A hedgerovv of busshes, brambles, and briers: or, A fielde full of tares, thistles and tine of the vanities and vaine delightes of this worlde, leading the way to eternall damnation: with seuerall exhortations or cauiats for the carelesse to shun and beware the same. Now newly compiled by I.D.

OF WITCHES and Sorcerers.

IF a man or woman haue a spirit of diuination, or south saying in them, they shall die the death: they shall stone them to death; their blood shalbe vpon them.

Saul sayd vnto his seruantes, Seeke mee a wo∣man that hath a familiar spirit, that I may goe to her, and aske of her. And his seruants sayd to him, Beholde, there is a woman at En-dor, that hath a familiar spirit.

Then Saul changed him selfe, and put on other rayment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by nyght: and he sayd, I pray thee, coniecture vnto mee by the familiar spirit, and bring mee him vp whom I shall name vnto thee.

Iosiah also tooke away them that had familiar spirites, and the soothsayers, & the images, and the

idols, and all the abominations that were espyed in the land of Iuda and in Ierusalem, to performe the wordes of the Law, which were written in the booke of Hilkiah the Priest, found in the house of the Lord.

And there was in the citie, a certaine man cal∣led Symon, which vsed Witchcraft, and bewitched the people of Samaria, saying, That hee himselfe was some great man.

And they gaue heede vnto him, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

Pharaoh called also for his Wise-men and Sor∣cerers: and those Charmers also of Egypt did in lyke maner with their enchauntmentes.

And Saul had put away the Sorcerers & Sooth∣sayers out of the land.

When they had gone throughout the Ile vnto Paphus, they found a certaine Sorcerer a false Pro∣phet, being a Iew, named Bariesus.

Certayne of the vagabonde Iewes, exorcists, tooke in hand to name ouer them which had euyll spirites, the name of the Lord Iesus, saying, Wee adiure you by Iesus, whom Paul preacheth.

And the man in whom the euyll spirit was, ran on them, and ouercame them, and preuayled agaynst them, so that they fled out of that house naked, and wounded.

And the illusions of the Magicall artes were brought downe, and it was a most shamefull re∣proch, for the boasting of their knowledge.

Notes

• Leui. 20, 27.
• 1. Sam. 28, 7, 8.
• 2. kin. 23, 24
• Act. 8, 9, 11.
• Exod. 12, 11.
• 1. Sam. 28, 3.
• Act. 13, 6.
• Act. 19, 13, 16.
• Wisd. 17, 7.