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might be the Cause of those pofsessions we read of in the Gospel, and that the Devil have been immited into the bodies of miserable creatures by magicians and witches, history and experience [] abundantly [] []. Hiero, (h) [] convincing a certain vir- gin that a young man whose[?] amount she despi- sed, prevailed with a magician to send an evil spi- rit into her by means where of she was strangly besotted. It is reported of Simon Magus (i) that after he had used an Hellish Sacrifice to be re- venged on some that had called him a great witch he caused [] spirits to enter in to them. Many conforming witches have acknowledged that they were the cause of such and such persons going possessed by evil angels as (k) [ ] and [ ] have ob- served. Now no credit is to be given to what Demons in such as are [ ], shall say our Saviour by his own unerring exampke hath taught us not to receive his Divels testimony in anything. The rapists are firstly condemned for bringing diaboli cal testimony to confirm the principles of their Religion. Peter Cotton the Jesuit (L) enquired of a Divel in a [ ] person what was the clearest scripture to prove purgatory. At the time no [ ] [ ] died, all the [ ] people in the Motherland [ ] quiets the divel in them said because [ ] had been a great friend of theirs and they owed him that respect as to go as far as Germany to his junior [ ] all. Another time when the war some talk of