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other places that were irkesom to recite.

[Acts 16]

CHAP. II. ARGV.

What kyndie of sin the practizers of these vnlawfull artes

committes. The division of these artes. And quhat are the

meanes that allures any to practize them.

PHILOMATHES.

BVT I thinke it very strange, that God should permit anie

mankynde (since they beare his owne Image) to fall in so

grosse and filthie a defection.

EPI. Although man in his Creation was made to the Image

of the Creator [1. Gen. 1.], yet through his fall having

once lost it, it is but restored againe in a part by grace

onelie to the elect: So all the rest falling away from God,

are given over in the handes of the Devill that enemie, to

beare his Image: and being once so given over, the greatest

and the grossest impietie, is the pleasantest, and most

delytefull vnto them.

PHI. But may it not suffice him to haue indirectly the rule,

and procure the perdition of so manie soules by alluring

them to vices, and to the following of their own appetites,

suppose he abuse not so many simple soules, in making them

directlie acknowledge him for their maister.

EPI. No surelie, for hee vses everie man, whom of he hath

the rule, according to their complexion and knowledge: And

so whome he findes most simple, he plaineliest discovers

himselfe vnto them. For hee beeing the enemie of mans

Salvation, vses al the meanes he can to entrappe them so

farre in his snares, as it may be vnable to them thereafter

(suppose they would) to rid themselues out of the same.

PHI. Then this sinne is a sinne against the holie Ghost.

EPI. It is in some, but not in all.

PHI. How that? Are not all these that runnes directlie to

the Devill in one Categorie.

EPI. God forbid, for the sin against the holie Ghost hath

two branches: The one a falling backe from the whole service

of G O D, and a refusall of all his preceptes. The other is

the doing of the first with knowledge, knowing that they doe

wrong against their own conscience, and the testimonie of the

holie Spirit, having once had a tast of the sweetnes of Gods

mercies [1. Heb. 6.]. Now in the first of these two, all

sortes of Necromancers, Enchanters or Witches, ar comprehended:

but in the last, none but such as erres with this knowledge

that I haue spoken of.

PHI Then it appeares that there are more sortes nor one, that

are directlie professors of his service: and if so be, I pray

you tell me how manie, and what are they?

EPI. There are principallie two sortes, wherevnto all the partes

of that vnhappie arte are redacted; whereof the one is called

Magie or Necromancie, the other Sorcerie or Witch-craft.

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