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You may copy it, + give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project + Gutenberg License <a href="#pglicense" class="tei tei-ref">included with this + eBook</a> or online at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license" class="tei tei-xref">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a></p></div><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">Title: Daemonologie. + +Author: King James I + +Release Date: June 29, 2008 [Ebook #25929] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAEMONOLOGIE.*** +</pre></div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + + </div> + + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.73em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Daemonologie</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">In Forme of a Dialogie</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Diuided into three Bookes.</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">By James R</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 144%; vertical-align: super">X</span></span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Printed by Robert Walde-graue,</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Printer to the Kings Majestie. An. 1597.</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">Cum Privilegio Regio.</span></p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> + <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc1">The Preface. To The Reader.</a></li><li><a href="#toc3">First Booke.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc5">Chap. I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc7">Chap. II.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc9">Chap. III.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc11">Chap. IIII.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc13">Chap. V.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc15">Chap. VI.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc17">Chap. VII.</a></li><li><a href="#toc19">Seconde Booke.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc21">Chap. I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc23">Chap. II.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc25">Chap. III.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc27">Chap. IIII.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc29">Chap. V.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc31">Chap. VI.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc33">Chap. VII.</a></li><li><a href="#toc35">Thirde Booke.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc37">Chap. I.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc39">Chap. II.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc41">Chap. III.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc43">Chap. IIII.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc45">Chap. V.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc47">Chap. VI.</a></li><li><a href="#toc49">Newes from Scotland.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc51">To the Reader.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc53">Discourse.</a></li></ul> + </div> + </div> +<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexi"></span><a name="Pgxi" id="Pgxi" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a> +<a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">The Preface. To The Reader.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The fearefull aboundinge +at this time in this countrie, +of these detestable slaues of +the Deuill, the Witches or +enchaunters, hath moved +me (beloued reader) to dispatch +in post, this following +treatise of mine, not in +any wise (as I protest) to +serue for a shew of my learning & ingine, but +onely (mooued of conscience) to preasse thereby, +so farre as I can, to resolue the doubting harts of +many; both that such assaultes of Sathan are +most certainly practized, & that the instrumentes +thereof, merits most severly to be punished: +against the damnable opinions of two +principally in our age, wherof the one called +SCOT an Englishman, is not ashamed in +publike print to deny, that ther can be such a +thing as Witch-craft: and so mainteines the old +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexii"></span><a name="Pgxii" id="Pgxii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +error of the Sadducees, in denying of spirits. The +other called VVIERVS, a German Phisition, +sets out a publick apologie for al these craftes-folkes, +whereby, procuring for their impunitie, he +plainely bewrayes himselfe to haue bene one of +that profession. And for to make this treatise the +more pleasaunt and facill, I haue put it in forme +of a Dialogue, which I haue diuided into three +bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, +and Necromancie in special. The second of +Sorcerie and Witch-craft: and the thirde, conteines +a discourse of all these kindes of spirits, & +Spectres that appeares & trobles persones: +together with a conclusion of the whol work. My +intention in this labour, is only to proue two +things, as I haue alreadie said: the one, that +such diuelish artes haue bene and are. The +other, what exact trial and seuere punishment +they merite: & therefore reason I, what kinde +of things are possible to be performed in these +arts, & by what naturall causes they may be, not +that I touch every particular thing of the Deuils +power, for that were infinite: but onelie, to +speak scholasticklie, (since this can not bee spoken +in our language) I reason vpon <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">genus</span></span> leauing +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexiii"></span><a name="Pgxiii" id="Pgxiii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +species, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">and differentia</span></span> +to be comprehended therein. As for example, speaking of the power +of Magiciens, in the first book & sixt Chapter: +I say, that they can suddenly cause be brought +vnto them, all kindes of daintie disshes, by their +familiar spirit: Since as a thiefe he delightes to +steale, and as a spirite, he can subtillie & suddenlie +inough transport the same. Now vnder +this <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">genus</span></span> may be comprehended al particulars, +depending thereupon; Such as the bringing Wine +out of a Wall, (as we haue heard oft to haue +bene practised] and such others; which particulars, +are sufficientlie proved by the reasons of +the general. And such like in the second booke of +Witch-craft in speciall, and fift Chap. I say and +proue by diuerse arguments, that Witches can, +by the power of their Master, cure or cast on +disseases: Now by these same reasones, that +proues their power by the Deuil of disseases in +generally is aswell proued their power in speciall: +as of weakening the nature of some men, to make +them vnable for women: and making it to abound +in others, more then the ordinary course of nature +would permit. And such like in all other particular +sicknesses; But one thing I will pray thee +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexiv"></span><a name="Pgxiv" id="Pgxiv" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to obserue in all these places, where I reason +upon the deuils power, which is the different +ends & scopes, that God as the first cause, and +the Devill as his instrument and second cause +shootes at in all these actiones of the Deuil, (as +Gods hang-man:) For where the deuilles intention +in them is euer to perish, either the soule or +the body, or both of them, that he is so permitted +to deale with: God by the contrarie, drawes euer +out of that euill glorie to himselfe, either by +the wracke of the wicked in his justice, or by +the tryall of the patient, and amendment of the +faithfull, being wakened vp with that rod of +correction. Hauing thus declared vnto thee then, +my full intention in this Treatise, thou wilt +easelie excuse, I doubt not, aswel my pretermitting, +to declare the whole particular rites and +secretes of these vnlawfull artes: as also their +infinite and wounderfull practises, as being +neither of them pertinent to my purpose: the +reason whereof, is giuen in the hinder ende of the +first Chapter of the thirde booke: and who likes +to be curious in these thinges, he may reade, if he +will here of their practises, BODINVS Dæmonomanie, +collected with greater diligence, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexv"></span><a name="Pgxv" id="Pgxv" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +then written with judgement, together with their +confessions, that haue bene at this time apprehened. +If he would know what hath bene the +opinion of the Auncientes, concerning their +power: he shall see it wel described by HYPERIVS, +& HEMMINGIVS, two late +Germaine writers: Besides innumerable other +neoterick Theologues, that writes largelie vpon +that subject: And if he woulde knowe what are +the particuler rites, & curiosities of these black +arts (which is both vnnecessarie and perilous,) +he will finde it in the fourth book of CORNELIVS +Agrippa, and in VVIERVS, whomof +I spak. And so wishing my pains in this +Treatise (beloued Reader} to be effectual, in +arming al them that reades the same, against +these aboue mentioned erroures, and recommending +my good will to thy friendly acceptation, +I bid thee hartely fare-well. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +IAMES R<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="vertical-align: super">x</span></span>. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page001"></span><a name="Pg001" id="Pg001" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc3" id="toc3"></a> +<a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">First Booke.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The exord of the whole. The description +of Magie in speciall.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a> +<a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. I.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">ARGVMENT.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Proven by the Scripture, that these vnlawfull artes in</span></span> +genere, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">haue bene and may be put in practise.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epistemon</span></span> +reason the matter. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am surely verie glad to haue +mette with you this daye, for I +am of opinion, that ye can better +resolue me of some thing, +wherof I stand in great doubt, +nor anie other whom-with I +could haue mette. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> In what I can, that ye +like to speir at me, I will willinglie and freelie tell +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page002"></span><a name="Pg002" id="Pg002" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +my opinion, and if I proue it not sufficiently, I am +heartely content that a better reason carie it away +then. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> What thinke yee of these strange newes, +which now onelie furnishes purpose to al men at +their meeting: I meane of these Witches? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Surelie they are wonderfull: And I +think so cleare and plaine confessions in that purpose, +haue neuer fallen out in anie age or cuntrey. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> No question if they be true, but thereof +the Doctours doubtes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> What part of it doubt ye of? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Even of all, for ought I can yet perceaue: +and namelie, that there is such a thing as Witch-craft +or Witches, and I would pray you to resolue +me thereof if ye may: for I haue reasoned with sundrie +in that matter, and yet could never be satisfied +therein. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I shall with good will doe the best I can: +But I thinke it the difficiller, since ye denie the +thing it selfe in generall: for as it is said in the logick +schools, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Contra negantem principia non est disputandum</span></span>. +Alwaies for that part, that witchcraft, and Witches +haue bene, and are, the former part is clearelie proved +by the Scriptures, and the last by dailie experience +and confessions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> I know yee will alleadge me +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saules Pythonisse</span></span>: +but that as appeares will not make much +for you. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Not onlie that place, but divers others: But +I marvel why that should not make much for me? +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page003"></span><a name="Pg003" id="Pg003" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> The reasones are these, first yee may +consider, that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saul</span></span> being troubled in spirit, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span style="font-size: 80%">1. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Sam.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 28.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> and having +fasted long before, as the text testifieth, and being +come to a woman that was bruted to have such +knowledge, and that to inquire so important news, +he having so guiltie a conscience for his hainous +offences, and specially, for that same vnlawful curiositie, +and horrible defection: and then the woman +crying out vpon the suddaine in great admiration, +for the vncouth sicht that she alledged to haue sene, +discovering him to be the King, thogh disguysed, +& denied by him before: it was no wounder I say, +that his senses being thus distracted, he could not +perceaue hir faining of hir voice, hee being himselfe +in an other chalmer, and seeing nothing. Next +what could be, or was raised? The spirit of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Samuel</span></span>? +Prophane and against all Theologie: the Diuell in +his likenes? as vnappeirant, that either God would +permit him to come in the shape of his Saintes (for +then could neuer the Prophets in those daies haue +bene sure, what Spirit spake to them in their visiones) +or then that he could fore-tell what was to +come there after; for Prophecie proceedeth onelie +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">GOD</span></span>: and the Devill hath no knowledge +of things to come. