[Footnote d:  Lactantius de origine erroris. lib. 2. cap. 17.  And citeth the testimony of Sibilla Erithraea for proofe hereof. Gratianus Decretorum part. 2. causa 26 quaest. 2.  Canone sine saluatore, & inuentas esse has artes +pros ap..en eleeinon anthropon ton rhadios hupokleptomenon eis tauta hupo tou diabolou.+ affirmat Cedrenus in historiae compendio.]

[Footnote e:  Probationes ex quibus legitim[~u] est Iudicia fieri, tres necessariae plane dici & indubitatae possunt 1ª veritas notorij & permanentia facti. 2ª confessio voluntaria eius qui reus factus est, atque peractus. 3ª certorum testium firmorumque testimonium:  his & 4ª addi potest violentae praesumptiones de Rodinus de D[e,]monomania lib. 4. cap. 2.3.4.]

[Footnote f:  The Oracles of the Pagans in all places of the world, wh[e] CHRIST was borne, were silenced, and the Diuell became mute:  so that _Augustus C[e,]sar_ demanding of _Apollo_ by his messengers, sent to _Delphos_, had this answer returned, +pais hebraios keletai+ &c. in sence thus much, _An Hebrue Childe commandeth me to leaue this place, and returne againe to hell._ From hence therefore you must depart from our Altars, without resolution of any questions propounded. _Eusebius de praeparatione Euangelica, lib. 5. cap. 8.  Theodoretus de Graecorum affectionum curatione qui est de oraculis +meta ten tou soteros hemon epiphaneian apedrasan hoi tende ten exapaten tois anthropois prospherontes+, Vide & Suidam in Augusto, & Athanasium de incarnatione verbi._]

    [Footnote g:  _De hac ligatione & solutione Diaboli plenissime
    August. de Ciuitate Dei, lib. 20 cap. 8._]

    The first Proposition.

It is a Quaere, though needlesse, whether there be any Witches:  for they[a] haue some Proctors who plead a nullitie in this case, perswade themselues, and would induce others to be of the same minde, that there be no Witches at all:  but a sort of melancholique, aged, and ignorant Women, deluded in their imagination; and acknowledge such things to be effected by them, which are vnpossible, vnlikely, and they neuer did; and therefore Magistrates who inflict any punishment vpon them, be vnmercifull and cruell Butchers.  Yet by the way, and their good leaue, who take vpon them this Apology, all who are conuented vpon these vnlawfull action, are not strucken in yeares; but some euen in the flower of their youth be nuzled vp in the same, and convicted to be practisers thereof; neither be they ouerflowed with a blacke melancholique humor, dazeling the phantasie, but haue their vnderstandings cleere, and wits as quicke as other:  Neither yet be they all women, though for the most part that sexe be inclinable thereunto:  (as shall afterward be shewed, and the causes thereof) but men also on whose behalfe no exception can be laid, why any should demurre either of their offence or punishment for the same.  Wherefore for this point, and confirmation of the affirmatiue, wee haue sundry pregnant and euident proofes.