[Footnote b: _Ioh. Wierus, totum hoc fictitium putat & fondus
imaginarimum, & impossibile putat, idque passim in suis libris
præcipuè autem de Lamijs, cap. 7. 8. & 23. & de pr[e,]stigijs
Dæmon[~u], lib. 6. c. 27, & c. Hunc refutant eruditè. Binfeldo
confessionibus maleficorum, & Thomas Erastus de Lamijs._]

[Footnote c: _De his ceremonijs similiæ, Ier. cap. 34. 18. & multa
Cyrillus contra Iulianum & Procopius Gazæus in hunc locum &
Augustinus._]

[Footnote d: _Palanus Syntagmatis Theologie, l. 2. cap. 8._]

And when the Diuell durst in expresse tearmes tender a contract to our
blessed Sauiour, tempting him in the wildernesse, shewing him the
kingdomes of the world, and the glory thereof, offered them with this
condition, _All these will I giue thee, if thou wilt fall downe and
worship me_, _Mat. 4. 9_. How much more then will hee aduenture vpon
man, weake, wicked, and easie to be seduced? And who[e] can doubt but
that these bee the solemne and formall words of a bargaine, _Do vt des,
do vt facias_, I giue this for to haue that giuen, I bestow this, to
haue such, or such a thing done for me.

[Footnote e: _Brissonius de formulis, lib. 6. Solemnia pactorum
sine obligatione verba sunt: spondes? spondeo. promittis? promitto
dabis? dabo vt facias, faciam. Iustinianus in institutionibus,
lib. 3. titulo 16._]

Now this couenant is of two sorts, secret or manifest; secret, when one
indeuoureth or intendeth to do any thing by such meanes, which neither