His first main Work is after his definition of a Witch, which he never proves (without saying any thing to Mr. _Gauls_ Scriptural description, tho' so often urged to it, and tho' himself has in his Book recommended and quoted it) is to magnifie the Devils Power, and that as I think beyond and against the Scripture, this takes him up about 11 _Pages_, and yet in _Page_ 22 again returns to it, and as I understand it, takes part with the _Pharisees_ against our Saviour in the Argument, for they charge him that he cast out Devils thro' _Beelzebub_, Our Saviours Answer is, _Mat._ xii. 25. _Every Kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every City or House divided against itself, shall not stand, and if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself, how shall then his Kingdom stand_: And yet notwithstanding this Answer together with what follows, for further Illustration, our Author is it seems resolved to assert that our Saviour did not in this Answer deny that many did so, (_viz._) cast out Devils by _Beelzebub_, and _Page_ 23 grants that the Devils have a Miraculous Power, but yet must not be call'd miracles, and yet can be distinguished, as he intimates, only by the Conscience or Light within, to the no small scandal of the Christian Religion. Tho' our Saviour and his Apostles accounts this the chief or principal proof of his Godhead, _John_ xx. 30, 31. _John_ x. 37, 38. _John_ v. 30. _Mark_ xvi. 17, 18. _Acts_ ii. 22. and iv. 30. with many others and that Miracles belong only to God, who also Governs the World, _Psal._ cxxxvi. 4. _Jer._ xiv. 22. _Isa._ xxxviii. 8. _Psal._ lxii. 11. _Lam._ iii. 37. _Amos_ iii. 6. [32] But to forbear quoting that which the Scripture is most full in, do only say that he that dares assert the Devil to have such a Miraculous Power had need have other Scriptures than ever I have seen. In _Page_ 12. our Author proceeds and states a question to this effect, If the Devil has such Powers, and cant exert them without permission from God, what can the Witch contribute thereunto? Instead of an Answer, to this weighty objection, our Author first concedes that the Devil's do ordinarily exert their Powers, without the Witches contributing to it, but yet that to the end to increase their guilt he may cheat a Witch, by making her believe herself the Author of them.[58] His next is, if Witchcraft be, as I suppose it is, the skill of applying the Plastic Spirit of the World, _&c._ then the consent of the Witch doth naturally contribute to that mischiefs that the Devil does. And his last answer runs to this effect, Is it not the Ordination of God, that where the Devil can get the consent of a Witch for the hurting of others, the hurt shall as certainly be as if they had set Mastiff Dogs upon them, or had given them Poyson into their Bowels; and Gods Providence must be as great in delivering from one as from the other, and this it seems is not only