of other more remote lands. No, no; there are witches by the thousand everywhere, multiplying upon the earth even as worms in a garden. And this is a shame to the Magistrates whose duty it is to punish felons and criminals; for if we had no more than the direct command of God to put them to death as being His bitterest enemies, why should we endure them any longer and thus disobey the Majesty of the Most High? In this we do even worse than the witches themselves; for disobedience is likened to Idolatry and Witchcraft by Samuel, speaking to Saul. And Saul found this to be true, to his own great damage; for, because he did not slay all the Amalekites and their cattle as he had been commanded, God was angry with him and caused him to be defeated and killed, with his sons, by the Philistines. Therefore we ought well to search our conscience, and feat lest it should happen to us as it did to Saul for that one disobedience. I pass over
