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The devih /,-£, ? and to (hew miracles to cur icttt men , r^4r fA?/ /»/£& at ,'/ ally raifc" WMr f wa ^ ow inem U P Wlt ^ err our in ft tad of miracles ; and are the dead, ^together pertinacious and obflinate : but the) cannot truelj and realty raife up the dead , but do varioufly deceive the fenfts of men , fttewtng them feigned refembfances of the dead. For it U certain I jr manifefl , that the devil i can do all things, tut onely inn falfefimilitude of holy miracles in truth.
Poll. Some fay that the devils arc obedient to wicked men , becaufe of the fimilitude of their malice. How feem- ethchat to thee?
Caft. It feemeth to me, that they are obedient to evil men, but not to all men. Poll. But to whom ?
Coil. Tothofe certainly with whom they have contracted and made compa&s and covenants ; as thofe women which they call Pyt honitt s are accounted , who have vowed them- felves by promife unto him.
Poll. But although they are compelled to be fo ferviceable unto them, yet is this fcrvice true or feigned ?
Cafr. It is feigned, certainly: for they are fubfervient un- to men of their own accord, and genuine work, that they may deceive them,and allure them to thcmfelvcs. Although we do not deny that their fervice is fometimes true , buc onely towards thofe men , whofe faith in the Lord Jefus Chrift,by the merit of his holincfs, hath cauied them to be acceptable, and friends unto him. And that Lattamiiu alfo teflifies, in thefe words , in his lecojnd book De or'ttint Er~ n»rfcf,and r<5 Chapter, That ihc devils do fear the jufl-, that k, thofe that worfhrp God , in whofe Name they are conju- red to depart out of bodies, and with whofe words they are beaten as it were with feourges .* and they do not onely confefs that they are devils, but do declare their names: neither can they lye unto the juO. And the fame LaUant'm in his fourth book De vera Sapientia , Chap. 27. faith, That it is necefTary that they who are of the true Chriflian Reli- gion, fhould know the courfc and order of the devils, and underfhnd their fubtilty , and reftrain their force, andcon-
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