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and makes others seem to be what they are not. Hee represents evill men as good & good men as evill. The Ang^ls of Heaven (who are Angels of Light) Love truth and Righteousness; the Divel will seem to doe so too. And does therefore Lay before men Excellent good principles & Exhort them (as he did _Theodore Maillot_) to practice many things which by the Law of Righteousness they are= oblidged unto,(blot) thereby more Effectually to deceive. Is it not strange that ^hee has some= times intimated to his most devoted servants that if they would have familiar conversation with him they must be carefull to keep thems. from Enormous Sins, and pray constantly for Divine Protection? But so hath he trans= formd himself into an Angel of Light, as (p)_Boissardius_ showeth. He has frequently ap= peared unto men pretending himself to be a good Angel, so to Anatolius of Old; & the Late Instances of _Dr Dee_ & _Keller_ are famous= ly known. How many deluded Enthusiasts in former and latter times have been imposed on by Satans visibly appearing to them, pre= tending to bee a good angel? And moreov^r, he may be said to _transform himself into an Angel of Light_, Because of his appearing in the form of holy men who are the Children of Light. Yea in

(p) De prentis megia p.30 (q) for Dr counselor of of spirits