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Nothing is more pleasing to the malice of those wicked Spirits then to see inocents wrong'd. And the power of the Enemy is such that having once ob= tained a divine concession to use his arts, he does this and much more than this amounts unto. We know by Scripture Revealasion, the the sorcerers of Egypt by their Enchantments caused many un= true and delusive representations before Pha= raoh & his servants, Ex. 7.11, 12 & 8.7 [?] & we read of the [underlined line: working of Satan with all power and Signs & Lying] [underlined word: wonders] 2 Thess. 2.9. his art is beyond what the wisest of men may pretend unto. He [caret symbol. Inserted word: has] perfect Skill in Opticks and can therefore cause that to be visible to one which is not to another, and things also so appear for otherwise what 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) [?] Acta Eruditorum [?] Printed at [underlined word: Lipsick] that about thirty two years agoe, an Indigent Merchant at [underlined word: Lyons] in [underlined word: France] was instructed by a Demon that with water of Borax he might colour Tasseties [?] so as to cause them to Glister and look very gay. He look [?] in= to the natureall [?] 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 Power. They that affirm that God never did or ever will permit him thus to doe alledge that that tis [?] inconsistent with the Righte=

[written in left margin: (6)[?] A. 1690. p.113]