DAEMONO~

LOGIE, IN FORME OF A DrALO aVE,

Diuided into three boo"'f.

Written by the high and mightie Prince, I A" I! S b, . the grace of Cod King of England, Scotland, Frallcc,and Ircland,DcfCndcr

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The Preface to the Reader. ;fi7',.:::.est:::...:~,~ B,efiareful abounding at tbis timein this countrie, ofthefe ., E7""~ deteflableJlauesiftheViue4

the Witches or encbsunters,

,~ hath moued 11Je (DeloNed res-

4er) to diJPatch in Poft, tbis fo11o'rving Tre« ... t!fc ofmine;, not in allY 117i(e (as lproteft) to jeruefor a jherJJe of my learning and ingine,

hut one/Y ( moued if confcience ) topreafle therehy,jo Jarre MI can, to rifo/ue the·douh ... ting hearts ofmanie; Doth tha~fuchaflaultf oj Satbsn are moft certainly prflEfi[et!, and that the inslruments thereqf, merits moft ftuere/Y to bepunijhed : ttgainfl the dam ... naMe opinions oj-trpo princjpat/y in our age, whereoftheonecaOedScOt; an Eni/i/hman,

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TO THB READER • unotllfoameJin pU6/'ktprint to denle, that there can be fuch It thing IU Wjtch~ craJt:dnd fa msintaines the old errourcftbe Sadduccs in denying of Jjirits. The other called VVie* rus, a (jermim PhyJi.tion,fetsout a publi~ apologie for aU theft craf1--fo'{es, 'u,hereby;, procuring (or 'their impunitie, he plainrb bewrayeJ himfe_!fo to haue beene one ofihae proJejJion • .And for to ma~ tbis Treati/e the morepleafant& flciD,l haue put it in forme of a Via/ague, l'JJhich J haue diuided' Into three/}()ok!s: The Irf! j}e~'<!.ng of ~agie. in generaU, and ~cromancie in lPeci;'ll~ 'Ibeficond, of Sorcerie and Writch-cra/i!, and the third,cO»taincJ a di/courfi ofal.tbefo !?jndJ offfiirits, and-SpeE/rel thatappeare.t. and troubles perfons : togetber -,:vith II con-, {Iu/ion ofthew,bolel1'ork.e~ e.5\.ly intentibn, in t h3s labottr ,U onelY to proye. tlla things, 4.f 1 hllue alieadie {aid: the 0l1ejth4t juch diltelifo srtes hallebeenellndare. Tbeaber, what exaB tri"U ami filfere punifbment thty me-- ----_. - -- -- -- - - - rit:

TO THE READER.

... it : etnd therdore resfon J, Tf'hdt /(jnd of things are poflible to 6ee performed in thrJe Arts,and by l'Phat l1att/rali cau(es they may be, not that f touch euerie parti euler thing of the Viueh pOl'per ,for th£1tlPere ilifinite:but onefy, to j}eaktfcholajlick!y, CJince thiJ can not be Jjok,:n in our language) 1 reaJOn vpon genus leauing fpecies, and differentia to he comprehended therein. d sfor example~.

j}_eaking -of ~he pOl'Per oj Magiciens, in the ftrjlboo{e and fixt chapter :.lfay,thattheJ canfuddenIYcaufe be broughtvnto them, all. 'inds ofdainty difhes, by their flmiliar j}i ... , rit:fince Moll thiefi he_delights to.fleale~& IU II !pirit he can fobtiOy andfodainly enough tran/port the flme~00!l'P vnder this genus~ m4ibe comprehended all 'psrtictders ,depen.ding therupo~Ju~h IU the hringing »ine out ofa waf (ill w'e haue·hea-rd oft to haue bin pr d' f/ifod) &- [uch others ; whichparticulars)are

ftfjclent/Y prolfed Iv the reifom ~fthe gene ... : - ral.And fu~h file! in ~he Jecod bootofJPitch ...

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TO THE READER~

craft in j}ec/~1!, and fift Chap.l foy, & proue by diuer]« arguments, that Witches can by the pot 'Per ~f their Maifler, cure or caflon JifeaJeJ~::J\( o)lJ by theft [smeresfons, that protles their pOllJer by the ViueU oj difeafe s in generaO, iJ ajilJell proued their powerin Jpe ... cialt:M oj),}Jeak,ning the nature of (ome men, to ma~ them vnable for 'Women: and mal\jng it to ahound in others) more then the ordina '" ri~courft_ofnature 'I-~ould permit. Andfuch IiI(: In aU otkerparticular Jick,nefles. 'But one thingJ will praJ thee to o/;_{erue in aU thefe

, ., place!, where I resfon "'ppon tbe deuils po-wcr, which is the different ends arId [coper, that Cjod It4thefirftcaufe)andtheViueUai bisin-

Jlrument & fecond caufo ,fooots at in all theft aElionJ oftheViuell, (M qods hang.-man:) For where the ditlels intention in them is euer to peri/h,either the Joule or the hod ie, or hoth oj them,that he is /0 permitted to deale witb: fJo.'d hy t'?eco~t~a~ie;J~aUJes euer o.1!t if t~at',. tutU glory tohlmJeIfe~either b.J thel}Jrac~ of

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TO THE READER.

the rvic~d in bis io/Jice, or by the trial! of the patient,and amcndmentofthefaithfttll, be ... ingl'Pal(!ned vp .1lJith tbstrod if corredion, Hauing thlu declared vnto thee then, my full intention ill this Treatife,thou, wilt eaJiIY ex ... cuft)l douhtnot, ajwellll'!Jpretermitting, to declare the whole particular rites and fecrets

. ofthefel1nlariful arts:as a!fO their infnit and 'Wondeifull praflije'r, as being neither of them fer~inen.ttomy furpoft; thereafonllJhereo(; u glUen In the hmderend ofthe jirjl Chapter oj the thirdhoo/rt: and 'Who li{e s toue curio1J4 in theft things) he m4} resde, if he l'Pill, here of their prafliJes, Bodinus Damonoma .. nie, colleEled l'Pith, '-greater diligence, then 'Written 'With judgement, together 'With their confej1tons, that haue heme at this time ap .. .prehended.Jfhe l'Pould {now 'What hath been

the opinion oftbe duncients) conceming their pO"fPer : hee /hall fee it llJell defcrihed by Hyper ius & Hemmingius,t'Wolate Cjer .. mane ~riters : 'Befides innumerable other

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TO THE R£ADER;' neoteric~ Thee/ogue!, that 'Writes largelie vpon that jubjefl: tlnd if he TPould k,noll1'What are the particula~rit~s, & curiofitier of theft bltlc~ Arts (which ts both vnnecejJarie and periliotlJ) ke lvill jin,d it ill the fourth ?Joo,<! ifCornelms Agn pp~, anlin VV rerus, 1lJhom"of I JPttk!. J nd fi wijhing In,Y paines ill thill'reatife (beloued7(.eader) to he ejfe ... flua(~in arming all tbem that reads the fame, IIgat'!ft theft ahoue mentioned errours, and recommending my good wiD to thy friend/} IKceptation~ I bid thee he.trtiIJ jare ... rPeU! .

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lAMES R

FirfrBooke.

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T be exord 0/ the W_/Jo,le. T IJC defcrrption ()f JvIagle In j}eciafl.

eM AP. I. AltGV ~E NY,

Pr~lIcn by the S crpure l that thtft vnlawfuO arts iN genere,hallev(fJc and ma) bc pflt in prac1ifo.

PHI L 0 MAT H F. S ann E [> 1 S T E M 0 N rcafon the matter.

PHILOMATHES;

1_e,.l..!k*""""_'" ~ ~ A M furelie verie glad to naue

• metre withyou thisdaie , fOrI

I A£/~am of opnuon, that ye can bet- . . ter refolue me of Ierne thinO'

~ w hereo~ Wand in great dOLJb~: t.1;~;) -' nor .arue other whom-with I

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n " - E [> I. In what! call th:ltyee

1 e to Ipeir at me, I will wjllinglie and fr~cIie tell

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my opinion,and if I proue it not filfficicmly) I am heartily content that a better reafon carle it away then.

PHI. \-Vhat thinke ye ofthefe Grange newes, which now ondy fumilbes purpofe to all men at their meeting: I meane ofthefe Witches r

E P I. Surely they are wOllderfull:· And I thinke fo cleare and plaine confellions in that purpore~ haue neuer fallc.Il out in anie age or cuntrey,

PHI. Noqlldl:ionifthey6e true, but thereof the Dcctours doubts.

E P I. VVhOlt pan: of it doubt ye of?

PH I, Euen of alJJor ought I can yet perceaue: and namely, that there is Iuch a ching as \ Virchcraft or Witches,and I would prJ.y you to refolue methereofifyem:lY :fol: I hauereafoned withfiindrie in that mattcr,alld yet could neuer be farisfied therein.

E Pl. Bhatt w~th good will doe the beft I can:

But I think it the difficiller, finceye denie the thing it Celie in generall: for as it is raid in the Logickc: fchooles, C~"fra 1Jtg4nt(m principia non 11 Jjfpf~' t411dum.Alwayes forthat part,thar 'vVitchcrafr,and Witches haue beene, and are, theformer part is clearelyproued by the Scriptures, and the laft by dailie experience and confe{lions.

PH 1. I knowye will alleage me SAul(s Pyth(),nfft ; but that as appeares will not make much foryou •.

E P I. Not only mat place,bm diners orhers:BlI~ I maruell why that fhould not make much for me ?

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PH t, The realO.ns are thefe) fidl yec may c?nfider, tharSaHlbelllg troubled in fpirie, and ha, J.S4111.1' utngfafied long beforc)as the text :e!lifieth and be-

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mg come to a woman that was bruted to hauc filch·

knowJ~dge, and th~t to enquire fo imporranr news, he haul!Jg fo guiltie a confcience for his hainous offences, and ipeciallie,for thar fame vnlawful curio ofitie, and horrible defection. and then the woman crying out vpoq the fuddaioe in g-reat admiration, f~~ the v?con~h ficht that ale alledged to bane fene dilcoll~nnghl?-1 to be the King) though difguifed, & de~led b~ hl111 .before : it was no woonder I fay J / that his fenb beIng thus difua6l:cd, he couldnor perc~aue her faining of her voice, hee being him. (elfe m an other chalmer, and feeing nothing.Next what could be, on~as raifcd? ThefPirit of SamlieU P~o~hane and agatn~ all Theologie : the Diucllill his hkenes? as voappeiranr , that either God would permit him to come iri the fhape of his Sainres (for then could neuer the Prophetsin thofc daies haue bene fure, what Spirit [pake to them in their vifi. ones) or then that he could fore-tell what was to come thereafter ; for Prophecie procecdeth onelie ofG 0 D:and the Deuill hatb no. knowledge 01 thin gs to come.

E p r, Yet if yee will marke the wordes of the tex~ ~ yeewill findeclearelle, that SalllJaw that appannon .. for glUIng you that Sail/was in an other Chalmer, 41t the making of the circles & coniurationes '. needfll!1 for rhat purpofe (as none ofrhat craft will permu any vthers to behold at that time)

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yet it is eu.dent by the text, tha~ hOI:' (one that once that vnclcsne fpirit W:J.S Jully rikn,lheca!!ed :11 \ pon S,m!. For it is faide in the [ext, tim s,wle knew him to b( s;lI'l1u<,1 , which con.de not h)IJC beene, by the hearing tell onelie of ~n olde man with are mantill, Iince there was mallie rno old men dead 111 J,Fad nor Samuel : Andt~cC0j11mOnlVeidohhat whole counrrey W2S manrils, As ro the next)thac it IV.1S not the [pirit of S.lmtl~t ,!I g~ant:I:l' t~e ~n~llingwhereofvcneedc nor to m{llt ,imce all Chriilian;{,f \Vbatr~-el,er religion agrees Vpt"lll tkt: and none but either mere iunorants.or N ccrornanciers or vVitchcs doubtes thereof: And tharthe Diuel is perlllitt::d at fometimes to put himlelfin the likenes ofthe5aimcs ids plaine in the Scriptures, where

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ids Iaid that Satban cs» Ira»! JOrme wn/t'!]ettltfJ~"

.A1Jgt'11 if l~ht.Nei~her could that bring an~ inc~~. uenient ''''Jell theviliones of the prop};ets., iI.nee 1H5 moll cerraine , that God will not pernllth~m foro deceiue his own: but onliefuch, as fidt wllrully deceiuesrhem-felnes , by runniogvnto him, whome God then fufYers to fall in their owne Glares, an~ iufHie pennines che~n to be illuded with great effi. cacy of deceit,becaufc they would not bc:lc:ue the' rrnethtas P au/fayth). A~I~ as to the diuelles torerel .. ling of things co come.ms true that he knowes not all rhinzes future) but yet that he Imowes_parcc, ~he TragiciU euent of this hiflorie declares it., (which the lVic of woman could neuer haue fore-Ipoken) not that he hath Jny prefcience , which is only pro. l1~r to God: or yet knows anie dlillg by loking ... P' r . on

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on God, JS ill a l1lirW~i " i:.h the :' ),)d .-\~jCcls doc) he being for euer debarred from ~iJc f.nor:1bie prefence &COlintCIlJnCe of his crearor)but onlv bv one ofrhefe two mcancs.eirher J5 boing 1V0rldly ;vilc, and nughr by a continual] experience, cuer Iincc the cranon J iudges by likelic.llOod of thingcs [0 COil1c,Jc(ording tv the like tim hJth palled before, and the natural] caufes, in rcfpe.st of the vicillinrde of all [hinges worldly: Or elle by Gods cll1pJoying ofhin: in a rurnc, and fo forelecne thereof: . as ap-

peJres to hauebin in this .whereof we nnde the ve- ..

ric like ill NlChe:JS prophetiqllcdifcollrfe to King I.l\mg.a. .Aehab. Bm to proO:lC this·my fifO: proporttjon~chac

there can befirclra thing as witch·craft, & witches,

there are manie mo places in the Scriptures then

this (as I faid beforej.A, firll in the law of ood.ic is plainelie pro.:libitcd:But cerraincir is,thart11c·Law Exocl.li. of God fpeakes nothing ill vainc.neither doth it lay

curfes, or inioine punifhments VpOll 01addowcs, condemning that to beJ~which is not in ~lfellce or

bcing as we call,ft. Sec~lldlie'titisplajnC;d where Wickc.dP haraof({ w .. iG. c-menimitl ... ape number of EXod.7.& I Mofo.smirades ; ~"b.ardeu the _ nts heart there •. l.S.m.1 S

by. Thirdli,faidrick:s'amtlt'ito ifill, ehatdifobtdi- .

tnc.t is as/he fino/Witch-craft? To compare it to a

thing that were llc'hir were too too abhird. Fourth.

lie, ~as not Simo» ~l1lfgllJ, a malloft~ae craft ?And Afls.S. fifilie , what was {he chat had thelptritoi Python? A8s,IIi, belide innumerableorher places that were irkeCom

to recite.

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Wh,;f kind offin the prJtCiiz.rrs ()fthrft TJI1!.ffVji'U 4rtu mm»itlu.ThtdillifuJfJofthtfoaI'W. t..Al1d'3'h4t .fn the 1I1wm thdt ,IlIum all) t() praffiz,! them.

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PHI LO ~IA1'HE5.

B V T I t11inke it verie firange, that Cod lhoul~ permit any man-kinde ({ince they b~:I1'e his owne Image) to fall in fo groife and filthie a de.

tection. .

EPI. Although man in bis Creation w~s made to the image of the Creator, yetthro~gh.hts fall hauing once loft it I it is but rettored agalnc in a part by grace onelie to the e~eCl : So ~l the [eft fal· ling away from God, arc: glUenouer ~n the handes of the Deuill that enemy ) to beare his Image; and being o. nee fo giucn ouer, the greareft and the grof. teO: impictic , is the pleafantd1:,and moO: delytefuH

vat<> them. ha . j'

PHI But may it not (uffice: him to ue IIlol·

teetHe the rule, and procure the perdition of fo manic {oWes by alluring them to vices , and to the following of t~eir own appctitesJfupp:ofe he ~bufc not fomaniefimple foules, in making themdJreCt·

lie acknowl~dge him for their maHler. . '

E PI. No furelie , tor bee vfCs C:llerl~ man, whom of hehathrherulejaccording to thetr comptexionandknowl~ge.: An.dto, w~m hefindes mofHimple, he p1alOcbefi dtf~O~CIS htmfelfe vnto tbem. For he beeing the enmue of mails Salua. don vfCs al the meanes he can to iottappe them fo

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far in his fhares.as it may bee vnablc [0 them theretitter (fuppofe they would) [0 rid themfelues out of

ehetame, '

p'l! I. Then this linne.is a Gnne againihhc no. .

lyGhoft . .

E p t, It is in fome,but not in all,

PHI. How that? Are not all thoe' that runnes rliretlly to the diuell in one Categoric?

