Part I.

MAGNETISM.
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There is therefore a certain power of the witch in this adtion, which be- longs not to Satan, and confequently Satan is not the principal efficient and executor of that murder ; for otherwife if he were the executioner thereof, he would in nowife Hand in need of the witch as his affidant ; but he alone had foon taken the greated part of men out of the way.
Surely mod; miferable were the condition of mortals who fhould be fubjedt to fuch a tyrant, and ftand liable to his commands ; we have too faithful a God, than that he ffiould fubjedt the work of his own hands to the arbitrary dominion of Satan.
Therefore in this adt, there is a certain power .plainly proper and natural to the witch which belongs not to Satan.
Moreover, of what nature, extent, and quality that power may be, we mud: more exadtly lift out. ~
In the fird place, it is manifed that it is no corporeal drength of the male fex ; for neither doth there concur any drong touching of the extreme parts of the body, and witches are for the mod part feeble, impotent, and malicious old women, therefore there mud needs be fome other power, far fuperior to a corporeal attempt, yet natural to man.
This power therefore was to be feated in that part wherein we mod nearly referable the image of God ; and although all things do alfo, after fome fort, reprefent that venerable image, yet becaufe man doth mod elegantly, properly, and nearly do that, therefore the image of God in man doth far outffiine, bear rule over, and command the images of God in all other creatures ; for, perad- venture, by this prerogative, all things are put under his feet.
Wherefore if God adt, per nutum> or by a beck, namely by his word, fo ought man to adt fome things only by his beck or will, if he ought to be called his true image : for neither is that new, is that troublefome, is that proper to God alone : for Satan, the mod vile abjedt of creatures, doth alfo locally move bodies per nutum , or by his beck alone, feeing he hath not extremities or cor- poreal organs, whereby to touch, move, or alfo to fnatch a new body to him- fe If.
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MAGNETISM.