There be some texts of Scripture that seem to attribute the power of working wonders equal to some of those immediate miracles wrought by God himself, to certain arts of magic and incantation. As for example, when we read that after the rod of Moses being cast on the ground became a serpent ( Exod. 7:11), “the magicians of Egypt did the like by their enchantments”: and that after Moses had turned the waters of the Egyptian streams, rivers, ponds, and pools of water into blood ( Exod. 7:22), “the magicians did so likewise with their enchantments”; and that after Moses had by the power of God brought frogs upon the land ( Exod.