E P I. God forbid,forthe finne againft the holy Ghofi hath two branches: The one a falling back from the whole feruice of God, and arefufall of all his precepts.The ?ther is the doing of the fun with kn~wledge, knowingrhat they doc wrongagainft

their owne conlcience, and the tcllimonie ohbe -:

holy Spirit,hal1ing once had a tafic of the fwccmes RtU.IP.' s . of Gods mercies. Now in the firft of thefe two

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all forts of Necromancers, Enchaunters or Wit.

ches , are comprehended: but in the Ian J none but ruch as erres with trus, knowledge that 1 haue: fpokenof.

Pa J. Then itappearestflat there are more forts noronc,that are direCtly profeffours of his fc:ruke ~ and if fo be,I pray you tell me how manie, & what aretheyi

EPI. There are principally two forts, where. unto all d1(~parts of that vnhappie Ane arc redatied; whereof the one is called MAllie or NttrD. i'laneie ,the other Stlmrie or Wlteh.,,¢.

PHI. Whatlprayyoll?and how manic: are the meancs,whereby the Diuell aULJICS penoIlS in anie ~fthefcrnares r

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E PI. Euen by thefe three paffions that are with. in our (dues; Curiotirie in ~rcat ing:ncs ~ thirft of reuenge, forforne tortes deepely apprehended: or greedie appetite of geare.caufed through gre~t po· uercie.As to the firll: of rhefe.Curiotirie, it is onelic the inticernent of N.zgi(ims or J.\'(crom,l1lciers: f.nd the other two are d:e allurers of the Sorcerers or /~i(cfJtJjtor thatold and crafiielerpen: being a Spim,he c .. Iilie {pies our affections, and 10 couformes himlelfe thereto, to deceiuc vs to our wracke,

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T~t jignijicdfirJl1! ,111.:1 (t}1m'!~t/rs of the wordsi{Magie lind Necromancic, 'Th: dijJm11(( belT>'ixt Necromancie ,wd'vVilchcraft: What art the mtre{5is,ilfJint.o-iJ1ningJlJut br;'JgJ ,:tIl to Ihe kllQ)"~ ledl/tIJmu! , '

PHILOMAl'HES.

I\tVould gla,dliefi!.fi: heare '. what thing is it that ye C:aUl.t.:glt or N tCY()mallt:lt •

E PI. This wordNAg;i in tbc:Pcrfian tongue, imports as much as to be ane contemplator O£ Interprerour of Diuine and heauenlie k:icllces: which being firft vfed Olmogs the Chaldm,throllgh their ignorance ofthetruediuiniric, was dlec:med and reputed amongG:them,as a principaU vermes And therefore, was named ,'niufilvwith anh0110- table rule, whichnai"ne [he GTt(k~' imitated.genetally importing all there kinds of vn!awfilll artes,

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'P.emonol~gie. Firft Book/'9 And this word Nccrom;lnc;e IS a G reck word, CO;l1- pOlll~dr;J of Ni~~wv & .u:(''T;~ whic b is to fay,tlJc prophecie by the dead, This laH name is gillell, co this black & vnlawfiill Icience by the figure sJncdccfj(j becaufe it is a princi pall pan of that art, [0 ferne rhcmfelues with dead carcagcs in their diuinations,

P 11 I. vVhatdifference is there betwixt this artc, and W'itch.crafr?

~ P 1. Sur~lic, ,the di~erence vulgare PUt betwixt them, IS verne rncrne, and in a manner true ; for they fay, that the Witches areferuaorsonely, and Ilaues to the Diuehbut the Necromancers are his Maiflers and commanders.

PHI. How call that be true.that anyrnen being fpecially addicted to his feruice.can be his comanciers?

E PI. Yea they may be: but it is oneIyfocUl1dum qllid : For it is not by .my power that they can haue ouer him, but tX p489 allanerlie : whereby he obli.ces ):limfclfin fome trifles ro them, that he mayan the ather part obteine thefruition ofrheir body & fonle.which is the onlie thino he huntes for.

P 11 I. An verie iIl-a:quitatle contract forfoorh : ,But I pray YOl\ difcourfe vnto mee, what is the ef~ f~Ct and Iecrets of that am?

E PI. That is ouer large ane field ye giue rnee: yerl fhall doe good.will, the moflfummarly that I can, to runne through the principal points thereof. As there arc two forts of folkes, that may be entiled to this art , to wir .learned orvnlearned : fo is there [~Vo rneanes, which arc the 6tH h-.:erc:rs vp & feeders of their curiofirie, thereby to make them

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to giuethemlelues ouer to tile lime: \-\'hich two meanes, 1 call the Diuels Ichoole, and his rudiments, The learned haue their curiofirie wakened

vp; and fedde by that which I call Ius lchoole:

this is t~le t.Ajl,ol~itjudiciar,For diuers men ha-

uing attained to a great perfection in learning, and

yet remaining oner-bare (alas) of the Spirit of regeneration and fruits thereof: finding allnarurall . things common, afwell [0 the aupicle Fed,mts as

vnto them) they allay to vendicate vnro them a greatername,bynot onelyknowing the courfe of things heauenly.bur likewi(e to dim to the ~notv. ledge of things co come thereby.vVhich,atdlefirfi

face appearing lawfull vnto- them, in refpdt the ground thereoffeemeth roproceed ofnatnrall CJU·

fes onelie , rhey are fo allured thereby, that finding

th~ir practifeto prone trueinfimdrie things) thcy {ludic to know the caure tbeleof: and fo mounting from degrecto degree, vpon the ilipperle and VIll" ccrtaine kale of curiofirie ; they are at lafi entifed,

that wherelawfull artes or Iciences failes, to fatis6c their refHelfe mjnds.enen tofeeke to tbat black and vnlawnlll fcience of Mati!!. Where, finding at

the firft J that filch d:uers formes of circles and COl)'.. jurations rightlie ioined thereunto, will raife fiich diuers formes offpirits. to refolue them of their doubts: and attributin g the doing thereof, to the power infeparably tied, or inherent in the circles:

and many words of God , confsfedlie wrappedin;

they hErdly glorie of rhemfelues, as if rhev had by their quickl1C5 ofjnginc:~madc a cotlqucfi of P/ut{}ts

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dornin ion , and were become Ernperou rs Oller rhe S~~giiJ.n habiracles. VVhere,m the rneane timc( miIerable wretches) thcy arebecome ill veric deede, bond-Ilaues to their morral! cncmie : and their knowledge.for all rharthey prciinnc thereof;ls no. thing increafed , exceprinknowiog will, and rhe , horrors ofHelJ tor punifhmenr rhereof.as vi d.1ms GnI·.l. was by cheearing ofrhc forbidden tree.

CHAP. IIII AI',GV.

The De/'ct-fptionoftl)f RudimentJ and SChu.?!f) 'n'hich .trt the mtr1Jls to the arlo{Magie: Anciin (p((j- 4iJ thf dtfJertfJw betwix: Allronomie Jnd AUra.· Jogic:D/"iji()J of AUroJogic in dillCl'S p4r/fs. .

PHI L 0 MAT 11 E S.

B V T I praY'y0ll Jikcwife (orgernottotcl what are the Deuilles rudimenres.

E P 1. His rudiments J I call 6tH in generall, all rhlt which is called vulgarly rhc venue of worde ) herbe, & i!one:wbich is "led by vnlawfull charmes , without uaturall caufes , As likewife all kinde of pracbcques) freites.or other like exrraordinarie actiones, which cannot abide [he true touche ofllaturall reafou,

PHI. I,would haueyou to make that plainer ) by {orne particular examples; for your propofinon is vene generall,

Ep I. I meaneeitherbvfuchkindeofCharmc:s ~s connnonlie dafte willes vies, filr healing offor. ipokCil goodes] for preferuing them from euill

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eyes, by knitting roun trees, 01 fl1n2tidt kinde of hearbes .to the haire or miles of rhe goods: by curi.,£! the worrne. bv flcmmina ofbioud, [:1.· 'lica-

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ji11S of H It le·croofc5,by n,r:l!!lg of cl.e rJ(;~lle, or

dOt"1f! of :~Lch hI:c :!1t~~rtl:l:r.lble rb:u£:s b'r:' \VOh~)

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withour .l?plying anie t;!jn~!l rneetc to the ~'lrt of-

te'1lkd)s :Ilcdiciners doe: Or elkby fbyillg martied fo:kes) to Iuue I1J[l!o.lh' adoe with other (bv knitting Io .nanic knorrcs vpon a point at the t;m~ of their m:u 1,:gc,tAnd tirchlikc ~h;ng" which men v[e to praCalc in their rnerrinefle: For ira vnlearned men (being natur.l!ly curious, and lackins the true knowledge of God) nnde rhele practiks to P:OllC tnle,a~ jUIl~lrie ?t: them will do,by the power of.rhe dwell be ueCClUtng men} and not by anie inherent vert.ic in rhefe vaine word, and freires , and being delirous CO winne a reputation to themfelues in fuch-bke turnes.rliey either(ifrhey be of the fhamefailer Iorr) feeke to be learned bv lome tliat are experimented in that Ane (not knowins it to bee euill at the firfi) or elfe being of the ('~·o{fcr forte, runnes direcilv to the diuell tor ambition or defire of gainc, and plainely contracts wim him thereupon.

PH:. Bur me thinks thefe means which yce call rhe Scheele and rudimems of toe Ditlcll are things lawfull.aod haue beene approoued for'Ulch in all rimes and ages: as ill (peciall} this fClcncc of A_(lrQiiJ,if, which is one of the (oeciallmembers of the Matlum.tti(qutJ.

E "1. There are [\1;'0 things which the learned

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haue oblerued from the bCE'inninQ, in the Icicuce of the Heanenly Crel:mes~ the PJ'lnC[S, Starrcs, and fuch like .The one is [11m courfe and ordinary motions, wh:chfor char caufe is called wJlrcmomu, 'Shieh word is a compound of ">.@- and c("i~c.::,t11lt is to Cly,dlC b,\ of rlie Srarres. AI~d this Artc indecdc is one of the members olthe .j11.1t"e~ 'i1I1tieqlItJ,<1nd not only lawfull, but mort nccetiarv & commedablc, The other I~ called Aflrol~gi.1,bc~ mgcol11pOl;n,.kdof;(;i~.:;.,~ &Myo~,which is to by, the word and preaching of the flarres: \Vhich is diuided in [1'10 parts : The firll:, by knowing thereby the powers of iimplcs , and fickncfi'es, the courfe of the Icafons and the weather, being ruled by their influence; which part depending vpon the form er.althou gh it be not of it felf a parr of Na~ th(1r!aticques:yct it is not vnlawful, being moderately vfed, lilppofe not fo neceflarie and commendab!e as the former. The Iecond part is to truf] [0 much to their influcnces , as thereby to fore-tell wharcommon-wealcs Ihall flourifh or decay: what perlons tlullbec fortunate or vnforrunare: what fide 1110111 winne in anie batcell : what man 1110111 obraine victorie at lIngular combate : what way, and of what agdball men die : what hone thall winnc at match-running ; and diuerfe fiilh like incredible things, wherein G.lrdanlls ) Cornclins .1- I.ripp.1, and diners others IUlIe 111<;,rc curioullie then profiublie written at large. 0; ,h:5 roore lall:

Ipokcll ot)prings innumerable branches ; Iuch as (he knowledge by rhcnatiuities , the C/;eiromancif,

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G~tJm,mti~ ,HJ'dro"w'ti~ ,Arit bmsnt it, l' hrl<:~ i1~tI'Ji~: & a chollfand others: which were much pr .Ictdcd, & holden in grcJt rClIcrCIlCC by the Gmti/(J of old. And this ]aft pall: of AjJr()!og;~ whereof I hauc {po~ ken, which is the root of rhelf branches, was called by them,.:r! [artus», This pJHC now is vtrerlie \'11- bwfLll to be {wiled ill ,orprac1ized amongH: (hrini~ am, as lealling to no grOl.:nd of narurall reufou: & it: is this part which I called before the deuils Ichoole,

PH t. But yet manic of the lcarne d arc of the contrarie opinion.

~P 1.1 grJnt,yet I couldgiue my reafons to forti. fie & maintaine my opinion.ifto enter into this dd: puration it wold nor draw me quire ott the ground at our difcours; betides the mil:pcnding of the wnele daie thereupon : One word onely 1 will ant\ver to them, & that in the Scriptures (winch mull be an infallible ground to an true G][ifiiam) That in the Prophet Immit it is plainelie forbidden ,to

ltttlMo, belecue or harken vnro them that Prophecies and furC:-lpeilks by the courle of the Planets & Srarres,

CHAP. V. ,\RCY.

Howfom thetfing ofchml1~s is !.tll:fr,l~.r 1Jnl.nrli,ll Tht de{criptiotHfthdormeso[Clrdwm.i Contnrstiona , And what c,tuftth flit Magi,j~ns/h(f}JA fe/ttu to wl.;rie themf.

PHl to ~!.~T HE S,

WE L) Ye lnue (~idc fJ r inough ill that arg\lment , But how prooue yc now thar thefe . charmes

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eharmes or vnnaturall pradicques are vnlawfull:

For Io, m anie honetl and rnerrie men and women haue publickly practized ferne of them, that I think iiye would accute them al ofwitch-crafi.ye would affirme more nor ye will be be'eeued in.

E p r, 1 feeifyou had taken good rentCto the nature of that word, whereby 1 named it,) ye would not haue beene in this doubt, nor miltaken me, fo farre 35 ye hauedone: For althoughas none can be fchollers in a Ichoole, & not be fubieCl: to the rnafier thereof: fo none can fiudie and putin praetize (for audie the alone.and knowledge, is more perillousnorolfentille;anditis the pra6l:ifeonely that makes the greatndTe of the offence.) The cirkles & art of M~jt,without commining a» homble.defection from God: And yetasthey that reades and Iearnes their rudirnentsjare not the more filbjeCl: to anie fchool-mafler, if it pleale not sheirparents. to put them to the fchoole thereafter; So they who ignoratly proLlcs thefe prac:ticques) which I cal the: diuels rudiments, .vnknowing them to be bans, cafien our by him,tor trapping toch as God will permiuo fall into his hands: This kind of folks I fay, no doubt, are to be iudged rhebef] of, inrefpe6t they vfe no innocation nor helpe ofhim{by their knowledge atlea!l:)in theietumes, & fo haue neucr enrred thefdues into Sathans Ieruice, Yet [0 {peake trulie for mine. ewne part(1 Ipcake but for my felfe) I delire not to make Io neere riding: For in my opinion our enernie is Oller craftie,and we ouer wcake (except the greater grace of God) to alfay fuch ha.: zards "whqein he ptcafes to trap vs,

. PH~

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PH 1. Y e hauerealou forfooth; for as the COI;'1- mon Pr~l1crbe f.1yth : They rhac fllppe kcilc with the Deuill, haue necde of long Ipoone s, But now I praie ),;)ll goe fmnrdc in the ddcribing of this arte o[.lJ.~si(.

):. P r. Fra they bee come once vnto [his perfection in euill , in hauing any knowledge (whether learned or vnlearned) of this black art: thev then be. ginne to bee wcarie of the railing oi rhci; M:.ifter , ~Y coniured circkles ; being both 10 dJincile and pc. rilous, and to cornmeth plainlie to a contract with him, wherein is IpeciaUiecontcined formes and cffeEtes.

. PHI. But I prayeyou or eueryou goe further, dllcourfe me Iorne-what of their circkles and coniurationes ~And what fhould bee the c:mfe of their wearying thereof: For it Ihould kcme that that forme fhould be le!fe fearefull yet, than the direct haunting and Iccierie, with that foule and vncleane Spirite.

E l' I. I thinke ye take me to be a Witch my felk, or at the leafi would faine (iI/care your felfe preneife to that craft: Alwaies as I may; I 111al1 Ihorrlie facisfieyou, in that kinde of coniurations , which are conteined in filch bookes , which I call the Deuilles Schoole : There are foure principal] parts; the perfons of the conjurers; the aCtion of the COI1- inrarion ; the wordes and rites vfed to that effect; and rhe Spirites rhar areconiured, Ye mull: nril remember to laye the grounde, that I tould von before: which is, that ids no power inherenr in the

cir-

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circlesjor in the holines of the names of God blat: phemouflie vfed: nor in whatfoeuer rites or cercmonies at that time vfed,that either CJn raife an y infernal! fpirir, or yet lirnirat him perforce within or without thefecircles, For it is he onelie, the father of alllyes, who hauing firfi of all prefcribed that forme of doing, feining himfelfe co be cornmanded &refrreined thereby, wil be loath co paffe the Loundes of rhefe injunctiones, a!\vell thereby to make them glory in the imp iring ouer hime as I faide before:) As likewife to make himfelfe (0 to be rrufled in thefe little thinges, that he nuy haue the berter comrnoditie thereafter, to deceiue them in the end with a tricke once for all; I meane the euerlafiing perdition of their {aLII & body.Then lay. ing this ground.as I haue Iaid, thefe con iurationes mull: haue few or mo in number of the perfones conjurers( alwaies paffing the finguler number) ac· cording to the qualitie of the circle) and forme of apparition. Two prindpall thinges cannot well in that errand be wanted: holie.water (whereby the Diuill rnockes the P4piJlCS) and fame prefent of a liuingthing vnto him. There ar likewife cereaine feafons.dayes and houres, that they obferue ill this purpole. Thefe things being all readie, and prepared, circles are made triangular, quadrangular, round.double or fingle,according to the forme of apparition that they crane, But to Ipeake ofthe diuerle formes of the circles, of the innumerable charaders and crofles that are within and without, and out-through the fame, of the diners formes of

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apparidones, that thJt craftie fpiriti!1udes them wlth,andofaUruch particulars in thJt aCtion,1 remitit to ouer-rnanie that haue bufied their heades in defcribing of rhe fame;as being but curious.and altogether vnprofitable , And this farre onelie I touch) that when the conjured Spirit appeares, which will not be while after manie circumflan, cesjlongpraiers, and much muttring and murmuring ofthe coniurersdike a P ap11 prieft,difp4tching a hunting M ajfo:how fane I fay, he appeares.if they haue milled one iote of aU their rites; or if any of theirfeere once flyd ouer the circle through terror of his feareful apparition.he payes himfelfe at that time in his owne hande , of that due debt which they ought him; and other-wife would haue delayed longer (0 haue payed him: I rneane hee carries them with him bodieand foule, If this be not nowa jull: caufe to make them wearie of there formes of conjuration, Ileaue it to you to Judge vpon; cOlludering the Iong-fomene1fe of the Iabour,t~e precifd:eeping of dayes and homes (as I haue fald)The terrihleoeffe of apparition, and the prefent perrell that they flande in) in miffing the leaftcircumfiallce orfreirejharthey ought to obferuc:And on the other parte, the Deuil is glad to mooue them to a plaine and [quare dealirig with him as I faid belcre,

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C H'A p. V 1. A R G V.

