some-what more strange: and yet is it
possible to be true: which is by being carryed by the force of the Spirite
which is their conducter, either aboue the earth or aboue the Sea
swiftlie, to the place where they are to meet: which I am perswaded to be
likewaies possible, in respect that as _Habakkuk_ was carryed by the
Angell in that forme, to the denne where _Daniell_ laie; (M18) so thinke
I, the Deuill will be reddie to imitate God, as well in that as in other
thinges: which is much more possible to him to doe, being a Spirite, then
to a mighty winde, being but a naturall meteore, to transporte from one
place to an other a solide bodie, as is commonlie and dailie seene in
practise: But in this violent forme they cannot be carryed, but a shorte
boundes, agreeing with the space that they may reteine their breath: for
if it were longer, their breath could not remaine vnextinguished, their
bodie being carryed in such a violent & forceable maner, as be example: If
one fall off an small height, his life is but in perrell, according to the
harde or soft lighting: But if one fall from an high and stay rocke, his
breath wilbe forceablie banished from the bodie, before he can win to the
earth, as is oft seen by experience. And in this transporting they say
themselues, that they are inuisible to anie other, except amongst
themselues; which may also be possible in my opinion. For if the deuil may
forme what kinde of impressiones he pleases in the aire, as I haue said
before, speaking of _Magie_, why may he not far easilier thicken & obscure
so the air, that is next about them by contracting it strait together,
that the beames of any other mans eyes, cannot pearce thorow the same, to
see them? But the third way of their comming to their conuentions, is,
that where in I think them deluded: for some of them sayeth, that being
transformed in the likenesse of a little beast or foule, they will come
and pearce through whatsoeuer house or Church, though all ordinarie
passages be closed, by whatsoeuer open, the aire may enter in at. And some
sayeth, that their bodies lying stil as in an extasy, their spirits wil be
rauished out of their bodies, & caried to such places. And for verefying
therof, wil giue euident tokens, aswel by witnesses that haue seene their
body lying senseles in the meane time, as by naming persones, whom-with
they mette, and giuing tokens what purpose was amongst them, whome
otherwaies they could not haue knowen: for