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The devih /,-£, ? and to (hew miracles to cur icttt men, r^4r fA?/ /»/£& at ,'/ ally raifc" WMr f wa ^ ow inem U P Wlt ^ err our in ft tad of miracles ; and are the dead, ^together pertinacious and obflinate : but the) cannot truelj and realty raife up the dead , but do varioufly deceive the fenfts of men , fttewtng them feigned refembfances of the dead. For it U certain I jr manifefl , that the devil i can do all things, tut onely inn falfefimilitude of holy miracles in truth.

Poll. Some fay that the devils arc obedient to wicked men, becaufe of the fimilitude of their malice. How feem- ethchat to thee?

Caft. It feemeth to me, that they are obedient to evil men, but not to all men. Poll. But to whom ?

Coil. Tothofe certainly with whom they have contracted and made compa&s and covenants ; as thofe women which they call Pyt honitt s are accounted, who have vowed them- felves by promife unto him.

Poll. But although they are compelled to be fo ferviceable unto them, yet is this fcrvice true or feigned ?

Cafr. It is feigned, certainly: for they are fubfervient un- to men of their own accord, and genuine work, that they may deceive them,and allure them to thcmfelvcs. Although we do not deny that their fervice is fometimes true, buc onely towards thofe men, whofe faith in the Lord Jefus Chrift,by the merit of his holincfs, hath cauied them to be acceptable, and friends unto him. And that Lattamiiu alfo teflifies, in thefe words, in his lecojnd book De or'ttint Er~ n»rfcf,and r<5 Chapter, That ihc devils do fear the jufl-, that k, thofe that worfhrp God, in whofe Name they are conju- red to depart out of bodies, and with whofe words they are beaten as it were with feourges .* and they do not onely confefs that they are devils, but do declare their names: neither can they lye unto the juO. And the fame LaUant'm in his fourth book De vera Sapientia, Chap. 27. faith, That it is necefTary that they who are of the true Chriflian Reli- gion, fhould know the courfc and order of the devils, and underfhnd their fubtilty, and reftrain their force, andcon-

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