King James: Daemonologie (1597 First Edition)

Devil of diseases in general, their power is as well proven in specific cases: such as weakening the physical nature original: "nature"; referring here to the biological constitution or sexual potency of some men to make them impotent original: "unable for women", and making it to abound in others more than the ordinary course of nature would permit. And such is the case in all other specific sicknesses.

But one thing I will ask you to observe in all these places where I reason upon the Devil’s power, which is the different goals and purposes that God, as the first cause, and the Devil, as his instrument and second cause, aim at in all these actions of the Devil (acting as God’s executioner original: "hang-man"). For while the Devil’s intention in these actions is always to destroy original: "perish" either the soul or the body—or both—of those he is permitted to deal with, God, on the contrary, always draws glory to himself out of that evil: either by the destruction original: "wrack" of the wicked in His justice, or