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 134 A Difcourfe,

the fame rooc is of fuch prefenc force for expiations, tbacal-

(o thofewho are vexed and tormented with unclean fpirirjj

are immediately delivered, if they carry this root about

Art Tome- t hem. Noiwkliflanding there is nothing hindereth, but

taTe hiJ" tnac ^ rt a ^"° ma y * micate Nature in the working of Mira-

ture in c ' cs J as we ma y read in Anftotlc, of the Greek fire that

working would burn in water : of which the faid Author,in his fingu.

Miracles. j ar Treatife concerning this, hath defcribed very many com-

politions. And concerning rhe fire which is extinguilned

with oyl, and kindled with cold water, when it is befprink-

Jed over therewith.

Poll. Ic fomeiimes happeneth that the devils do clothe themfelves, fometimes in more flender, and fometimes in moregrofs habits, that thereby they may very much affright and moleft men with horrible pbantafies, and terrible fights ; with Ghofts appearing in divers and feveral fhapes and a- fpefts. What,cannot we be fortified with any thing to force and compel them toflie from us? How the C*ft' OrigtH, in his book againft Celfm^ faith, that there is devils arc no way more certain, then the naming of JESUS the true God, to be dri- For he faith he hath oftentimes feen innumerable fpirits fo ven away. ^ r [ vcn away, both from the fouls and bodies of men. St.^« thanafus, in his book de variis Qtuflien. teftifiet h, that the moft prefenc remedy againft the infulcation of evil fpirits, is the beginning of the 6 7 Pfalm, Let God arife., and let his ene- mies befcattcred, Cjprian^xn his book Quod idola dinonfnt^ commanded! that the devils fhould be conjured away by the true God. Some men have declared, that Fire, which is the mofi holy of all elements, and the Creed,and alfo the inftru- ment whereon the fire was carried, were very profitable for this purpofe:from whence ,in their facrifices about the fepul- chres of the dead, they diligently obferved the ufe of lights : or elfe from thence that Pjth/tgorae did determine y that God could be in no wife truely worfhipped without lights The Spi- burning. Some others do binde fwords for this intent and r'us fear purpofe, taking the fame out of the n Ode of Homers where Sword*. he wr i tcin, that U Iffiest when he offered a facrificeto his mo- ther,

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