T be Dell1Uet contr4c7wII h Ih~ Magiclans.r' he diflijion tlmeJ! in two pllrtes: WhAt is Ibe dtjforejJce6ettvixt Godsmiradel and the Deals,

PHI L 0 11 A r HIS.

INdeed there is ca.lIfe inough,hut rather to Ieaue him at all,thell to runne more plainlie to him, if [hey were wife he dealcwirh- But goe forwarde now I pray you to thefe tunics, fra they become once deacons in this craft.

E PI. From time that they once plainlie begin ro contractwith him: The effect ofrheir centrad confifles in two thinges.in formes and etteCtes, as I began to tell alreadie , were it not yee interrupted me (for although the contract be mutuallj I Ipeake firLt of tharparr, wherein the Deuill oblifhes himlelfe to them) by formes) I meane in what fhape ortafhion he Ihall come vnto them, when they call vpon him. And by c:ffeetes,I vnderfhnd, in what fpecial forts or feruices he binds himfelfc to be fubjetl: vnto them. The qualieie of there formes and effeCl:es,is lefle or greater ,according to the ski! & art olthe M Itg/clAlI.For as to the formes, to ferne of the bafer fort of them he oblifhes him4 felfe to appeare at their calling vpon him,by Inch a proper name which he fhewes VIltO them, either in likenes of a dog.a Carte-an Ape,or fuch.like other beafhor elfe to anfwere by a voice onelie, The ef. feCts are to anlwere to f uch demands.as concernes curing'of dHTeafes,thcir owne particular llJenage· ry:or filch other bate things as they require of him.

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20 Vtemono!ogie. FirJlhook!.

But to the man curialis forre,in the formes he will oblifh himfelfe.ro enter in a dead bodie, and there out of to giuc Iuch an fivers , of the Client of barrels, of rnaters c6ccrning the ethte of commonweJchs, and fuch like other great queftioI15:YC;J.,to tome he will b~ a cont~l1u,~H attender, in forme of a Page:

He will permlt himfelfe co be conjured, for the Ipace ,of Co I!lany y~res)ether in a tablet or a ring,or fuch like thmg,whlch thev may ear ely carrie about with the 01: He giucs thef~1 power to fel fuch wares to others.whereof fome will bee dearer andfome ?ectercheap~;~ccord~ng to the lying or ~ru:: fpeak. mg of the Spirit that IS conjured therein. Not but that in verie deede.all Devils muf] be lyars, but fo they abufe the fimplicitie of rhelc wretches that becomes their Ichollers, that they make the~ beIeeu~,dm at t~e fall of LllCije, ,fome Spirites fell in the aire.Iome in the fire, Ierne in the water fome in th;: Jande: 111 which E lernentes they nm :emaine. \l\T!lerellp~11 they build,that f uch as fell in the fire. or In the aire, are truer-then they, who fell in the water or in the land, which is all but meare rranles & forged be the aU,thor of al deceir.For they felno: be weighr, as a ~oh~e fubflance, to flick ill anyone plrtc:B,lI,t tlleprmclpall part of their tal, confifiing 111 qua!Hle, by the falling [rom [he grace of God wherein they were created, they continued Ilill thcreafter,:md 111<11 do while the l~tterdaie in wan<iring through the worlde, as Gods hallg.~nen, to (!xecurC!~uch turnesas he employes themin. Alld when anie of them arc not occupied in tbar, reo

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turne they mull: to their prifon in hel (as it is plaine

in the miracle that C H R IS 't wrought at Genne: li[.tt.~. %4,0Ih) therein at the latter daie to be all enclofed

for euer.and a, they deceiue their Ichollers in this,

fo do they, in imprinting in them the opinion that

there are fo manie Princes, Dukes) and Kinges a. mongfi them) euerie one commaunding fewer

or 1110 Legions, and impyring in diners arres,

and quarters of the earth. For though that I will

not denie that there be a forme of ordour amongfl.

the Angels in Heauen, and confequentlle, was amongll: them before their faU; yet, either that they

bruike the fame fenfine; or that God will permit

vs to know by damned Deuils , fuch heauenlie myfleries of his, which he would not reueale to vs neither by Scripture nor Prophetes, I thinke 110 Chrifliane will once thinke it. But by the contra.

rie of all fuch rnylleries, as he hath clofed \'P with

his feaJe of fecrecie ; it becommeth vs to be con.

tented with an humble ignoraunce , they being

things not neceflarie for our faluaticn, But to re,

turne to the purpole, as thefe formes, wherein Sa.

than oblifhes himlelfe to the greatell: of the r_)l1A_ gici4llf, are wonderful! curious; fo are the effccres correfpondent vnto the fame: For he w.l! oblifh himlelfe to teach them artes and Iciences, which

he may eafelie doe, beillg fo learned a knaue as he

is: To carrie them newes from an ie parte of the worlde, which theagilitie of a Spirite may eafelie perlorme: to reueale to them the Iecreres of anie p,erfons', fll being they bee oi.ce cpoken, for the

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thought none knowes but G.O D; except Co far as yee may ghelIe by their countenance, as one who is doubdeflielearned inough in the phfiogmmie: Yea.he will make his Ichollers to creepe in credite with Princes, by 6)re.tel1ing them rnanie greatthings; pane true, parrc Ialfe : For if all were falfe,ile would tynecrcdice at all handes; but alwaies dcubtfeme, as his Oracles were And he will alfo make them to pleafe PrillceJ,by faire banquets anddainrie difhes, carried JO fhorr (pace fi'a the farthef] patt of the world. For no man doubts but he is a thiefe,and his agilitie( as I fpake before) makes him to come Iuche Ipeede , Such-like, he will guard his Ichollers witI] faire armies of honemen and foote-men in appearance) Ca!tles and fortes: Which all are but impreffiones in the aire, ealelie gathered by a Jpirire, drawing fo neare to that fubfrance himfdfe :As in like maner he will leame them manie jtlglarie trickes at Cardcs ,dice, and fuchlike,ro deceiee mens fenfes thereby: and filch innumerablefalfe pracncques;which are pro. .uenbyouer.mante in this age: Astheywho.a~ac .. quainted with that 11.111411 called S COT 0 yet Iining, can report. And yet are all thefe things buedehiding of the fenfes, and no waies true in fubflance, as were the falfe miracles wrought by King ph.sfaos Magicians,for couterfeiting tMfl7/es: For that is the difference betwixt Gods myracles and the Deuils.God is a crearor.whar he makes appeare in myracle, it is fo in effect. As 0Jfoyfos rod being cafien downe,w.lsno doubt turned in a naturaU Sera

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pent: where as the Deui!J( as Gods Ape) counterfening that by his M.Jgicians, maid their wandes to sppeare fo.onelie to mennes ou [ward fenfes.as kyrhed m effeet by their being deuoured by the 0- ther.For it is no wonder, that the Deuill may delude our Ienies, Iince we Ice by common proof c) that fimple juglars will make an hundreth thinges fecme both to our cies and eares otherwaies then they are.N ow as to the Ul1~gici';ll.~ part or the con. tracr,it is in a word that thlng,wluch I faid before, the Deuill hunts for in all men.

PH I. Surclieye haue Iaid much to me in this arte,if all that you haue raid be as true as wounderfull.

E P 1.F or the trueth in thefe aCtiones: it will be eafelie confirmedjto anie rhar pleafes to take paine VpOIl the reading of diuerle authcl:ticque hiflo, ries and the inquiring of daily experiences.And as for ;he trueth of their poffibilitie,that they may be, and in what maner, I trull: I haue alleaged nothing whereunto Ihaue not joyned fuch probable reaIons.as] leaue to yo~r difcr~tion ,to waie a~d can .. fidci\;r:Oneword onlie I ominediconcerning the forme of making of this contrad, which is either Mitten with the Maoicians owne bloud: crelfe be .. ing agreed vpon(in terme~ hls fchole .• Daficr) toucheshun infome parte, cho.ugh .. pera~uenture no !Uarkeleroa,ine: as it doth WIth all Wu,hes.

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CHAP. V II. A R G\'.

T le reu/im Ii'l" the ar! ojMagic iJ vll!.twjitll.wh,Jt rni/11melJl thq merite: c..Al1d ,pho m"y he 4CCQlmt~d

guilty oj thai ·(rime. . -

P Hll O~I"" r Has,

Sv R ELI EYe baue nude this arte to appeare verie monllruous & detetbble, Bur what I pray YOlllbal be :aid to fuch as mainceincs this art to be lawfull,for J.S euil! as vou hauc made it·~

EPI, Ifay,they fau~llr of the plane them [clues, or at leaf] little better, And yeti would beglad to heare their reafons,

PKI. There are two principsllie , that euer I heard vfed; befide that which is founded vpon the comon Prouerb(that the NecromlllJcm commands the DeuHl,which ye haue already refuted) The one is grounded vpon a receiued cufiome : The other vpon anauthoritie, which fome thinkes infallible. V pon cufiome, we fee that diuerfe Chrifiian Princes and Magiflrates Ieuere puniihers ofVVitches, willnotonelie ouer-fee c..7d"gici4fJ1 to liue within their dominions; but euen fome-times delight to fee them prooue fome of their pradicques, The o. ther reafon is,that M~fts being brought vp( as it is expreflie [aid in the Scriptures) in ali lilt ieienm of the 4EgyPti4l1l; whereofno doubt, this was one of the principalles : And he notwithfianding of this atte,pleafing God,as he did,confequentlie that ~J.t profefled by (0 godlie aman,coulde 110t be: vnlawfull.

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EI'I. As to the firfi of yo ur rca Iones, grounded vpon cuflornc: I faie, an euill cnfiome can neuer be accepted for a good law, for the Oller great ignorance of the worde in Iorne Princes and Magi(lrates,and the contempt thereof in others, moues them to finne heavelie againfi their office in that poynt.As to rheother realone.which feemes co be of greater weight, it it were formed in a Syl~o- 5ifmc;it behooued to be in manic tcrmes, and full offallacics(to fpeake in terrnes of LO,~icqtle Jfor firft, that that generall propofirion; ~ffirming c...MoJjes to be caught in all the (ciC11W ~f Ihc LA EgyptfllfJs, fhonld conclude that he was taught in M (lgie, I fee no neceffiry.Por we mufl vnderfland that the fpirie of God there, fpeaking of fciences, vnderll:andes them that are lawfull; for except they be Iawfull, they are but abllfi!,e called fciences,& arc but ienorancesjndeeder ~m h:.mo pic1us, non tJl. h~mo, Se· condlie,giuing that he h~d bene taught 111 It, ther.e is gre:udiffercnce, betwixt knowledge and prachfingof athing(as 1 faid before ).For God knoweth all thinges, being alwaies good,. and of our fi?ne & our infirmitie prcceedeth oungnorance, Th~rd. lie, gil1ing that he had both fiudied and practifed thefamefwhich is more nor monflruous to be be. leeued by any Chriflian ) yet wee know wcll inough,that before that euer the fpirite of God began to call l.t11oyfeS, he was fled out of .A EgyPt, be. ing founie yeares of age, for the (laughter of an A EgyptiAn , and in his good.fa~her I ~Ib~ce/lande, firficalled at the firie bUlbe,naulI1g remained there

E . other

26 V,emon%gie.Fir/i boo/to

o! her fo urri e vCa res in e x de J:l d13 [ fuppo Ie he had becne rhc wj~ kedcci11l1Jn in the worlde Sdorc,hc then bCC311lC a ch;;nged and regeneratman,and vcry lide ofolde .1101,((1 remained in him. (~.{I"'l/;Jm was an IJoLIt~r j"rrofc/w'j.e I,belare he was CJ[Jed: And P,lIIi; being called SM/~,\Va5 a molt fharp pcrlecucor of rhe Sainte, of God, while that name was chan ged,

PHI ,\\'h:a punifhmenr then thinke ye mcriies thefc Jf.I,(i(id'ij JndXtocllJl.lil(en ~

Err. the like no doubt, that Srrm'el'S and TVit. chcs rnerires, .lnd rather 10 much g:rcater, as their error proceedes of the grelter knowledge, and fo drawes nererto the {in agaiI1!1: [he holy Ghofl:.And as 1 Iaye of rhem.fo fay I the like of all fuch as con. iillts,enqLlires,cmcrrailles,& ouerfccs them, which is f cene by the ruferable codes of man)' that askes co uncell of them: For the Deuill hath nen.r better ryd ings to tell [0 any,then he tolde to s.~J/It:ocither is it la','. full to vic. fo vnlawfull intlrurnentes,

were irneucr lor fo good a purpofe , for that axiome in Theologic is mof] certaine and infallible: i\UntjtWl1 f.t(i(l1~

tlrtm tjlm.l!lIm '1,'1 bOlJfl11J

il1dt tll(;.i4/,

THE

THE SEC()NDE BOOKE OF V.lE~

mOrl%niL'

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ARGYivlE NT.

The defcription 01 Sorcery &' ll/itcb .. craft in jpfeLdl.

CHAP. I. ARGV.

Pr~ued by the Scriptllre,tiJat [tiel} a tbing can ~t: And tJ.e ,·c.1frml re[/lud uf a" filch dJ I,', (I'd Cit/lit bill tll1 illhtginlltlon ,md 0H e!.t/Jcholicqlle bnmor;

PHI 1 0 ~I A I' H E S.

OW Since yec haue (iuisficd

. j,;;\,. ~: me nowc fo Iullie , co~ccrni~g

. : 'I u1tag/t or Nccromsncte ; I will

I'· ,pray you to doc the Like in SO) ce-

" 'rie or Witcho .l(t.

'Q E P 1. That Iieldc is like-

. wife verie large: and althought in the mouthes and peones of manie vet fewe knowes tbe trueth thereof, fo

,. E 2. wei

28 'Dtemonologie. Saond boo/it.

wel as they beleeue rhemfelues.as I (hall Io fhorrly as I can, make you (God willing) as eafelie to percciue,

PH r, But I pray you before ye goe further, ret mee interrupt you here with a fhorte d,greiUon: which ls,thlt many can Icarcelv beleeue that there is llich a thinz as vVitch.craft.<.vhofe reafons I wil 1l1ortly alle:Jg~ vnto you, thit ye may fatisfi,; :n~ as well in rhar..as ve haue done in rhe rell, For tirO:, whereas the Sl~ripture feernes to proollc Vv'itchcraft to be, by diuerte examples, and fpeciJ.llie by Iundrie of the L!Jn~, which ycc haue ;\lkJgcd; it is tbought by ferne, that rhefe places fpe.lkes ofJl". giciiWS and -:\..(;rJIlMllCOS or.lie,&: not of \'Virches. As in Ipecial, thefe wife men of l'{1Jr.I~hs, that coiiterfcired ).f O]/t;S miracles, were M J"ZI(f.ms fay they, & not Witches.As likewife that Pi1hmt((e that s';111 confulced with: And fo was SI"~OI; "~j'~.stU in the new T eflamenr.as that very lble imports. Secondlie.where yc would opponc the d .. ilie practicque, & confefli« of fo m.1l11C, that is thought Iikewife to be but verie melancholicque imaginations of Iimple ralling c reamres. Thirdly,it \Vaches had Iuch power of \Virching of folkes to death, (as they fay they haue ) there had bene none lett aline long fence in the world, but they: at the leafl, no good or gcdlle perfon of whatfoeuer eflate, could haue efcaped their deuilrie.

