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s'tmb.Giograph■ Astronomers and Physicians amongst the Chaldeans, of whom stra-Ll6, be faith: “ There was a certain habitation appointed 'mBabylonfot

“their home-bred Philosophers, who were much conversant about“Philosophy, and were called Chaldeans . And further, “that“ they were Physicians that could judge of the passions of the Body,“which dreams did imitate, by the Pulse and urine. And Tolanustells us that it is a Chaldee word because it is found no where elsebut in Daniel.

15. Lastly there is one word we shall touch more, and that isnpzin, fapientia 3 the wisdom of Divine and Humane things, Ma.gick or skil in natural! things 5 and cometh from the roottZDn,fapuit mente , sapiens suit, sapientia præditus eji. And this is that1 Kings 4. 30. wisdom that is ascribed to Solomon , of whom it is said : And Solo -mons wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children ofthe Eas coun-ts ey, and all the wisdom of Ægypt.

So have we run over all the words in the Old Testament, thatcan any way concern this subject, and yet amongst them all there isnot one that properly and genuinely, without stretching, wrestingor mistranslating, doth, or can signifie any such Witch or Diviner,that can kill or destroy Men or Beasts, or that maketh a visiblecompact with a Devil, or on whose Body he fucketb, or that theyhave Carnal Copulation together 5 or such a Witch as is or can bereally changed into a Cat, Dog, or such like, which was the task weundertook in this Chapter. And for the words that are in the NewTestament, we shall handle them when we answer the objectionsmade from thence. And therefore we would admonissi Mr. Glanvil ,and all other candid, and sober persons to beware of false or mistranslations, and not to labour to establish dangerous and errone-ous tenents upon such slippery and sandy foundations: For one fal-sity once supposed or taken for good, doth bring a numeroustrain of absurdities at the heels of it.

CHAP. VII.

Of divers places in the Old Testament that are commonlywrested , and falsty expounded, thereby to prove appariti-ons, and the power of the Devil and Witches.

T HUS far we conceive that we have sufficiently proved, thatthere is no word in the Old Testament, that in the originalHebrew, can genuinely and truly be translated, that doth signifiesuch a kind of Witch, whose existence we have denied. And nowwe shall proceed to answer those places in the Old Testament,that comttionly ate produced, to prove the Devils or the Witches

power