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Show Severalforts ofDivination f or bt· dd en • L. IB. IV, . means to cure W#ch· =tcraJ,+ ,t . B'} wo rds , theyh thohu ghfti to elude the e~il, ftgnified by fuch ·~~;h~c~11;ennt~ ~:~~ 'E~~ K£~d.~nv aol, In caput tuum reo villight on thy own head. · h erly a bird is ')WJO ~"1Jccafcheph,/a Wdc '.prop The t Th Ori inal figoifieth filch a ktnd of Sor-l" ·gler._ h b e itche~h the fcnfes and minds of men, by_ cere.r w o ew f h. >~akin e. them .appear other· changing t~tfon;s;; t ::egs ~ ~he c;me word is a?plied wife then tndee ~ ey ; v.-ho refifted /v!fJJes Exod. to the Sorcerers lnhEi{P ' lied JUecafr.hphim . the Sor ... 7• I l. Then Pharhao .Ma ~ c_a_ J 1. n Egypt , thev alfo did . Now t e agtett•n .. . .c erle"rks . nner W.l l h t h c.t r 1 nc hantments . Thts latter Jn t e rna T laineth what thofe Sorcerers part Of the ehx t ex\) -lied Magicians ·t t ·t m P1 ·t e th were. Ia ~hat t ey t~: c~ere wife men, a~d great Phi their \earnlng, thatd . yh ntmentJ declareth the man· l o.;ro p he rs.• the wor d1 ni c ha th the fign1ficat.t on o.f f'u cn' a ner oft he deltifion,an .t d luded for CJ"toi1i Lahatitn, flight w~e't{' t~e ~~:haa::m:nts, i~porteth the glifler-t here tl an _ate 1 fi d wherewith the eyes of men are ingjlame ortr~;re;rrv;rfion doth not unfitly term dazled. e r t . s,11· ' Vnouen arzos . ./ r. ,fa{iarios , Co. mpountd.. ers them ~.t.~~d.x.~Ss-' ?f 1eafe (f) complexio1z-ma"-er s, f ~d.efld.lt~~ :J r'f Medicines, or 1 youl.P! nd womenJ faces with b';htJ.Jp~-te- juch Artifans who maJ" !me~ a Hence it is that the suidaJ. . · d falje comp exions. d paznttngs an h r. h falfe teachers who un er a ltil >mparct IUC ·' ' ApoJ, e Ct odlinefs' lead captive filly women, . form and fh~w of g . .1 ne sand Jtzmbre J' whore-h E pttan Sorcerers ~l n . h: r· . tot e gy . S< Tb fe two were of c te note. g Talmud. JifledhM(o[e)s,;, T:n;}~h~y a~e all called Johamte an~ 1 rt~8. Mena In t e g ah ~ .111 a Pythagorean, JanHes an thptb. c. 9 Mamre . by ( ) N~menz , . . _ h origen. contra b ' . bv (i) Pliny jamnes and Jot ape. Cel(lfm.lib.4.. Mam res ' 1 . 'h b a charmer. The He-j Plin.n~tt. bift. The fourth lS 1_;1\n C o er, brew lihe30, CAP·'• ' . LIB. IV. Several.foriJ of Divine~tio11 f()r6idcjen. 17) - hrew word lignifies conjoyning or eonfociating; either from the league and fellowfhip which fi1~h perfons have with the devi l, or as Bodine thinketh (4_) becauf'e k8Ji in M(/g ~. foch k.,ind of Witches have fr eqrtent meetings, in whic:;rh.- d~mon, / . 1• c.6 · they dance and make merry together. On~elo1 tran11ateth fuch a charmer l )"fE1 .Rczten, a mutterer, intimating the manner of thefe Witcheries to be by the muttedhg~ . ~r foft fpea king of fq,me fpell_or charm. The.defcrip- 1 MaimQn.tr«li · tron of~ Charmer ts thus delivered: (l) He H a chc1r· lclolol_ c. II: mer who {pealzeih words of aflrange 1-:tnguage, and with- [etl.t·~. r2 . out Jenfe > and he in his foolifbnefl thinfteth that theft words are pro/it able: that tf one (ay fo orjo fin to a Ser .. pent or S r:orpion., it cannot hurt tt m.uz, and he that faith fo or Jo. llnto a ntan, .he cannot be hurt, &c" f!e th.r~.t whifoereth over a wound, or re(1deth a verfe okt of the Bible, lik~wife he ' that readeth over an Infant, that it may not be frighted,or that laJeti.J the hoof{ of the law, or the Phylalleries upon d child that it may fleep, foch are Hot ·only d!JJ01tg [nchanters, or Charmers ,/1111 ofthofe that generaJly deny the law of God, becaufe they 1Jtake /the word of the Sc(tptttre medicine .for t.he body, whereas they are · not, tut medicine for the foul. As it is written-, Prov. 3. . . 22. They fha/1 he life HJJto thy jiJitl. Of this fort was that - whereat ( 1HJ Bodi_nw fpeaketh, 7 hat a child by faying m Bodin. Ma,~ tl eertain verfe out of the Pfa lrn;, hipdred a woman that d.(m Jnl2. c. ,., )he could not maize her butter; hy reciting the fame verfe . bac4_ward, he made her butter come prefently. The fifth, :1 N 7~w schoel ob, a conjulter with ob or 1vith familiarjpirttJ.Ob fignifieth properly a bottle: and is applied in dive~s placc~,o~ Scripture to lllagi. tians,. bec,lufe they- berng poftellcd wnh an evil foi· rit~fpcak with afoft and hollow voice,61.f out of a b~t- n chryfoflom.' tl~. The Greek calleth them 'E)'yctqlf-tJTn>;) ( n) Ventrilo· 1 Cor. t 2 ! ert. quoJ~~r:H. c h wh 'f J~rJ;e vor.c e Jee e11tel h· to p1·ocee d out ~f t h.. e ir he f. . 1a .d. v.Marcton. 1 • ,, ~ 5• ,. I ·.~r11• |