Iohannes Gerson de erroribus circa artem magicam, in dicto
secundo._
_1º. Obstinatorum damnationem._
_2º. Peccatorum purgationem, & punitionem._
_3º. Ad fidelium probationem, & exercitationem._
_4º Ad gloriæ dei manifestationem_]




_The seuenth Proposition._


More women in a farre different proportion prooue Witches then men, by a
hundred to one; therefore the Lawe of God noteth that Sex, as more
subiect to that sinne, _Exodus 22. 18_. It is a common speach amongst
the Iewish Rabbins, [a]many women, many Witches: And it should seeme
that this was a generally receiued opinion, for so it is noted by
_Pliny_, _Quintilian_, and others, neyther doth this proceede (as some
haue thought) from their frailtie and imbecillity, for in many of them
there is stronger resolution, to vndergoe any torment then can bee found
in man, as was made apparant in that conspiracy of _Piso_ against
_Nero_,[b] who commaunded that _Epicharis_, knowne to bee of the same
faction, should first presently be set vpon the racke,
[Sidenote: _Muliebre corpus impar dolori._]
imagining that being a woman, she would neuer bee able to ouercome the
paine: But all the tortures that he or his could deuise, were not able
to draw from her the least confession of any thing that was then
obiected against her. The first dayes question shee so vtterly
contemned, that the very Chaire in which they conueied her from the