be consumed.

For [p]the Elements, it is an agreeing consent of all, that they can
corrupt and infect them, procure tempests, to stirre vp thunder &
lightning, moue violent winds, destroy the fruits of the earth: for God
hath a thousand wayes to chasten disobedient man, and whole treasures
full of vengeance by his Angels, Diuels, Men, Beasts. For the whole
nature of things is ready to reuenge the wrong done vnto the creator.

[Footnote p: _Ioh. Gerson in Trialogio Astrologiæ Theologisatæ
propos. 16. Palanus in Syntagmate, l. 5. c. 13_]

It were but fruitlesse labour, and ill spent, to bestow long time in
confirming this so manifest a truth, and not much better then set vp a
candle to giue the Sunnelight when it shineth brightest in mid-heauen:
yet to satisfie those who doubt here-of, I will giue a small touch of an
example or two.

[q]_Curius Sidius_ the Roman Generall in a battell against _Salebus_,
Captaine of the _Moores_, in want of water, obtained such abundance of
raine from Heauen by Magicall inchantments, that it not onely sufficed
the thirst of his distressed Souldiers, but terrified the enemies in
such sort, (supposing that God had sent helpe) as of their owne accord,
they sought for conditions of peace, and left the field.

[Footnote q: _Dion. Cassius Romana Historiæ, lib. 60. in Claudio._]

The narration of _Olaus[r] Magnus_ which he maketh of his Northerne
Wisards and Witches, would seeme to be meere fictions, and altogether
incredible, as of _Ericus_, who had the winde at command, to blow