are stale unto his cognition. I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the Loadstone; surely his perspicacity discerned it to respect the North, when ours beheld it indeterminately. Many secrets there are in Nature of difficult discovery unto man, of easie knowledge unto Satan; whereof some his vain glory cannot conceal, others his envy will not discover. Again, Such is the mysterie of his delusion, that although he labour to make us believe that he is God, and supremest nature whatsoever, yet would he also perswade our beliefs, that he is less then Angels or men; and his condition not onely subjected unto rational powers, but the actions of things which have no efficacy on our selves. Thus hath he inveigled no small part of the world into a credulity of artificial Magick: That there is an Art, which without compact commandeth the powers of Hell; whence some have delivered the polity of spirits, and left an account even to their Provincial Dominions: that they stand in awe of Charms, Spels, and Conjurations; that he is afraid of letters and characters, of notes and dashes, which set together do signifie nothing, not only in the dictionary of man, but the subtiler vocabulary of Satan. That there is any power in _Bitumen_, Pitch, or Brimstone, to purifie the air from his uncleanness; that any vertue there is in _Hipericon_ [SN: St. Johns _Wort, so called by Magicians_.] to make good the name of _fuga Dæmonis_, any such Magick as is ascribed unto the Root _Baaras_ by _Josephus_, or _Cynospastus_ by _Ælianus_, it is not easie to believe; nor is it naturally made out what is delivered of _Tobias_, that by the fume of a Fishes liver, he put to flight _Asmodeus_. That they are afraid of the pentangle of _Solomon_, though so set forth with the body of man, as to touch and point out the five places wherein our Saviour was wounded, I know not how to assent. [SN: _3 triangles intersected and made of five lines._] If perhaps he hath fled from holy Water, if he cares not to hear the sound of _Tetragrammaton_ [SN: _Implying Jehovah, which in Hebrew consisteth of four letters._], if his eye delight not in the sign of the Cross; and that sometimes he will seem to be charmed with words of holy Scripture, and to flie from the letter and dead verbality, who must onely start at the life and animated interiors thereof: It may be feared they are but _Parthian_ flights, _Ambuscado_ retreats, and elusory tergiversations: Whereby to confirm our credulities, he will comply with the opinion of such powers, which in themselves have no activities. Whereof having once begot in our minds an assured dependence, he makes us relie on powers which he but precariously obeys; and to desert those true and only charms which Hell cannot withstand.