Book Excerpt: tes+, Vide & Suidam in Augusto, & Athanasium deincarnatione verbi._] Footnote g: _De hac ligatione & solutione Diaboli plenissim August. de Ciuitate Dei, lib. 20 cap. 8._]_The first Proposition._It is a _Qu re_, though needlesse, whether there be any Witches: forthey a] haue some Proctors who plead a nullitie in this case, perswadethemselues, and would induce others to be of the same minde, that therebe no Witches at all: but a sort of melancholique, aged, and ignorantWomen, deluded in their imagination; and acknowledge such things to beeffected by them, which are vnpossible, vnlikely, and they neuer did;and therefore Magistrates who inflict any punishment vpon them, bevnmercifull and cruell Butchers. Yet by the way, and their good leaue, who take vpon them this Apology, all who are conuented vpon thesevnlawfull action, are not strucken in yeares; but some euen in theflower of their youth be nuzled vp in the same, and convicted tobe practisersRead More