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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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