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that before God, and that not only of such faults as they really are guilty of; as hee accused Joshua [written over the word of: aft] his filthy garments, when throw his indulgences some of his family had transgressed by unlawfull marriages. Zech. 3.2,3. Ezra.10.18. but also with such crimes as= they are altogether free from. he represen=ted the primitive Christians as the vilest ^of men and as if at their meetings they did commit the most nefarious vilanies that ever were= known. And that not only inocent but eminent=ly pious persons should thrô the malice of the Divel be accused with the Crime of witchcraft is no new thing. Such an affliction did the Lord see meet to exercise the great _Athnasius_ with (+) [note in margin: (+) .Binffield de Sagis. p. 187.] only the providence of God did wonderfully vin=dicate him from that as well as from some other fowle aspersions. The _Waldenses_ (altho the Scriptures call them Saints Revela.19.7.) have been tradu=ced by Satan and by the world as horrible witches. So have others in other places, only because they have done Extraordinary things by their prayers. It is by many authors related that a city in _France_ was molested with a Diabolicall _Spectre_, which the people were wont to Call _Hugon_, nere that place a number of Protestants were wont to meet to Seek God; to hence the professors of the true reformed Religion were wont to be Called _Hugonots_; by the pa=pists who designd to render them before the world