Magia Adamica, or The Antiquitie of Magic

Questionless, your honesty breaks out at your Breech Referring to his backside., for it appears not in your Book. It seems indeed your Ethics are very sound, for you are such an Enemy to Immorality as the Devil was when he disputed about the Body of Moses A reference to Jude 1:9, often used in religious debates to imply hypocrisy.. I will present you with a specimen (as you word it) of your own Civilities. See here the Courtship and addresses of your Pamphlet. You do call me, (who am a Christian) one that is Simon Magus A biblical sorcerer; often used as a slur for a magician or heretic. like, a heated noddle, a Simpleton Mome, a Mimic, an Ape, a mere Animal, a Snail, a Philosophic Hog, a Nip-crust A miserly or stingy person., a pickpocket, a niggard Tom fool with a Devil's head and horns, one that desires to be a Conjurer more than a Christian. All these good and sober Moralities I find in your first part, which consists of one and twenty small pages, but is stuffed with fourteen intolerable, beastly notions, besides other infinite flights and Absurdities: But for all these Abuses you tell me in your Observations upon my Advertisement to the Reader, That you have been very fair with me, and though provoked, you will continue...