Neither can this seeme strange to any, that the Diuell should speake, who brought a voyce from Trees to salute[r] Apollonius, and inspired that talkatiue Oke in Dodona, famous for the Oracles vttered there in Heroicall verse, to the Grecians, and to euery nation in his owne language, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Armenians, and other people who were led by him, and depended vpon his resolution.
And thus the [s]Image of Memnon, when the Sunne did shine vpon it, and his beames touched the lips thereof, (which was at the arising in the East) speake vnto them who were present.
And considering, as hath beene mentioned before, that there passeth betweene the Witch and her Diuell, a compact, as with a Maister and a Seruant, it must therefore consist vppon prescript tearmes of commaunding, and obeying; and then of necessity is required a conuersing together; and conference whereby the same couenant may be ratified.
[a.] Augustinus in Enchiridio, cap .59. & 60. & Lambertus Daneusin suis comentarijs: ad eundem.
[b.] Binfeldius de confessionibus maleficorum. Aquinas, Summa part. 1. quest. 51, art. 3. & 4
[c.] In Dęmonibus ἀγγελίκας δωρέας ου μήποτε ἄλλοι ὠσθας φάμεν, ἄλλοι εἰσὶ ὁλοκληροι και παμφανεῖς, Dionisius Areopagita, de diuinis nominibus cap. 4. & si vacat licebit consulere in eundem Pachemeræ Paraphrasin & maximi scholia. Isidorus Hispalensis de summo bono. lib. 1. cap. 12.
[d.] Sulpitius Seuerus in vita beati Martini. Multa exemplę habet Bodinus in pręfatione ad Dęmonomaniam.
[e.] Hieronimus in vita Hilarianis.
[f.] Psellus de dęmonum natura.
[g.] Binfeldius de confessionibus maleficorum.