E P I. Your three reafons as I take.ar gronnded the firfl: of them ncg':li'L'c vpon the Scripture. The fecond .lft, mai·ve "pon Phyficke And the rhirde '''pon

Vtemono!()gie. Second 6oo~. 29

vpo~ t~e cerraine ~roofe of experiece, As to your

firft,lt IS mof] true indecde, that all thefe wife men

of P/uraoh were li1a,gici4lJS of art: As likewife it ap-

peares wel that the PylhmiiJe,wirh whom S'II~!COUfulted,was of that Iarne profeffion: .& fo was Simon

MagUs. But yec omitted to fpeake of the Lawe of God,wherein are all Ma<~jciAm,Dillines, Enchanters.Sorccrers, witches, & wharfoeuer of that kind

that c~nfillrcs with the Deuil,plainelie prohibited,

and alike thrcatned agJinfl:. And befides that (he Wb?~lad the Spirite of PJ,hon,in the ACtes, whore Act. 16. Spirite was put [0 filence. by the Apofile,could be

~~ other !hlllg bur a VCrte Sorcerer or Wirche,

It yee admit the vulgare difhnction, to be in a rna-

ncr true, whereof I fpake in the beginning of our conference_, Porrhar (pirite whereby (he conque-

fled fuch ga1l1e to her Mafier, was not at her rai-

fing or commading,as Ole pleated to appoint, but

fp~ke by her toung,afll'ell publicklie, as priuatelie-

\1\ hereby fhee teemed to draw nearer to the fort

of Demonill~'es orpoffeiTed, if that coniuncnon be-

tlV~xt them, had not bene of her owne confcnt:

~s.1t appeared by her, not being tormented there.

WIth: And by her conquefting offuch gaine to her mallers( as I haue alreadic faid.) As to your fecond

rcafon grounded vpon Phyfick,in attributing their confeffiones or apprebenfioncs, to a natural] melancholicque humour: Anie that plcafes Phyfical,

lie to confider VpOIl the natural humour of melan-

ch?lie, according to all the Pbyficians~ that euer

wnt thereupon, they f.111 finde that that will be

E 3 cues

30 V.tmonologie. Second boo,'<!.

Oller [hort a cloak to couertheir knau ,ry with: Por as the humor of Melancholic in the fclfe is blacke, heauieand terrene, Io are the fymptomcs thereof, in any perfones that are {l!bjeCt therevnto.leannes, palenes.defire of Iclirude, an~ it they cOI~le to the higheH: degree cherof,mere folic and M,lllfe: where as by [he conrrarie, a great number of [b~m that ~uer haue bene convid or cofdfors of V\ itchcrafr, as I1UY be prefenrly fecne by rnanie that I,laue, at this time confeffed : tbey arc by the contrarie.I by, fome of them rich and world:y,wifc,fome of them fane or corpulent in their bodies, and mofl part of them altogether giuen olle~ to the p~eaCures of ~he fiefh.corninual haunting oi comp;ll1l~,and ~II kind of merrines, both lawfull and vnlawfull, which are things direCtly contrarie to the fymptomes o~ Melancholie.whereofl (pake, and further experience dayHe proues h,o~v l~ath they ar~ to co~fdfe withom torture.which wimeffeth their glllltll1e~,where by theconrrary, the Melanchclicques neuer fpares to bewrav themfehies, by their continuall dilcourfes,fecdit;g thereby their hUl11o~ in that wh!ch they thinke no crime, As to your third reafon.icfcartelie merites an anfwere.Por if the deuill their nutter were not bridled,as the (criptures teacheth vs,fllppore there were no mea nor women to be his inflruments, hee could finde waies inough without anie helpe Or others to wrack all mankinde: wherevnto he employes his whole CClldy, and gu:/; ,J.;,![d

r. P~t'5' Me 4 r(ming Lyon( as PETER faith) to thaccttdt,but the limites of his power were Iec down before the foun-

V.:f.monologie.Seconcl !JCo~. 31

foundations oftl.e world were laid, which he hath not power in the Ieaft jote to tranfgrcffe. But be!tee all this, there is ouer greate a certainty to pralle that they are, by the rbily experience of the harms that they do, both to men, and wharfocucr thing .TICtl pofleflcs.whome God will permit them ro be the intlruments, {o to trouble or vifire, as in my difcourfe ofthat arte.ycc ih"lI hcare clearelie prow

I -ec,

,

CHAP,II. .... RG".

'T he Elymo!~(!,;e and /igiiifii"ltion 0f;h,itTv~rd of Sorceric. TheJir~ entre/!i: .. lId prcntdbiffe oj thent th.lt gitleS Ih(mjelueJ 10 tlllttfrlljt.

PilI L 0 MAT Ii E S.

COme: on then I pr:ly you.and rerurne where ye

left. .

Ep I. This word of S orcerie is a Lati;;e worde, which is taken ti'om calling of the lor, & therefore he that vfcth ir.is called S6rl/'Ii'im .I {one. As to the word of Jivilcht'l'ajr,it is nothing but a proper name gillen in our language. The caufe wherefore they were calledf6rlw~;,proceeded of their practiques feeming to come of lot or chance:Such as the rur. lling ot the riddle: the knowing of the forme of prayers, or fuch like tokens: If 'a perfon dcceafed woulde liue or dye. And in generall, ,that name was giuen them for viing of fuch charmes , and freitcs , as that Craite reacherh them. Manie poynes of their crafcand praaicqucs are common

E4 be~

31 Vtemonolo~ie.Second boo~.

betuixr the }.fa!,ici,ms and themfor they ferue both one M after ,althought in diuerie fafbions. And as I deuided the Necromancers, into two forts, learned and vnlearned, fo muft I denie them in other two, riche and of better accompt) poore and of bafler degree.Thefe two degrees now of pe[fon~s, that pra~b(es this crafr,anfwers CO [he ~affions m them, which (I [old you beforelrhe DCLlII vfed as meanes to intyfe them' to his leruke/or fuch of them as are in great miferi.e and pouereie, he alIur~s to follow him, bypromtiing vnto them greate riches , and worldliecommoditie, Such as though riche, yet burnes in a defperate defire of reuenge, hee allures them by promiles, to get their turne farisfied to their harres contentment. It is to be noted nowe, thattbatolde andcraftie enernie of ours, aflailes none, though touched with any of thefe two ex .. tremities,except he firftfinde an entrdfe reddy for him,either by the great ignorance of the perfon he deales with, ioyned with an euill life, or elfe by their carelefncs and contempt of God: And fin.ding them ill 30 vtrer delpair,for one of thefe two former caufes thad haue fpo ken of; bee prepares the way by feeding them crafrely in th~ir hwn~ur, an.d filling [hem further and further wirh defpllre, while he fin de the time properto difcouer himfelf vnto them. At which time; either vpon their walking folitarie in the fieldes, or elfe lying panfingin their bedibue alwaies without the company of any other, he either by a voyce.or in likenefle of a m,,? inquires of them) what troubles them: and proml-

[eth

TYtemonol(Jgie. Second13oo~. 33

Ieth them', a fuddaiue and certaine waic of rcme. die, VpOIl condition on the other parte J that they follow hisadvife, and doe [uch things as hce wit! re, quire of them : Theirmindes ~)ceil1g prepared ?efore hand, as I hauc already ipokcl1, t~L:y eakly aareed vnto thacdemaund of his : Andimefettes m~othertryif!:, where they may meete againc. :\t which time, before hee procccdc any further with them, hee firfi perfwades them to addict thcmfelucs to hisferuice . which being cafdyobtained,he then difcouers what he is Vt1tO them: makes them to renounce their God and BaptiGne directly. andgiues them his marke vpP.on Conte (ecreit place o~ the~r bodie, which remames foare vnhealed, while his ne"tmeetingwith them, and thereafter euer infenfwle, howfoeuer it be nipped or pricked by any. as is dailyprooued, to giue them a proofe thereby, that as in that dooing, hee coulde hurte and heale them. fo all their illand well doing thereafter, mufl depet;d vpon him. And betides that. the intollera. ble dolour that they feele in that place, where hee hath marked them, ferues to waken them. and not to let them rea, while their next meeting 3a..-raine :. fearing left otherwayes they might cyther forget him. oeing as new Prentiles , and not well enough founded yet, in thatfiendly follie : or elfe rem embring of that horrible promife they made him, at their Iaft meetina, they might skunner at the fame, and prea{fc to di it backe. At their third meeting. hee makes a Chew to be carefii" to performe his promires, either by teaching tuem wares how to get

f them

34 1)ttmon()!~gje. Fir) 'Boo~".

thcmfeluesrcuenzed.ifthevbe ofthat fort: Or elfe by teaching thernletlors, l!o'l'ie by mcil vilde and vnhwfllll meanes , they nuy obtaine g<:ine, and worldly commodity.ifthey be of the other Iort,

CHH. III. AROV.

'rlN \iVitchcs,lclionsdil:"flcd iii two P"'tf!. T.he! ,tai. ()I1J proper io tbar onJ1lt'ptr/om. T&dr ,lehiJ1i!f(/_ JI'.lni ahcrs. 'Thl!/iJrme ojtf:t'ir cOmftT-IIOm, ,wdadlJ. ring oj their l>[,rijler,

.p H 1 I. 0 MAT H R S •

Y Ee haue Ilrid now inoughof their initiating in

that ordour. It refts then tha,t yee ditcourie vp_ on their pr:lcrifcsifi'il they be pa:ffed Prentifes : tor I would faine heare what is poHibl~ to them to performc in \'cry deede , Although they Ierue a common Mailttrwith the 'NJ.~crol1MIlCel'J) (;IS I haue before C1ide) yet fel'Ue they him m an other forme. For 3; the meanes arc diuerfc, which allures them to thefe vnhwtllll arres ofj~l'uing of the Diuell, [0 by diuerfe wayes vie they their pral~ifes, anl\vering tothefemeanes, which firflrhe Diuell vfed as inflri.lmcn~in them; thoughal! tending to oneend :

To wit I the enlarging of Sarhans ryrannie , and troHing of the propagation of the Kingdome of C Fl p;r s r, fo6rre'aslydthinthepotflbilitie,cither oftheoneor.otherforte.or ofilit,l)tllill their Ma, fler, For where the r.;Mittiti.w, as allured by curio. fitie, in the mofbpart of their practifes, feekes principally the fatis(ving of the i.1mC, and to winne to theml<:lncs a . popular . honour. and eflimation:

Thefe

Vtemonologic. Second 13oo"t. :-;r Thefe Witches on the other parte, bccing inriced, either for the deiire ofrcuenge.orofworldly riches, their whole praclifes, are either to hurte men and their gudes, or what they poil~i1~, for wtistying of their cruell mindes in the former, or clic by the wracke.iu quhanoeucr h-r,oLll1!c whom Goll will permit them to haue powerof, to taristic rhcirgreedy defire in the bll: point.

E PI. In tWO PJrtS their adions may bee diui, ded, the actions of their OWI1C pcrfons, and the actions proceeding from them rowardes anic other. And this dtuition being wel vnderflood , wiU eafilie refolue you. what is poflible to them to doc. For although all that they confefio is 110 lie vppon their parte, yet doubrlefly, in my opinion.a parte of iris not indeede, according as they take it to be:

And in this I meane by ~he actions of their owne perfons. Foras I faidc before, fpeaking of (.';)[,lg;(, that the Diuellilludes the fenfes of thefe fchollers of his, in maaythings, [0 fay I tile like of thefe Witches.

PHI.ThenI pray YOll firlhofpeakofthatpattof their owne perfons, and i}'ne yee may.comenec to

theiradions towards others. ' .

E PI. To the effect that they may performe fuca Ieruices of their falfe Maiflcr, as he employesthem in, the Diuel as Gods Ape, counterfeiees in his feruants.this feruiceand forme of adoration, that God prefcribed and made his feruames to pradirc, For as the Ieruants of GOD, publikelic vfes to conveenefor[cruinsofWnI~[o~es hethem in great

• num-

36 Vttmonologie. Firfl 'Bool.!.

numbers to conveene (though publikely they dare not) for his feruice, As none conueenes to thea<'1- ration and worlbipping of God, except they bee marked with his feale ) the Sacrament ofB;1ptifme:

Sonone ferues Sathan , and conueenes to theado, ring of him, that are not marked with that marke, wherofI already (pale. As the Minifler fenr by God teacheth plainelyar the time of their publike conuentions.how to Ieruehim in Ipiritand trurh.Io thar vncleane fpirite, in his owne perron reacheth his Difciples, at the time of their conueening, how to worke all kinde of muchiefe : And cranes coumpt of all their horrible and deteflable proceedinges pailed, for aduauncemenr ofhs feruiee. Yea that he may the more viuely counterfeit and fcorne God. hee oft times makes his Ilaues to conveene in thefe vcry places, which are. dtfiin:lte and ordainedfor the conveening of the [eruants of God (I meane by Churches) Bur this farre, which I haue yet Iaide, I not ondy take it to be: true in their opinions, bur euen [0 to be indeede, For the forme that hee vfed in counterfeiting God araongeft the Gentiles. makes mee Io to thinke : As God lpake by his Oracles, ijxlke hee not [0 by his:' As GOD had afivell bloudleSacdtices , asothers without blond, had not hee the like -: As God had Churches fanaitied to his feruice, with Altars, Pricfts, Sacrifices, Ceremonies and Prayers; had hee not the like polluted to his Ieruice -: _.I\s God gaue refponfes by Yrim and r!Jummim, gaue he not his refponfes by the inrralls ofbeafles, by the fmgiIlg of Fowles 1 and by t~eir

actions

Vttmonologie. Second 7Joo~. 37

atHons in the aire ~ As God by "ilions, drcames, and extafies reuealed what was to come, and \v hat was his will vnto his Ieruantcs, vfed hee not the like meaaes to torewarne his (laues of things to come:' Y CJ, euen as God loued dcancnclfe,hatcd vice, and irnpuritie, and appoymed punithmerns therefore: vled lienor the like (thoughfulfely I gl'aunt, and but in efchcwing the leffe incenuenienr, to drawe them vpon a greater) yet diffimuled he not, I Jay, fo farre as to appoynt his Priefles to kcepe their bodies deane and vndefiled , before their asking refpon, fes of him :' Andfained he not God to be a Prete, ctour of euery venue, and a iull: reuenger of the conrrarie ~ This reafon then mooucs me, that as he is that fame Diuell , and as crahie now as hee was then) fo will he not Cpare as perrely in thefe actions that I haue Cp:>kcn of, concerning the Witches r= Ions : But further, Witches oft times confefles, nor onely his conucening in the Church with them, but his occupying of the Pulpit : Yea, their tonne of adoration, to be the killing of his hinder partes. Which though it tteme ridiculous, yet may it like, \Tife be true, feeing we reade that in cdicete, hee appearing in forme of a Goare-bucke , hath publikely that vn.honefl homage done vnto him, by eucrie one of the people: So ambitious is hee, and greedy of honour (which procured his fall) that hecwill euen imitate G'Jd in that part, where it is raid, that

tMofos could feebut the hinder partes ufGod,for E.\'OdllS 33 tht hrightmffi Dfhis glorie .' And yet that (peach is

fpoken but .i;,9p",;r",,.,,911"v.

CHAP.

38 'Dam on ologie. Second:Bao~.

CHAr.lIIT. ARGL

wh.t! ,ITt tbewsies pofoblc~lVhcrbJ tlg witchu mllJ trlm{pOl'llhmlfilll~! to p!.11\jj7lr d,lI.wt.dndll,lhlt are impo(.. jib/eel' mcer: jll/~I"iDlJS o!S,u6.m . .r!nd tbc rc.ifOns tlm-Oj:

j) HIt 0 ~t A THE s.

