dêsan epistamenôs epaoidê de haima kelainon echethon.+ _Cato de re
rustica. Plin. li. 28. ca. 2. Bodinus Dæmonomanias l. 2. c. 2._]

[Footnote x: _De subtilitate libr. 18._]

[Footnote y: _Georgius Pictorius in epitome de Magia. cap. 21._]

[Footnote z: _Vide Ritherhusium in notis ad Malchum de vita
Pythagoræ. Alexander Trallian. libr. 10. de colico affectu, in
fine. Serenus Sammonicus de pr[e,]ceptis medicinæ cap. de
Hemitritæo depellenda. Ioh. Langius epistolarum medicinalium lib.
1 epist. 33. & 34._]

[Footnote aa: _Aquinas in summa secundæ quest. 96. articulo 4._]

First, they had their originall and beginning from the diuell, who abode
not in the truth, _Iohn 8. 44._ was cast downe with the apostata angels
to hell, and deliuered into chaines of darkenesse, _2. Pet. 2. 4._ who
enuying mans felicity receiued into grace after the [bb]fall, himselfe
eternally reiected, omitted no occasion to weaken and ouerthrow the
same, that the benefite thereof might come but to a few, and the
greatest number perish with him for euer. Whereupon he endeuoured to
inwrappe the weaker sort of that fraile corporation in superstitions,
beguile them with doubtfull and false oracles, and bring to a forme of
worshippe contrary to that which God had commaunded, [cc]whereby the
world beganne to abound with Idolatry, disobedience, contempt, murthers,
vncleanenesse, lusts, thefts, lying, and such like outrages: and that
hee might with his infections impoyson them more dangerously, and
soueraigne in their hearts, he vndertooke to worke wonders, imitating
such miracles as God had done, and deuised cunningly many subtile