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Yet if yee will marke the wordes of the +text, ye will finde clearely, that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saul</span></span> saw that apparition: +for giving you that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saul</span></span> was in an other +Chalmer, at the making of the circles & conjurationes, +needeful for that purpose (as none of that +craft will permit any vthers to behold at that time) +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page004"></span><a name="Pg004" id="Pg004" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +yet it is evident by the text, that how sone that once +that vnclean spirit was fully risen, shee called in vpon +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saul</span></span>. For it is saide in the text, +that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saule knew +him to be Samuel</span></span>, which coulde not haue bene, by +the hearing tell onely of an olde man with an +mantil, since there was many mo old men dead in +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Israel</span></span> nor <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Samuel</span></span>: +And the common weid of that +whole Cuntrey was mantils. As to the next, that it +was not the spirit of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Samuel</span></span>, I grant: In the proving +whereof ye neede not to insist, since all Christians +of whatso-ever Religion agrees vpon that: and +none but either mere ignorants, or Necromanciers +or Witches doubtes thereof. And that the Diuel is +permitted at som-times to put himself in the liknes +of the Saintes, it is plaine in the Scriptures, where +it is said, that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sathan can trans-forme himselfe into an +Angell of light</span></span>. +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span style="font-size: 80%">2. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Cor.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 11.14.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Neither could that bring any inconvenient +with the visiones of the Prophets, since it is +most certaine, that God will not permit him so to +deceiue his own: but only such, as first wilfully deceiues +them-selves, by running vnto him, whome +God then suffers to fall in their owne snares, and +justlie permittes them to be illuded with great efficacy +of deceit, because they would not beleeue the +trueth (as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Paul</span></span> sayth). And as to the diuelles foretelling +of things to come, it is true that he knowes not +all things future, but yet that he knowes parte, the +Tragicall event of this historie declares it, (which +the wit of woman could never haue fore-spoken) +not that he hath any prescience, which is only proper +to God: or yet knows anie thing by loking vpon +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005"></span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +God, as in a mirrour (as the good Angels doe) +he being for euer debarred from the fauorable presence +& countenance of his creator, but only by one +of these two meanes, either as being worldlie wise, +and taught by an continuall experience, ever since +the creation, judges by likelie-hood of thinges to +come, according to the like that hath passed before, +and the naturall causes, in respect of the vicissitude +of all thinges worldly: Or else by Gods employing +of him in a turne, and so foreseene thereof: as appeares +to haue bin in this, whereof we finde the verie +like in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Micheas</span></span> propheticque discourse to King +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Achab</span></span>. +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span style="font-size: 80%">1. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">King.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 22.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But to prooue this my first proposition, that +there can be such a thing as witch-craft, & witches, +there are manie mo places in the Scriptures then +this (as I said before). As first in the law of God, it is +plainely prohibited: +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Exod.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 22.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But certaine it is, that the Law +of God speakes nothing in vaine, nether doth it lay +curses, or injoyne punishmentes vpon shaddowes, +condemning that to be il, which is not in essence or +being as we call it. Secondlie it is plaine, where +wicked <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pharaohs</span></span> wise-men imitated ane number +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moses</span></span> miracles, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Exod.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 7 & 8.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +to harden the tyrants heart there +by. Thirdly, said not <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Samuell</span></span> to <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saull</span></span>, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span style="font-size: 80%">1. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Sam.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 15.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">disobedience +is as the sinne of Witch-craft</span></span>? To compare to a +thing that were not, it were too too absurd. Fourthlie, +was not <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Simon Magus</span></span>, a man of that craft? +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Acts.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 8.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And fiftlie, what was she that had the spirit of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Python</span></span>? +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Acts</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 16.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +beside innumerable other places that were irkesom +to recite. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006"></span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc7" id="toc7"></a> +<a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. II.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What kynde of sin the practizers of these vnlawfull artes +committes. The division of these artes. And what +are the meanes that allures any to practize them.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Bvt I thinke it very strange, that God should +permit anie man-kynde (since they beare his +owne Image) to fall in so grosse and filthie a defection. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Although man in his Creation was +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Gen.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 1.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +made to the Image of the Creator, yet through his +fall having once lost it, it is but restored againe in a +part by grace onelie to the elect: So all the rest falling +away from God, are given over in the handes +of the Devill that enemie, to beare his Image: and +being once so given over, the greatest and the grossest +impietie, is the pleasantest, and most delytefull +vnto them. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But may it not suffice him to haue indirectly +the rule, and procure the perdition of +so manie soules by alluring them to vices, and to the +following of their own appetites, suppose he abuse +not so many simple soules, in making them directlie +acknowledge him for their maister. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> No surelie, for hee vses everie man, +whom of he hath the rule, according to their complexion +and knowledge: And so whome he findes +most simple, he plaineliest discovers himselfe vnto +them. For hee beeing the enemie of mans Salvation, +vses al the meanes he can to entrappe them so +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page007"></span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +farre in his snares, as it may be vnable to them thereafter +(suppose they would) to rid themselues out +of the same. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Then this sinne is a sinne against the +holie Ghost. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> It is in some, but not in all. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> How that? Are not all these that runnes +directlie to the Devill in one Categorie. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> God forbid, for the sin against the holie +Ghost hath two branches: The one a falling backe +from the whole service of GOD, and a refusall of +all his preceptes. The other is the doing of the first +with knowledge, knowing that they doe wrong against +their own conscience, and the testimonie of +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Heb.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 6. 10.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +the holie Spirit, having once had a tast of the sweetnes +of Gods mercies. Now in the first of these two, +all sortes of Necromancers, Enchanters or +Witches, ar comprehended: but in the last, none +but such as erres with this knowledge that I haue +spoken of. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Then it appeares that there are more +sortes nor one, that are directlie professors of his +service: and if so be, I pray you tell me how manie, +and what are they? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> There are principallie two sortes, wherevnto +all the partes of that vnhappie arte are redacted; +whereof the one is called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span> or +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancie</span></span>, +the other <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sorcerie</span></span> or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Witch-craft</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> What I pray you? and how manie are +the meanes, whereby the Devill allures persones +in anie of these snares? +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page008"></span><a name="Pg008" id="Pg008" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Even by these three passiones that are +within our selues: Curiositie in great ingines: +thrist of revenge, for some tortes deeply apprehended: +or greedie appetite of geare, caused through +great pouerty. As to the first of these, Curiosity, it is +onelie the inticement of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magiciens</span></span>, +or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromanciers</span></span>: +and the other two are the allureres of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sorcerers</span></span>, +or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Witches</span></span>, for that olde and craftie Serpent, +being a spirite, hee easilie spyes our affections, +and so conformes himselfe thereto, to deceaue +vs to our wracke. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc9" id="toc9"></a> +<a name="pdf10" id="pdf10"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. III.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The significations and Etymologies of the words of</span></span> Magie +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">and</span></span> Necromancie. +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The difference betuixt</span></span> Necromancie +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">and</span></span> Witch-craft: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What are the entressis, +and beginninges, that brings anie to the knowledge +thereof.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I Would gladlie first heare, what thing is it that +ye call <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span> or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancie</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> +This worde <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span> in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Persian</span></span> toung, +importes as muche as to be ane contemplator or +Interpretour of Divine and heavenlie sciences: +which being first vsed amongs the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Chaldees</span></span>, through +their ignorance of the true divinitie, was esteemed +and reputed amongst them, as a principall vertue: +And therefore, was named vnjustlie with an honorable +stile, which name the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Greekes</span></span> imitated, generally +importing all these kindes of vnlawfull artes. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009"></span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And this word <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancie</span></span> is a Greek word, compounded +of Νεκρων & μαντεια, which is to say, the Prophecie +by the dead. This last name is given, to this +black & vnlawfull science by the figure <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Synedoche</span></span>, +because it is a principal part of that art, to serue them +selues with dead carcages in their diuinations. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Phi.</span></span> What difference is there betwixt this arte, +and Witch-craft. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Surelie, the difference vulgare put betwixt +them, is verrie merrie, and in a maner true; +for they say, that the Witches ar servantes onelie, +and slaues to the Devil; but the Necromanciers are +his maisters and commanders. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> How can that be true, +yt any men being specially adicted to his service, can be his commanders? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Yea, they may be: +but it is onelie <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">secundum +quid</span></span>: For it is not by anie power that they can haue +over him, but <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ex pacto</span></span> allanerlie: whereby he oblices +himself in some trifles to them, that he may on +the other part obteine the fruition of their body & +soule, which is the onlie thing he huntes for. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> An verie in-æquitable contract forsooth: +But I pray you discourse vnto mee, what is the effect +and secreets of that arte? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That is over large an fielde ye giue mee: +yet I shall doe good-will, the most summarlie that +I can, to runne through the principal points thereof. +As there are two sorts of folkes, that may be entysed +to this arte, to wit, learned or vnlearned: so +is there two meanes, which are the first steerers vp +& feeders of their curiositie, thereby to make them +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page010"></span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to giue themselves over to the same: Which +two meanes, I call the Divels schoole, and his rudimentes. +The learned haue their curiositie wakened +vppe; and fedde by that which I call his schoole: +this is the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astrologie</span></span> judiciar. For divers men having +attained to a great perfection in learning, & +yet remaining overbare (alas) of the spirit of regeneration +and frutes thereof: finding all naturall +thinges common, aswell to the stupide pedants as +vnto them, they assaie to vendicate vnto them a +greater name, by not onlie knowing the course of +things heavenlie, but likewise to cling to the knowledge +of things to come thereby. Which, at the first +face appearing lawfull vnto them, in respect the +ground therof seemeth to proceed of naturall causes +onelie: they are so allured thereby, that finding +their practize to prooue true in sundry things, they +studie to know the cause thereof: and so mounting +from degree to degree, vpon the slipperie and vncertaine +scale of curiositie; they are at last entised, +that where lawfull artes or sciences failes, to satisfie +their restles mindes, even to seeke to that black and +vnlawfull science of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>. Where, finding at +the first, that such diuers formes of circles & conjurations +rightlie joyned thereunto, will raise such +divers formes of spirites, to resolue them of their +doubts: and attributing the doing thereof, to the +power inseparablie tyed, or inherent in the circles: +and manie words of God, confusedlie wrapped in; +they blindlie glorie of themselves, as if they had by +their quicknes of ingine, made a conquest of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Plutoes</span></span> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011"></span><a name="Pg011" id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +dominion, and were become Emperours over the +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Stygian</span></span> habitacles. Where, in the meane time (miserable +wretches) they are become in verie deede, +bond-slaues to their mortall enemie: and their +knowledge, for all that they presume thereof, is nothing +increased, except in knowing evill, and the +horrors of Hell for punishment thereof, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Adams</span></span> +was by the eating of the forbidden tree. +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Gen.