CHAP. IIII.
Of one that was so bewitched that he could read no Scriptures but ca∣nonicall, of a divell that could speak no Latine a proof that witch∣craft is flat cousenage.
HEre I may aptly insert another miracle of importance,* 1.1 that happened within the compasse of a childes remembrance, which may induce any reasonable body to conceive, that these supernaturall actions are but fa∣bles and cousenages. There was one, whom for some respects I name not, that was taken blind, deaf, and dumb; so as no Physitian could help him: That man (forsooth) though he was (as is said) both blind, dumb and deaf, yet could he read any canonicall Scriptures; but as for apo∣crypha, hee could read none:* 1.2 wherein a Gods name consisted the miracle. But a leaf of apocrypha being extraordinarily inserted among the canonicall scriptures, he read the same as authentick; wherein his knavery was bewrayed. Another had a divell, that answered men so all questions, Mary her divell could understand no Latine, and so was shee (and by such meanes all the rest may be) bewrayed. In∣deed our witching writers say, that certaine divels speake onely the language of that countrey where they are resiant, as French, or En∣glish, &c.
Furthermore in my conceipt, nothing proveth more apparently that witchcraft is cousenage, and that witches instruments are but ridiculous bables, and altogether void of effect; than when learned and godly Di∣vines in their serious writings, produce experiments as wrought by witches, and by divels at witches commandements: which they expound by mira∣cles, although indeed meer trifles. Whereof they conceive amisse, being overtaken with credulity.