A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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noble [z]King; Let the streight rigor of law bee inflicted vpon all,
both practisers and partakers with wisards, by putting any confidence in them; for it is vngodly for man to be remisse and fauourable vnto those whom diuine piety, and our duety to God will not suffer vnpunished. For what folly were it to forsake the Creator and Giuer of life, and to follow the author of death? this dishonest fact, vnbeseeming, and vtterly repugnant to the credite and reputation of a Iudge, be farre from him. Let none countenance that which the Lawes doe condemne, for all are by the Regall Edicts to bee punished with death, who intermeddle with such forbidden and vnlawfull Artes. [Footnote z: _Allaricus apud Cassiodorum li. 9 epist. 18. in qua edictum illius:_ and _Cornelius Agrippa_, sometime more then well acquainted with this Art, doth retract his owne books written of secret philosophy, & in plaine tearms and expresly giues his iudgement, that all these lewd women (for this title may include the whole rabble of this blacke Guard) with _Iannes_ and _Iambres_, and _Simon Magus_, are to be tormented with endlesse paines in eternall fire. _Cornelius Agrippa De vanitate Scientiarum ca. 48._] _FINIS._ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |
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