appearance of that which is good and beautifull, so that it may be desired and embraced:  or else by representation of that which is euill & infamous, procure dislike and detestation.  Neither is this any strange position, or improbable, but may bee warranted by sufficient authority; and therefore [f]_Constantius_ the Emperour doth expressely determine, all those iustly punishable who sollicite by enchantments chaste mindes to vncleannesse:  And Saint [g]_Ierome_ attributeth vnto them this power, that they can enforce men to hate those things they should loue, and affect that which they ought to auoyd:  and the ground hereof hath his strength from the holy Scriptures:  for the Diuell is able to enflame wanton[h] lust in the heart, and therfore is named, the Spirit of Fornication, Osea 4. 12. and vncleane, Math. 12. 43.

[Footnote e:  Gratianus in decretis, Caietanus in summula titulo de maleficio.  Iaquerius in flagello fascinariorum, cap. 11. 12.  Ioh.  Nider in praeceptorio, praecepto 1. cap. 11.  Bodinus in Daemonomania, lib. 2 cap. *]

    [Footnote f:  Cod.  Lib. 9. titulo 18.  Lege est scientia, hanc
    legem sugillat.  Weirus de praestigijs daemonum lib. 3. cap. 38.]

    [Footnote g:  In 3.  Caput prophet[e,] Nah[~u]ni, vide &
    Nazianzenum in +aporetais+, siue de arcanis vel principijs non
    procul a fine, & eius paraphrasten Nicetam.]

    [Footnote h:  Cassianus Collat. 7. cap. 32.]

There is a very remarkeable example mentioned by Ierome[i], of a maiden in Gaza whom a yong man louing, and not obtaining, went to Memphis in Egypt, and at the yeares end in his returne, being there instructed by a Priest of Aesculapius, and furnished with Magicall Coniurations, graued in a plate of brasse, strange charming words, and pictures which he buried vnder the threshold of the doore where the virgin dwelt:  by which meanes she fell into a fury, pulled off the attire of her head, flung about her haire, gnashed with her teeth, and continually called vpon the name of her louer.

    [Footnote i:  In vita Hilarionis.]

The like doth [k]_Nazianzene_ report of Cyprian before his conuersion (though some thinke it [l]was not he whose learned and religions writings are extant, and for the profession of his faith and doctrine was crowned with Martyrdome) but another of that name, toward Iustina, whom hee lasciuiously[m] courted, and vnlawfully lusted after.  It were easie for me to instance this in many, and to adde more testimonies, but my intended purpose was, to set downe onely some few propositions, whereby the iudicious reader might be stirred vp to a deeper search, and further consideration of these things:  for often they driue men to a madnesse, and other such desperate passions, that they become murtherers of themselues.  But this alwayes must be kept in minde, as a granted and infallible truth, [n]That whatsoeuer the Witch doth, it receiueth his force from that society which she hath with the Diuell, who serueth her turne in effecting what she purposeth, and so they worke together as [o]associates.