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the light ; others, of darknefs : thefe are fubjeft to vanity, becaufe they run headlong into darknefs, and inchral them- felves in eternal punifhments for their rebellion. Their Kingdom is partly very beautiful in tranfitory and corrup- tible things on the one part, becaufe it cannot confift with- out fome vertuc and great gifts of God ; and partly moft filthy and horrid to be fpoken of, becaufe it aboundeth with all wickednefs and fin, idolatry, contempt of God, ^ blafphe- mies againft the true God and his works, worshipping of devils, difobedience towards Magiftrates, feditions, homi- cides, robberies , tyranny, adulteries, wicked lufts, rapes, thefts, lyes, perjuries, pride, and a covetous defire of rule j in this mixture confiftcth the kingdom of darknefs : bucthe creatures of the lighr, are filled with eternal truth, and with the grace of God, and are Lords of the whole world,and do reign over thel.ordsof darknefs, as the members of Chrift. Between thefe and the other, there is a continual war, until God fliall put an end to their flrife , by his laft judgement.

Aphor. 38.

Therefore Magick is twofold in its firftdivifion ; the one is of God> which he beftoweth on the creatures of light; the other alfo is of God,but it is the gift which he giveth unto the creatures of darknefs : and this is alfo two-fold : the one is to a good end, as when the Princes of darknefs are compel- led to do good unto the creatures, God enforcing them j the other is for an evil end , when God permitteth fuch to punifh evil perfons , that magically they are deceived tode- flru&ion j or, alfo he commandeth fuch to be caft out into deftrncYion.

The fecond dtvifion of Magick is, that it bringeth to pafs fome works with vifible instruments, through vifible things ; and it cfre&eth other works with invfible inflru- ments by invifiblc things ; and it afteth other things, afwel with mixed means, as increments andeffe&s.

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