Memor. provid. Relat. to Witch. Disc. on Wit. pag. 24. _I am also apt to think that the Devils are seldom able to hurt us in any of our exteriour concerns, without a Commission from some of our fellow Worms. When foul Mouth'd Men shall wish harm to their Neighbours, they give a Commission to the Devil to perform what they desire, and if God should not Mercifully prevent, they would go thro' with it; Hear this you that in wilde Passion will give every thing to the Devil; Hear it you that bespeak a Rot, a Pox, or a Plague, on all that shall provoke you; I here Indict you as Guilty of Hellish Witchcraft in the Sight of God._ More Wonders of the Invisible World, _pag._ 49. _They each of them have their Spectres or Devils Commissioned by them and representing of them_, pag. 14. _But such a permission from God for the Devil to come down and break in upon Mankind must often times be accompanied with a Commission from some of Mankind itself_, Inchantments Encountered. _These Witches have driven a Trade of Commissionating their confederate Spirits, to do all sorts of Mischiefs to their Neighbours_, pag. 50. _They have bewitched some even so farr, as to make them Self-destroyers, pag._ 144. _As I am abundantly satisfied, that many of the Self-murders committed here, have been the effects of a cruel and Bloody Witchcraft, letting fly_ Dæmons _upon the Miserable Seneca's, pag._ 51. _We have seen some of their Children so Dedicated to the Devil, that in their Infancy the Imps have sucked them_. Cases of conscience, _pag._ 24. _They bequeath their_ Dæmons _to their Children as a Legacy, by whom they are often assisted to see and do things beyond the Power of Nature, pag._ 21. _There are in Spain a sort of People call'd_ Zahurs,[54] _that can see into the Bowels of the Earth_. [_On_ Tuesdays _and_ Fridays,] (and to add) that in pag. 49. The words are [_For the Law of God allows of no Revelation from any other Spirit but himself, Isa._ viii. 19. _It is a Sin against God to make use of the Devils help, to know that which cannot be otherways known; and I testify against it as a great transgression, which may Justly provoke the Holy one of_ Israel, _to let loose Devils on the whole Land_.] Altho the Devils Accusation may be so far regarded, as to cause an inquiry into the Truth of things, _Job._ i. 11, 12, and ii, 5, 6. _Yet not so as to be an Evidence or Ground of Conviction, for the Devils Testimony ought not to be taken in WHOLE Nor In PART._] It is a known Truth, that some unwary expressions of the primative Fathers, were afterwards improved for the Introducing and establishing of Error, as their calling the Virgin _Mary_, the Mother of God, _&c._ Hence occasion and Advantage was taken to propagate the Idolizing of her (the like might be said of the _Eucha[29]rist_, these assertions, above rehearsed, being apparently liable to a like Male Construction, and no less dangerous, are therefore as I said highly needful to be