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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	wonderful_a	word_n	write_v	61	3	5.1436	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04243	Daemonologie in forme of a dialogue, diuided into three bookes.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1597 (1597)	STC 14364; ESTC S107574	43,300	184

for our saluation But to returne to the purpose as these formes wherein Sathan oblishes himselfe to the greatest of the Magicians are wounderfull curious so are the effectes correspondent vnto the same For he will oblish himselfe to teach them artes and sciences which he may easelie doe being so learned a knaue as he is To carrie them newes from anie parte of the worlde which the agilitie of a Spirite may easelie performe to reueale to them the secretes of anie persons so being they bee once spoken for the thought none knowes but GOD except so far as yee may ghesse by their countenance as one who is doubtleslie learned inough in the Physiognomie Yea he will make his schollers to creepe in credite with Princes by fore-telling them manie greate thinges parte true parte false For if all were false he would tyne credite at all handes but alwaies doubtsome as his Oracles were And he will also make them to please Princes by faire banquets and daintie dishes carryed in short space fra the farthest part of the worlde For no man doubts but he is a thiefe and his agilitie as I spake before makes him to come suche speede Such-like he will guard his schollers with faire armies of horsemen and foote-men in appearance castles and fortes Which all are but impressiones in the aire easelie gathered by a spirite drawing so neare to that substance himselfe As in like maner he will learne them manie juglarie trickes at Cardes dice such like to deceiue mennes senses thereby and such innumerable false practicques which are prouen by ouer manie in this age As they who ar acquainted with that Italian called SCOTO yet liuing can reporte And yet are all these thinges but deluding of the senses and no waies true in substance as were the false miracles wrought by King Pharaoes Magicians for counterfeiting Moyses For that is the difference betuixt Gods myracles and the Deuils God is a creator what he makes appeare in miracle it is so in effect As Moyses rod being casten downe was no doubt turned in a natural Serpent where as the Deuill as Gods Ape counterfetting that by his Magicians maid their wandes to appeare so onelie to mennes outward senses as kythed in effect by their being deuoured by the other For it is no wonder that the Deuill may delude our senses since we see by common proofe that simple juglars will make an hundreth thinges seeme both to our eies and eares otherwaies then they are Now as to the Magicians parte of the contract it is in a word that thing which I said before the Deuill hunts for in all men PHI. Surelie ye haue said much to me in this arte if all that ye haue said be as true as wounderfull EPI For the trueth in these actiones it will be easelie confirmed to anie that pleases to take paine vpon the reading of diuerse authenticque histories and the inquiring of daily experiences And as for the trueth of their possibilitie that they may be and in what maner I trust I haue alleaged nothing whereunto I haue not joyned such probable reasons as I leaue to your discretion to waie and considder One word onlie I omitted concerning the forme of making of this contract which is either written with the Magicians owne bloud or else being agreed vpon in termes his schole-master touches him in some parte though peraduenture no marke remaine as it doth with all Witches CHAP. VII ARGV The reason why the art of Magie is vnlawfull What punishment they merite And who may be accounted guiltie of that crime PHILOMATHES SVRELIE Ye haue made this arte to appeare verie monstruous detestable But what I pray you shall be said to such as mainteines this art to be lawfull for as euill as you haue made it EPI I say they sauour of the panne them selues or at least little better And yet I would be glad to heare their reasons PHI. There are two principallie that euer I heard vsed beside that which is founded vpon the cōmon Prouerb that the Necromancers commands the Deuill which ye haue already refuted The one is grounded vpon a receiued custome The other vpon an authoritie which some thinkes infallible Vpon custome we see that diuerse Christian Princes and Magistrates seuere punishers of Witches will not onelie ouer-see Magicians to liue within their dominions but euen some-times delight to see them prooue some of their practicques The other reason is that Moyses being brought vp as it is expreslie said in the Scriptures in all the sciences of the AEgyptians whereof no doubt this was one of the principalles And he notwithstanding of this arte pleasing God as he did consequentlie that art professed by so godlie a man coulde not be vnlawfull EPI As to the first of your reasones grounded vpon custome I saie an euill custome can neuer be accepted for a good law for the ouer great ignorance of the worde in some Princes and Magistrates and the contempt thereof in others moues them to sinne heavelie against their office in that poynt As to the other reasone which seemes to be of greater weight if it were formed in a Syllogisme it behooued to be in manie termes and full of fallacies to speake in termes of Logicque for first that that generall proposition affirming Moyses to be taught in all the sciences of the AEgyptians should conclude that he was taught in Magie I see no necessity For we must vnderstand that the spirit of God there speaking of sciences vnderstandes them that are lawfull for except they be lawfull they are but abusiuè called sciences are but ignorances indeede Nam homo pictus non est homo Secondlie giuing that he had bene taught in it there is great difference betwixt knowledge and practising of a thing as I said before For God knoweth all thinges being alwaies good and of our sinne our infirmitie proceedeth our ignorance Thirdlie giuing that he had both studied and practised the same which is more nor monstruous to be beleeued by any Christian yet we know well inough that before that euer the spirite of God began to call Moyses he was fled out of AEgypt being fourtie yeares of age for the slaughter of an AEgyptian and in his good-father Iethroes lande first called at the firie bushe hauing remained there other fourtie yeares in exile so that suppose he had beene the wickeddest man in the worlde before he then became a changed and regenerat man and very litle of olde Moyses remained in him Abraham was an Idolater in Vr of Chaldaea before he was called And Paule being called Saule was a most sharp persecutor of the Saintes of God while that name was changed PHI. What punishment then thinke ye merites these Magicians and Necromancers EPI The like no doubt that Sorcerers and Witches merites and rather so much greater as their error proceedes of the greater knowledge and so drawes nerer to the sin against the holy Ghost And as I saye of them so saye I