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port themselues to places far distant. And what ar impos- sible & mere illusiones of sathan. And the reasons therof.
that they can com to these vnlawful cõuentiõs?* EPI. There is the thing which I esteeme their sen- ses to be deluded in, and though they lye not in confessing of it, because they thinke it to be true, yet not to be so in substance or effect: for they saie, that by diuerse meanes they may conueene, either to the adoring of their Master, or to the putting in practise any seruice of his, committed vnto their charge: one way is natural, which is natural riding, going or sayling, at what houre their Master comes and aduertises* them. And this way may be easelie beleued: an other way is some-what more strange: and yet is it possible to be true: which is by being carryed by the force of the Spirite which is their conducter, either aboue the earth or aboue the Sea swiftlie, to the place where they are to meet: which I am perswaded to be likewaies possible, in respect that as Habakkuk was carryed by the Angell in that forme, to the denne where Daniell laie; so thinke I, the Deuill will be reddie to imitate God, as well in that as in other thinges: which is much more possi- ble to him to doe, being a Spirite, then to a mighty winde, being but a naturall meteore, to transporte from one place to an other a solide bodie, as is com- monlie and dailie seene in practise: But in this vio- |