BVt by what way i?t~l they.or thinke reicpoffibIe they can come to thell: vnlawfiill conuentionsr E PI. There is the ,hing which I cfteeme their fenfcs to be deluded in, and though they lie not in confefinz of it, b(,C!llic thev thinke it to be true, yet not to be 1'0 in {;J bltancc or elfec1 : tor they fay, that by diuerie m.canes they may conueene , either to the adoring ot their Mainer, or to the putting in praEti[e any Ieruiceof his, commincd vnto their charge.one way iSDJ.mrJII, which is naturallriding, going or fayling, at what houre their Mailler comes and aduertiles them. And this way may be eaiilie belieued.an other way is (orne. what more flrange: and yetis it poffible to be [me : which is by being carryed by the force ;of the Spirirc which is their conducter, either aboue the earth.or aboue the Sea fivifdy, to the place whererhey are to meete : which I am per{\va~ed to be likewayes polftb~e, in rrfpett that as H,fb.1i:A·/!K was carryed by the Angell in that forme, to the denne where Danie/by; fo thinke I, the Deuill will bereadie to imitate God, as well in th:uasinorherthings : whichismuchmore pofli-

Apotr~p"4 ble to him to doe, being a Spirite, then to a mighty ()( BtL ~l1d win de, being but a narurall metcore, to tranlporte it.~ Draco» from one place roan other, afolide bodie, as is com-

'-" monlic and d.lyly feene in pratl:ife: But in this violent

V~tmona!ogie. Second rJoolr.!. 39

lent fonne they cannot he carrved, but a Ihorte bounds, agreclllg wah the ijxlce that '.hc) 1llay retaiucthci. b.earh : t(;r ifir were l)!l~:,r, ['lei: breath could nor rcmainc vncxtinzui.hcd, thli r lxxiv being carryed in Iuch a \ iolcnr a.id f()r~iblc ruancr, as bvexamole : 1(011(: r;I~1()!r3.:1 [nul! hciJht,his.Ii'C is b.it in p't:nll, aC(l)rdillg to the hard or R)fl: lighting : But if one faU tiornan high:md (by rockc.his breath will be forciblv hanniflnd from the bodie, b.forehe can win to thccarth , as is oCt feene by ext:t:rieocc. Andin this tranfporting rhcy fay themfelues, th:mht'}' are inuifiblcro an}' other, except amongft rhcmfelues, which may alfo bee polble in my opinion. For if the diucll may forme what kind ofirnpreriions he pleafes in the ayre , as I haue Gid before, ipcJkin,g of.N.~~it, why may he not far eaiilier thicken &: o'hrcure Io the' aire, that is nex t about them, by contracting it Ilraitc together, that the beamcs of :my other mans eyes can not pe:tJ'cc thorow the fmle, to fee them: But the third way of their comming to their conuentions ) is that whcrin I thinkc tht'~ deluded: forfome ofrhcm faverh, that bering transformed in the likenefle of a little bcaf] orfoule, they will come lind pe;lrce through whatfocuer houfe or Church) though ail ordinarie pafiagi.'s be clofed, by whatfocuer open, the ayrc mal' e.iterin at. Andfomefaveth, that their bodies lyillg Ilil.as in an exntie, theirfpirits wil be raulfhed out of their bodies, & carryed to fuch places. And for verifying thereof, wil giueeuident tokens, afivel by witndfes that haue feene their body lying fencclcfIc

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40 'Dttmonologie. Second:Boo{e.

in therneanetimc, asbynamingperfbns, whomewith they mere, and giuing tokens quhar purpofe was amongll: them, whome otherwayes they could not haue knowen.for this formeof;ourneying,they affirme rovfe mofl, when rh cy are zranfportcd ti-om one Country to another.

P 11 I. Surely' I long to heare your owne opinion of this: For they are like old wiues trattles abour the fire. The reafons tharmooues me to thinkc that the(e arc meere illuliollS, arerhefe. Firfl, for them that are transformed in likenefle ofbeafles or to ules , can enter through fo narrow paffitges, although I may eafily be~eeue that the Diuell coulde , by his woorkemanfhippe vppon the ayre, make them nppearerobe infuchformes, eythertothemfelues, or to others : Yet how he can contract a folide bodie within folittle roome, Irhinkeir is direerly contrarieto it felfe ,for robe madefolittle, and yet not diminilhed : To be fo flraidy drawen together, and yet feele no paine; I thinke it is fo contrary to the qualitie of a naturall bodie, and fo like to' the little tranfubflantiare god in the Papines Maife, that I can neuer beleeue it . Soto haue a quanririe , is Io properto a folide bodie, that as all Philo[ophel's condudc:s.' it can not be any more without one,

vlaes t s, thenafpiritecmhaue one; For, when Peterc,t1ne 011t of the pr~(on, .111d the doom tlll/ded : It Was not by any contratl:ing of his bodie in fo little roome : but by thegiuing place of the doore,though vn-efpyed by the Gaylors. And yet is there no comparilon when this is done, betwixt the power of God, and

of

'DtemolJu/()gie. 5ecoJJd73ook.!. 41 of the Diuel. As to their forme of extatic and fbil'ituall tranrporting, it is certainc the C\ub g(~in<Y out of the bodie , is thconely definition of namraU death: anu who are once dead, God llnbid wee Ihould thinke that it Ihould lie in the power of all the Diuclls in Bell, to rcflore them to their life J. gaine : Although hee can put his ownc ljiiritc ina deadbodie , which the W!.cromll;;ccrs comrnonlic pr.ldif<:, as ree haue heard. For that is the office properly belonging to God; and betides thar , the Ioulc once parting from the bodie, can not wandcrany longer in thcworlde , but to the owne ref], ing place mufl it goe immediately, abiding the coniunctionofthebodieagaine, at the latter day.

And what Chrifl or the Prophets did rniraculouay in this cafe , it can not in no Chritlian mans opinion be made common with the Diucll. As for any tokens that they giue for proouing of this, it is veric poffible to the Diuclles craft, to perfwade them to thefe meanes. For hee being' a Ipirire , may hec not [0 rauifh their thoughrs, and dull their [ences, thattheir bodie lying as dead , bee may obieet to their fpirites, as it were in a dreame, and (as the Poets write of tMorphcl#) reprefenr Iuch formes

. of perlons, of places, and other circumflances, as hee pleafes to illude them with '! Y ea, that hee may deceiuethem with the greater efficacie, may hee not at that tame inllanr, by fe!lowe Angclles ofhis, illude fuch other perfons fo in that fame fafhion, whome.with hee makes them to beleeue that they mene ~ that all their reportes and tokens) tllough

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(eueral1y examined, m~y euery o.ne agree ~\,jth ~!1 other. And thit whatfoeuer adions , either m hurting men or beafls , or whanoeuer orherthing that thev falfelie imagine, ar chat time to haue done, ·may bv himt~1teo!"his marrowes, atrhat tam..: time be done indeede , fj as if they would siue fora token of their being rauiihed at the death ~ffi.lch a penon within [0 "!horte liJ;lcethercJfkr~ whom they beleeue to haue poyfoned, .01' wit ... hed attharintlanr, mizht hee not at that lame home, hauc {iniecen tha~ fame penon, by the FetmiJri~ on of GOD, to the farther deceiuing of'them, and to mooucothers to beleeue theme And this is [irrelythe Iikliell:way, and mofl according .to re.a. fon, which my judgement can fin de OUt m this, and whatfoeuer other vnnaturall poyntes of their confetlion. And bv thefe meanes fhall we taik CureIy, betwixt Ch"1J6dis and-Scyll1, in efdltwing the not beleeuingof them altogether on the one parte, lea that drawe vs to the errour , that there is no Witches : and on the other parte in beleeuing of it, make vs t') efchewe the falling into innumerable abfhrditics , boll} monA:roufly againA: all Theolagie diuine, and Philofophie humane,

CHAP. V. ARGV.

1t'"itcht:s alliol1s 101P4r/s othm. Why thm sre 1N~rl Womtn o(tl,.zt m(tth:n mm i' What things ere pol: jih!! ((I tlxm fO tj]r{/u.tte by th( t~llur ~f their mafl er, T/;m.ajims thereof. What is the for~p mmdi: D/th, l'aTllm done 6y them.

PHI-

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PHILO~!A'rIHS.

F0rfo:)th your opinion in this, feemcs to carrie moil reafon with it, and iincc yee haue ended, then the aCtions belonging property to their owne pcr[,mi : fay forward now to their aCtions vled towards others.

E P r, In their actions vfed towardes others, three things ouzht to be confidered : Pirfl, the rnanerof[heircon[ultingthereup~n : ~ext,their part <.IS inflruments : And laf], their maiflers part, who . puts the fame in execution. As to their confultations thereuppon, they vee them ofief] in the Churches, where they conveene for adoring : at what time their maifier enquiring at them what they would be at : euerie one of them propones vnto him, what wicked turne they would haue done, either for obtaining of riches, or for reucnging them vpp()n a~y whsm they haue malice at.: .who graunting their demaund, as no doubtwillingly he willfince it is to doe euill.hee teacheth them the meanes whereby they may do the fame .. As for litl~ triAing turnes that women haue adoe with.hee canfeth them to ioynt dead corpfesand to make powders thereof, mixing fitch other things there-a. mongfl, ashe glues vnto them.

PHI. Butbefore yeegoefurther, permi~me, I pray you, to interrupt you one word! which y.ce haueputrnee in memorieof, by Ipeaking ofWomen. What can be the cawe that there are twentie women giuen to that craft, where there is one man'!

E P I. The: reafonis eafie, for as that fexe

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is frailer then man is 1'0 is it ~er to be im!~lppcd in there groffefhares of the Diuell, as wasouerwell prooued to be true, by the Serpents dcceiuing ofE- 11.1 at the b?gi~nilJg, which makes him the homelier with that fex ienfinc.

PHI. Returne now where ye left.

E l' r. To [('me others at the~e times hee teach. eth, how to make ridures of waxe or day : That by the roalling thereof, the perfons that riley beare the name of, . may be continually melted or dryed away by connnuall Iickenefle • To fome h ee giues fuch Ilones or poulders , as wil helpe to cure or call: on difea[es : And to fOll\e hee teacherh kindes of vncourhe poyfons , which Medicines vnder. llandes not (fur hee is tme cunninger then man in the knowledge of alI the occult proprieties of nature) not that any of rhefemeanes which hee teacheth them (except the poyfons which are compofedofthinges naturall) cap, of themfducs helpc ~ny thing to the~e turnes , that they are employed m, but oneIy bemg Gods Ape, as well in that, as in all ~ther things. Ellen as.God by his Sacraments which are earthly of rhemfelue, workes a heauenlie effed, though no wayes by any cooperation in them: And as Chrifi by day and fpettle wrought together. (JpeneJ the tJesofthe Mind.: mim, fuppafe ther~ was no venue in that which hee outwardly applied, fo the Diuell will haue his out-warde meanes to befhewes, as it were of'his doinz which

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hath no parte of cooperation in his turnes with

him , how farre that euer the ignorants beabufed in

Vtem01Jo,'ogie. Second 'Boo{e. 4- 5 in the contrarie. And as to the dfdtes of tId!: two former partes, to wit, the conlultations and the outwarde meancs , they are fo woonderfull , as I dare not allca dge any of them, without ioyning a li.Jm.:i. ent realon of the poflibilirie thereof. For !cauing all the {[lUll trifles among wiues , and to fpeake of the principall poy~tcs of their craft.. For the (ommall trifles thereat, they can doe without conuer. ting well enough by rhemfelues : Thefe principal! poymes I fay are thefe : They can make men or \\"0. men to loue or hate other, which may be veric pof fibleto theDiucll to effectuate, feeing hee being a fubtile fpiritc, knowes wel enough how to pcrfwade the corrupted affection of them whome God \\ ill permit him [0 to dealewith : They can lay the (icke, neffeof one vpon another, which likewi[e is verie PQllible vnto him : For (ince by God S pcrmiflion, hee laved fickeneflevpon lob, why may he not (me ealilierlay it vppon any other; For as an old practiti- , an , he knowes wel enough what humour domines molt in any of vs , and as a fpirite he can Iubtillie walken vp the fame, making it peccant; or to :1- bounde , as hee thinkes meete for trpubling of V5, when God will [0 permit him. And for the taking off of it, no doubt hee will be glad torelieue Iiich of prefent paine, as hee may thlnke by thefe meancs to perfivade to be catched in his euerlailing fnares and fetters. They can bewitch and take the life of men or women , by roafling of the Pictures , as I fpake of before, which likewife is verie pollible, to their Maller to performe J tor although (as I [aIde

3 be-

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before') chat inlirumenr of waxe haue no vertue in that turnc deoing, ret may hee notvery well, ellen by the f.lme mClfilre that his conjured ilaucsmeltsthatwaxatthefire, m:l\' hee not.I fay, at thcfe fame tim~~, filb:i!y, as ;tfpirite, fo weaken and rca~ter the fplrltes of lite ot the patient, as m::y make him on the OAe pane, for faintncffe, to !\ve.m: out the humour of his bodie : And on the other par~e, for th~ not concurrence of there fpiritcs, which ~.1l1ft.s hIS dJgdhon, fo debilitate his Hornak. tl1.1t thIS humour radical! continually, fiveating OUt ?n the one parte, 'In? no new good Ihcke being put 111 the place thereof fer lacke otdiseflion 011 the o~I1el', ~ee at tlfi Ihall vanifh away, euen as his pJcttl:e will doe at the fire. And that knauifh and cunnm,g workeman , by troubling him, ondyat [orne ume.s. makes a proportion.lo neerebetwixt thewoorkU1~ of the one and the other, that both 111a1Iendeaslt were at onetime. They can rayfe fiormes and tempe11s ~ the ayre, eyther "pon Sea or land, though not vnlUerfally, but in filch a particuIaJ'~tace and prefcnbed boundes, as GOD will p~me them {o to trouble : Which Iikc\Vife is vene eafie to be difcemed from anv other oannall temIX:{b; that .are mereores , in 'refpeer of the filddamc ~d vI.olent railing thereof, together with the Ihort mdurmg of the fame. And this is likcwife very.p?ffi~leto their Maillcrtodo, he bauinz fuch aJ!inltlew1th the ayre as being a fpirite, and ha, umg filch power of tile fonning and moouino thereof, as ye haue heard meaIready declare: Fo~

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in the Scripture, that Ilile of, the p,.i~:e of:h ill'TC, ElJh r is giuen vnto him. They can make folkes to become t :, . s, Phrcnticque or Maniacque, which likcwiie is verie poffibleto their Mailer to do, fiucethey are but na.

turall Iicknefles : and fo he may lay on there kincles,

afivell asany others. They can make fpirirs, eyther

to follow and trouble perfons , or haunt ccrtaine

hou'es, and affray oftentimes the inhabitants : as

holm bcenc knowen to be done by our Witches at

this time. And likewifc they can make fame to bee poffe!fcd with fpil'its, & fo to become very Darno, niacques : and this la!l:forte is very poffible likewife

to the Diuell their Maillerro doe.Iince hcmav ea-

!ily fend his owne Angels to trouble in what forme hepleafes, any whom God wil permit him fo to vic.

P II I. But will God permit rhefe wicked inflrumcnts by the power of the Diuell their Maifler , to trouble by anie of thefe mcanes, anie that belecues in himr

Es I. No doubt) for there arc three kinde of ".a".e- '.' '. '..'

folkes whom God will permit fo to be tempted or '1'. ;~,_ "., troubled; the wicked for their horrible finnes, to' -r', pnni(h them in the like meafure, The godly that

are Ileeping in :1I1y great finnes or infirmities and

weakenelle in faith, to waken them vp the fafl:er by

fsch an vncouth forme : and euen fome of the

befl:,that their patience may be rryed before the

world.as lOB s was.For why may not God vfe any

kinde ofextraordinariepunifhment , when itplea-

res him; as well as the ordinal)' rods ofGcknelfe or

other aducdities.

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PH r. Who then Illly be free from thefediuellin] pract i re5-:'

E p. I. t\'? man ought to prefluue fo farre as to pr~mlk: :}'iY IlllpUnitie to himfdte: for God hath before ~n begilJniIlgs,pr~ordill,nd,as weil the par. ticularforres ofpbgucs, as of beneritcs foz cucrie man. ~ which in t'ieownerirne heeordaines them to b:v:!!red with) and yer ought we not to bcrhernoic at:alde,f~rtllJt, ofanic thing that rhc Dille! and his . wl.cke~ ml1ruD:mrs can due again!l: \'S : For wee d:uly tight agJlnil the Diuel in a 11llndrcth other wayes : An? therefol'e,as a valiant Capmine attiaies no more ?emg at the c~m.bate, nor fiayc5 from his purpofe tor the rummJt111no thotte of a canon nor [h.e fmaI dacke of a Pifiolet ~ filppofe he be no; certame what may light vpon him; Euen f() ought we bolde.ly to goe forwarde in fighting il"alnH the Diuel WIthout any greater terrour , tor thefe his raren: w~apons, nor for the ordinarie whereof wee haue

daily the proofe, .

PH r . .Is ifnotlawfhl then, by the helpeoffomc other \Vuch, to cure the dife<l.1e tllat is cafien on by that crafi~

Ep 1. ~owayes!awfid:ForIgalleroutherea_ fon thereof In that axiome~fTheologie, VVhich was the !all wordes I fpake of Ulf,t(ie.

PHI. How then may dlefe diiea[es be bwfil1!v

cured':' J

E p r. Onelie br ~meft p!'2yermro God, by amendemenr of th~lr hues,. and by lharpepurfuing euene one, according to hIS calling of there inllru-

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mentes of Sathall,whofe punifhmenr to the death will be a falutarie facrifice for the patient. And this is not onely the lawfull way,bm likewife the mofl

Cure: For by the Deuils meanes,can neue, th, D,udl 111. .j., be e4j1en 0161,as Chrif] fayeth.And when fuch a cure Ifl ~.\. is vf;:d,it may wel ferue far a fhort time, but at the

l .. ft)it will doubtleflie tendzo the vtter perdition of

the paticnr.borh in bodie and Ioule, •

CHrtP. VI. ARGV.

7'i'hAt [orlt of (o/1'CS ere le.1fl or mojl {ilbicc7 to rmillt

. h"rmc by Wilchcr.t{i.W/;a! pOil'er they hallt to h.lrme I.be 1ft "gl}l r.lle,alia '7. ,?Ollll,h,lt re(peEis the,hafiC any p~lVt,.,n prifim: A lid (0 what end mayor n:tli t he De. "ill.weare to them t herein; rpOflll'hat re[pe{lts the Dtlltll"pptimmfimdr, JJ..apes 10 jlll1dry oj them 4t any time.

,PHILoMArHlls.

