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any man .' they arc tools only, and vain-glorious, that refufe to be taught} and chsignoranc only fay. They know alL As For my part , Courteous Reader , ufc me but frienuivj Ifhall require nothing eifc.
If thou think i: ftrange , that a Gcnrleman as I am> fbould adveuti're on fee ms to be ; confidcr, 1 pray thee , that many Priefts have put fcth loings rnach more bold then thefe ; and even fuch as have been cfteemed dangf^rous too. Thus TrtihemiHs the Abbot put forth his P^lyg-^tf^'^ji and his Stef,iM9graphyf where the calling fo:thof Spirits is plainly del vered; notvvithftanding he makes other ufe of ir,then our Scocerers diO-^ tiUeimtts Bifliop of P^ris hath not only written of Natural Ma^ick , but healfo both perfedly und.Tftood &pradis'dir,as the Learned PtCHS MirAYidtiU reports of him. Another learned Bi- fhjp a!fo, Aibertus M.^gnmh'^ name, hath taught the grounds of it with admiration. ^«?^^r Bicon^^xi^ Johan* ftes de \upsf ci[f 4 .hoih Francifcan Friers.havc done the fame; Petrtts Cirvelins^ a i'paniard of the fame Order, hath published to the Chriftian World a Book in VoUo^ of the Four Principal kinds cf Divination, and all the Maximes of judiciary Aftrology.P. de Alliacoy Cardi- na(l,& Bifiiop oiCxmhray hathwrirtcn of the fame Sub- jed : as aifohath JunEimus^ aPrieft of Florence^ and a Dr. of Divinity. And fincewe are fallen upon the Italic Prci(b, the one tVemtian^ theother a Tr^'z///?w», de- livered the truth of the Phylofophers Stone, the one in his Chryfopx.i^ and the other in his Foar- chad^m^a ? Marplifjs ficiftus alfo, a Prieft , how full of Admirable fecreti are his writings ? yea what learn- ing is there in the World, that he hath notpubhfticd to open View ? Antonhi Qerrjardus MirandpiUmi , Bi-
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fhopof C^y^rff, hach aker his example , maintained a world of things clean contrary to our /Religion, in his