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 3.</span></div></div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc11" id="toc11"></a> +<a name="pdf12" id="pdf12"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. IIII.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Description of the Rudiments and Schoole, which are +the entresses to the arte of</span></span> Magie: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">And in speciall the +differences betwixt</span></span> Astronomie <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">and</span></span> Astrologie: +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Diuision of</span></span> Astrologie <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">in diuers partes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Bvt I pray you likewise forget not to tell what +are the Deuilles rudimentes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> His rudimentes, I call first in generall, all +that which is called vulgarly the vertue of worde, +herbe, & stone: which is vsed by vnlawful charmes, +without naturall causes. As likewise all kinde of +practicques, freites, or other like extraordinarie actiones, +which cannot abide the true toutche of +naturall reason. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> I would haue you to make that playner, +by some particular examples; for your proposition +is verie generall. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I meane either by such kinde of Charmes +as commonlie dafte wiues vses, for healing of forspoken +goodes, for preseruing them from euill +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012"></span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +eyes, by knitting roun-trees, or sundriest kinde of +herbes, to the haire or tailes of the goodes: By curing +the Worme, by stemming of blood, by healing +of Horse-crookes, by turning of the riddle, or +doing of such like innumerable things by wordes, +without applying anie thing, meete to the part offended, +as Mediciners doe; Or else by staying maried +folkes, to haue naturallie adoe with other, (by +knitting so manie knottes vpon a poynt at the time +of their mariage). And such-like things, which men +vses to practise in their merrinesse: For fra vnlearned +men (being naturallie curious, and lacking the +true knowledge of God) findes these practises to +prooue true, as sundrie of them will doe, by the +power of the Devill for deceauing men, and not +by anie inherent vertue in these vaine wordes and +freites; & being desirous to winne a reputation to +themselues in such-like turnes, they either (if they +be of the shamefaster sorte) seeke to bee learned +by some that are experimented in that Arte, +(not knowing it to be euill at the first) or else being +of the grosser sorte, runnes directlie to the Deuill +for ambition or desire of gaine, and plainelie +contractes with him thereupon. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But me thinkes these meanes which yee +call the Schoole and rudimentes of the Deuill, +are thinges lawfull, and haue bene approoued for +such in all times and ages: As in special, this science +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astrologie</span></span>, which is one of the speciall members +of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mathematicques</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> There are two thinges which the learned +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013"></span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +haue obserued from the beginning, in the science +of the Heauenlie Creatures, the Planets, Starres, +and such like: The one is their course and ordinary +motiones, which for that cause is called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astronomia</span></span>: +Which word is a compound of νομος & αστερων +that is to say, the law of the Starres: And this arte +indeed is one of the members of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mathematicques</span></span>, +& not onelie lawful, but most necessarie and +commendable. The other is called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astrologia</span></span>, being +compounded of αστερων & λογος which is to say, +the word, and preaching of the starres: Which is +deuided in two partes: The first by knowing thereby +the powers of simples, and sickenesses, the +course of the seasons and the weather, being ruled +by their influence; which part depending vpon the +former, although it be not of it selfe a parte of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mathematicques</span></span>: +yet it is not vnlawful, being moderatlie +vsed, suppose not so necessarie and commendable +as the former. The second part is to truste +so much to their influences, as thereby to fore-tell +what common-weales shall florish or decay: what +persones shall be fortunate or vnfortunate: what +side shall winne in anie battell: What man shall +obteine victorie at singular combate: What way, +and of what age shall men die: What horse shall +winne at matche-running; and diuerse such like +incredible things, wherein <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Cardanus</span></span>, +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Cornelius Agrippa</span></span>, +and diuerse others haue more curiouslie +then profitably written at large. Of this roote last +spoken of, springs innumerable branches; such as +the knowledge by the natiuities; the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Cheiromancie</span></span>, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page014"></span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geomantie</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Hydromantie</span></span>, +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Arithmantie</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Physiognomie</span></span>: +& a thousand others: which were much practised, +& holden in great reuerence by the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Gentles</span></span> of olde. +And this last part of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Astrologie</span></span> whereof I haue spoken, +which is the root of their branches, was called +by them <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">pars fortunæ</span></span>. This parte now is vtterlie vnlawful +to be trusted in, or practized amongst christians, +as leaning to no ground of natural reason: & it +is this part which I called before the deuils schole. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But yet manie of the learned are of the +contrarie opinion. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I grant, yet I could giue my reasons to fortifie +& maintaine my opinion, if to enter into this disputation +it wold not draw me quite off the ground +of our discours; besides the mis-spending of the +whole daie thereupon: One word onely I will answet +to them, & that in the Scriptures (which must +be an infallible ground to all true Christians) That +in the Prophet <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ieremie</span></span> +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Ierem.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 10.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +it is plainelie forbidden, to +beleeue or hearken vnto them that Prophecies & +fore-speakes by the course of the Planets & Starres. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc13" id="toc13"></a> +<a name="pdf14" id="pdf14"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. V.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">How farre the vsing of Charmes is lawfull or vnlawfull: +The description of the formes of Circkles and Coniurationes. +And what causeth the</span></span> Magicianes <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">themselues +to wearie thereof</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Wel, Ye haue said far inough in that argument. +But how prooue ye now that these +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015"></span><a name="Pg015" id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +charmes or vnnaturall practicques are vnlawfull: +For so, many honest & merrie men & women haue +publicklie practized some of them, that I thinke if +ye would accuse them al of Witch-craft, ye would +affirme more nor ye will be beleeued in. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I see if you had taken good tent (to the nature +of that word, whereby I named it,) ye would +not haue bene in this doubt, nor mistaken me, so +farre as ye haue done: For although, as none can be +schollers in a schole, & not be subject to the master +thereof: so none can studie and put in practize (for +studie the alone, and knowledge, is more perilous +nor offensiue; and it is the practise only that makes +the greatnes of the offence.) the cirkles and art of +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>, without committing an horrible defection +from God: And yet as they that reades and learnes +their rudiments, are not the more subject to anie +schoole-master, if it please not their parentes to put +them to the schoole thereafter; So they who ignorantly +proues these practicques, which I cal the deuilles +rudiments, vnknowing them to be baites, casten +out by him, for trapping such as God will permit +to fall in his hands: This kinde of folkes I saie, +no doubt, ar to be judged the best of, in respect they +vse no invocation nor help of him (by their knowledge +at least) in these turnes, and so haue neuer entred +themselues in Sathans seruice; Yet to speake +truely for my owne part (I speake but for my selfe) +I desire not to make so neere riding: For in my opinion +our enemie is ouer craftie, and we ouer weake +(except the greater grace of God) to assay such hazards, +wherein he preases to trap vs. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page016"></span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Ye haue reason forsooth; for as the common +Prouerbe saith: They that suppe keile with +the Deuill, haue neede of long spoones. But now +I praie you goe forwarde in the describing of this +arte of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Fra they bee come once vnto this perfection +in euill, in hauing any knowledge (whether +learned or vnlearned) of this black art: they then beginne +to be wearie of the raising of their Maister, +by conjured circkles; being both so difficile and +perilous, and so commeth plainelie to a contract +with him, wherein is speciallie conteined formes +and effectes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But I praye you or euer you goe further, +discourse me some-what of their circkles and conjurationes; +And what should be the cause of their +wearying thereof: For it should seeme that that +forme should be lesse fearefull yet, than the direct +haunting and societie, with that foule and vncleane +Spirite. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I thinke ye take me to be a Witch my selfe, +or at the least would faine sweare your selfe prentise +to that craft: Alwaies as I may, I shall shortlie +satisfie you, in that kinde of conjurations, which +are conteined in such bookes, which I call the Deuilles +Schoole: There are foure principall partes; +the persons of the conjurers; the action of the conjuration; +the wordes and rites vsed to that effect; +and the Spirites that are conjured. Ye must first remember +to laye the ground, that I tould you before: +which is, that it is no power inherent in the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017"></span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +circles, or in the holines of the names of God blasphemouslie +vsed: nor in whatsoeuer rites or ceremonies +at that time vsed, that either can raise any +infernall spirit, or yet limitat him perforce within +or without these circles. For it is he onelie, the father +of all lyes, who hauing first of all prescribed +that forme of doing, feining himselfe to be commanded +& restreined thereby, wil be loath to passe +the boundes of these injunctiones; aswell thereby +to make them glory in the impiring ouer him (as I +saide before:) As likewise to make himselfe so to +be trusted in these little thinges, that he may haue +the better commoditie thereafter, to deceiue them +in the end with a tricke once for all; I meane the euerlasting +perdition of their soul & body. Then laying +this ground, as I haue said, these conjurationes +must haue few or mo in number of the persones +conjurers (alwaies passing the singuler number) according +to the qualitie of the circle, and forme of +apparition. Two principall thinges cannot well in +that errand be wanted: holie-water (whereby the +Deuill mockes the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes</span></span>) and some present of a +liuing thing vnto him. There ar likewise certaine +seasons, dayes and houres, that they obserue in this +purpose: These things being all readie, and prepared, +circles are made triangular, quadrangular, +round, double or single, according to the forme of +apparition that they craue. But to speake of the diuerse +formes of the circles, of the innumerable +characters and crosses that are within and without, +and out-through the same, of the diuers formes of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018"></span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +apparitiones, that that craftie spirit illudes them +with, and or all such particulars in that action, I remit +it to ouer-manie that haue busied their heades +in describing of the same; 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 circumstances, +long praiers, and much muttring and murmuring +of the conjurers; like a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papist</span></span> priest, dispatching +a hunting <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Masse</span></span>: how sone I say, he appeares, if they +haue missed one iote of all their rites; or if any of +their feete once slyd ouer the circle through terror +of his feareful apparition, he payes himselfe at that +time in his owne hande, of that due debt which +they ought him; and other-wise would haue delayed +longer to haue payed him: I meane hee +carries them with him bodie and soule. If this be +not now a just cause to make them wearie of these +formes of conjuration, I leaue it to you to judge +vpon; considering the long-somenesse of the labour, +the precise keeping of dayes and houres (as I +haue said), the terriblenesse of apparition, and the +present perrell that they stande in, in missing the +least circumstance or freite, that they ought to obserue: +And on the other parte, the Deuil is glad to +mooue them to a plaine and square dealing with +him as I said before. