signati Vegetius lib. 1. cap. 8. & 2. cap. 5. Prudentius_ +peri
stephanôn+ _Hymno 10. & huius moris meminit, Ambrosius in funebri
oratione pro Valentiniano._]

[Footnote f: _Et insigne exemplum apud Gildemannum de Lamijs lib.
3. cap. 10. sectione 38._]

[Footnote g: _Remigius in Dæmonolatria lib. 1. cap. 5._ and citeth
the confession of eight seuerall persons, acknowledging both to
haue receiued the marke and in what part of the body.]

And for the most part, hee bringeth these his slaues and vassailes
obliged to him as his owne, to some desperate, Tragicall,[h] and
disastrous end; and that either by the execution of Iustice for their
demerits, or by laying violent hands vpon themselues, or else God
powreth vpon them some strange and extraordinary vengeance, or their
Grand-maister whom they haue serued, dispatcheth them in such manner, as
they become dreadfull and terrible spectacles to the beholders, whereof
Histories will furnish vs with [i]varietie and plenty of examples: For
the Diuell is a murthering spirit, desirous to doe mischiefe, swelling
in pride, malitious in hatred, spitefull in enuy, subtill in craft; and
therefore it behoueth euery one resolutely to withstand his assaults,
_Ephes. 4. 27._ and cautelously to decline his subtilties, and cunning
ambushments [Sidenote: +methodeiai+] from whence he inuadeth vs, _Eph.
6. 11._[k] For this aduersary against whom we fight, is an old beaten
enemy, sixe thousand yeares are fully compleat since the first time hee
began to assault mankinde. But if any keepe the Commandements of God,
and constantly, by a liuely faith, cleaue fast vnto Christ, he shall
ouercome: for our Lord is inuincible.[l] The Diuels indeed doe willingly
offer themselues to be seene of those who are not gouerned by the Holy