Professors thereof into _Samaria_, which there continued for the space
of sixe hundred yeares. Insomuch that it was rife in common speech, when
any would reproach another, to doe the same in this forme; _Thou art a
Samaritan, and hast a Diuell_ (a familiar spirit) which the malicious
Iewes, not abiding his heauenly and gracious doctrine, obiected to
Christ Iesus our blessed Sauiour, _Ioh. 8. 48_. The holy Apostle
reprouing the _Galathians_ for their sudden Apostasie and back-sliding
from the Gospell so powerfully preached vnto them and with so great
euidence of the spirit, as though Christ had bin crucified before their
eyes, doth it in no other termes than these, _Who hath bewitched you?_
_Gal. 3. 1_. And afterward, _Cap. 5. 20._ marshalleth Witch-craft among
the workes of the flesh: In both which places the names are taken from
the seducements and illusions of Inchanters, who astonish the mindes,
and deceiue the senses of men, and all that by vertue of a contract
passed betwene them and the Diuell. Other like proofes may be added to
these alledged, _Leuit. 20. 6._ _Micah 5. 12._ _Nahum 3. 4_. Now then
when God affirmeth there be such, whose words are truth, shall man dare
once to open his mouth, and contradict the most righteous?

[Footnote b: +Didaskalia+
+elenchos+
+epanorthôsis+
+paideia+.]

[Footnote c: _Philo in libro de legibus specialibus._]

[Footnote d: _Vide Paulum Phagium in annotationibus, & Chaldaicam
Paraphrasin in cap. 18. & 19. Leuitici._]

[Footnote e: _Bodinus in confutatione opinionum Wieri._]