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page019"></span><a name="Pg019" id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc15" id="toc15"></a> +<a name="pdf16" id="pdf16"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. VI.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Deuilles contract with the Magicians: The diuision +thereof in two partes: What is the difference betwixt +Gods miracles and the Deuils.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Indeede there is cause inough, but rather to leaue +him at all, then to runne more plainlie to him, if +they were wise he delt with. But goe forwards +now I pray you to these turnes, fra they become +once deacons in this craft. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> From time that they once plainelie begin +to contract with him: The effect of their contract +consistes in two thinges; in formes and effectes, as +I began to tell alreadie, were it not yee interrupted +me (for although the contract be mutuall; +I speake first of that part, wherein the Deuill oblishes +himselfe to them) by formes, I meane in what +shape or fashion he shall come vnto them, when +they call vpon him. And by effectes, I vnderstand, +in what special sorts of seruices he bindes himselfe +to be subject vnto them. The qualitie of these +formes and effectes, is lesse or greater, according to +the skil and art of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magician</span></span>. For as to the formes, +to some of the baser sorte of them he oblishes him +selfe to appeare at their calling vpon him, by such a +proper name which he shewes vnto them, either in +likenes of a dog, a Catte, an Ape, or such-like other +beast; or else to answere by a voyce onlie. The effects +are to answere to such demands, as concernes +curing of disseases, their own particular menagery: +or such other base things as they require of him. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page020"></span><a name="Pg020" id="Pg020" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But to the most curious sorte, in the formes he will +oblish himselfe, to enter in a dead bodie, and there +out of to giue such answers, of the euent of battels, +of maters concerning the estate of commonwelths, +and such like other great questions: yea, to some he +will be a continuall attender, in forme of a Page: +He will permit himselfe to be conjured, for the +space of so many yeres, ether in a tablet or a ring, or +such like thing, which they may easely carrie about +with them: He giues them power to sel such wares +to others, whereof some will bee dearer, and some +better cheape; according to the lying or true speaking +of the Spirit that is conjured therein. Not but +that in verie deede, all Devils must be lyars; but so +they abuse the simplicitie of these wretches, that +becomes their schollers, that they make them beleeue, +that at the fall of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lucifer</span></span>, some Spirites fell in +the aire, some in the fire, some in the water, some in +the lande: In which Elementes they still remaine. +Whereupon they build, that such as fell in the fire, +or in the aire, are truer then they, who fell in the +water or in the land, which is al but meare trattles, +& forged by the author of al deceit. For they fel not +be weight, as a solide substance, to stick in any one +parte: But the principall part of their fal, consisting +in qualitie, by the falling from the grace of God +wherein they were created, they continued still +thereafter, and shal do while the latter daie, in wandring +through the worlde, as Gods hang-men, to +execute such turnes as he employes them in. And +when anie of them are not occupyed in that, returne +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page021"></span><a name="Pg021" id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +they must to their prison in hel (as it is plaine +in the miracle that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> +wrought at <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Gennezareth</span></span>) +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Mat.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 8.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +therein at the latter daie to be all enclosed +for euer: and as they deceiue their schollers in this, +so do they, in imprinting in them the opinion that +there are so manie Princes, Dukes, and Kinges amongst +them, euerie one commanding fewer +or mo Legions, and impyring in diuers artes, +and quarters of the earth. For though that I will +not denie that there be a forme of ordour amongst +the Angels in Heauen, and consequentlie, was amongst +them before their fall; yet, either that they +bruike the same sensine; or that God will permit +vs to know by damned Deuils, such heauenlie +mysteries of his, which he would not reueale to vs +neither by Scripture nor Prophets, I thinke no +Christiane will once thinke it. But by the contrarie +of all such mysteries, as he hath closed vp with +his seale of secrecie; it becommeth vs to be contented +with an humble ignorance, they being +thinges not necessarie for our saluation. But to returne +to the purpose, as these formes, wherein Sathan +oblishes himselfe to the greatest of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span>, +are wounderfull curious; so are the effectes +correspondent vnto the same: For he will oblish +himselfe to teach them artes and sciences, which +he may easelie doe, being so learned a knaue as he +is: To carrie them newes from anie parte of the +worlde, which the agilitie of a Spirite may easelie +performe: to reueale to them the secretes of anie +persons, so being they bee once spoken, for the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page022"></span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +thought none knowes but GOD; except so +far as yee may ghesse by their countenance, as one +who is doubtleslie learned, inough in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Physiognomie</span></span>: +Yea, he will make his schollers to creepe in +credite with Princes, by fore-telling them manie +greate thinges; parte true, parte false: For if all +were false, he would tyne credite at all handes; but +alwaies doubtsome, as his Oracles were. And he +will also make them to please Princes, by faire banquets +and daintie dishes, carryed in short space fra +the farthest part of the worlde. For no man doubts +but he is a thiefe, and his agilitie (as I spake before) +makes him to come suche speede. Such-like, he +will guard his schollers with faire armies of horse-men +and foote-men in appearance, castles and +fortes: Which all are but impressiones in the aire, +easelie gathered by a spirite, drawing so neare to +that substance himselfe: As in like maner he will +learne them manie juglarie trickes at Gardes, dice, +& such like, to deceiue mennes senses thereby: and +such innumerable false practicques; which are prouen +by ouer-manie in this age: As they who ar acquainted +with that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Italian</span></span> called +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Scoto</span></span> yet liuing, +can reporte. And yet are all these thinges but deluding +of the senses, and no waies true in substance, +as were the false miracles wrought by King <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pharaoes</span></span> +Magicians, for counterfeiting <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span>: For that +is the difference betuixt Gods myracles and the +Deuils, God is a creator, what he makes appeare +in miracle, it is so in effect. As <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span> rod being casten +downe, was no doubt turned in a natural Serpent: +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page023"></span><a name="Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +where as the Deuill (as Gods Ape) counterfetting +that by his <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span>, maid their wandes to +appeare so, onelie to mennes outward senses: as kythed +in effect by their being deuoured by the other. +For it is no wonder, that the Deuill may delude +our senses, since we see by common proofe, +that simple juglars will make an hundreth thinges +seeme both to our eies and eares otherwaies then +they are. Now as to the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> parte of the contract, +it is in a word that thing, which I said before, +the Deuill hunts for in all men. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Surelie ye haue said much to me in this +arte, if all that ye haue said be as true as wounderfull. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> For the trueth in these actiones, it will be +easelie confirmed, to anie that pleases to take paine +vpon the reading of diuerse authenticque histories, +and the inquiring of daily experiences. And as +for the trueth of their possibilitie, that they may be, +and in what maner, I trust I haue alleaged nothing +whereunto I haue not joyned such probable reasons, +as I leaue to your discretion, to waie and consider: +One word onlie I omitted; concerning the +forme of making of this contract, which is either +written with the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> owne bloud: or else being +agreed vpon (in termes his schole-master) touches +him in some parte, though peraduenture no +marke remaine: as it doth with all Witches. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page024"></span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc17" id="toc17"></a> +<a name="pdf18" id="pdf18"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. VII.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The reason why the art of</span></span> Magie +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is unlawfull. What punishment +they merite: And who may be accounted +guiltie of that crime.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Svrelie Ye haue made this arte to appeare +verie monstruous & detestable. But what I pray +you shall be said to such as mainteines this art to be +lawfull, for as euill as you haue made it? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I say, they sauour of the panne them selues, +or at least little better, And yet I would be glad to +heare their reasons. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> There are two principallie, that euer I +heard vsed; beside that which is founded vpon the +common Prouerb (that the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span> commands +the Deuill, which ye haue already refuted). The one +is grounded vpon a receiued custome: The other +vpon an authoritie, which some thinkes infallible. +Vpon custome, we see that diuerse Christian Princes +and Magistrates seuere punishers of Witches, +will not onelie ouer-see <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> to liue within +their dominions; but euen some-times delight to +see them prooue some of their practicques. The other +reason is, that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span> being brought vp (as it is +expreslie said in the Scriptures) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">in all the sciences of +the Ægyptians</span></span>; whereof no doubt, this was one of +the principalles. And he notwithstanding of this +arte, pleasing God, as he did, consequentlie that art +professed by so godlie a man, coulde not be vnlawfull. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page025"></span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> As to the first of your reasones, grounded +vpon custome: I saie, an euill custome can neuer +be accepted for a good law, for the ouer great ignorance +of the worde in some Princes and Magistrates, +and the contempt thereof in others, moues +them to sinne heavelie against their office in that +poynt. As to the other reasone, which seemes to be +of greater weight, if it were formed in a Syllogisme; +it behooued to be in manie termes, and full +of fallacies (to speake in termes of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Logicque</span></span>) for first, +that that generall proposition; affirming <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span> +to be taught <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">in all the sciences of the Ægyptians</span></span>, +should conclude that he was taught in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>, I see +no necessity. For we must vnderstand that the spirit +of God there, speaking of sciences, vnderstandes +them that are lawfull; for except they be lawfull, +they are but <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">abusiuè</span></span> called sciences, & are but ignorances +indeede: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Nam homo pictus, non est homo</span></span>. Secondlie, +giuing that he had bene taught in it, there +is great difference, betwixt knowledge and practising +of a thing (as I said before). For God knoweth +all thinges, being alwaies good, and of our sinne +& our infirmitie proceedeth our ignorance. Thirdlie, +giuing that he had both studied and practised +the same (which is more nor monstruous to be beleeued +by any Christian) yet we know well inough, +that before that euer the spirite of God began +to call <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span>, he was fled out of +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ægypt</span></span>, being fourtie yeares of age, for the slaughter of an +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ægyptian</span></span>, and in his good-father +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Iethroes</span></span> lande, +first called at the firie bushe, hauing remained there +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page026"></span><a name="Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +other fourtie yeares in exile: so that suppose he had +beene the wickeddest man in the worlde before, he +then became a changed and regenerat man, and very +litle of olde <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span> remained in him. +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Abraham</span></span> +was an Idolater in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Vr</span></span> of +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Chaldææa</span></span>, before he was called: +And <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Paule</span></span> being called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saule</span></span>, +was a most sharp +persecutor of the Saintes of God, while that name +was changed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> What punishment then thinke ye merites +these <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span>? