Precautions for Prosecutors (Cautio Criminalis)

Doubt VII: Could [this remedy root out] this crime?

...to even cleanse it of this entire plague so thoroughly that no crime will be rarer than the crime of witchcraft original: veneficy. If, I say, there is any of the Magistrates original: Magistratuum who seriously wishes to know and to put this to the test, and believes it to be in the interest of both his own conscience and the Commonwealth original: Reip. (Respublica) to try it, I have a friend—a religious man—who is willing to teach a unique method industriam: here meaning a diligent technique or skillful approach which he has discovered, and who would even dare to pledge his own life as collateral if he should fail. I have seen and examined this method, and as far as I can grasp with all my thoughts, I find no error in it; rather, it can most certainly achieve what he intends. I wondered not a little that this had not yet occurred to more people before now.

As for the rest, enough has been said; yet it must be wrapped in silence and hidden, because the inventor wishes it to be brought only to the ears of those who are eager for it. Our Lawgiver A reference to Jesus Christ, specifically regarding his teachings on the hours of the day and the Parable of the Sower taught that there are twelve hours in the day, and that some soil is good, while other soil is useless; and if you scatter anything on the latter, it is the same as if you threw it into the waves of the great sea. When the time is right, therefore, and the soil is ready, the seed original: sementi will not be spared; but perhaps even in this very commentary original: commentario I will yet say something that the wise will understand. The matter is easy and ready, smallest and