CHAP. VI. That Sorcerers are as detestable, and as much forbidden by the law of God, as the very Oracles of the Heathen and their Idols were: that it is an idle speech which is giuen out of Sorcerers, that Princes should take heed of them: the diuersities of customes, whi••h the Sorcerers vsed in the olde time: all proued by the Scripture.
ALthough Pliny was of opinion, that Ma∣gicke was really nothing, but meerely a bare name without a thing, and was no more in nature then is a Chim••ra: which hee goeth about to prooue by the expe∣rience of Nero, who was so hot in the pursuite of these curious Arts, that hee did initiate and dedicate hims••lfe vnto this trade, and yet for all this he could neuer giue satisfaction vnto himselfe in this kinde, although hee wanted neither wit nor will, much lesse authority, ri∣ches, and the most knowing men in these Artes, that he could get from all the quarters of the East. Yet ought we not to entertaine this opinion that Pliny hath, no more then his blasphemous conceite of the Deity, (for