the games of _Olimpus_, but being remoued by the Magistrate,
hauing intelligence thereof, himselfe was subdued. Of these see
_Athen[e,]us Deipnosophiston lib. 12._ _Hesichius_ in his
_Lexicon._ _Plutarchus quæstionum conuiualium, lib 7. cap. 5_.]




¶ _The eight Proposition, and first consequent._


Now then from this premised narration, these two corrollaries or
consequents do necessarily follow.

It is not lawfull for any Christian to consult with a witch or wisard,
or goe to them for helpe. God himselfe, whose commandement is and must
be the rule of our life & direction hath forbidden it, _Leuit. 19. 31._
and _20. 6._ _Deuter. 18. 10.11_. And the Imperiall lawes, haue beene in
this case verie respectiue.[a] Therefore, _Leo_ the Emperour straitly
enioyneth, that none should resort vnto them, and stileth their aduice
nothing but meere impostures and deceit; and in the [b]Decrees collected
by _Gratian_, the teachers of the people are seriously exhorted to
admonish them, that magicall arts and inchantments cannot heale any
infirmity: and that they bee the dangerous snares, and subtilties of
that ancient enemy of mankind, by which he indeuoureth to entangle
them[c]: and these so streight and seuere prohibitions are not without
iust and weighty cause. For,

[Footnote a: _Cod lib. 9. titulo 18. L. nullus & L. Nemo._]