Sixthly, they are of a slippery tongue, and full of words: and therefore if they know any such wicked practises, are not able to hold them, but communicate the same with their husbands, children, consorts, and inward acquaintance; who not consideratly weighing what the issue and end thereof may be, entertaine the same, and so the poyson is dispersed. Thus Dalilah discouered her husbands strength where it lay, vnto the Philistines; and procured his infamous and disastrous ouer-throw. Judg. 16. 18.
[a.] In Perkei ababboth. Bodinus in confutatione opinionis Wieri. Plinius in hist. natural. Quintilianus Institutionum oratoriarium lib. 5. cap. 10.
[b.] Tacit. Annal. lib. 15.
[c.] Tertul. in Apologet. Crinitus de doctrina Christiana lib. 9. cap. 8.
[d.] Binfeldius de confessionibus maleficorum. Peucerus de pręcipius diuinationum generibus in titulo de θεομαντεια Martinus de Arles.
[e.] Exemplum apud Binfeldium reperies de confessionibus maleficorum, pag. 32.
Hitherto in some Propositions I haue set downe
the originall of witch-craft, and other such curi-
ous and vnlawfull Arts, the quality of the persons
agents in the same, the power of the Diuell, and
his confederates, the league of association which
enterchangeably passeth betweene them, his assu-
ming a body, and framing a voice for the perfor-
mance of that businesse; that women, and
why, are most subiect to this hellish pra-
ctice. Now the truth of all these shall
appeare by exemplary proofes
in the Narration fol-
lowing.