Bv t who dare take vpon him to punifh them, if 110 man can be Iure to be free from their vnnaturall inuationesr

E P 1. We o light not the more of t!tat reflra inc: from vertue.that the way wherby we c1imbc there. Unto be il:raight and perrilous. But betides that, as . there is no kinde of perfones fo fubjeCl: to receiue harmeofthem, as there that are of infirrne and

weake fairhrwhich is the bell buckler againO: fuch, .;. 1_,. \

iOllafiones:)fo haue they fofinal power ouer none,

as ouer Inch as zealouflie (and earncflhc perf ewes them,witholltfparing for anie worldlie relpect,

t PH r .. Thenthey are like the Pefl.which [mites

thefe ilckm;il;-ch.:.t flies itfanhcll, and apprehends ~ .:" H dceplief]

50 V,;elnonologie.SecotJd booJw.

deepliefl the perrell th~reof. .. .

E P r.It is euenfo WIth them: For nenherlSlrabIe to them to vfe anie £alfe cure vpon a paticut,except the patient firfr beleeue in tlleir power.and fo hazard the tinfell of his own foule,nor yet can they haue lefle power to hurt any,nor (uch as c~ntemns moil: their doinges,fo being it comes of faith, and not of anie vaine arrogsncie in themlelues,

PHI. Bm wharis their power againihhc Magifl:rate~

E r I. Leffe or greater, according as be dealcs with them. For if he beflourhfull towardes them, God is verie able to make them inflrumentes to .'~ .• ~ -'1 ..•. "., "':v>-- waken & puniih hisflouth.But ifhe be the contra-

- '- If rJ. .. ~ rie.he according to the iufilaw of God,andallow ..

. able law of at N ations.wil be diligent ill examining

and punHhing of them: GOD will not permit their mafler to trouble or hinder fo good a worke, P II I .But ira they be oncein hands and firmance, haue they any further power in their craft?

E l' I· That is according to the forme of the~t detention, If they be but apprehended and detclned by ante priuare perfon, vpon ocher priuare rc;~ p~des, their power no doubt either in ,cfeaping, or in doing hurte , is no lefle tlC~ euer it was ~efore.Bar it on the other parc~, their apprehendlOg and detention be by the lawful! Magiflrare, vpon 'he iuG re(pedes of their guiltineffe in tll~t craft,

\ ~J their power is then no .greater then before that

'" )'"" ~ ,;, ' .. .j} : euer they medled witb their.m.aHer. For where .... c r ',' ~ •. -'.J·e"" Godbeginnes iuttlie ro firikcby hislawfull Lieurennentes J it is not in the Deuilles power to defraude

Vtemonologie. Second boo~. 51 frau de or bereaue him of the office) or effeCi: of his powerfulland reuenging Scepter.

PHI. But wil neuer their mailer come to viGe the, fra they be once apprehended & put in firmance?

E P I. That is according to the cflaite that thefe miferable wretches are in: For jf they be obflinate in IHII denying, he will not [pare, when hee findcs time to fpeake with tM, either if he find tbe in any comforr.rc fil them more and more with the vaiue hope of (orne maner of reliefe . or elfc if he finde them in a dcepe di(pairc,by all meanes to augmel~c thef::une,&:o perfwade them by fome ex~raordlnarie meanes to punhemfelues downe.which very comrnonlie they doe. Burif they be penitenr and confeife,God will not permit him to trouble them anie more withhis prefence and allurements. .

PHI. It is not good v!ing his counfell I fee then.

But I would earneilly know when he appeares to them in prifoll,whatformes vfcs he then to take ?

E P 1. Diuersformes.eue as he vfcs to do at other times vnto them.For as I told you,fpeaking of Magit,he appeares to that kind of craftef-men ord~narily in an forme, according as they agree vp.onlt a~ . mongft themfclucs: ~r if they b~ but prcntifes.according to the qualirie of their circles or conjurations • Yer to tbefe capped creatures) he appearcs as he plcafes,and as he findcs meerei1:for,their hu-

, rnors.For euen at their publicke conuennones, he appeares to diners oft~tm in diuers .fomles~as we haue found by the difference of their, conf~ffi?ns in thar point:For l?e deluding th~m With vame impreffions in' the ane , makes hirnlelfe to feeme

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more terrible to the grofTer force, that tbey Ollie: thereby be moued to [care and reuerence him the more: And les monflrous and vncourh like azaine to the crafiier wuc,leail: otherwaies they I~jghc fturre and skunner at his vglinefle,

P HI. How can he then be felt, as they confelfe they haue done him)f his bodie be but of airel'

E PI. I heare little of that amongil their cofer. !ions,yct may he make himfelfe palpable.either by aifuming anie dead bodie, and vfing the rniniflrie tberof,or elfe by deluding as well their fence of feeling as feeing;which is not impoffibleto him to do, fillee all our Ienfes.as we are Io weake,and ellen by ordinarie fiekneffi:s will be often times deluded.

~ PHI., But ,r would fpeere one ,~ord further yet, cocerrung his appeanng to them 10 priion, which isthis May anie other that chances to be prelent atthat time in the prifon,fee h~m as well as they.

E l' I. Some-rimes they Will, and fame-times nor.as it pleafes God.

., CHAP. VII. }'RO".

Two fmr.ts ollhedrlliis 'lJifibltr,~nt'trfing in th! t4nh, wirhl{,e r~a(9m whertjilre Ibe one oj them't'lI4commtllJ(j1 inlhetime o/Papifirie: t.And thtother 1m- /if/e. T hoft that dmie, the power of the DtuiU,denies . the po we! ''i God, Ilnd Are gnittit if theerrour oj tk Sadduces,

P HILOr.UTHBS.

HAth the Deuill then power to appeare to :my other, except to {uch as are his Iwome difd· ples:efpecially Iince al Orac1cs,& fuch like kinds of

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,jUlllions were taken away and abolifhed by the c;ununingofCRlI.l STi'

E PI .: Although it be true Indeede, that the brightncffeof the Gofpell athiscumming,fcaled the cloudes of all ehefe ~roffeerrors in the Genti. lifme:yet thaethefe abuU'ng fpirites,ceafes not fen. fine at Iometimes to appeare.dailie experience tea. ches rs.Indeed this difference is to be marked betwixt the formes of Sathans conuerfing vifibly in the world. For of two differentformes thereof.the one of them by the [preading of the Euangell.and conqueil of the white horfe, in the fixt Chapter of the.Reuelation.Is much hindred and become rather there through.This his appearing to anyChrifhans, troubling of them outwardly, or poffeffing of them confuainedly. The other of them is become comuner and more vfed fenfine, I meane by weir volawfuli attcs,wherupon our whole purpole hath bene. This wefinde by experience in this lie to be true, For as we know, moe Ghofis & fpirites werefeene.nor tongue can tell,in the time of blind Papijlrie in thefeCcumrieswherenow by the COil. trary,a man fhallfcarcely all his time heare once' of fuch thinges, And yet were thefe vnlawfiill artes farre rarer at that time: and neuer were fa much harde of ,nor forife as they are now.

PHi. Whadhould be the caufeof that? ' :, E PI. The diuerfe nature ofourfinoes procures :at the Iuilic.e of God, diuerfe forts of punifhments anfwering thereunto. And therefore as in the time ofPApijlrit) oUitW1ers:trring: groffcly J & ~hr',.ll!~il ..".: . 'H s ;gn,"~

",' ""\'.,,1

54 1}ttmoflologie. Second hoo~. ignorance,mat miB: of erroersouerfhaddowed the Deui11 to walke the more f:uniliarlie amongft them: And as it w~re by bamelie and atfraying terrours , to rnocke and accufe their bamelie errours- By the contrarie, we now being Iounde of Religion, and in our life re .. belling to our profeffi. on,God iultly by thatrll1ne of rebellion, as Samlul calleth it, accuierh our life fo wilfullie fighting a. gainfi our profeffion.

P HI. Since yeeare entred nowe to fpeake of the appearing of fpirites: I would be glad to heare your opinion in tbat matter, For manie denies that any fueh fpirites can appeare in ehefe daies as Ihauefaid.

E PI. Doubcleflie who denieth the power of ~h~ Deuil.would likewife denie the power of God, If they could for fhame, For Iince the Deuill is the verie contrarie oppofite to God, there can be no better way to know God,then by the contraries as by theones power(though a creaturejto admire the power of the great Creaeor, by t. he f.altb' fod .0£ the one to conudaer the truth of the other l by the injufiieeof the one, to confidder the Iufiice of the othenAnd by the crueltie of the one, to confidder the mercifalnefle of the other: And fo foorth in al the ceil of the effence of God, and qualities of the De uill.Bur 1 feare indeed,there be oner .manys4ddtlCts in this world, thar denies all kindes of fpirits:

Porconviding of whofe errour, there is caure inough if there were no more.that God fhould per-

mit at Iomedmes fpirites vifibly to kyith. .

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rrhede(cription of aD thefl {indes of

Spirites that ~roublel men orwo: men. ·The cGn~/ufion of the llJho/e <,Villlogue. ".

. CHAP. I~ ~\R c v. .

~ hcd~ifl~~:D_f fP_irittJ i~follrt frincip4H kindt!: The de-

o icrifil6n cJ ibtjirfl kmdtojthWJ,. cA{/td Speara & vmbrz mortuorum,Wh41 is 'tht btjl w~y to he fire

oj their .trouhle. .

PHI L 0 M A 'I' H s S.

Pray YOll now then go forward ill tellingwharye thinke fabulous.or-

fE:~li!.u;ay be trowed in that cafe.

P I. That kinde of the De. conuerfing in the eartlunay diuided ill foure differente kindes , whereby hee- affrayeth and rroubleth

the bodies of men; For of the abLlfing of the foule"

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56 'Dtemcnologie.'Thirihookj.

I haue Ipoken a.readie, The fidl: is, where fpiritei troubles ferne houfes orfolitaric: places: Thefecond, where fpirites followes \'pon ~e:t:.tain~ 'pcr. fortes, and at diners houres troubles tnem.: The rhirde, when they enter within them ana pMeffo: them: The fourth i:; thefe lcitl,dc of 'pirites that are called vulg.lIlie the Fayrie. 'Of the three former kindes, lie hade alreadie, how they may arnficial. lie be made by vVicch-craft to trouble folke: N 0\'1 it refles to fpeake of their,~atura,115omming as i~, were.and not rayfed by Vv 1tch-cratt,BucgeneraHy I muilfor-warne ,ou of one thing before I enter in this purpoie :that is,that :although in my difcourfe, ing of them, I deuyde them in diuers kin des , yee rnufl .not:vithilanding there of note my phrafe of fpeakmg 10 that: For doubdellie theyove in effete, butall one kinde of Ipirires, who for abufing the more of ~ankinde, takes on thefe (un4\"~$pes" and vfesdiucrfeformes of our.ward aa~Q~~as if Iome were of namrebener then other. Nowe 1 returnetomy purpolc:Astothefiril: kinde ofthefe (piritcs,that w~re called. byt!~eauncients by diners names,accordmg astheir athons were.For if they ~ere.fpjr~tes that haunted [orne houies, byappearlOg 10 diners and horrible formes, and making g:cate dinner they were ca11~d L~"lfIm or Sptt7r4. It they appeared in Iikenefle of anie defunct to tome friends ofhis,tl·.cy were called 'l.'mbrll ilJOrtulJr/~m : And [0 in?umerable Ililes they got , accoe, clIlg to tbCJI acitones,as I haue ':lid alreadie.As we fee by experience) how mame £liles rhey haue ,. gi-

uen

1}~monDlogit. nirJ. :Booke: ~

uen them in our language in the like maner : Of the appearingofthefe Ipirires , wee are cenified

by the Scriptures, where the Prophetp{ay I J • and EfoJ. I~; H.chap. threatning the deIhuction oE ieTllfolem: Im.50• declares, that it fhallnot one1y bee wracked, but ' fhall become fa great a folirude , as it fllall be the habitackle of Howlertes , and of Ziim and lim,

which are the proper Hebrew names for thefe Spirites, The caufe why they haunte ft>lIirarie

places, it is by rcafon , thar they may affraye and

brangle the more the faith of Cucb as them a~

lone hauntes fuch places. Forour nature is fuch,

as in companies wee are not fo foone mooued

to any fuch kinde of feare.as being Iollitaric, \V hich

the Diuell knowing well inough , bee will not thereforeaffaile vs bur when wee are weake . Ana

betides that, GOD will not permit him fo to .difhonour the focieties and companies of Chri-

mans, as in publike times and places to walke viCtblyamonglhhem. On the other part, when hetroubles certaine houfes that are dwelt in, it is a

fure token either of gro(fe ignorance, or of fome

grotTe and llaunderous Iinnes amonglt the inhabi;

taunts thereof: which God by that extraordinary

rod punifhes, .

PHI. But by what way or paflage can there Spiritesenter in thefe houfes, feeing they Olllcdge that they will enter , Doore and Windowebcing fteikedl

E PI. They will choofe the palfage for theyr cntreie, according to the forme that they are in at

- I ,hat

, .

5g 1).tmonofogie. nirJ:Jjooke:

thattime, For if theyhaue a{fumeda deade bo; die, whereinto they lodge themfelues, thcy can eakly inough open without diane any Doore or Window, and enter in thereat. And if thC'}p enter as a [pirite andy, any place where the aire mOlY come in ar.is large inough an entry for them:

For as I [aid before,31pirite can occupie no quan. tide,

P Ii I. And will God then permit there wickedfpirites totrouble the refl of a dead body, before the refurredion thereof? Or if he will [0, I thinke jt Ihould beofrhereprobatecnely.

E P J. What more is the reft troubled of a dead bodie , when the Diuell carries it our of the graue to ferue his turne for a fpace, nor when the Witches takes it vp and ioyntes it, or whenas Swinewortes vppe rhe grauesr The reft of them that the Scripture fpeaKcs of, is not mea. ned by a 10ea11 remaining continually in one place, but by their relling [rom their trauelles and miferies of this world, while their latter conju~ction a~ain~ with the foule at that [i~e to receiue full glory 10 both. And that the Diuell may vee afwellthe miniftrie of the bodies of the faith. full in thefe cafes, as of the vn-fairhfiill, there is . no inconvenient ;for his hauating with their bo';; dies after they are deade, can no.waies deryJe them: In refpe&of the foules abfence, Andfor afly dilhonourir C:IO be vnro them, by what reafen can it be grearer.then tbe hanging,beading. or rna. my ruch~amefu1 dc~~bs~tbat good men wilJfufff~

f)~onol()tJt. tu« Bookt. J.~

fOT'there is nothing in the bodies of the faithftlJl, more worthie of honour, or freer from corruption by narure.norin thefe ofthevnfairhfull, while time they be purged and glorified in the latter daie, as is dayly Ieene by the vii de dileafes and corruptions, that the bodies of the faithfull arc fubiec1 vnto, as yeewill Iee clearely proued, when I Ipeake ofthe po{fell'ed and Dmmonlacques.

PI( 1. Yet there are fundry that affirrnes to haue haunted Iuch places, where thefe Ipirires are allea.ged to be: And could ncuer hearc nor fee anie thing.

E P 1. I thinke well: Porthat is only referued to the fecrere knowledge of God, whom he will permit to Ice fuch things,and whom not. .

P H i.But where thefetpirites hauntes and troubles. any houfes, what is the beft way to banifh 'hem?

Er 1. By two meanes may onely theremeid of fuch things be procured: Theone is ardent pray. erto God.both ofrhefe perfones that are troubled wirhrhern.andofrhae Church whereof they are. The otheris the purging of thcrnfelues by amendmentoflife from fuch finnes,as haue procured that

extraordinarie plague. '

P Ii I. And what meanes then thefe kin des of fpirites, when they :tppeare in the Ihadow of a perron newly dead, or to die, to his friendes r

E PI. When they appeare vpon that occafion, they arc: called Wrairhes in our !.mguage. Am6gll: the Gestiles the Diuell. vfed that much, to make

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60 'DIiWlo1Jolog;e. nird rEooAe:

them beleeue that it was fome-good fpiritetbae appeared to them then, either to forewarne them of the death of their friend; or elfe to difcouer vnto them, the will of the defund, or what was the wa~ of his Ilauchter.as it is written ill the bookc of the hiflories Prodigious. And this way he cafily de. ceiued the Gentiles, becaufe they kne: .... nut God:

And to that { .. me e!fcct is it, that be now appearcs in that maner to fome ignorant Chrifhans.For he dare not fo illude any that knoweth that, neither can the fpirite of the defunct returne to his friend, or yeran Angell vic fuch formes.

