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beleeve that the wifedome of the mo ft High dooth difc 

 pofe and fiifferthefe things, foretelling whatfhoulde 

 happen, to ferve (as I have (aide) for an advertifemerit 

 to fome, and a chafticernent to others, and as a witnes 

 to all, that the king of heaven hath a care of man : who 

 as he hath appointed great and fearefull tokens of that 

 great change of the world , which (hall bee the day 

 of judgement , fb doth it pleafe him to {end wonderful 

 fignes to demonftrate leflcr changes in divers paites of 

 the world,the which are rcinarkeable, whereof he difpo. 

 feth according to his eternal! wifedome . Wee muft at 

 fo vnderftand, that although the divellbe the father of 

 lies- yet the King of Glorie makes him often to con- 

 feffe the trueth againfthis will, which hec hath often 

 declared for very feare , as hee did in the ddan by the 

 mouth of the pofTcjflTed, crying, that lefus was the Sa 

 viour come to deftroy him, as he did by the Pythowijfi^ 

 who (aide that Paul preached the true God , as when 

 he appeared and troubled Piktcs wife, whom hemade- 

 to mediate for lefa a iuft man . And as many other hi- 

 ftories befidcs the holy Scripture gave diverfe teflimo- 

 nies of idols,in approbation of chriftian religion,wher- 

 <$LA&Ktittf, ProfyertM, and others make mention. Let 

 them reade Ettfebiu* in his bookcs of the preparation of 

 the Gofpel; and thofe of his demonftrations where he 

 doth amply treate of this matter. I have purpofely fpo- 

 kenthis, that no man fliould contemne what is writ 

 ten in the Hiftories and Annales of the Indies^ touching 

 Prefagesand ftrange fignes, of theapproching end and 

 ruine of their kingSome , and of the Divelles tyranny, 

 whom they worfhipped altogether . Which in my o- 

 pinion is worthy of credite and beliefe, both for that 

 it chanced Iate 3 and the memory is yet frefli,as alfo for 



that 



