351- 4 evelattonof the Apocolypfe. CAP'.i8. gladly keep in folitary and vaft places, or rather which they donot tomuch delight in, as they are fent and thruti downe thither even againft their wills ; whereupon that which is called at thefirff ax habitationofDevils,thatis called [traight aftera Cageofevert vnclax fpirit; that is a prifon or houle of corrrc`tion into which they are crowded at the pleafure oftheir higheft Iudg( : As if that theunclean fpirits were tormented by Gods molt juft judgement in the fame places, after that they fhouldbe bereavedofall companionfhip with mortali men, whom before that, they abufed like their (laves, by inricing them to finneand wickedneffe. And to he thus driven from the company ofinen is likes-sell to them, feeing they account it to be a certaine folace to them to allay the bitter tormentsoftheir dam- nation, to draw men intothe fame torments with themfclves. But yet they are not fo Phut np within thefe fecret and folitaryplaces, but that they doe fometime goe into, and make havock up and downe in thegreateft throngs ofpeople, as often as it feemeth good to God to permit them , and yet Inch wilde and wafte places as thick, are the ,ordinary prifonsappointed for them : towhich that of Chridt feemeth to belong ; when the uncleanefpirit isSane out ofa max, heWali th through dry-places,feeling reft, but fndethnone, 12. 43. Moreover the evils, which haveb:en brought into theChurch- es; by Hermitsand Monks, doe prove abundantly, how greatly the delufions of Satan prevaile in thofe forlorne and defart places, as the molt learned Theod. Beza hath obferved. We learne out of this place, how the words Flayr3.20,at.22. and againe (hap344t3. 24.15. are to be underflood, as unto which places theHoly Ghoft doth allude manifeflly, howfotver hedo notinterpret them ofpur- pole word for word. Namely that it isto beunderftood not onlyofcertaine Beaftsand birds that be unfortunate, but alfo ofevill Angels, to which thefe words are proper which arehereufed (that is) `Devils anduncleane Spirits ; for fo the Grecke Interpreters have tranflated that place, partly retaining the Hebrew words,Tifiim,andOThim ; partly turn- ing the world Sehirim in the Hebrew, into Daimonia : devils, in which fenfe that word is ufed Leviticus 27. 7. findthey fhall not henceforth offer their Sacrifices (Lefhirim) to devils. The word fignifieth properly Gotes; but it is transferred to Devils; who appeared oftentimes to thofe that ferved teem, hairy, and Full of big rough haire, like Water Spaniels, or Irifh Rugges: they are called Satyrs, commonly, and Aquila the GreeKe Interpreter tranfiates-
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