Pitt. Andare not ourwar.woolfes one forte of thefe fpirilsalfo, that hauntcs and troubies fome houfes or dwelling placesr

E P 1. There hath indeede bene an old opinioa of fuch like thinges, For by the Creekes thay were called ),n~'(\inOJ which Iignifieth mcn-woolfesz But to [ell you limplic my opinion in this) if anie fuch thing hath beene, I rake it to haue proceeded but of a naturall Iuper-abundance of Melancholie, which as we reade, that it hath made fome thinkethemlelues Pitchers) andfomc hones, and fome one kinde of beall or other: So iUPPQfe I that it hath [0 viciat the imagination and memorie of [omc,asptr/"cidA iJltlrltaUA,it hath fohighly occupied them, lhat they haue thought themlelues very Woolfes indeedeat thefe times : and fo haue counterfeited their altioncs in goeing on their handes and feete,preaffing rodeuoure women and ~arnes) fightiIlgand fnal,hiogwitbalt the towne

,.' - - - .~.~.--' -----.. 90gg~5,

1).etn~n()logie. Third 13ooke: 6,

tlogges, and in vling fitch like other bruitifh acti. ones.and fo to become beafles by a firong appre. henfion.as Nellllc~d·rwZtlrwas feuen yea res : but DdH 4 as to their hauing and hiding of their hard and .• fchellie fluichcs, I take that to be but eiked, by vncertainerepon, the: authorof alllyes. '

CHAP~ H. Al'.CVi'

The defoription of the next two kinde! Df Spiritu; whereof the one IOI/Olllts olltlv,trdlic, the other p_ofJeffe.r inll7lfrdlie tke perrone! tlut they troll .. ble. T h.lt jince all Prophecies Imd vijiuns are lmv ce.1ed, ,zll fpiriw that 'Ifpe.zres ill theft flmm lIre CHili.

PH r 1 0 M A'J' HE S.

COmeformard now to the rel[ of there kindes

. of fpirites. .

E P I. As to the next two kindesvrhat is,dther tbefe that outwardly troubles and' followes fame perfones, or eIre inwardly pofi'dfes them: I will conloyne them in one.becaufe afwel the caufes are :II ike in theperfons that they are permitted to trouble: asalfo the wales whereby they may be reme, diedandcured,

PHI. What kinde of perlones ere they that '\7fes to be fo,troubled ~

Er: I. Two kin des in fpecall: Either fuch as ~~inggui!tie~f gre~uousoffe~ces, God punj{b~S

: 3, y'

I 3;

61. f)dffloaologit. Third 1)ooke.

by that horrible kinde of fcourge , or elfe &eing pcrfons of the bell nature peraduenture , that yee 01311 finde in a11 the Countrey about them. GOD pc:rmiltd'them to be troubled in that fort, for the trizll of their patience) and wakening vp of their zeale , for admoniihing of the beholders, notre troO: coer-much in themfelues , fince they are made of no better fiuffe,and peraduenture blot. ted with no fmaller Iinnes (as Chrif] (aide,fpeaking of them vpon whom the Tower of SJlo fell: ) And

~Nk.: 15· for giuing likcwife to the fpcdators , matter to praire GOD t that they meriring no better, are yet fpal'cdfrom being correctedin that feat'cfull forme.

PHI. There are good reafons for the parte €If GOD, which apparantly mooues him fo to permit the Diuell to trouble fuch perfons, But !inee the Diuell hath euer a contrary rcfped in all the actions that GOD imployes him in : which is I pray you the end and marke he fhoors at in this turner

Er-r, Iris to obraineoaeoftwo things there. by, if heemay : The oneisthe tinfdl oftheirlif~, by inducing them to fuch perillous places at fuch time as he either followes or potTdfcs them, which may procure the fame : And fuch like, fo fart,('! as GOD will permithim, by tormenting them to weaken theyr body, and caCt them in incurable dlfeafes, The other thing that hee preafes to obtaine by troubling of them, is the tiAa fell of theyr Ioule , by imifing them to mifirutl

and

1),emonologie. nird 13ooke. 63

and blalpheme God : Either for the intollerable,

ne£I'e of their torments t as he arrayed to haue done Withloh; or clfe for his promifingvnto them t? Mfr. leaue the troubling ofrhem, in calc they \VO uld Io

do, as is knowne by experience at this (arne time

by [he confeffion of a young one that wasfo trou-

bled,

P 11 I. Since ye haue fpoken now of both there kindes of fpiritcs comprehending them in one:

I mull now goe backe againe in fpeering fome queflions of euery one of ihefe kin des in Ipeclall. And lira for thefe that followes certaine perfons, yee know thanhereare two fortes of them: One forte that troubles and tormentes the perfons that they haunt with: An other fort that are Ieruiceablc vnto them in all kinde of their neceflaries , and 0- mitres neuer to Iorewarne them of any fuddaine perill thatthey arc to be in. And fo in this cafe, I would vnderAand whether both thefe fortes bee but wicked and damned fpirites: Or if the Iail fort be rather Angelles, (as fhould appeare by their adi. ons) rent by God toaffia: fuch as heefpeciallyfauoures. For iris written in the Scriptures, that God G

fi"tles /..tgions of Angels to gllarde lind J'Plltch Ollt'Y hi! /:V~g~~

elet1. P/a~ 34-

E P 1. I know we] inough where fra that errour •

which ye alledse hath proceeded: F01' it was the ignorant Gentiles that were the founraine thereof. Whoforthatthey knew not God ) they forged in theirowne imaginations I euery man to be Ilillac,

tompanied "~th ~"O fpiritcs~ whereof they cal~h!'

64 'D.cno1t()lol,ie. 'I1,ird1lookt:

theonegenim vO)Jm , the other ttniIN ",A!lil : the Greekes callled them •• 1.,1"" & ••• tlffI",.. : whereof the former they faid, perf waded him to all the ~ood hedid: theorherenrnedblm to all the euill, 13 1I t praifed be Gad, wethar are Cbrinians,& walks not amongfi the Cymmeril11# conjectures of man, knowes well inough, that it is the good Ipirite of God onely .wao is the fountain of all goodnes,that perfwades vs rc the thinking or doing of any good: and that ir is our corrupted 1idh and Sathan , thst intileth vs to thecontrary, And yet the Diuellfor confirming in the headcs of ignorant Chriflians, that crrour flrl1 maintained among the Gentiles, he whiles among the firll kind of Ipirirs that I fpeak of, appeared ill time ofP.1pilhieand blindnefle, and haunted diuers houfes , without doing any e· uill , but doing 25 it were ncceflarymmes vp and downethe houfe.and this Ipirit iheycalled Brow"it in our language, who appeared like a rough-man: yea, fome werefo blinded, as to beleeue that their houle was all thcirfonlier)3s they called it)that fuch fpirites refortedthere,

PHI. Butfincethe Diuels lntenrion in all hisac.: tions,is euerrodoeuill, what euill was therein that forme of doing.fince their aaions outwardly were good?

E PT. Wasitnott'nillinongh to decduefimple ignorants , in making them to take him for an Angeli oflighr, and fo tosccounr of Godsenernie, 3S of their particularfriend ~ where by the contrarie, all wethatare Cluifiians,oughtaJfurc:dlytoknowe

that

1)£monologie. 11J;rtl !Eook~~ 6J

that fince the comming of Chrift in the lienl, and cfiablilhing Qf his Church by the Apofiles,allmi. Jades, vifions, prophecies, & appearances of An. gels orgoodfpinresareceafed, Which fcrued one. Iy fonhefirll: fowing of faith, and planting of the:

Church. Where nowthe Church being cflablifhed,anQ the white Horfe whereof r (pake before, hauingmade his conquefl, rhe Law and Prophets are thought fcfficiene to feruevs, or make vs inexcufable.as Chrift faith in his parable of La:::,art!4 and the: richman.

CHAP. III. ARGV.

"The defription 0[4 p4rticNur fort of that kind offollow. ing iPiriter,&al/ed Incabi and Succubi: And what iJ the reafon wherefore theft kinde[ 'f fpirites hauntu m'.ft the Northtrnel1nti barb,trOIl4 parts 0/ then or/d.

PHI L 0 M A'r Ii E S.

THE next queflion that I would Ipeere, is like':

wife concerning this firfiofthefe two kindes offpirites that yc haae conioyned: and it is this; ye know how it is commonly. written and reported, that amongl1 the reA: of the fortes of Ipiritesthar followescerraine perfons, rhcreis one more monflrcus nor 31 the refhin refpecr as it is alleaged, they conuenenaturally with them whom theytrouble and hauntes with: and therefore I would know in two thinges your opinion herein: Firfl if filch a £hingcJn be: and next ifit be: whetherrhercbea difFerence ofIexes amongilthefe Ipirires or note

EPI. That abhominable kinde ofthe Diuels

K abuling

66 x>.emo11ofogie.1bird 1Joo{e:

abulingofmen or women, wascalled ofoldlllcflhf and SNc(uhi, according to the difference of the fexes that they conuerfed with. By two meanes, this great kinde of abufc Irt1ght poffibly be performed : Tbeone.when the Diuell onely asa fpil"ite~ andflealing out the (permeof a dead body, abuIcs them that way, rhey not graithly feting any Ihapc or feeling any thing, but that which he fo conueyesin that part: As wereadeof a Monnflerie, of Nunnes which were burntfor their bcingthat wayabufed, The other meane is, when hebarrowes a dead body and fo vifibly , and as it [cernes vnro them naturally as a man conuerfes wirh them. But it is to be noted.that in wkatfoeuer way. he vfeth it,that Iperme feemes intollerably colde to the penon abufed.For if he flealeout the nature of a quicke perfon , it cannot be fo quickly carried.. burlt will both tine the flrength and heate by the ""ay, which it could neuer haue had for)adfe of agitation, which in the time of procreationis the procurer and wakenervpofthele two natural qua. Iities, And.jfhe--::£cupyingthedead body as his lodging,exptH the fame out thereof in rhedue time, it mult Iikewife be colde by the partidparion with the qualities of die dead body whereout of it comes. And whereas ye enquire iftbele fpi .. rites be dieided in fexes or not, Irhinke the rules of Philofophie may eafily refolue a. man of the contrarie : For it is afore principle of toot· Arr-, .. that nothing can be diuided in Iexes , except fueh ~jngb~~~ ~ J11~ ~~,!!~rI~tu~ fccde (0 ge.·

&lC.rc-

1J~onologie. n;,J tJ3ook~: 6'7"

nere by. But we know fpiries hath no [cede proper 'to themfclues,noryet can they gender one with an other •

. PHI. How lsitthen that thryflyr[lndrymon~ fiers haue bene gotten by that way? ~

E P 1. Thefetales are nothing but Ani/a flh!l/.t,' For that they haue no nature of their owne.I haue [hewed you alreadie, And that the cold nature ofa dead body, can worke nothing in generation, it is more norplainc.as being already dead of it felfe as well as the rdl: of the body is, wanting the narurail heate , and Iuch other naturall operation, as is neceflarie for working that effect., and in cale fuch a thing were poffiblejwhich were allutrerly again It allthe rules of nature) it would breed no monfler, buronely fuch a natural! off.fpring, as would haue cummed betuixt that man or woman and tharother abufed perfon , in cafe they both being alfue had had a doe with other. For the Diuels parte therein, is but the nakedcarryingor expelling of that fubflance : And fo it could not participate with no qualitie ofrhefame, Indeede.ii is pollible to the craft of the Diuell to make a womansbelley to (well after he hath that way ab II red her, which he may do either by flining vp her owne humor.or by hearbes.as we fcc beggers daily do. And when the time of her deliuery 1110uld come co make her thoil great dolours ; ·Iike vnto that. naturaltcourfe , . and then fubrilly to Ilippe in the Mid-wiues handes, Ilockes, flones, or fome monfirous barne brought f~OlD fOJne other place) but this is more reported

K :. and

63 'D.tmonologie~ Thira ;BQoM;

and gc:ffed at by others,nor beleeued by me,

PHI. But what is the C.:lUre that this kinde of sbufe is thought to be mofl common in Cuch wilde pans of the worlde, as L.rp./31Jd, and Fin./.1Jzd, orin our North lies of Otk114Jand Schtl./lIl'Jd-:

Ep I. Bec;mfewheretheDiudl findes gre.ltrft Ignoranse and barbaririe.there aflarlcs hce grofieJi. dl l as I gllueyou the reafon wherefore there wasmoe Witches of women. ki ode nor men.

PHI. Can an any be Io vnhappy as to giue their wilIingconfem to the Diuds vilde abufing them ill rhis formee

Ep 1. Yea.,fomeofthe Wirchf'shaneconfdTed, thac he bach perfwaded them to giue their willing confent thcrevnt~, th~t hemay thereby haue them felrred the fikarer mills fnares; But as the other c6. pelled fort Is to be pirtied and prayed for) fo is this

mofl highly to be punithed and derefled, ~

P Ii I. Ie is not the thing which we call the M4rf,. which takes folkes fleeping in their beds a kinde of rhcfefpirits,whereofye arefpeaking:> '

E P I. No, that is but a natural1fickne1fe, whidt the Medldners hath giuen that name of ]flCNblll ,nt~ ak mCII/"'I1d/J, aecaufe it being a thicke Iteume, fallmg into Our breafi vpon the heart, while we are fleeping, intercIudesfo our viraU fpirirs, and rakesall power from V5,.3S makes vs think that there were fom~ vnn.aturaU burden or lj>irit,lying vpon vs,and' ~oldlOgY5do~nf'!

1)ttlnonologie. 'ThirdBooke. 69

CHAt'. IIII. ARGV.

The difiriftio1t o./the D.rmlJnia&kes cr foffiffid,Sy IVh.z1 re/Jfon the P "piJl s mlly hauepo'l'cr to cure tbo»,

PlIILOMATHl!S.

\lyE L 1 I haue tolde you now all my deubts, and ye haue fatistied me therein, conccrningthe firft ofrhefe two kiodes of Ipirires that yce haue conioyned, N ow I am to inquire andy two thinges at you concerning the lafi kinde, I meane the Damoniackes. The firfi is, whereby alaU rhefe poflefled folks be difcerned fra tht, that are trobled with a natural Phrenfie or Manie. The next is.how caoitbe that they can be remedied by the Papifles Church J whome wee counting as Hereticques, it fhould appearethat one Diuell fhould not cafi out

an ocher, forrhen would bi4 kingdome 6uiitlid(dirJit Math. U. ft!fe,as Chritlfaid, M"r~3. • J~p I. As to your firll queaion; thercarediuers fymptomes, whereby that heauie trouble may bee difcerned from a narurall fickneffe, and fpedal ..

Iythree , omitting the diuers vaine Iignes that the

Papifis attributes vnro it: Such as the raging at ho-

ly warer,their fleeing a backefrom the Crofie ,their

not abiding the hearing of G odnamed, and in nu-

merable Iuch like vaine thinges that were alike fa.. Ihiousand feckles to recite. But to come co thefe threelymptomes then, whereof] tpakc, r account

the oneofrhem to be the incredible firength of the

poffdred creature , which will farre exceedc the

ftrength of6xe of the wightell and wodef of any

ol11el men that arc: not fo troubled. The next is the

- - ~K bot.

J.

70 1)dmo1lO1ogie. Tliirtl 13ooke.

boldningvp fo far of the patients breafi and beIli~' with fuch an vrmaturall flurrina and vehe ment a~ giration within them: And fil~h an ironie hardnes of his Iinnowes fo ftiffelic beaded our, that it were not poffible to pricke out as it were the skinne of iny otherperfon (0 far: fo mightely works the Di. ~lell in all ~hc ~e~lbers & fenfes of his body ,he be- 109 locallie within the fame, fuppofe of his foute :md. affections thereof, he haue no more power thenofanyotbermans. The lafiis,thefpeaking of fundry Ianguagues,« .. ~ich th~ pari,em is knowen by them that were acquamte WIth him neuer to haue learned, and that with an vncouth and hollowe voice, &all the time of hisfpeaking,« grearermotion beingin hisbreafl then in his Inoath. But Era thjsl~fifym,ptome is ,exceptedfuch, asarealtoge, ther In the timcof their polfefling bereft of all theit Ienfes being pofleffed with a dumbe and blinde fpiritC', whereof'Chriflreleiuedone, in the n, of Nathtw.Andastoyournextdemande it isfirfi: to be doubted if the P4pifie. or any not p:ofeffing the only true R~ligio,!l,cal'l relieue any of that trouble. And next, m.ca1e theycan, vpon what refpeQ:es it is pofflble .v~to them. As to the ~ormer vpon two reatons, It is grounded: 6rft that n is knowen fo many 0,£ ~hem to be·countetfit,e, which wyle the Clc.r&le muentes forconfirming of rheirrott~n Religion. The next is, thiltbyexpe.rient:cwe finde that fewe, who are poflefled indeede, are fully cured by til em : butrarher the Diuellscontent to reIcafc: the boddy hurting of them, for a

fhore

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Ih~rt fpace, thereby to obteine the perpetual! hurt ofrhe Joules of (0 many that by rhefe fal{e miracles may be induced 01' confirmed inthe profcffion of Iharerroncou,sRejigion: cucn as I.(old you before that he doth In the talrt: cures, orcafiing off of dif. eafesby Witches. As to the other pm of the argument in.cafe they can, which rather (with reuerenceof the learned tbinkingotherwales) I:J.IU in. duced to belceue, by ~e~fon of the faichfull report that men found of religion, haue made accordinz to their fight thereof,l think iffo be~I fay there may be the relpeCl:es, whereupon the PII}'if/es may haue thatpower, Chriftgal1eacommifl.ion and power to hi~ ApolHes to caft out D iuels; \V hich they ac, cording thereunto put inexecution: The rules he ba~ them obferue in chat aaion, was fafling and I?raler:& th~aCl:ion itfclfe to be done in his name. This power of theirs proceeded not then of any vel:tue in them, but onely in him who directed them.As was dearly proued by Iildres his ha uin C1 as great power in that commiffion, as any of~h~ l'~fi. It is eafie then to be vnderfland that the caft .. ing ourof Diuelles.isby the vertueoffafling and f.rayer, an~ in-callin~of the ~ame of God, (up. porc many imperfectiones be In the pcrfon that is the inflrumenr, as Chrifi himfelfe teacheth vs of the powerthat falfe Prophets {hall haue rocaft out Diuels, Itls nowonderthen, theferefpeets ofthiii ad:ion being confidered, that it-may be poffible tot~e.Pllpiflrs, thou~h errj~g ~nfimdry poinresof ~e~18!o~ ~~'~mpbCh !~l1S:i!" tht'Y v~e the right

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forme prefcribed by Chriftherein. Forwhar the worfe is that adion that they erre in 0 ther thinges, more then their Baprifrne is the worfe that they erre in the other Sacrament, and haue eiked many vaine freitres to the Baprilme it Ielfe.

