A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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Ioh. Nider in præceptorio, præcepto 1. cap. 11. Bodinus in
Dæmonomania, lib. 2 cap. *_] [Footnote f: _Cod. Lib. 9. titulo 18. Lege est scientia, hanc legem sugillat. Weirus de præstigijs dæmonum lib. 3. cap. 38._] [Footnote g: _In 3. Caput prophet[e,] Nah[~u]ni, vide & Nazianzenum in +aporêtais+, siue de arcanis vel principijs non procul à fine, & eius paraphrasten Nicetam._] [Footnote h: _Cassianus Collat. 7. cap. 32._] There is a very remarkeable example mentioned by _Ierome_[i], of a maiden in _Gaza_ whom a yong man louing, and not obtaining, went to _Memphis_ in Egypt, and at the yeares end in his returne, being there instructed by a Priest of _Aesculapius_, and furnished with Magicall Coniurations, graued in a plate of brasse, strange charming words, and pictures which he buried vnder the threshold of the doore where the virgin dwelt: by which meanes she fell into a fury, pulled off the attire of her head, flung about her haire, gnashed with her teeth, and continually called vpon the name of her louer. [Footnote i: _In vita Hilarionis._] The like doth [k]_Nazianzene_ report of _Cyprian_ before his conuersion (though some thinke it [l]was not he whose learned and religions writings are extant, and for the profession of his faith and doctrine was crowned with Martyrdome) but another of that name, toward _Iustina_, whom hee lasciuiously[m] courted, and vnlawfully lusted after. It were easie for me to instance this in many, and to adde more testimonies, but |
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