_The fourth Proposition._


Hauing shewed before, that the pracise of Witches receiueth the being
and perfection from that[a] agreement which is made betweene them and
Diuell, it now followeth necessarily, that we do enquire whether it bee
possible that there may be any such agreement and league betweene them.
The cause of doubt ariseth from the diuersity or disparity of their
natures, the one being a corporall substance, the other spirituall, vpon
which ground some[b] haue supposed that no such contract can passe: But
we are to hold the contrary affirmatiue, both _de esse_, and _de posse_,
that there may be, and is, notwithstanding this difference of essence, a
mutuall contract of the one with the other: for we read of sundry
leagues between God & his people, and some with great solemnitie of
ceremonies vsed in the same, a[c] _Genesis 15. 9.17._ and _Deut. 5. 2._
and in many other like places, yet is hee a simple essence,[d] free from
all diuision, multiplication, composition, accidents, incorporeall,
spirituall, and inuisible. But in Angelicall creatures, though there be
no Physicall composition of matter and forme, or a soule and a body; yet
is there a metaphysicall, being substances consisting of an act and
possibility, subiect and accidents. And furthcr, betweene a spirit and a
man, there is communication of the vnderstanding and will, the faculties
and actions whereof must concurre in euery couenant, which is nothing
else but the consent of two or more persons about the thing.

[Footnote a: _Nauarrus in Manuali confessarior. cap. 11 in primum
decalogi præceptum._]