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[underlined word] Juell [?] saith of him that he [caret sign. Inserted word: most] ingeniously confess that he never understood Solomons proverbs [striked out text. Illegible] untill Lavater expounded them to him. That book of his, de Spectris, has been published in Latin Greek, [caret sign. Inserted word: high] and low Dutch, French, Italian. The lear= ned [underlined word] Zanchy (+) speakes highly of it, professing that he had read it both with pleasure and pro= fitt. [underlined word] Voetius (a) takes notice of that passage we have quoted out of [underlined word] Lavater as a thing memorable. Some Popish Authors argue that the Divel cannot personate [striked out text. Illegible.] an inocent do= ing an Act of Witchcraft because then he might as well represent them committing [striked out text: Self] murder, and if so, then would there be no living in the world. But I turn the argument against them, and [?] He may (as the mentioned instances prove) perso= nate honest men as doing other Evils. And no solid reason can be given why he may not as well personate them under the notion of witches as under the notion of thieves, murderers, & Idola= tors. As for the Objection that then there would be no Living in the world, we shall consider that un= der the next Argument. Argument 3 If Satan may not represent one that is not a Covenant Servant of his as afflicting those that are bewitched or possessed, then is [?] because we wants either will, or Power to do this, or because God will never permitt him to do so. No man but a Saducee doubts of the Ill will of Divells.