A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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A like example to this is that in King _Agrippa_, though working vpon a better subject, _Act. 26. 28_. And if I may conioyne Diuine eloquence with Humane, it is memorable, that while [gg]_Tully_ pleaded before _Cæsar_ for _Ligarius_, accused by _Tubero_, to haue beene confederate with _Pompey_, purposing to put him to death, as an enemy, when the Orator altered, and in Rhetoricall manner inforced his speech, the other changed accordingly his countenance, and bewrayed the piercing words to be so affecting, that the supplications, when he came once to vrge and mention the battell of _Pharsalia_, (trembling and dismayed) did fall from his hands, hauing the passions of his minde extraordinarily moued, and absolued the offender. Or else when by their pleasantnesse, with delight they slide into the hearts of men, and rauish their affections: and thus it was with [hh]_Augustine,_ as he acknowledgeth of himselfe, that being at _Milaine_ where he was baptized by _S. Ambrose_, when he heard the harmony which was in singing of the Psalmes, the words pierced his eares, the truth melted his heart, his passions were moued, and showers of teares with delight fell from his eyes.[ii] But these effects are wrought onely in such who vnderstand that which is spoken, but neither of both these properties are to bee found in the Charmes of Wisards: besides, that they are conceiued and expressed in monstrous and vnknowne tearmes, not intelligible, and without signification: and therefore the effects they produce being[kk] supernaturall must proceed from that secret compact, the least made with the Diuell. [Footnote gg: +arxamenos legein ho kikerôn huperphuôs ekoinei+ _Plutarchus in Cicerone_.] [Footnote hh: _Aug. confessionum lib. 9. cap. 6 Quantum fleui in |
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