The law unsealed

1. It is lawful to command Devils in the Name of God by those who are called to it and are gifted to cast them out. 2. It is lawful for any by Prayer to God, and the exercise of Faith on Him to endeavour to repel and resist them, and to beg that he would rebuke them; as thus, The Lord rebuke thee Satan; this way we neither command the Devil, nor pray to him, but pray unto the Lord to command him.

Again: It is unlawful, 1. when one adjureth him who is not called to it, as those Sons of Sceva did, Act. 19. 13, 14. This certainly being a peculiar and extraordinary gift, as those of prophesying, foretelling of things to come, speaking with Tongues, and healing of the Sick with a word, were; ought not without special warrant to be usurped more then they.

Again: It is unlawful, 1. when one adjureth him who is not called to it, as those Sons of Sceva did, Act. 19. 13, 14. This certainly being a peculiar and extraordinary gift, as those of prophecying, foretelling of things to come, speaking with Tongues, and healing of the Sick with a word, were; ought not without special warrant to be usurped more then they.

2. It is unlawful when it is done by exhorting or obtesting of, or praying unto the Devil himself, & entreating him as we do God, which way implieth, 1. Friendship with him when we entreat him as a Friend. 2. Prayer or worship to him who is not the object of it. 3. An obligation on us to him, when he yieldeth to obey; and he will not fail, if by any means he can, to put that complement or obligation on us, and so Necromancers, Witches, Exorcists, &c. may cast out Devils by collusion (though possibly not in a way so explicit), whereby the Devil gaineth his point upon such as effectually, as if there were a most expressly formed Covenant betwixt him and them, and thus the Pharisees falsely and blasphemously, charged on our blessed Lord,