in nature, nor by institution haue power to produce the purposed
effects, or be conioyned as neccessary with other, which can bring the
same to passe. Expresse, wherein consent is giuen either by writing, and
words, or making such signes, whereby they renounce God, and deuote
themselues slaues and vassals vnto the Diuell, hee promising, that vpon
such condition they shall doe wonders, know future euents, helpe and
hurt at their pleasure, and others like vnto these.

An example whereof wee may obserue in[f] _Siluester_ the second, one of
the holy Fathers of _Rome_, who did homage to the Diuell his Lord, and
made fidelity to liue at his will and appoyntment, vpon condition to
obtaine what he desired, by which meanes he got first the Bishopricke of
_Rhemes_, after of _Rauenna_, and at the last the Papacie of _Rome_.
Which Sea, though it will yeeld good plenty of such like presidents, and
we may finde them in authenticall records of Histories, yet I content my
selfe with this one.

[Footnote f: _Hic Monachus Floriacensis Cænobij diabolo suadente,
& enormiter instigante si eius ob*quijs & arti magica obligauit
in tantum quod Diabolo fecit Homagium cum pacto vt ei omnia ad
nutum succederent, & c. Holcot. in cap. 17. lib. sapientiæ
lectione 190. Platina in illius vita. Vide & Balerum de Romanorum
pontificum actis in lib. 5. in Syluestro secundo, & Robertum
Barnes. de vitis pontificum Romanorum._]

[g]The formall tearmes of this couenant, as they bee set downe by some,
are most dreadfull: and the seuerall poynts these.

[Footnote g: _Godelmannus de magia tacita & illicita, lib. 1. cap.
2. xº.8.9.10 &c._]