M. B. starts with a good deal of fervour:

'The word of God doth show plainly that there be witches, and
commandeth they should be put to death. Experience hath
taught too many what harms they do. And if any have the gift
to minister help against them, shall we refuse it?'

But after some discussion he agrees, at Daniel's instance, to consider
the subject in a spirit of sober argument; and the first question they
take up is: 'Are there witches that work by the Devil?' The
conversation then proceeds as follows:

DANIEL. It is so evident by the Scriptures, and in all
experience, that there be witches which work by the devil, or
rather, I may say, the devil worketh by them, that such as go
about to prove the contrary, do show themselves but
cavillers.