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> The like no doubt, that +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sorcerers</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Witches</span></span> +merites; and rather so much greater, as their +error proceedes of the greater knowledge, and so +drawes nerer to the sin against the holy Ghost. And +as I saye of them, so saye I the like of all such as consults, +enquires, entertaines, & ouersees them, which +is seene by the miserable endes of many that askes +councell of them: For the Deuill hath neuer better +tydings to tell to any, then he tolde to <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saule</span></span>: neither +is it lawfull to vse so vnlawfull instrumentes, +were it neuer for so good a purpose: for that +axiome in Theologie is most certaine +and infallible: +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Ast 3.</span></span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Nunquam faciendum +est malum vt bonum +inde eueniat.</span></span> +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027"></span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc19" id="toc19"></a> +<a name="pdf20" id="pdf20"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Seconde Booke.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The description of Sorcerie and Witchcraft +in speciall.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc21" id="toc21"></a> +<a name="pdf22" id="pdf22"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. I.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Proued by the Scripture, that such a thing can be: And +the reasones refuted of all such as would call it but an +imagination and Melancholicque humor.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Now since yee haue satisfied +me nowe so fullie, concerning +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span> or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancie</span></span> +I will pray you to do the like +in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sorcerie</span></span> or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Witchcraft</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That fielde is likewise +verie large: and althought in +the mouthes and pennes of +manie, yet fewe knowes the trueth thereof, so +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028"></span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +wel as they beleeue themselues, as I shall so shortely +as I can, make you (God willing) as easelie to perceiue. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But I pray you before ye goe further, let +mee interrupt you here with a shorte digression: +which is, that manie can scarcely beleeue that there +is such a thing as Witch-craft. Whose reasons I wil +shortely alleage vnto you, that ye may satisfie me as +well in that, as ye haue done in the rest. For first, +whereas the Scripture seemes to prooue Witchcraft +to be, by diuerse examples, and speciallie by +sundrie of the same, which ye haue alleaged, it is +thought by some, that these places speakes of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span> onlie, & not of Witches. +As in special, these wise men of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pharaohs</span></span>, that counterfeited +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span> miracles, were <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> say they, +& not Witches: As likewise that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pythonisse</span></span> that +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saul</span></span> consulted with: And so was +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Simon Magus</span></span> in the +new Testament, as that very stile importes. Secondlie, +where ye would oppone the dailie practicque, +& confession of so manie, that is thought likewise to +be but verie melancholicque imaginations of simple +rauing creatures. Thirdly, if Witches had such +power of Witching of folkes to death, (as they say +they haue) there had bene none left aliue long +sence in the world, but they: at the least, no good +or godlie person of whatsoeuer estate, coulde +haue escaped their deuilrie. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Your three reasons as I take, ar grounded +the first of them <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">negativè</span></span> vpon the Scripture: The +second <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">affirmativè</span></span> vpon Physicke: And the thirde +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page029"></span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +vpon the certaine proofe of experience. As to your +first, it is most true indeede, that all these wise men +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pharaoh</span></span> were <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> of art: +As likewise it appeares wel that the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pythonisse</span></span>, +with whom <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Saul</span></span> consulted, +was of that same profession: & so was <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Simon +Magus</span></span>. But yee omitted to speake of the Lawe of +God, wherein are all <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span>, Diuines, Enchanters, +Sorcerers, Witches, & whatsouer of that kinde +that consultes with the Deuill, plainelie prohibited, +and alike threatned against. And besides that, +she who had the Spirite of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Python</span></span>, in the Actes, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Act.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 16.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +whose Spirite was put to silence by the Apostle, +coulde be no other thing but a verie Sorcerer or +Witch, if ye admit the vulgare distinction, to be +in a maner true, whereof I spake in the beginning +of our conference. For that spirit whereby she conquested +such gaine to her Master, was not at her +raising or commanding, as she pleased to appoynt, +but spake by her toung, aswel publicklie, as priuatelie: +Whereby she seemed to draw nearer to the sort +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Demoniakes</span></span> or possessed, if that conjunction betwixt +them, had not bene of her owne consent: +as it appeared by her, not being tormented therewith: +And by her conquesting of such gaine to her +masters (as I haue alreadie said.) As to your second +reason grounded vpon Physick, in attributing their +confessiones or apprehensiones, to a naturall melancholicque +humour: Anie that pleases Physicallie +to consider vpon the naturall humour of melancholie, +according to all the Physicians, that euer +writ thereupon, they shall finde that that will be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page030"></span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +ouer short a cloak to couer their knauery with: For +as the humor of Melancholie in the selfe is blacke, +heauie and terrene, so are the symptomes thereof, +in any persones that are subject therevnto, leannes, +palenes, desire of solitude: and if they come to the +highest degree therof, mere folie and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Manie</span></span>: where +as by the contrarie, a great nomber of them that euer +haue bene convict or confessors of Witchcraft, +as may be presently seene by manie that haue at +this time confessed: they are by the contrarie, I say, +some of them rich and worldly-wise, some of them +fatte or corpulent in their bodies, and most part of +them altogether giuen ouer to the pleasures of the +flesh, continual haunting of companie, and all kind +of merrines, both lawfull and vnlawfull, which are +thinges directly contrary to the symptomes of Melancholie, +whereof I spake, and further experience +daylie proues how loath they are to confesse without +torture, which witnesseth their guiltines, where +by the contrary, the Melancholicques neuer spares +to bewray themselues, by their continuall discourses, +feeding therby their humor in that which they +thinke no crime. As to your third reason, it scarselie +merites an answere. For if the deuill their master +were not bridled, as the scriptures teacheth vs, suppose +there were no men nor women to be his instrumentes, +he could finde waies inough without +anie helpe of others to wrack al mankinde: wherevnto +he employes his whole study, and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">goeth about +like a roaring Lyon</span></span> (as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Peter</span></span> saith) +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span style="font-size: 80%">1. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Pet.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 5.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +to that effect, but +the limites of his power were set down before the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031"></span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +foundations of the world were laid, which he hath +not power in the least jote to transgresse. But beside +all this, there is ouer greate a certainty to proue +that they are, by the daily experience of the harmes +that they do, both to men, and whatsoeuer thing +men possesses, whome God will permit them to be +the instrumentes, so to trouble or visite, as in my +discourse of that arte, yee shall heare clearelie proued. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc23" id="toc23"></a> +<a name="pdf24" id="pdf24"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. II.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Etymologie and signification of that word of</span></span> Sorcerie. +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The first entresse and prentishippe of them that +giues themselues to that craft.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Come on then I pray you, and returne where +ye left. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> This word of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sorcerie</span></span> +is a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Latine</span></span> worde, +which is taken from casting of the lot, & therefore +he that vseth it, is called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sortiarius à sorte</span></span>. As to the +word of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Witchcraft</span></span>, it is nothing but a proper name +giuen in our language. The cause wherefore they +were called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">sortiarij</span></span>, proceeded of their practicques +seeming to come of lot or chance: Such as the turning +of the riddle: the knowing of the forme of +prayers, or such like tokens: If a person diseased +woulde liue or dye. And in generall, that name +was giuen them for vsing of such charmes, and +freites, as that Crafte teacheth them. Manie +poynts of their craft and practicques are common +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032"></span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +betuixt the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> and them: for they serue both +one Master, althought in diuerse fashions. And as +I deuided the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span>, into two sorts, learned +and vnlearned; so must I denie them in other two, +riche and of better accompt, poore and of basser +degree. These two degrees now of persones, that +practises this craft, answers to the passions in them, +which (I told you before) the Deuil vsed as meanes +to intyse them to his seruice, for such of them as are +in great miserie and pouertie, he allures to follow +him, by promising vnto them greate riches, and +worldlie commoditie. Such as though riche, yet +burnes in a desperat desire of reuenge, hee allures +them by promises, to get their turne satisfied to +their hartes contentment. It is to be noted nowe, +that that olde and craftie enemie of ours, assailes +none, though touched with any of these two extremities, +except he first finde an entresse reddy for +him, either by the great ignorance of the person he +deales with, ioyned with an euill life, or else by +their carelesnes and contempt of God: And finding +them in an vtter despair, for one of these two +former causes that I haue spoken of; he prepares +the way by feeding them craftely in their humour, +and filling them further and further with despaire, +while he finde the time proper to discouer himself +vnto them. At which time, either vpon their walking +solitarie in the fieldes, or else lying pansing in +their bed; but alwaies without the company of any +other, he either by a voyce, or in likenesse of a man +inquires of them, what troubles them: and promiseth +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033"></span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +them, a suddaine and certaine waie of remedie, +vpon condition on the other parte, that they +follow his advise; and do such thinges as he wil require +of them: Their mindes being prepared before +hand, as I haue alreadie spoken, they easelie +agreed vnto that demande of his: And syne settes +an other tryist, where they may meete againe. At +which time, before he proceede any further with +them, he first perswades them to addict themselues +to his seruice: which being easely obteined, he then +discouers what he is vnto them: makes them to renunce +their God and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Baptisme</span></span> directlie, and giues +them his marke vpon some secreit place of their +bodie, which remaines soare vnhealed, while his +next meeting with them, and thereafter euer insensible, +how soeuer it be nipped or pricked by any, +as is dailie proued, to giue them a proofe thereby, +that as in that doing, hee could hurte and heale +them; so all their ill and well doing thereafter, must +depende vpon him. And besides that, the intollerable +dolour that they feele in that place, where he +hath marked them, serues to waken them, and not +to let them rest, while their next meeting againe: +fearing least otherwaies they might either forget +him, being as new Prentises, and not well inough +founded yet, in that fiendlie follie: or else remembring +of that horrible promise they made him, at +their last meeting, they might skunner at the same, +and preasse to call it back. At their thirde meeting, +he makes a shew to be carefull to performe his promises, +either by teaching them waies howe to get +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page034"></span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +themselues reuenged, if they be of that sort: Or els +by teaching them lessons, how by moste vilde and +vnlawfull meanes, they may obtaine gaine, and +worldlie commoditie, if they be of the other sorte. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc25" id="toc25"></a> +<a name="pdf26" id="pdf26"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. III.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The</span></span> Witches <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">actiones diuided in two partes. +The actiones proper to their owne persones. Their actiones toward +others. The forme of their conuentiones, and adoring +of their Master.