Pn i, Surely ir is no Htde wonder that God fhould permiuhebodiesof :myofthe fairbfull to be fo dirhoncured.as to bea dwelling place tothae vncleane Ipirite,

E PI. There is irwhich hold right now, would prooue and llrengrhen my argument of the diuels enning in the dead bodies of the faithfull.For if he is permitted to enter in their liuing bodies, euen when they are ioyned with the foule : how much more will God permit him to enter in their dead carions, which is no more man, but [he filrhie and corruptible caife ot man, Foras Cbrifi faith,lt is not

"'1"r~7' Imy thing that mtermitbin m.11J that d~files him, bllt #fJe~ that which rocudes and mnmeth (lilt if him.

CHAP. V. All O\'.

The dtftription oftl;( finrt" kinde ofSpiritu (411edth~ Phairie : What is pofjible tberti», and what is hUI illllJionls.Ho1lJfor this Dia/(IglfuntrtaW oJalllh:fo thingu)a"dtD rvh.1! end,

, PH I L 0 MAT H s s,

NOw I pray you come on to chac fourth kinde of fpirites. '

Er f. That fcurthkinde offpiritcs, whichby the Gentiles was called Dia1J4, and her wandring court, andamongfivs wascalled the phltirie{as!

told

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told yOU-} or our good neighbourcs ,. was one of the fortes of illations that was rifefi in the rime of Papiflrie : for although it was holden odiQUS to Prophefie by the diuell , y~t whom. thcfe kinde of Spirits carried away , and Informed, they were thousht [0 be Ionllefl and ofbefl life. To fpeake of the n~anyvainetrattles founded vpon chat iIlution:

, How there was a King and <l!Jecnc of rh"irie, of fuch aiolly court & train 3.S they had,how they had a teynd,& dutie, as it were, of all goods : how they naturally rode and went, eate and dranke, and did all other adions like naturallmen and women : I think it liker Yirgils Campi Erysij,nor any. thing that cuahtrobe beleeued by Chrniians, except ingc .. . ne~ll)that as I fpake fun dry times before.thediuell

illuded rhefenfes offilOdryfimplecreatures,m making them beleeue .that t~ey Iawe and heard fuch

things as were nothmg fo indeed, ..,

, - PHI. But how canit be then,that fundne WItches haue goneto death with ,that confe~?n, that they haue bin tranfporrcd with ~he ph41neto fuch a hill which opening,they wenrin.and there raw it faire Qucene who being now lighter, gaue them a fione that had fimdry vermes) which at fundrie times hath bene produced irriudgement ! .'

E p r. I fay rhat.euen as I raid bcforeoftharima, ·ginar rauifhing of the rpi,ri[efoorr~of!hebod~. , Formay not the diuell oble~ to their fJnt~lie,thflr fenfes beine dulled. and as It were a fleepe., Iuch billes & ho~fes within thernfuch glifiering courres and traines • and wharfoeuer fuch !ike wherewith he p(ea~th to delude [hem.And:in~ me;ne

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time their bodies being Ienlelefle, to conuay In their hand any Ilene or Iuch like t~ilJg'''Ybich he makes them to imagine to hauereceiued 10 fuch <1 place.

P ar. But what fay ye to their fore. telling the death of fundry perfones, whom they alleage to haue {eeoc in thefe placeseThar is, a. Iooeh-dreame (as they fay) Lince they fee it walking.

E P J. I thlnke that either they haue nor beene fharply inough examined, thar gaue 10 blunt a ~ea~ fon for their Prophefie, or otherwaies.I rbinke it likewife as poffibleth:u the Deuill may prophefie to them when he deceines their imaginationes in that (OTt, :invenas when heplainely Ipeakes vnto rhemat other times for their propheiylag, is but by a kinde ofvifion, as it were, wherein he com .. monly counl!trfejt~"S God among the Ethnidts,as I told you before.

PH J. I would know now whetherthefe kinds of Ipirites mayonely appeare to Witchcs,orifthey maya.lfo appeare to any othes,

E P I.They may do to botb,to the innocent Iorr, either to affraic them, or to Ieeme to be a better forte of Folkes nor vndeane fpirites are, and to the . Witches, to be a cullour of fafctie for them, tbat ignorant Magifirates may not punifh them for it,as

.\!tOld eaen now.But as the one fort, for beingperforce troubled wirh them ought to be pitti.=d,ro ought th,e other fort (who may be difcerned by their raki.ng vppon them to Prophetic by them,) That fort I fay, ought as (eucrely to be punifhcd lun'! otha- Witches,. and rather the more, ~hac

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thatthcy gQ~ ditreinblingly to worke.

PHI. And what makes the fpiritcs haue fo dif. krene names from others f .

E P r.Euen the knauerieofthat fame deuil;who as hee llludes the Necromancers with innumera, ble feyned names for him and his angels, as in fpc. ciall,making Sathan,Btllubub,& Lll(iflr, to be three fundry fpirites,wherewe findethetwo former.but dillCf'S names giuen to the prince of all the rebel. ling angels by the Scripture. As by Chrif], the Prince of all the Diuelles is called B(lkt~lIb in that place, which Lalleaged againfi the power of any hereticques to call out deuils.By lohn in the Reuelation, the old tempter is called Sathlln tlu Prisc« of "II thullill .mgtls. And the lafi,to wir,L,m'[er, is but by allegoric taken from the day Stam (fo named in diuers places of the Scriptures) becaufeof his ex. cellencie ( I rneane the Prince of them ) in his crearion before his fall. Euen fo I fay he decciues the Witches, by attributing to himfe1fe diuers names : as if euery diuers fhape that he transformes him~ Ielfe in, were a diners kinde of, fpirit.

PHI .But I haue hard many moe firange tales of this Phllirit,nor ye haue yet told me.

E P I .As well I do in that,as I did in all the ref] of my difcourfe. For becaufe the ground of this can. ference of ours, proceeded of your [peering at me at our meeting.it' there was fuch a thing as.Wirches or fpirites: And jf they had any power: I therefore haueframedmy wholedilCours,only to proue that fhch things are and may be, by Iuch number of ex. amples as I 1110W to be pollible by reafon: & keepes

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me from dipping any funherin playing th~ part of a Dittionary,to tell w hatcuer. I baue read or heard in rharpurpofe, which both would exceede faith, and rather would feeme te teach fueh vnlawtuU arres, norte difaUow and condemne them) asitis rhe duetieofall Chrillians rcdoe,

C H A 1'. V I. A R G V.

Of the 1",111 and punifllment ifJlViuhu. What (m oj lte{II/,IIIOl1 oll~/Jt to be admilua agtlinf/I han.WJhJt M the (,'I'.foOj '/he il1creajillgfo flmojlheir 1111mpir il'JlhiJ'lge. '.

'PHILOMA'tHF..S. .

THE N to make an ende of our conference, fined fee irdrawes late, what forme of punifhmene thinke yee me-rites rhefe Mdgici4nJ and Witches? ForI Ieerhatye accountthemtc beall alike guihie.

Err. They ought to be put to death according wthcLa\vofGod, the cium and imperiall Law) and municipal! Law of all Chrillian nations.

PH I. But wharkinde of death I pray you ,

E pi. Itis,comlrJonlyvfed byfire,buuhatisan inditTerentrhing tobevfed in euery counrrey.according to the Lawor cuflome thereof.

PHI. But oughmo.Iexe.age nor rancke to be exempted?

Ep r.None atal (beingfovfed by the lawfnl mlfgifirate)foI it is the highef] point ofIdolauy', where:, innoelCcept.ionisadmitted by the law of God.

P 11 r. Then bairnesmay not befparcd? "

E P I; Y (3)00C, aba.irc the Idfe of my ,ondulion;

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For the}'l8~ not that capable of reafon as to prac, tife[ueh thinges. And tor :mybeing ill company and nctreueiling thereof, their leffe and ignorant . age will no.doubrexcufe [hem. ' PH 1,'. I fee ye condemne them all that are of the

counfell of Iuch craftes.

E P I. No doubzforas I raid/peaking of M.1gie, the confulters, truflers in, ouer-Ieers.intcrteiners or flurrers vp of rhefe crafres- folkes, are equal!'f gulltie with themfelues that arc the practiters, •

PH r.Whether may the Prince then.orfupreame Magiflrate, fpare or ouer- fee any that arc guilty of that craftrvpofome great rcfp~Cl:s knowen to hi m ~

E P r.The Prrnce or Magiflratcfor further trials

caufe, may continue the puuithing of them fuch a

certaine [pace as he rhinkcs conuenienr: But in the

endcto [pare the life, and not toflrikcwhen God

bids fhike, and fo feuerely punilh in (0 odious a

fault and rreafon againfi God, it is not onely vnlawfull.burdoubrleffcno lcflefinne in [hat Magi-

firJtt', nor ic wasin S,IU/CJ (paring of Agug. And fo comparable to the Iinne of Witch-craft it felfe, as 1- • .;'4,*.11 S,tmlld alleaged at that time.

PHI. Surely then.Ithink fincerhis crime ought to be [0 feuerely punilhed,r udges ought to beware to condemneany, but fuch as they are fure are guiltie, neither fhould the clattering report of a earling ferue info w_rightk a cafe,

Ep I. fudges ought indeede robeware whom they condemne . forit is as great a crime (as sdfo.

mon faito,) To condemn( the innocest , .u IQ fet the Pr», I 7.; . ~iltie eftapt fee; ner.heroughnhe report of a~y

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oneiofamou5 perfon , be admittedforafuffidcnr

proofe,whkh can frand of no lawc. .._

PHI.AndwhatmayanumberrhenofguiJtypcr. fons corifeffions, workeagainftone that isaccufed!"

E1' I. The Afl"ue mu{lferueforinterprcrou~-o£_ our law inthar refpett.But in myopinion,fince ina matter of trea[oagainft the Prince.barnes orwiues, or neuer [0 ditfamed perfons, may of our Jaw Ierue for fufficient witndfcs and proofes. I rhinke (urely that by a far greater reafon, fuch witnetTes may be: fuffident in matters of high treafon againft God :

Forwhobut Witchescan beprooues, andfo witne[es of the doings of Witches.

PH 1. Indeed,! rrow they wil be loath to put any boncft man vpon their counfell. But what if they accufe folke to haue bene prefenrat their I rnaginar eonuentiones in tbefpirite, when their bodies Iyes fencdelfe,as ye haue laid.

E l' r, I think they are nota haire the leffe guiltic::, For the Diuell durfl neuer haue borrowed their, fhadow or Iimilitudeto that turne, jfthcirconfent' had not bene at it: And the cec(ent in thefeturnes is dearhofrhelawe.

- PHI. Then Sam.uel was a Witch: For the Diuell refembled his fhape, & played his perron in giuing refponfe tos4"1.

E1' r. SAllllltlwas dead as wellbeforethar, and Co none could flaunder him wirh medling in that vnlawfull Art. Porthe caufe\vhy,as Itake it, that God witl not permit Sat han to vfe: the fhapes of Ii-. milirudes of any innocent penons at fueh vnlawfulr.imes,is that God wi! not permit that any inno-

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cent pcrfonsfllalbe Ilandered with that vile defecriomforthen rhe diuel would finde waicsanew, to calumniatezhe befl, And this we haue in proofe by them that are carried with the Ph.firie) who neucr fee the fhaddowes of any in that Courtc , but of - them thilt thereafter are tryed to haue bene brerhrenandfitlers oftharcratt.And this was likewile proaed by the confeffi6 of a young Lafle, troubled with fpiritcs,Jaide on h-er by Witch-craft. That although fheIawethe fhapesofdiuers men and women troubling her.and naming the pcrfons whom there fhaddowes reprefenrs. yet neuerone ofrhem are found to be innocent.bur all clearely tried to be. - moll: guilcie,& the moll part of them canfelling the fame.And befides that,! rhinkit hath bene fddome heardtell of, that any whome perfons guihie of thatcrime accufed, as hauing know ne them to be their marrowes by eye.fight,and not by heare-fay; bur fucb as were foaccufed of Witch. craft, could not becleardytryed vpen them, were at the leafi publiddy knowne to be of a very euililife & reputation : fo iealousis God lfay.oflhc:fameofthem tharareiunocentin fueh caufes, 'And befides that, there are two other good helpes that may beevfed fortheil' triall ~ the one is the finding of their marke, and the trying the inCenfibJenes thereof.The other

is their fleeting on the water: fo.~ as in a fecret rnuother , if the dead carkall'e be at tiny timethereaftcr handled by the murtherer,it wilgutb ourofbloud, asifthe bloud were aying to the heaue for reuege ofrhe murtherer , God hauing appoynted that react fuptmatllraU figne , for nyall of that Iecree

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vnn:tturall crime ,.fa itappeares that Godhath ~;. poime..t ( for ~ firpernarurall ftgtteof the moo. firous irapietieof Witches) that the water {hall refufc to receiuethem in hcrbofomcjharhauefha, ken offthem the facred Water of Baptifme "and wilfuHyretllfed the: benefite thereof: No,llOlfo much as their eies are able to fhead teares (threaten and tonu,rc them as yee pleafe) while tirll they re-

pent (Go~ hot permining them to diflembletheir obltillade In fohorrible a crime) albeitthe women kind efpec~lI¥,'he able other-waies to fhead teares ··~,r.C'u~yligh~oc~fi6 \~hen they will"yea,althougb ·'t'Wacdil1.embbnglyliketheCrd&l1dilu.

",p;;i ta,:Well, we hauemadethisconferenceta l.1fi as long as leifure would permit: And to eon ..

dl1qethe,6ncc lam to take my Jeane of you.I pray

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. Ies :fottbey W,~~t1C~ fO,~ife inch e[e parts,as they

are now. .: '-:",;.', ','

. ,·~i-~.;lpI2y,G()d!hatm;be~o.~utthecalltcsare oner .. mariifdt;di3t.nl!lkcsilie tobefo rife. For the grCat\t;ic~~~Ofth~:e~teoil the one l'.lrf,pl'O.

~res. tJ.JJ;llOitillle dc:fccnokf, \~hcraby G ad iulHy 'puoifb~(~~,Jly~~~~!i~qui~., ~ndom~e olhttpart,ibit~m~~tiDDof~-:\Vorld;andour

' .. 'ddi~era.~yVi'~~re, ~ill;~s S:z.tI!a.ntO~gr: . ,.c~e mo~frrtJlUI\!Iia,m&sir.IC)wJng hlS'lcingdomc " " wbe {O:Deari :ila..aad.:AnafolfatewolNrtilis dD.W~

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\'nn:.tm:tl1 crime, fo ita;lr~;ms that (Jod hath <!p; roimcd. ( lor a Jilperr;;;:ur.l:1 figtlC of the monflrom impicric of Witd: ~s) Ch,i: rhe \<, arer ilJal1 refule to receiuethem iSl her bD\O,nc,thJt hauefha. ken ot:·tbnn the fscrcd W~tc, of Baptifine ,and wilfully rctufed the ber.cfne ihcreot . J\) 0, il0tfo muchas their eies arcablc to (:11::1.1 rtll~~ (threaten and rorturethcm :1) yec pk:lfi:) while lidl rhey n:~ pll1t (God not permirring them to dillcmblcrheir obliinadc in 10 horrible» .:rime) albeit the women kind efpecdly,oe able other. waies to fhcad rcares at ~uery lightoccaG6 when they will,yea,although 'ic were dil1C"mblingly like the CrrmJJiieJ.

PH r.We!!, we haue made this confcrencete lJ.fi as long as leilirre would pet mit : And to condude the,finec I am to take my leauc ofyou.I pray C; (.J to uurge thisC0U'1'1lry of thc.e eli lldldh pr::H~1i" Ics Jot they w~e neuer fo rife in tl: efe parts,as they are now.

, Err.: 1 pray Godthlt fo.be to. But thecaufcs are om~r~manifcft:,th:lt.makeslhe to befo rife. Fer the great w ickednes of the people on the one p.m,j."'l'o. cures thishorrible defection) whereby God iuitly punilheth ~w.ne))}' a.g~ea~r iniquuie, And on the otherpart,th~coo.fummat1on otche world,:1nd our. ddiucraIlCedraw1t'gncrire, makes Sarhan to rage -the more in his in~rumCts.kno\'ljng his-kingdomt:

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