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Enry Cornelius Agrippa, Decended from a noble Family of Nettehim in Belgia, Doctor of the Laws and Phyick, Mater of the Rols, and Judge of the pirituall Court, from his youth he applyed his mind to learning, and by his happy wit obtained great knowledge in all Arts and Sciences; afterwards alo he followed the Army of the Princes, and for his valor was created Knight in the Field; when he was by thee means famous for learning and Arms about 1530. He gave his minde to writing, and compoed three Books Of Occult Philoophy; afterward an Invective or Cynicall declamation of the uncertainty and vanity of all things, in which he teacheth that there is no certainty in any thing, but in the olid words of God, and that, to lie hid in the eminency of Gods word; he alo wrote an Hitory of the double Coronation of the Emperor Charls, and alo of the excellency of the feminine exe, and of the apparitions of pirits; but eeing that he publihed commentaries on the Ars Brevis of Raymundus Lully, and was very much addicted to Occult Philoophy and Atrology, there were thoe who thought that he enjoyed commerce with devils, whom notwithtanding he confuted in his publihed Apology, and hewed, that he kept himelf within the bounds of Art, 1538, He wrote many