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Ye haue said now inough of their initiating in +that ordour. It restes then that ye discourse vpon +their practises, fra they be passed Prentises: for +I would faine heare what is possible to them to +performe in verie deede. Although they serue a +common Master with the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span>, (as I haue +before saide) yet serue they him in an other forme. +For as the meanes are diuerse, which allures them +to these vnlawfull artes of seruing of the Deuill; so +by diuerse waies vse they their practises, answering +to these meanes, which first the Deuill, vsed as instrumentes +in them; though al tending to one end: +To wit, the enlargeing of Sathans tyrannie, and +crossing of the propagation of the Kingdome of +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span>, so farre as lyeth in the possibilitie, either +of the one or other sorte, or of the Deuill their Master. +For where the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span>, as allured by curiositie, +in the most parte of their practises, seekes principallie +the satisfying of the same, and to winne to +themselues a popular honoure and estimation: +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035"></span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +These Witches on the other parte, being intised +ether for the desire of reuenge, or of worldly riches, +their whole practises are either to hurte men and +their gudes, or what they possesse, for satisfying of +their cruell mindes in the former, or else by the +wracke in whatsoeuer sorte, of anie whome God +will permitte them to haue power off, to satisfie +their greedie desire in the last poynt. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> In two partes their actiones may be diuided; +the actiones of their owne persones, and the +actiones proceeding from them towardes anie other. +And this diuision being wel vnderstood, will +easilie resolue you, what is possible to them to doe. +For although all that they confesse is no lie vpon +their parte, yet doubtlesly in my opinion, a part of +it is not indeede, according as they take it to be: +And in this I meane by the actiones of their owne +persones. For as I said before, speaking of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span> +that the Deuill illudes the senses of these schollers +of his, in manie thinges, so saye I the like of these +Witches. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Then I pray you, first to speake of that part +of their owne persons, and syne ye may come next +to their actiones towardes others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> To the effect that they may performe such +seruices of their false Master, as he employes them +in, the deuill as Gods Ape, counterfeites in his seruantes +this seruice & forme of adoration, that God +prescribed and made his seruantes to practise. For +as the seruants of GOD, publicklie vses to conveene +for seruing of him, so makes he them in great +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036"></span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +numbers to conveene (though publickly they dare +not) for his seruice. As none conueenes to the adoration +and worshipping of God, except they be +marked with his scale, the Sacrament of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Baptisme</span></span>: +So none serues Sathan, and conueenes to the adoring +of him, that are not marked with that marke, +wherof I alredy spake. As the Minister sent by God, +teacheth plainely at the time of their publick conuentions, +how to serue him in spirit & truth: so that +vncleane spirite, in his owne person teacheth his +Disciples, at the time of their conueening, how to +worke all kinde of mischiefe: And craues compt +of all their horrible and detestable proceedinges +passed, for aduancement of his seruice. Yea, that he +may the more viuelie counterfeit and scorne God, +he oft times makes his slaues to conveene in these +verrie places, which are destinat and ordeined for +the conveening of the servantes of God (I meane +by Churches). But this farre, which I haue yet said, +I not onelie take it to be true in their opiniones, +but euen so to be indeede. For the forme that he +vsed in counterfeiting God amongst the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Gentiles</span></span>, +makes me so to thinke: As God spake by his Oracles, +spake he not so by his? As GOD had aswell +bloudie Sacrifices, as others without bloud, had +not he the like? As God had Churches sanctified +to his seruice, with Altars, Priests, Sacrifices, Ceremonies +and Prayers; had he not the like polluted +to his seruice? As God gaue responses by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Vrim</span></span> and +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Thummim</span></span>, gaue he not his responses by the intralls +of beastes, by the singing of Fowles, and by their +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037"></span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +actiones in the aire? As God by visiones, dreames, +and extases reueiled what was to come, and what +was his will vnto his seruantes; vsed he not the like +meanes to forwarne his slaues of things to come? +Yea, euen as God loued cleannes, hated vice, and +impuritie, & appoynted punishmentes therefore: +vsed he not the like (though falselie I grant, and but +in eschewing the lesse inconuenient, to draw them +upon a greater) yet dissimuled he not I say, so farre +as to appoynt his Priestes to keepe their bodies +cleane and vndefiled, before their asking responses +of him? And feyned he not God to be a protectour +of euerie vertue, and a iust reuenger of the +contrarie? This reason then moues me, that as he +is that same Deuill; and as craftie nowe as he was +then; so wil hee not spare a pertelie in these actiones +that I haue spoken of, concerning the witches +persones: But further, Witches oft times confesses +not only his conueening in the Church with them, +but his occupying of the Pulpit: Yea, their forme +of adoration, to be the kissing of his hinder partes. +Which though it seeme ridiculous, yet may it likewise +be true, seeing we reade that in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Calicute</span></span>, he appearing +in forme of a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Goate</span></span>-bucke, hath publicklie +that vn-honest homage done vnto him, by euerie +one of the people: So ambitious is he, and greedie +of honour (which procured his fall) that he will +euen imitate God in that parte, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Exo.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 33.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +where it is said, that +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Moyses</span></span> could see but the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">hinder partes of God, +for the brightnesse of his glorie</span></span>: And yet that speache is +spoken but ανθρωπωπαθειαν. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038"></span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc27" id="toc27"></a> +<a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. IIII.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What are the waies possible, wherby the witches may transport +themselues to places far distant, And what ar impossible +& mere illusiones of Sathan. And the reasons therof.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Bvt by what way say they or think ye it possible +that they can com to these vnlawful cõuentiõs? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> There is the thing which I esteeme their senses +to be deluded in, and though they lye not in +confessing of it, because they thinke it to be true, +yet not to be so in substance or effect: for they saie, +that by diuerse meanes they may conueene, either +to the adoring of their Master, or to the putting in +practise any seruice of his, committed vnto their +charge: one way is natural, which is natural riding, +going or sayling, at what houre their Master comes +and aduertises them. And this way may be easelie +beleued: an other way is some-what more strange: +and yet is it possible to be true: which is by being +carryed by the force of the Spirite which is their +conducter, either aboue the earth or aboue the Sea +swiftlie, to the place where they are to meet: which +I am perswaded to be likewaies possible, in respect +that as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Habakkuk</span></span> was carryed by the Angell in that +forme, to the denne where <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Daniell</span></span> laie; +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Apocrypha of Bell and the Dragon.</span></span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +so thinke I, +the Deuill will be reddie to imitate God, as well in +that as in other thinges: which is much more possible +to him to doe, being a Spirite, then to a mighty +winde, being but a naturall meteore, to transporte +from one place to an other a solide bodie, as is commonlie +and dailie seene in practise: But in this violent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039"></span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +forme they cannot be carryed, but a shorte +boundes, agreeing with the space that they may reteine +their breath: for if it were longer, their breath +could not remaine vnextinguished, their bodie being +carryed in such a violent & forceable maner, as +be example: If one fall off an small height, his life is +but in perrell, according to the harde or soft lighting: +But if one fall from an high and stay rocke, his +breath wilbe forceablie banished from the bodie, +before he can win to the earth, as is oft seen by experience. +And in this transporting they say themselues, +that they are inuisible to anie other, except +amongst themselues; which may also be possible in +my opinion. For if the deuil may forme what kinde +of impressiones he pleases in the aire, as I haue said +before, speaking of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>, why may he not far easilier +thicken & obscure so the air, that is next about +them by contracting it strait together, that the +beames of any other mans eyes, cannot pearce +thorow the same, to see them? But the third way of +their comming to their conuentions, is, that where +in I think them deluded: for some of them sayeth, +that being transformed in the likenesse of a little +beast or foule, they will come and pearce through +whatsoeuer house or Church, though all ordinarie +passages be closed, by whatsoeuer open, the aire +may enter in at. And some sayeth, that their bodies +lying stil as in an extasy, their spirits wil be rauished +out of their bodies, & caried to such places. And for +verefying therof, wil giue euident tokens, aswel by +witnesses that haue seene their body lying senseles +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page040"></span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in the meane time, as by naming persones, whom-with +they mette, and giuing tokens what purpose +was amongst them, whome otherwaies they could +not haue knowen: for this forme of journeing, they +affirme to vse most, when they are transported +from one Countrie to another. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Surelie I long to heare your owne opinion +of this: For they are like old wiues trattles about +the fire. The reasons that moues me to thinke that +these are meere illusiones, ar these. First for them +that are transformed in likenes of beastes or foules, +can enter through so narrow passages, although I +may easelie beleeue that the Deuill coulde by his +woorkemanshippe vpon the aire, make them appeare +to be in such formes, either to themselues or +to others: Yet how he can contract a solide bodie +within so little roome, I thinke it is directlie contrarie +to it selfe, for to be made so little, and yet not +diminished: To be so straitlie drawen together, +and yet feele no paine; I thinke it is so contrarie to +the qualitie of a naturall bodie, and so like to the +little transubstantiat god in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes Masse</span></span>, +that I can neuer beleeue it. So to haue a quantitie, is +so proper to a solide bodie, that as all Philosophers +conclude, it cannot be any more without one, +then a spirite can haue one. For when <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Peter</span></span> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">came out of the prison, +</span></span></p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Act. 12.</span></span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic"> +and the doores all locked</span></span>: It was not by +any contracting of his bodie in so little roome: but +by the giuing place of the dore, though vn-espyed +by the Gaylors. And yet is there no comparison, +when this is done, betuixt the power of God, and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041"></span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of the Deuill. As to their forme of extasie and spirituall +transporting, it is certaine the soules going +out of the bodie, is the onely difinition of naturall +death: and who are once dead, God forbid wee +should thinke that it should lie in the power of all +the Deuils in Hell, to restore them to their life againe: +Although he can put his owne spirite in a +dead bodie, which the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span> commonlie +practise, as yee haue harde. For that is the office +properly belonging to God; and besides that, the +soule once parting from the bodie, cannot wander +anie longer in the worlde, but to the owne resting +place must it goe immediatlie, abiding the +conjunction of the bodie againe, at the latter daie. +And what <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> or the Prophets did miraculouslie +in this case, it cannot in no Christian mans +opinion be maid common with the Deuill. As for +anie tokens that they giue for proouing of this, it +is verie possible to the Deuils craft, to perswade +them to these meanes. For he being a spirite, may +hee not so rauishe their thoughtes, and dull their +sences, that their bodie lying as dead, hee may object +to their spirites as it were in a dreame, & (as the +Poets write of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Morpheus</span></span>) represente such formes +of persones, of places, and other circumstances, as +he pleases to illude them with? Yea, that he maie +deceiue them with the greater efficacie, may hee +not at that same instant, by fellow angelles of his, +illude such other persones so in that same fashion, +whome with he makes them to beleeue that they +mette; that all their reportes and tokens, though +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042"></span><a name="Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +seuerallie examined, may euerie one agree with an +other. And that whatsoeuer actiones, either in +hurting men or beasts: or whatsoeuer other thing +that they falselie imagine, at that time to haue +done, may by himselfe or his marrowes, at that +same time be done indeede; so as if they would +giue for a token of their being rauished at the death +of such a person within so shorte space thereafter, +whom they beleeue to haue poysoned, or witched +at that instante, might hee not at that same houre, +haue smitten that same person by the permission +of GOD, to the farther deceiuing of them, +and to mooue others to beleeue them? And this is +surelie the likeliest way, and most according to reason, +which my judgement can finde out in this, +and whatsoeuer vther vnnaturall poyntes of their +confession. And by these meanes shall we saill surelie, +betuixt <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Charybdis</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scylla</span></span>, +in eschewing the not beleeuing of them altogether on the one part, +least that drawe vs to the errour that there is no +Witches: and on the other parte in beleeuing of it, +make vs to eschew the falling into innumerable +absurdities, both monstruouslie against all Theologie +diuine, and Philosophie humaine. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc29" id="toc29"></a> +<a name="pdf30" id="pdf30"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. V.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Witches actiones towardes others. Why there are more +women of that craft nor men? What thinges are possible +to them to effectuate by the power of their master. +The reasons thereof. What is the surest remedie of the +harmes done by them.</span></span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043"></span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Forsooth your opinion in this, seemes to carrie +most reason with it, and sence yee haue ended, +then the actions belonging properly to their owne +persones: say forwarde now to their actiones vsed +towardes others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> In their actiones vsed towardes others, +three thinges ought to be considered: First the maner +of their consulting thereupon: Next their part +as instrumentes: And last their masters parte, who +puts the same in execution. As to their consultationes +thereupon, they vse them oftest in the Churches, +where they conveene for adoring: at what +time their master enquiring at them what they +would be at: euerie one of them propones vnto +him, what wicked turne they would haue done, +either for obteining of riches, or for reuenging +them vpon anie whome they haue malice at: who +granting their demande, as no doubt willinglie +he wil, since it is to doe euill, he teacheth them the +means, wherby they may do the same. As for little +trifling turnes that women haue ado with, he causeth +them to ioynt dead corpses, & to make powders +thereof, mixing such other thinges there amongst, +as he giues vnto them. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But before yee goe further, permit mee I +pray you to interrupt you one worde, which yee +haue put mee in memorie of, by speaking of Women. +What can be the cause that there are twentie +women giuen to that craft, where ther is one man? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> The reason is easie, for as that sexe +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044"></span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +is frailer then man is, so is it easier to be intrapped +in these grosse snares of the Deuill, as was ouer +well proued to be true, by the Serpents deceiuing +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Eua</span></span> at the beginning, which makes him the +homelier with that sexe sensine. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Returne now where ye left. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> To some others at these times hee teacheth +how to make Pictures of waxe or clay: That +by the rosting thereof, the persones that they beare +the name of, may be continuallie melted or dryed +awaie by continuall sicknesse. To some hee giues +such stones or poulders, as will helpe to cure or +cast on diseases: And to some he teacheth kindes +of vncouthe poysons, which Mediciners vnderstandes +not (for he is farre cunningner then man in +the knowledge of all the occult proprieties of nature) +not that anie of these meanes which hee teacheth +them (except the poysons which are composed +of thinges naturall) can of them selues helpe +any thing to these turnes, that they are employed +in, but onelie being Gods Ape, as well in that, as in +all other thinges. Even as God by his Sacramentes +which are earthlie of themselues workes a heavenlie +effect, though no waies by any cooperation in +them: And </p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Iohn.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 9.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> by clay & spettle wrought +together, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">opened the eies of the blynd man</span></span>, suppose +there was no vertue in that which he outwardlie +applyed, so the Deuill will haue his out-warde +meanes to be shewes as it were of his doing, which +hath no part of cooperation in his turnes with +him, how farre that euer the ignorantes be abused +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045"></span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in the contrarie. And as to the effectes of these two +former partes, to wit, the consultationes and the +outward meanes, they are so wounderfull as I dare +not allege anie of them, without ioyning a sufficient +reason of the possibilitie thereof. For leauing +all the small trifles among wiues, and to speake of +the principall poyntes of their craft. For the common +trifles thereof, they can do without conuerting +well inough by themselues: These principall +poyntes I say are these: They can make men or women +to loue or hate other, which may be verie possible +to the Deuil to effectual, seing he being a subtile +spirite, knowes well inough how to perswade +the corrupted affection of them whom God will +permit him so to deale with: They can lay the siknesse +of one vpon an other, which likewise is verie +possible vnto him: For since by Gods permission, +he layed siknesse vpon <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Iob</span></span>, why may he not farre +easilier lay it vpon any other: For as an old practisian, +he knowes well inough what humor domines +most in anie of vs, and as a spirite hee can subtillie +walken vp the same, making it peccant, or to abounde, +as he thinkes meete for troubling of vs, +when God will so permit him. And for the taking +off of it, no doubt he will be glad to reliue such of +present paine, as he may thinke by these meanes to +perswade to bee catched in his euerlasting snares +and fetters. They can be-witch and take the life of +men or women, by rosting of the Pictures, as I +spake of before, which likewise is verie possible to +their Master to performe, for although, (as I saide +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page046"></span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +before) that instrumente of waxe haue no vertue +in that turne doing, yet may hee not verie well +euen by that same measure that his conjured +slaues meltes that waxe at the fire, may he not I say +at these same times, subtilie as a spirite so weaken +and scatter the spirites of life of the patient, as may +make him on th'one part, for faintnesse to sweate +out the humour of his bodie: And on the other +parte, for the not concurrence of these spirites, +which causes his digestion, so debilitat his stomak, +that his humour radicall continually, sweating out +on the one parte, and no new good suck being put +in the place thereof, for lack of digestion on the +other, hee at last shall vanish awaie, euen as his +picture will doe at the fire. And that knauish and +cunning woorkeman, by troubling him onely at +some times, makes a proportion so neare betuixt +the woorking of the one and the other, that both +shall ende as it were at one time. They can rayse +stormes and tempestes in the aire, either vpon Sea +or land, though not vniuersally, but in such a particular +place and prescribed boundes, as God will +permitte them so to trouble: Which likewise is +verie easie to be discerned from anie other naturall +tempestes that are meteores, in respect of the +suddaine and violent raising thereof, together with +the short induring of the same. And this is likewise +verie possible to their master to do, he hauing such +affinitie with the aire as being a spirite, and hauing +such power of the forming and moouing +thereof, as ye haue heard me alreadie declare: For +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047"></span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in the Scripture, that stile of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the Prince of the aire</span></span> +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Ephes.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 2.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +is giuen vnto him. They can make folkes to becom +phrenticque or Maniacque, which likewise is very +possible to their master to do, sence they are but naturall +sicknesses: and so he may lay on these kindes, +aswell as anie others. They can make spirites either +to follow and trouble persones, or haunt certaine +houses, and affraie oftentimes the inhabitantes: as +hath bene knowen to be done by our Witches at +this time. And likewise they can make some to be +possessed with spirites, & so to becom verie Dæmoniacques: +and this last sorte is verie possible likewise +to the Deuill their Master to do, since he may easilie +send his owne angells to trouble in what forme +he pleases, any whom God wil permit him so to vse. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But will God permit these wicked instrumentes +by the power of the Deuill their master, to +trouble by anie of these meanes, anie that beleeues +in him? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> No doubt, for there are three kinde of +folkes whom God will permit so to be tempted or +troubled; the wicked for their horrible sinnes, to +punish them in the like measure; The godlie that +are sleeping in anie great sinnes or infirmities and +weakenesse in faith, to waken them vp the faster by +such an vncouth forme: and euen some of the +best, that their patience may bee tryed before the +world, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Iobs</span></span> was. For why may not God vse anie +kinde of extraordinarie punishment, when it pleases +him; as well as the ordinarie roddes of sicknesse +or other aduersities. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page048"></span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Who then may be free from these Deuilish +practises? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> No man ought to presume so far as to promise +anie impunitie to himselfe: for God hath before +all beginninges preordinated aswell the particular +sortes of Plagues as of benefites for euerie +man, which in the owne time he ordaines them to +be visited with, & yet ought we not to be the more +affrayde for that, of any thing that the Deuill and +his wicked instrumentes can do against vs: For we +dailie fight against the Deuill in a hundreth other +waies: And therefore as a valiant Captaine, affraies +no more being at the combat, nor stayes from his +purpose for the rummishing shot of a Cannon, nor +the small clack of a Pistolet: suppose he be not certaine +what may light vpon him; Euen so ought we +boldlie to goe forwarde in fighting against the Deuill +without anie greater terrour, for these his rarest +weapons, nor for the ordinarie whereof wee haue +daily the proofe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Is it not lawfull then by the helpe of some +other Witche to cure the disease that is casten on +by that craft? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> No waies lawfull: For I gaue you the reason +thereof in that axiome of Theologie, which +was the last wordes I spake of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> How then may these diseases be lawfullie +cured? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Onelie by earnest prayer to GOD, by +amendement of their liues, and by sharp persewing +euerie one, according to his calling of these instrumentes +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page049"></span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of Sathan, whose punishment to the death +will be a salutarie sacrifice for the patient. And this +is not onely the lawfull way, but likewise the most +sure: For by the Deuils meanes, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">can neuer the Deuill +be casten out</span></span>, </p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Mark.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 3.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +as Christ sayeth. And when such a cure +is vsed, it may wel serue for a shorte time, but at the +last, it will doubtleslie tend to the vtter perdition of +the patient, both in bodie and soule. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc31" id="toc31"></a> +<a name="pdf32" id="pdf32"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. VI.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What sorte of folkes are least or most subiect to receiue +harme by Witchcraft. What power they haue to harme +the Magistrate, and vpon what respectes they haue any +power in prison: And to what end may or will the Deuill +appeare to them therein. Vpon what respectes the +Deuill appeires in sundry shapes to sundry of them at +any time.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Bvt who dare take vpon him to punish them, if +no man can be sure to be free from their vnnaturall +inuasiones? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> We ought not the more of that restraine +from vertue, that the way wherby we climbe thereunto +be straight and perrilous. But besides that, as +there is no kinde of persones so subject to receiue +harme of them, as these that are of infirme and +weake faith (which is the best buckler against such +inuasiones:) so haue they so smal power ouer none, +as ouer such as zealouslie and earnestlie persewes +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page050"></span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +them, without sparing for anie worldlie respect. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Then they are like the Pest, which smites +these sickarest, that flies it farthest, and apprehends +deepliest the perrell thereof. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> It is euen so with them: For neither is it able +to them to vse anie false cure vpon a patient, except +the patient first beleeue in their power, and +so hazard the tinsell of his owne soule, nor yet can +they haue lesse power to hurte anie, nor such as +contemnes most their doinges, so being it comes +of faith, and not of anie vaine arrogancie in themselues. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But what is their power against the Magistrate? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Lesse or greater, according as he deales +with them. For if he be slouthfull towardes them, +God is verie able to make them instrumentes to +waken & punish his slouth. But if he be the contrarie, +he according to the iust law of God, and allowable +law of all Nationes, will be diligent in examining +and punishing of them: GOD will not +permit their master to trouble or hinder so good a +woorke. