A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of almighty God written Exo. 20. Deu.…A declaration of the ten holy co[m]maundementes of allmygthye God wroten Exo. 20. Deu.…

And as there were some / that by the observation of the Stars / toke upon them to speak of things to come / by certain superstitious / and devilish incantations / which the persians ⟨p. LXXXVII⟩call Magos / the Greeks philozophos / the Latins sapientes / Galli druidas / The Egyptians sacerdotes / the Indies gymnosophistas / the Assyrians chaldeos / so is there among the Christians the same sort of people / which be called soothe sayers / or prognosticators / that writ / and speak of things to come. as when Jupiter ruleth the constellations above / and is not impeached / nor let by the conjunction of his contrary planet / we shall have a god year / and a plentiful. If Saturn / and such as astronomers attribute / contrary qualities unto reign / we shall have scarcity / and dearth of things. Plin. lib. 18. writeth of such as by only words / or with some other thing annexed with the words / worketh things above nature / as the devil hath done all ways as Histories record. Luca. lib. 6. Valer. li. 8. cap. 1. writeth of one of the Godes vesta Nuns that was falsely accused of an unchaste lief / desired the Godes to deliver here innocency in that crime by some miracle. As she did. The maid went to the river called Tiber with a sieve and brought it full of water into the temple of the Godes. So among Christian men be the same sort of people / that by the abuse of God's name through the help of the devil doth many times work the same / in healing man / and ⟨p. LXXXVIII⟩lest. as not many years sith I was born in hand of a pore man that erred by ignorance that this Medicine could heel all diseases. † Jesus. † Job † habuit † vermes † Job † patitur † vermes †. In † nomine † patris † et filij † et spiritus sancti † Amen † lamazabathani. † God opened his hart after ward to know the truth. Such as be given to the arts practive as Geometry / Music / Astrology / and Arithmetic taketh upon them to judge of mens conditions / by the sight of there faces / Gel. lib. cap. 9. lib. 14. cap. 1. so be there among people Christened / that know nether art / nor science / that take upon them / to know the same by there countenance / the lines of there hands / or by there paces / or going.

And as there were somme / that by the obseruation of the Sterres / toke vpon them to speke of thinges to com / by certayne supersticious / and dyuyllishe incantacions / whiche the persians ⟨p. LXXXVII⟩