So much to the Questions. These were sent as my belief: That the devils bounds are sett, that he cant pass; That the devils are so full of Malice, that it cant be added to by Mankind; That where he hath power he neither can nor will omit executing it; That 'tis only the Almighty that sets bounds to his rage, and that only can Commissionate him to hurt or destroy. And now I shall give you the Summary account of his four sheets above mentioned, as near as memory could recollect, in Ten Particulars. 1. That the Devils have in their Natures a power to work Wonders and Miracles; particularly that the _Pharisees_ were not mistaken in asserting that the Devils might be cast out by _Beelzebub_; and that our Saviours Answer does not oppose that assertion; and that he hath the Power of Death, that he can make the most Solid things Invisible; and can Invisibly bring poyson and force it down Peoples Throats.[61] 2. That to assert this Natural, wonderful Power of the Devil, makes most for the Glory of God, in preserving Man from its effects, 3. Yet this Power is restrained by the Almighty, as pleaseth him. 4. That a Witch is one that makes a Covenant with the Devil. 5. That by vertue of such a Covenant, she arrives at a Power to Commissionate him. 6. That God has ordain'd, that when the Devil is call'd upon by the Witch, tho' he were before restrained by the Almighty, the desired mischiefs ordinarily shall as certainly be performed, as if the Witch had [35] lodged poyson in the Bowels of her Neighbour, or had set Mastiff Dogs on them. 7. That the Witche's Art of applying the _Plastic Spirit of the World_ to unlawful purposes, does Naturally contribute to the mischiefs done by the Devil. 8. That that God which restrain'd an _Abimelich_ and a _Laban_ from hurting, does also restrain the Witch from Calling upon or Improving the Devil, when he will not have his Power so exerted. 9. That to have a Familiar Spirit, is to be able to cause a Devil to take bodily shapes, whereby either to give responses, or to receive orders for doing mischief. 10. That this is the Judgment of most of the Divines in the Countrey, whether _English_, _Dutch or French_.[62] This as I said, I took to be most material in the four sheets sent to me as his belief, and is also all the performance he has yet made of his several promises; which ten Articles being done only by memory, lest thro' mistake or want of the Original, I might have committed any errors, I sent them to him that, if there were any, they might be rectified: But instead of such an Answer, as might be expected from a Minister and a learn'd Gentleman, one Mr. _W----_ shewed me a Letter writ by Mr. _C. M----_ to himself, which I might read, but neither borrow nor Copy, and so, if I were minded, could give but a short account of it.