Chapter IX.
Of the Witch’s Renunciation of God,
Baptism and Chrism.
As the brave soldier disarms his enemy so that he may become his prisoner, having nothing with which to defend himself; so, when Satan wishes to become our master, he makes us renounce God, Baptism and Chrism, because these are the weapons with which we can guard and defend ourselves against him, and the Evil One well knows this.
For, considering God in general, did not Satan say to Him, speaking of Job: Job 1.“Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast thou not made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?” And the Royal Prophet says: Ps. 91.“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” And St. Paul, writing to the Romans, says: Rom. 8.“If God be for us, who can be against us?” And notably it has been observed several times that, when one has pronounced the name of God or of Jesus Christ in the witches’ assembly, v. Grillan.everything has at once vanished, both devils and persons and meats.
Bodin, Demonom. II. c. 4.Concil. Trid. Sessio 4.
Bodin, ibid.As for Baptism, it sets us out of Satan’s power and is, as it were, a protection against all future ambushes and attacks. But here I must say that this Schemer causes the witch to renounce not only his first Baptism which he received in the name of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, but
