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 114 AGRIPPA. Bayle fays, if he was a conjurer, his art availed him little, for he was often in danger of wanting bread. Bcfides the works already mentioned of Agrippa, he wrote alfo a Commentary upon the Arc of Raimund Lulli, and a Difiertation on origi- nal Sin, wherein he afferts, that the fall of our firft parents was owing to their immodefty and luft. He promifed a piece againft the Dominican?, who being the chief directors of the inquHition, it is no wonder that he was exafpcrated againft them: " Do not imagine (fays he, addrefiing himfelf to the <c magiftrates of Cologn) that this is the only heretical article " in that order; there are many more, which I (hall give a " Friars. Here I fhal] expofe the wickednefs of that order; tc lions miracles they have invented, how many kings and " princes they have deftroyed, how many cities and common- not omit mentioning the key he wrote to his " Occult Philo- fophy," which he relerved only for his friends of the firft rank,, and he explained it in a manner not very different frrjm the cioclrines of the Quietiits. There was an edition of hia works, printed at Lyons, 1550, in three volumes 8vo. AINSWORTH (HENRY), a famous Englifh noncon- formift divine, who flourifhcd in the latter end of the fix- teenth and beginning of the fevemeenth century. In the year 1590, he joined the Brownifts, and by his adherence to Neal's Hift. (hat f ec ^ (hared in their perfections. He was well veifed in of tht* Ptiri - tans voi i the Hebrew language, and wrote many excellent commenta- P 543. 577. ries on the holy Scriptures which gained him great reputa- or <nells. Difquif. Magic, lib. ii. quarft. gave him no anfwer, he ftrangled him 12, n. 10, The lane au'hor tells us, upon the (pot. Agrippa, at hi? return that Agrippa had a perfon who boarded home, faw the devls leaping and dan- vith him at Lonvain-. tint one day, cing upon his hrufe; he called to them r when he was going out of town, he or- and uiiderftood Irom them what had hap- deredhis wife not to iet any perfon into pened. Upon this he command::.! the his. fluciy; however, the boarder got the devil, who had killed the man, to enter key of it, and went in, where he met into his dead body, and to walk feveral witii a book of conjuration, which he turns in a pUrr, which was much fre- began to read. He heard a knocking at tjuented by the Ibidents, and then to de- the door once or twice, without inter- part : which b-^ing done, the boarder, rupting his reading : the devil wanted to after three or four turns in the wilk, know who called for him, and upon fell down dead. Ibid. lib. ii. quseft. 29. what account: and becaufe the man t. tion.
 * ' particular account of in another book, which I have in-
 * ' titled A Hi/1 cry of the Crimes and Hercfies of the Predicant
 * how often they have poifoned the facraments, what ficH-
 * ' wealths they have betrayed, how many nations they have
 * ' feduced, with many other of their enormities." We muft