t for _Balaam_, to see whether he could inchant the Children
of _Israel_. The Scripture intimates that Inchantments will keep a
Serpent from biting, _Eccles. 10.11._ A Witch in _Sweedland_ confessed,
that the Devil gave her a wooden Knife; and that if she did but touch
any living thing with that Knife, it would die immediately: And that
there is a wonderful Power of the Devil attending things inchanted, we
have confirmed by a prodigious Instance in Major _Weir_, a _Scotch_ Man:
That wretched Man was a perfect Prodigy; a Man of great Parts; esteemed
a Saint, yet lived in secret Uncleanness with his own Sister for thirty
four Years together: After his wickedness was discovered, he did not
seem to be troubled at any of his Crimes, excepting that he had caused a
poor Woman to be publickly whipped, because she reported that she had
seen him committing Bestiality; which thing was true, only the Woman
could not prove it. This horrid Creature, if he had his _Inchanted
Staff_ in his Hand could pray to admiration, and do extraordinary
things, as is more amply related in the Postscript to Mr. _Sinclares_
his Book before mentioned: But if he had not his Inchanted Rod to lean
upon, he could not transform himself into an Angel of Light: But by all
these things we may conclude, that it is not impossible, but that a
guilty Conjurer, that so he may render himself the less suspected, may
by his Magical Art and Inchantment, cause innocent Persons to be
represented as afflicting those whom the Devil and himself are the
Tormentors of.

Arg. 5. _The Truth we affirm is so evident, as that many Learned and
Judicious Men have freely subscribed unto it._

The memorable Relation of the Devils assuming the shape of an innocent
Citizen in _Zurick_, is in the Judgment of that great Divine _Lud
Lavater_, of weighty Consideration: And he declares, that he does
therefore mention it, that so Judges might be cautelous in their
Proceedings in Cases of this nature, inasmuch as the Devil does often in
that way intangle innocent Persons, and bring them into great Troubles.
His Words are, [40]_Hanc Historiam ideo recito, ut Judices, in
hujusmodi, Casibus cauti sint: Diabolus enim hac via saepe innocentibus
insidiatur._ He confirms what he saith by reciting a Passage out of
_Alertus Granzius_, who writes that the Devil was seen in the shape of a
Nobleman to come out of the Empress's Chamber: But to clear her
Innocency, she (according to the superstitious _O