A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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answered, vntil hee should say masse in _Ierusalem_; and not long
after, celebrating the same in a _Chappell_ of the Church dedicated to the holy Crosse in _Rome_, called _Ierusalem_, knew how he was ouer-reached, for there hee dyed. And an other paralell to this, may be that of a certaine Bishop, much addicted to these vanities, hauing many enemies, and fearing them, asked the Diuell whether he should fly or not: who answered, _Non, sta secure, venient inimici tui suauiter, & subdentur tibi._ But being surprized, and taken by his aduersaries, and his castle set on fire, expostulating with him that hee had deceiued him in his distresse, returned answere, that he said true, if his speech had been rightly vnderstood: for he aduised, _Non sta secure_ [id est _fugias_] _venient inimici tui suauiter, & subdentur_, [id est _ignem tibi_]. Such were the Oracles which he gaue, and whereof all histories do testifie. _Holcot_ vpon the booke of Wisedome, and the rest before mentioned with him.] [Footnote m: _Leo de collectis Serm. 40. & natiuitate Domini, Serm. 7._] [Footnote n: _In proemio, lib de exhortaions ad Martyrium Cyprianus._] _The fifth Proposition._ The Diuell can assume to himself[a] a body, and frame a voyce to speake |
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