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Form of innocent persons out of those conventions & that ther is no question to bee made of it, but (crossed out illegible) ^ as to his natural pow^r and art he is able to make their [crossed out word: power?] shapes appear among his Servants, but he (L) supposeth the providence of God will not suffer such an injury to be done to an inocent person w^th him (m) _Delrio_ , and _Spin[crossed out letter]us_ concr. _Cumancy_ in his _Lucerna Inquisitorium_ (a book I have not yet seen) defends the affirmative of this Question. _Binsfieldins_ [crossed out citation] in his treatise concerning the con=fession of witches inclines to tho negative: only (o) he acknowledges that _Dei extraordinaria permissione posse niocentes ^sic representari._ And ^hee that shall assert that the great and holy God nev^r did nor ever will permitt the Divel thus far to abuse an inocent person, affirms more then he is able to prove. The story of _Germanus_ his discovering of a Diabolicall illusion of this nature concerning a great number of persons that seemed to be at a feast when they were really at home & a= sleep is mentioned by many authors. But the Particulars insisted on he Sufficiently lived the truth of what wee assert viz. that the Divel may by Divine permission appear in the shape of [crossed out illegible] inocent and [crossed out letter] pious persons. Never the less, tis evident from another Scripture viz that in the 2 Cor. 11. 14 ^ _ for Satan Himselfe is transformed into an Angell of Light_. Hee seems to be what their not