17.18 19 20 21 22 23 24 &. 27. & de Lamijs lib 3. cap 7. & de
lamiarum impotentia._ But this position commeth from another as
dangerous, euen Infidelity denying that there be any Diuel, but
in opinion; which was the doctrine of _Aristotle_, and the
Peripatetique Philpsophers. _Pomponatius de incarnationibus
Binfeldius de confessionibus maleficorum_]

First testimonies Diuine and Humane: Diuine of _God_ himselfe in his
word,[b] left for our instruction in all dogmaticall truth, reproofe and
confutation of falshood in opinions, correction for the reforming of
misdemeaners in conuersation, doctrine for the guidance of euery estate
Politicall, Ecclesiasticall, Oeconomicall. _2. Timoth. 3. 16._ Therefore
expressely, _Thou shalt not suffer a Witch, to liue, Exod. 22. 18._[c]
but to bee executed in the same day wherein she is conuicted, and this
was a custome obserued by the ancient Fathers. And _Deuteronomy 18.
10.11._ there is a blacke Bill set downe[d], and registred of sundry
kinds of these slaues of Sathan, all condemned, and God addeth in the
same place the reasons of this his seuere and sharpe iudgement against
them. First, because they are an abhomination vnto him. Secondly, he
determineth vtterly to destroy all such, and giueth his people the
Israelites an example thereof in the Canaanites, whom their Land spewed
out. Thirdly, for that he requireth all who belong vnto him, to be pure,
vndefiled and holy, not stained with impieties, for they are bound vnto
him by couenant in obedience. Fourthly such were the Heathen, strangers
from God, blinded in their dark vnderstanding, without sauing knowledge,
with whom the Israelites, a chosen and peculiar nation, enioying his
lawes and statutes, must haue no familiarity. Further, the woman of
_Endor_ acknowledgeth herselfe to be one of the rank. _1. Sam. 28. 9_.
And _Iesabel_, mother of _Iehoram_, is in plaine tearmes stiled a Witch.
_2. King. 9. 22._ who is [e]supposed to haue brought this Art, and the