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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01718	A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by vvitches and sorcerers By which men are and haue bin greatly deluded: the antiquitie of them: their diuers sorts and names. With an aunswer vnto diuers friuolous reasons which some doe make to prooue that the deuils did not make those aperations in any bodily shape. By G. Gyfford.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1587 (1587)	STC 11852; ESTC S103141	49,907	72

God laieth to their charge that they woorshipped diuels What victories the diuell hath gotten at other times in the world doth sufficiently appeare by this that he is described with seuen crownes He hath raised vp all kinds of heretikes he hath stirred vp sore persecutions against the Church and caused the seruants of God to be cruel●…ie murthered Thus much touching Diuels Deuils haue no power to hurt mens bodies or goods but vpon speciall leaue giuen vnto them The 5. Chapter THe reprobat angels are mightie fierce and subtill as we haue brieflie noted They be instrumentes of Gods vengance and executioners of his wrath they doe not exercise power and authoritie which is absolute and at their owne will and appointment but so farre as God letteth foorth the chaine to giue them scope Touching the reprobat which despise the waies of God and are disobedient we are taught that God in righteous vengeance giueth thē ouer into their hands for they would not loue his lawes nor honour him as their God therfore they come vnder the tirannie of wicked diuels which worke in them with power their harts do they harden their eies euen the eies of their minds do they blind they kindle and stir vp in them all filthie lusts and carrie them headlong into foule and abhominable sinnes Here is their throne and kingdome not that they be able to carrie these so far as they would but as euery one doth more grieuously prouoke God so are they plunged y ● deeper either into monstrous heresies or abhominable wickednesse for God giueth them ouer into a reprobat mind some indeed are caried further thā other into the depth of impietie because God letteth him more stronglie inuade them and taketh away his graces and gifts but yet he raigneth in them all in as much as they be void of the power of grace to resist him and are caried captiues by him vnto eternall damnation These wicked fiends doe also set vpon the faithfull and elect people of God for God vseth them also as instruments for their triall they tempt and trie them they doe wrestle and fight against them they buffet them euery way seeking to annoy and molest them both in bodie and soule God indeed turneth all vnto the good of these Hee letteth him haue power and scope no further vpon them than he giueth strength and power of grace to resist at the least so farre that the wicked one can not cause them to sinne vnto death This then being out of al controuersie that his power euen in that wherein it is greatest and where he seemeth to haue his chiefe right is limited how shall it be deemed but that touching the bodies of both men and beasts or of anie other creature he can doe nothing but vpon speciall leaue and commission graunted vnto him He can not doe violence to the bodie of a poore swine naie he can not at his pleasure kill so much as a seelie flie When God will haue him to touch anie creature either man beast fish foule tree corne or whatsoeuer he flieth vpon it and maketh the greatest shew that he can These things are we plainlie taught in the holie scriptures not onelie by those which were possessed with diuels and were greeuouslie tormented in bodie but also by destroying both men and cattell In the booke of Iob the first chapter we are plainely taught first that the diuell could not touch Iob nor any thing that was his then that hauing leaue he slew his children destroied his seruants and cattell and plagued him in his bodie with sores the holie ghost doth so manifestlie teach that the diuell did this that to denie it is flat impietie and the vaine and friuolous cautls to prooue the contrarie not woorth the answering The holie ghost doth applie himselfe in that place to our rude capacitie It is very true and so doth he in manie places of the holy scriptures doth it follow therefore that the things were not We are not capable of things spirituall and therefore they be set forth vnder the forme of things corporall and visible We may not imagine that deuils thrust in themselues amongst the holie angels into the glorious presence of God in heauen Neither must we suppose that GOD talketh with the diuell and he with him but these and such like things are borrowed to set before vs things inuisible God vseth the diuels by his prouidence to accomplish the woorke which he determineth eyther in wrath vpon the wicked or for chastisement and tryall of his Children What could more fitly expresse the same then to liken him to a king which hath seruants officers for euery purpose who came before him to giue an account what they haue done and to receiue commaundement what they shall doe God limitteth their boundes he restraineth he enlargeth them at his good pleasure But how Satan doth knowe where leaue is giuen him we cannot conceiue For as it is sayd God tolde him all that he hath is in thy hand for vs hee is brought in speaking in this wise thou hast hedged about him and about all that he hath Yea but Iob saith God did all And Iob saith very true but Iob did knowe God did it by appointing the Diuell to doe it He knew that the theeues and murtherers which slewe his seruaunts and draue away his cattell were stirred vp by the Deuill he stayeth not aboute them nor yet about the Deuill but looketh and addresseth himselfe vnto him which hath rule ouer men and Deuils shall we say then God did it therefore the Deuill did it not It may be obiected that if the Deuill did those thinges then is hee able to raise vp mighty windes tempestes lightning and thunders If hee sent that mighty winde which did throwe downe the house vpon Iobs Children if he cast downe that fire vppon the Cattell and Seruauntes Why may not men thinke that vpon leaue he can do the other I answere that the scripture ascribeth the Windes the Tempests the Haile and the mighty Thunders and Lightnings vnto God euen as works peculier to his Maiestie by which he doth set forth his magnificence and glory Because he alone hath created them the deuils are not able to create any thing though neuer so smal much lesse those greate thinges He seeth right well the matter whereof they consiste and how they are by the naturall course which God hath set brought foorth vpon leaue graunted vnto him he is able in some sorte to collect the matter of them or being prepared by the Lorde to make them more violent he doth couet also in the darkest tempestes in the moste raging windes and terrible crackes of thunder to conuey himselfe into the storme to come with it and to shew some terrour of his presence 〈◊〉 if 〈◊〉 graunted he appeareth vnto some in an vglye shape or renteth vp trees And this he doth to bring men in beliefe that all those terrible thinges wherein there is so