ecloga 8._]

Secondly, God doth as straitly prohibit them, and seuerely punish the
practisers thereof, as others offending in any exercise of vnlawfull
arts, _Deut. 18. 10.11_. There shall not be found among you (instructing
the Israelites his people) a charmer, &c. for these are abhomination
vnto the Lord, &c. And this is recorded in the Catalogue of those sinnes
of _Manasses_, by which hee sought to prouoke God vnto anger, _2. Kin.
21. 8._ _2. Chronicles 33. 6_.

Thirdly, words haue no vertue,[ee] but either to signifie and expresse
the conceits of the minde, or to affect the eares of the Auditors, so
that they can worke nothing but in these two respects: first of the
matter which is vttered by them, which vnderstood of the hearers, affect
the mind diuersly, and that especially when there is ioyned with it a
comelinesse of action and pronunciation, as wee we see oftentimes in the
speeches of the Ministers of the Word, and in the pleadings of Orators.
As when _Paul_ reasoned before _F[oe]lix_ and _Drusilla_ his wife, of
Temperance, Righteousnesse, and Iudgement to come, hee trembled, _Acts
24. 25._ [ff]being guilty to himselfe of fraudulent and cruell dealing,
of lasciuiousnesse and a filthy life, and therefore might iustly feare
vengeance for the same.

[Footnote ee: +rhêmata Blastêmata noêmatôn, & phônê+ _Etymologicis
dicitur quasi_ +to phôs tou nou+. _De hac materia eruditissimè
disputat Franciscus Valesius de sacra Philosophia, cap. 3._]

[Footnote ff: _Pr[e,]fectus Iud[e,]æ impositus cuncta malefacta
sibi impune ratus est, &c. Tacitus Annalium lib. 12. & historiæ
lib. 5. per omnem sæuitiam ac libidinem ius regium seruili ingenio