[Footnote e:  De hoc more Alexander ab Alexandro.  Dierum genialium lib. 5. cap. 18.  Suetonius in Caligula, cap. 27.  Cicero de officijs lib. 2.  Caelius Rhodinginus Antiquarum lectionum lib. 7. cap. 31. & olim militiae Tyrones +stigmatiai+ erant & in cute signati Vegetius lib. 1. cap. 8. & 2. cap. 5.  Prudentius +peri stephanon+ Hymno 10. & huius moris meminit, Ambrosius in funebri oratione pro Valentiniano.]

    [Footnote f:  Et insigne exemplum apud Gildemannum de Lamijs lib.
    3. cap. 10. sectione 38.]

    [Footnote g:  Remigius in Daemonolatria lib. 1. cap. 5. and citeth
    the confession of eight seuerall persons, acknowledging both to
    haue receiued the marke and in what part of the body.]

And for the most part, hee bringeth these his slaues and vassailes obliged to him as his owne, to some desperate, Tragicall,[h] and disastrous end; and that either by the execution of Iustice for their demerits, or by laying violent hands vpon themselues, or else God powreth vpon them some strange and extraordinary vengeance, or their Grand-maister whom they haue serued, dispatcheth them in such manner, as they become dreadfull and terrible spectacles to the beholders, whereof Histories will furnish vs with [i]varietie and plenty of examples:  For the Diuell is a murthering spirit, desirous to doe mischiefe, swelling in pride, malitious in hatred, spitefull in enuy, subtill in craft; and therefore it behoueth euery one resolutely to withstand his assaults, Ephes. 4. 27. and cautelously to decline his subtilties, and cunning ambushments [Sidenote:  +methodeiai+] from whence he inuadeth vs, Eph. 6. 11.[k] For this aduersary against whom we fight, is an old beaten enemy, sixe thousand yeares are fully compleat since the first time hee began to assault mankinde.  But if any keepe the Commandements of God, and constantly, by a liuely faith, cleaue fast vnto Christ, he shall ouercome:  for our Lord is inuincible.[l] The Diuels indeed doe willingly offer themselues to be seene of those who are not gouerned by the Holy Ghost; and that either to win themselues some estimation, or to intangle and deceiue men, vailing their treacheries vnder a smiling countenance, whom they deadly hate, for if it lay in their possibilitie, they would ouerthrow and destroy heauen it selfe.  Now vnable to do this, they endeuour to worke vpon a more weake subiect and matter; and therefore hee that will not bee subdued of them, must auoid all occasions whereby he may take any aduantage, and couered with the Breast-plate of Righteousnesse, and defended with the Shield of Faith, quench all his fiery Darts. Ephes. 6. 14.

    [Footnote h:  Peucerus de praecipuis diuinationum generibus titulo
    de Magia.]

    [Footnote i:  Philippus Camerarius in Historicis medicationibus
    part. 1. cap. 70. & 72.]

    [Footnote k:  Cyprianus in pro[oe]mio libri de exhortatione ad
    Martyrium.]