wonders τέρασι ψεύδοις, of which St. _Chrysostome_ saith thus: _Hoc est, omnem ostentabit potentiam, sed nihil veri, verùm omnia ad seductionem. Et prodigiis, inquit, mendacii. Aut ementitis ac ludificantibus, aut ad mendacium inducentibus._ [Sidenote: _Pag._ 9.]