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Nothing is more pleasing to the malice of those wicked Spirits then to see inocents wrong'd. And the pow^r of the Enemy is such that having anew ob= taind a divine concession to use his arts, he does this and much more then this amounts unto. we know by Scripture Revealation, that the Sorcerers of Egypt by their Inchantments caused many un= true and delusive representations before Pha roh and his Serv^ts, Ex. 9.11, 12. & 8. 9. & we read of the [underlined: working of Satan with all pow^r and signs & Lying wonders] 2 Thes. 2. 9 his art is beyond w^t the wisest of men may pretend unto. he ^has perfect Skill in Opticks and can therfore cause that to be visible to one which is not so to another: and things also to appear far otherwise than they are. he has like= wise the art of Limning in the perfection of it & knoweth what may be done by Colours. It is an od passage which I find in the (6) [underlined: Acta Eruditorum] [margin note: c6) A. 1690- p.113] printed at [underlined: Lipsick] that about thirty two years agoe an Indigent Merchant at [underline:Lyons] in [underline:France] was instructed by a Demon that with water of Borax he might colour Taffeties so as to cause them to glister and look very gay. Hee sees ni= to the naturall causes and reasons of things - whereby he is able to produce wonderfull Effects. So that if he doth not form the shape of an ino= cent person afflicting Others it is not for want of either will or pow^r. They that affirm that God nev^r did or ever will permit him thus to doe - alledge that tis inconsistent, with the Righte-