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His words are therefor(e) "The naming of the suspec- "ted in their fitts & also wher they have been , & what "they have done here and those, as Mr. _Throgmorton's_ "children could doe, and that often and ever found true "This is a great presumption, and yet but a presum "ption, because this is only the Dively Testimony, "who can Lye and that more often then speak truth. "Christ would not allow his witness of him in a "point most true; nor Saint Paul in the true "praises of him and Silas. This witness then may "not be reconed as sufficient in Case of ones Life. "He may accuse an inocent person as I shewed "before in Mr. _Edmunds_ giving over his practice "to find stolen goods. And Satan we read would "accuse Job so hed himself to be an Hypocrite, & "too ready to be a blaspheemer: and he is called abe "the accuser of the Brethren. Albeit I cannot "deny but this hath very often proved true, yet "losing this Divel is such an one as you heard- "Christian men should not take his writings to "give in a verdict upon Oath, and so swear that "the Divel hath therin spoken the Truth. Beit "far from good men to confirm any word of the "Divel by Oath, if it be not an Evident Truth= "without the Divels Testimony, who in speaking "the truth hath a Lying intent, and speakes some