Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.

Furthermore as followeth.

* 1.1Ista suos fortiores Semper facit, & victores, Morbos sanat & languores, Reprimit daemonia. Dat captivis libertatem, Vitae confert novitatem, Ad antiquam dignitarem, Crux reduxit omnia. O Crux lignum triumphale, Mundi vera salus vale, Inter ligna nullum tale, Frande, flore, germine. Medicina Christiana, Salva sanos, aegros sana, Quod non valet vis humana, Fit in tuo nomine, &c.

It makes her souldiers excellent. And crowne••h them with victory, * 1.2Restores the lame and impotent, and healeth every malady. The devils of hell it conquereth, releaseth from imprisonment, Newnesse of life it offereth, It hath all at commandement. O crosse of wood incomparable, To all the world most wholesome: No wood is half so honourable.

In branch, in bud or blossome. O medicine which Christ did ordaine, The sound save every hower, The sick and sore make whole again, By vertue of thy power. And that which mans unablenesse, Hath never comprehended, Grant by thy name of holynesse, It may be fully ended, &c.

Notes

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  Sancta 〈◊〉〈◊〉 aquipar atur salutifero Christo O blas∣phemiam ine∣narrabilem!
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  Englished by Abraham Fleming▪ Lok in the Boehive of the Romish church lib 4. cap. 3 fol. 251.252.