the boy of Burton, did appeare vnto him in sondry likenesses. And concerning his knowledge, that Sathan would make such promises vnto them: hee relyeth vpon this, vz. because the nature of man is subiect to bee sedu∣ced by such offers.
If these childish answeres remayned not in record vn∣der his owne hand, would any man belieue them? doth it not giue vs iust occasion to thinke, that he tolde them such tales of a lewde purpose, thereby to draw them to pretend the like? Otherwise would a man fearing God, being in such a conflict with Sathan, (as hee pretendeth) for their dispossession, haue tolde them any such matters vpon heare-say? Or doth it carry with it any such con∣sequence, as to tell them that Sathan would allure them by promises, and threatninges, because mens natures are subiect to be seduced by such meanes?
But what should we dispute the matter with him, or examine the force of his argumentes: seeing euery thing came to passe, as he had foretolde? Remember the simi∣litudes, that the deuill departed from them, and euen in the same (as the story sayeth) they sought againe to reen∣ter into them. Besides, they attempted them also in other formes, as of a blacke Rauen, of a blacke boy, the head bigger then the body, of a blacke rough dogge with a firebrand in his mouth, of fine white doues of a braue fellow like a Woer, of two little whelpes, that playing on the table, ran into a dish of butter; of an Ape, of a Beare with fire in his mouth, and of an hay-stacke, pro∣mising them bagges of golde and siluer; and threatning them when they so could not preuaile, to breake their neckes, to drowne them in pittes, to hang them, to breake their backs, to throw them out of the windows: &c. euen in such sort in effect, as M. More, of likelyhoode inspired with one of them, had before de∣clared. What the story reporteth of M. Moore, may also