Ghost; and that either to win themselues some estimation, or to intangle
and deceiue men, vailing their treacheries vnder a smiling countenance,
whom they deadly hate, for if it lay in their possibilitie, they would
ouerthrow and destroy heauen it selfe. Now vnable to do this, they
endeuour to worke vpon a more weake subiect and matter; and therefore
hee that will not bee subdued of them, must auoid all occasions whereby
he may take any aduantage, and couered with the Breast-plate of
Righteousnesse, and defended with the Shield of Faith, quench all his
fiery Darts. _Ephes. 6. 14._

[Footnote h: _Peucerus de præcipuis diuinationum generibus titulo
de Magia._]

[Footnote i: _Philippus Camerarius in Historicis medicationibus
part. 1. cap. 70. & 72._]

[Footnote k: _Cyprianus in pro[oe]mio libri de exhortatione ad
Martyrium._]

[Footnote l: _Tatianus oratione contra Gentes._]




_The third Proposition._


Except God do by his especial grace and ouerruling power, restraine the
malice of these Witches and preserue his Children, they are permissiuely
able,[a] through the helpe of the Diuell their maister, to hurt Men and