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Castor. Thou haft commkced the fhip to the wzvesfoffux ; therefore ceafenoc to proceed, and declare fomething more concerning the Office and imployment of thefe Spirits, to whom Plato attribuceth the fecond degree, and calleth them Lunaries.

Pollux. Whatfhalllfay?

Cdttor. In the firft place, declare wherefore thou haft be- fore cermed chefe Spirits cunning and much knowing Ac- cufers. . . Pollux. Saint v4#£*/?/7»ff unfoldeth this difficulty, and faith, deyil 1$ That <* Devil doth jo far fignife the cunning and much knowing faid to quic\ntfiand vivacity of hit deceitful wit, that by the congruent ha ve much an £ agreeable feminal per -mixtures of elements, he dothfo know ,, 0VT ~ the fecrets and unknown vertues of men , a* thofe things -which ° ' may be effected and wrought by themfelves fuccefftvelyand leifure- ly according to the courfe of nature, he by ajpeedy hafting or for- cing of the workl of natnre,or by his own art,fooner br'mgeth the fame to pap. An example hereof he giveth in the wife men of Pharaoh,who immediately broughtforth frogs and ferpents at the commandment of the King, which nature moreflowly andleifurely procreateth.

C a &or. Thou haft excellently anfwered tothequeftion, Pollux ; but adde fome thing concerning the original of thofe Spirits which do refill and refufe vertue ; for oftentimes doubting, I have been perfwaded that fuch Erynnes as are from God, do not appear out of the earth.

Pollux. TheEcclcfiaftical Scripture everywhere maketh mention of the rifingof them; but I will unfold fuch a doubt: and there do arife many and various opinions of writers,but Lib.*. more commonly Peter Lombards in his book of Sentences, diHwil.7. draweth his Allegations out of Sc. cAugufline upon Gcncfts\ to w it, That the Dive! was before his fall an Archangel^ and had a fine tender body, compofed by God, cut of the ferentty and purefi matter of the Skic and Air ; but then after hts fall from an Arch- angel, he was made an Apoflate , and his body no more fine and fubtil ; but his body was made that it might fufftr the ejfeft of a more groji fubflance*frcm the quality of the more obfeurfjdarkjand

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