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Juell saith of him that he must ingeniously confess that he never understood Solomons proverbs [crossed out: which] untill [illegible] Lavater expounded them to him. That book of his De Spectris has been published in Latin Greek, high and Low Dutch, French, Italian. The [Sca..ned?} Zanchy (+) speakes highly of it, professing that he had read it both with Pleasure and profitt. [Vochin?] (a) takes notice of that passage we have quoted [crossed out: illegible] out of Lavater as a thing memorable. Some Popish Authority argue that the Divel cannot personate [crossed out: illegible] as are inocent doing an Act of Witchcraft because them he might as well represent them committing [crossed out: self] murder and if so then would there be no Living in the world. But I [hirn?] the Argument against them; [crossed out: illegible]. I bee may (as the mentioned instances prove) personate 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 theeves, murderers, & Idolaters. As for the objection that then there would be no Living in the world, we shall consider that under the next Argument. Argument 3 If Satan may not represent one that is not a Covenant Servant of his as afflicting those that are [crossed out: affected] bewitched or possessed, then tis because he wants either will, or Power to doe this, or because God will never permitt him to doe so. No man but a Saducee doubts of the Illwill of Divells.