The BiddenSorcerer,difcovered. 14 5 thall fee himfall down fromHeaven like Lightning : thereföre Luk. io.i8 Satan will change his fhape and cart out himfelfe, and in thin cafeBelzebub will Gaff out $elzebub, thegreater 'Devil will caf# out theleß, that fo he may take fuller poííellion:And all this is doneby no other art but byMagick,Inchantments,and Sorcery. :Nay often times the Devil will call that Inchant- ment which is fartheft from it; even the wifdome, power, and rigbteo:+fnefs ofChrill : Becaufe he knows that if he can-but .make men fo apprehend ofit, they will fly from it ; for he knows himfelf hated. And except he be difguifed, he can donothing : yet many menwill cry out againfiSorcery and Inchantment, and Herefie, andErrours, and Delufons, when they know not what they are : nay, when they themfelves are ntofi deluded 'and furprized by Inchantmcnt; So that Satan he is furnifhedWith his fubtile devices, and yet keeps men ignorant of bis devices, and they (hall not know they are inchanted, but cryout upon others tobe fo; They cry out fuch areHereticks and Ranters,, Seducers, ani Jefuites, and fee not the real Divination in themfelves. So thatby.thisyou may fee, when God or theScriptures fpeak ofSorcerers, Magicians'Charmers, Inchanters, Southfay- ers, Diviners, Necromancers, Peepers, aWoman with a fami- liar Spirit or the like.: they not onely mean that External way ofMagick, (though ,fome things in that cafe may be lawful, which may through ignorancebe railed againft ) but Godby thofe names chiefly intemds todifcover and fet out the Prince ofDarknefa in man, and the Man of fin, and Antichrift in man, and the working ofSatan in man ; this 2 TheC 2. the Scripture chiefly and ultimately intends allalong; but J;h.zó.iz. m:nwill notfee it, nor acknowledge it, becaufe they are under thepower thereof and cannot endure the light, nei- ther will thy come to the light 'left their deeds fhould be made Joh, 3.19, manifet. 20. Adde to this another Scripture, Exod. 7. a i. Then pha- raoh alfo called the wife men, and the Sorcerers : Now thq Ma- Exod. 7. gicians ofEgypt they alfo did in like manner with their Inchant- H. ments. Thefe were Jannes and Jambreswhich withftoodMo- fes, (whichwere the names offome of the.Magicians, which V wrought
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