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![jEgyptii etpruriginem paterentur, responso moniti, eum (sc. Moysen) PART I. cum eegris, ne pestis ad plures serperet, terminis uEgypti pellunt. seci. ag. /. 3G. But he is not singular in this, for Tacitus tells us. Hist. Pas- 44- lib. 5. Plurimi authores consentiunt orta per jEgyptum tabe quce corpora fcedaret, Regem (Ochirum) (he means Pharaoh) adito Ham- monis oraculo remedium petentem purgare Begnum et id genus hominum alias in terras avertere jussum. Et paulo inferius, Quod ipsos scabies quondam turpaverat. 1 have ever believed, and do now know that there are Witches.'] S*- so- What sort of Witches they were that the Author knew to be such, I cannot tell; for those which he mentions in the next Section, which proceed upon the principles of Nature, none have denyed that such there are; against such it was, that the Lex Julia de veneficiis was made, that is, those, Qui noxio poculo aut impuris medicaminibus aliquem fuerint insectati. Al. ab Alex, Gen. Dier. 1. 6. c. 1. But for the opinion that there are Witches which co-operate with the Devil, there are Divines of great note, and far from any suspition of being irreligious, that do oppose it. Certainly there is no ground to maintain their being from the story of Oracles, as may be seen from what hath been said on the precedent Section. Nor have the power to be so much as Witches.] Pliny saith, so it fared with Nero, who was so hot in pursuit of the Magick Arts, that he did dedicate himself wholly to it, and yet could never satisfie himself in that kind, though he got all the cunning men he could from the East, for that purpose. Plin. I. 3. Nat. Hist. c. 1. By conjunction with the Devil.] Though, as the Author saith, Pag. 46. it be without a possibility of Generation, yet there are great men that hold, that such carnality is performed ; as August, in Levit. Aquin, I, 2. de qu. 73. art. ad 2. and Justin Martyr, Apol. 1. It is no new opinion of the Church of Rome, but an old one Sect. 33. 0/ Pythagoras and Plato.] This appears hjApuleius a Platonist, ^^^ in his Book de Deo Socratis, and elsewhere. See Mede's Apostasie of the latter times, where out of this and other Authors, you shall see collected all the learning de Geniis. I cannot with those in that great Father securely interpret the Pag. 50. work of the first day, Fiat lux, to the creation of Angels.] This great Father is S. Chrysost. Homil. in Genes. But yet 'tis his opinion, as also of Athanasius and Theodoret, that there is express mention of the creation of Angels, so that they need not rest upon this place, which they admit to be somewhat obscure. The place which they take to be express, is that of the 130 Psalm, where David begins to speak of the Majesty of God, in this manner: Confessionem sive majestatem et decorem induisti, amictus lumine .iicut vestimento: Next he speaks of the Heavens, saying, Thou hast stretched them out over us like a Tent.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650349_0001_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
