sleights and legerdemaines, and for this end most blasphemously abused
the glorious and holy name of God, and the word vttered by his mouth,
and represented a false shew of those effects, which hee had wrought in
nature: and heerein leuelled at two intentions, one to reproch God, and
counterchecke his works; the other to ouer-mask and couer his owne
secret traps and frauds, perswading men, that by the power of wordes
these things were brought to pass, which must needes therefore be of
great efficacie: seeing that the world & all things therein were so made
of nothing; for he spake, and they were created, and thus practised to
disgrace, and extenuate, that admirable and great worke of Creation, and
cause men to make lighter account of the Creator, seeing that they also
(instructed by him) were enabled thorow the pronunciation of certayne
words contriued into a speciall forme, eyther to infuse new strength
into things, or depriue them of that which formerly they had, or alter
the course of Nature, in raysing tempests, stirring vp thunder and
lightning; in [dd]taming serpents, and depriuing them of their naturall
fiercenesse and venime, and cause wilde beasts to become meeke and
tractable, yea in seeming to make sensible bodies; as cloudes, wind,
raine & the like. And thus the diuell is that father who begot Charmes,
and brought them foorth, not powerfull in themselues, but by that
inter-league which hee hath with those who are invassaled vnto him.

[Footnote bb: _De differentia inter Diabolos & homines peccatores
Augustinus in Enchiridio cap. 28. & in suis ad illum cõmentarijs
Lambertus Dan[e,]us._]

[Footnote cc: _Peucerus de generibus Diuinationum & titulo de
incantationibus._]

[Footnote dd: _Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis Virg.