with, and further instruct and giue satisfaction to those who haue
submitted themselues vnto him, and are bound to his seruice. For he lost
not by his transgression and fall, his naturall[b] endowments, but they
continued in him whole[c] and perfect, as in the good Angels, who abide
in that obedience and holiness wherein they were created, from whence a
reason confirmatiue may bee thus framed, Good Angels can take vnto
themselues bodies, as _Genes. 18. 2._ _Iudg. 13. 3.6._ therefore the
euill also. Thus the Diuell hath appeared to some in the forme of a
[d]Man, cloathed in purple, & wearing a crowne vpon his head: to others
in the likenesse of a [e]Childe: sometime he sheweth himselfe in the
forme of foure-footed beastes, foules, creeping things, [f]roaring as a
Lyon, skipping like a Goat, barking after the manner of a dogge, and the
like. But[g] it is obserued by some, that he cannot take the shape of a
Sheepe, or Doue, though of an Angell of light: _2. Cor. 11. 14_. And
further, [h]most of the learned doe hold, that those bodies wherein they
doe appeare, are fashioned of the[i] aire, (though it is not to be
denied, but they can enter into other, as the Diuell did into the
Serpent, deceiuing _Eue_, _Gen. 3. 1._) which if it continuing pure and
in the owne nature,[k] hath neither colour nor figure, yet condensed
receiueth both, as wee may behold in the clouds, which resemble sometime
one, sometime another shape, and so in them is seene the representation
of Armies fighting, of beasts and Birds, houses, Cities, and sundry
other kinds of apparations.

[Footnote a: _Augustinus in Enchiridio, cap .59. & 60. & Lambertus
Daneusin suis comentarijs: ad eundem._]

[Footnote b: _Binfeldius de confessionibus maleficorum. Aquinas,
Summa part. 1. quest. 51, art. 3. & 4_]