deeply is hee to be censured, who hath made himselfe an aduocate to
plead the cause of [g]Witches, and defend th[~e] as innocent. And
because this is a dangerous example, and doth draw those who are euill
affected to offend, hoping for patronage of their impiety, I adde for
conclusion this last proposition: Wisards, Witches, and the whole rabble
of Sorcerers (no kinde excepted) are iustly liable[h] to extreame
punishment. The arguments alleaged for proofe hereof, are many: I will
make choyce of a few (with reference to such authors in whose writings
more may bee found) and those which are most[i] demonstratiue.

[Footnote a: _Phauorinus apud Agellium. lib. 17. cap. 12._]

[Footnote b: _Luciani encomion musc[e,]._]

[Footnote c: _Erasmus._]

[Footnote d: _Synesius._]

[Footnote e: _Lib. 2 de Republica._]

[Footnote f: _Extat eius laudatio inter exempla exercitationum
Rhetorum ab Henrico Stephano editarum cum Polemonis & Himerij
declamationibus._]

[Footnote g: _Wierus._]

[Footnote h: _Simlerus in 22 Exodi._]

[Footnote i: Of these all the following reasons. _Binfeldius de
confessionibus maleficorum, & in Commentarijs ad titulum legis de