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But fra they be once in handes and firmance, +haue they anie further power in their +craft? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That is according to the forme of their +detention. If they be but apprehended and deteined +by anie priuate person, vpon other priuate respectes, +their power no doubt either in escaping, +or in doing hurte, is no lesse nor euer it was before. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051"></span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +But if on the other parte, their apprehending +and detention be by the lawfull Magistrate, vpon +the iust respectes of their guiltinesse in that craft, +their power is then no greater then before that +euer they medled with their master. For where +God beginnes iustlie to strike by his lawfull Lieutennentes, +it is not in the Deuilles power to defraude +or bereaue him of the office, or effect of his +powerfull and reuenging Scepter. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But will neuer their master come to visite +them, fra they be once apprehended and put in firmance? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That is according to the estaite that these +miserable wretches are in: For if they be obstinate +in still denying, he will not spare, when he findes +time to speake with them, either if he finde them in +anie comfort, to fill them more and more with the +vaine hope of some maner of reliefe: or else if hee +finde them in a deepe dispaire, by all meanes to +augment the same, and to perswade them by some +extraordinarie meanes to put themselues downe, +which verie commonlie they doe. But if they be +penitent and confesse, God will not permit him to +trouble them anie more with his presence and allurementes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> It is not good vsing his counsell I see +then. But I woulde earnestlie know when he appeares +to them in Prison, what formes vses he then +to take? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Diuers formes, euen as he vses to do at other +times vnto them. For as I told you, speking of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page052"></span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +he appeares to that kinde of craftes-men ordinarily +in an forme, according as they agree vpon it amongst +themselues: Or if they be but prentises, according +to the qualitie of their circles or conjurationes: +Yet to these capped creatures, he appeares +as he pleases, and as he findes meetest for their humors. +For euen at their publick conuentiones, he +appeares to diuers of them in diuers formes, as we +haue found by the difference of their confessiones +in that point: For he deluding them with vaine impressiones +in the aire, makes himselfe to seeme +more terrible to the grosser sorte, that they maie +thereby be moued to feare and reuerence him the +more: And les monstrous and vncouthlike againe +to the craftier sorte, least otherwaies they might +sturre and skunner at his vglinesse. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> How can he then be felt, as they confesse +they haue done him, if his bodie be but of aire? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I heare little of that amongst their confessiones, +yet may he make himselfe palpable, either +by assuming any dead bodie, and vsing the ministrie +thereof, or else by deluding as wel their sence +of feeling as seeing; which is not impossible to him +to doe, since all our senses, as we are so weake, and +euen by ordinarie sicknesses will be often times deluded. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But I would speere one worde further +yet, concerning his appearing to them in prison, +which is this. May any other that chances to be +present at that time in the prison, see him as well as +they. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053"></span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Some-times they will, and some-times +not, as it pleases God. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc33" id="toc33"></a> +<a name="pdf34" id="pdf34"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. VII.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Two formes of the deuils visible conuersing in the earth, +with the reasones wherefore the one of them was communest +in the time of Papistrie: And the other sensine. +Those that denies the power of the Deuill, denies +the power of God, and are guiltie of the errour of the +Sadduces.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Hath the Deuill then power to appeare to any +other, except to such as are his sworne disciples: +especially since al Oracles, & such like kinds of +illusiones were taken awaie and abolished by the +cumming of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span>? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Although it be true indeede, that the +brightnesse of the Gospell at his cumming, scaled +the cloudes of all these grosse errors in the Gentilisme: +yet that these abusing spirites, ceases not sensine +at sometimes to appeare, dailie experience teaches +vs. Indeede this difference is to be marked betwixt +the formes of Sathans conuersing visiblie in +the world. For of two different formes thereof, the +one of them by the spreading of the Euangell, and +conquest of the white horse, in the sixt Chapter of +the Reuelation, is much hindred and become rarer +there through. This his appearing to any Christians, +troubling of them outwardly, or possessing +of them constraynedly. The other of them is become +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054"></span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +communer and more vsed sensine, I meane +by their vnlawfull artes, whereupon our whole +purpose hath bene. This we finde by experience in +this Ile to be true. For as we know, moe Ghostes +and spirites were seene, nor tongue can tell, in the +time of blinde <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistrie</span></span> in these Countries, where +now by the contrarie, a man shall scarcely all his +time here once of such things. And yet were these +vnlawfull artes farre rarer at that time: and neuer +were so much harde of, nor so rife as they are +now. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> What should be the cause of that? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> The diuerse nature of our sinnes procures +at the Iustice of God, diuerse sortes of punishments +answering thereunto. And therefore as in the time +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistrie</span></span>, our fathers erring grosselie, & through +ignorance, that mist of errours ouershaddowed the +Deuill to walke the more familiarlie amongst +them: And as it were by barnelie and affraying +terroures, to mocke and accuse their barnelie erroures. +By the contrarie, we now being sounde of +Religion, and in our life rebelling to our profession, +God iustlie by that sinne of rebellion, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Samuel</span></span> +calleth it, accuseth our life so wilfullie fighting against +our profession. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Since yee are entred now to speake of +the appearing of spirites: I would be glad to heare +your opinion in that matter. For manie denies +that anie such spirites can appeare in these daies +as I haue said. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Doubtleslie who denyeth the power of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055"></span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the Deuill, woulde likewise denie the power of +God, if they could for shame. For since the Deuill +is the verie contrarie opposite to God, there can be +no better way to know God, then by the contrarie; +as by the ones power (though a creature) to admire +the power of the great Creator: by the falshood of +the one to considder the trueth of the other, by the +injustice of the one, to considder the Iustice of the +other: And by the cruelty of the one, to considder +the mercifulnesse of the other: And so foorth in +all the rest of the essence of God, and qualities of +the Deuill. But I feare indeede, there be ouer many +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sadduces</span></span> in this worlde, that denies all kindes of +spirites: For convicting of whose errour, there +is cause inough if there were no more, +that God should permit at sometimes +spirits visiblie to kyith. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page056"></span><a name="Pg056" id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc35" id="toc35"></a> +<a name="pdf36" id="pdf36"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Thirde Booke.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The description of all these kindes of +Spirites that troubles men or women. +The conclusion of the whole +Dialogue.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc37" id="toc37"></a> +<a name="pdf38" id="pdf38"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. I.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The diuision of spirites in foure principall kindes. The description +of the first kinde of them, called </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Spectra & +vmbræ mortuorum</span></span><span style="font-style: italic">. What is the best way to be free +of their trouble.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I pray you now then go forward +in telling what ye thinke fabulous, +or may be trowed in that +case. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That kinde of the Deuils +conuersing in the earth, +may be diuided in foure different +kindes, whereby he affrayeth and troubleth +the bodies of men: For of the abusing of the soule, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page057"></span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +I haue spoken alreadie. The first is, where spirites +troubles some houses or solitarie places: The second, +where spirites followes vpon certaine persones, +and at diuers houres troubles them: The +thirde, when they enter within them and possesse +them: The fourth is these kinde of spirites that are +called vulgarlie the Fayrie. Of the three former +kindes, ye harde alreadie, how they may artificiallie +be made by Witch-craft to trouble folke: Now +it restes to speake of their naturall comming as it +were, and not raysed by Witch-craft. But generally +I must for-warne you of one thing before I enter in +this purpose: that is, that although in my discourseing +of them, I deuyde them in diuers kindes, yee +must notwithstanding there of note my Phrase of +speaking in that: For doubtleslie they are in effect, +but all one kinde of spirites, who for abusing the +more of mankinde, takes on these sundrie shapes, +and vses diuerse formes of out-ward actiones, as if +some were of nature better then other. Nowe I +returne to my purpose: As to the first kinde of these +spirites, that were called by the auncients by diuers +names, according as their actions were. For if they +were spirites that haunted some houses, by appearing +in diuers and horrible formes, and making +greate dinne: they were called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lemures</span></span> +or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Spectra</span></span>. +If they appeared in likenesse of anie defunct to +some friends of his, they wer called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">vmbræ mortuorum</span></span>: +And so innumerable stiles they got, according +to their actiones, as I haue said alreadie. As we +see by experience, how manie stiles they haue given +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page058"></span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +them in our language in the like maner: Of +the appearing of these spirites, wee are certified +by the Scriptures, where the Prophet <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Esay</span></span> 13. +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Esay.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 13. +</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Iere.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 50.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> and +34. cap. threatning the destruction of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Babell</span></span> and +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Edom</span></span>: +declares, that it shal not onlie be wracked, but +shall become so greate a solitude, as it shall be the +habitackle of Howlettes, and of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ziim</span></span> and +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Iim</span></span>, +which are the proper Hebrewe names for these +Spirites. The cause whie they haunte solitarie +places, it is by reason, that they may affraie and +brangle the more the faith of suche as them alone +hauntes such places. For our nature is such, +as in companies wee are not so soone mooued +to anie such kinde of feare, as being solitare, which +the Deuill knowing well inough, hee will not +therefore assaile vs but when we are weake: And +besides that, GOD will not permit him so to +dishonour the societies and companies of Christians, +as in publicke times and places to walke +visiblie amongst them. On the other parte, when +he troubles certaine houses that are dwelt in, it is a +sure token either of grosse ignorance, or of some +grosse and slanderous sinnes amongst the inhabitantes +thereof: which God by that extraordinarie +rod punishes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But by what way or passage can these +Spirites enter in these houses, seeing they alledge +that they will enter, Doore and Window being +steiked? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> They will choose the passage for their +entresse, according to the forme that they are in at +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059"></span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that time. For if they haue assumed a deade bodie, +whereinto they lodge themselues, they can +easely inough open without dinne anie Doore +or Window, and enter in thereat. And if they +enter as a spirite onelie, anie place where the aire +may come in at, is large inough an entrie for them: +For as I said before, a spirite can occupie no quantitie. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> And will God then permit these wicked +spirites to trouble the reste of a dead bodie, before +the resurrection thereof? Or if he will so, I thinke +it should be of the reprobate onely. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> What more is the reste troubled of a +dead bodie, when the Deuill carryes it out of +the Graue to serue his turne for a space, nor +when the Witches takes it vp and joyntes it, or +when as Swine wortes vppe the graues? The rest +of them that the Scripture speakes of, is not meaned +by a locall remaining continuallie in one +place, but by their resting from their trauelles +and miseries of this worlde, while their latter conjunction +againe with the soule at that time to receaue +full glorie in both. And that the Deuill may +vse aswell the ministrie of the bodies of the faithfull +in these cases, as of the vn-faithfull, there is +no inconvenient; for his haunting with their bodies +after they are deade, can no-waies defyle +them: In respect of the soules absence. And for +anie dishonour it can be vnto them, by what reason +can it be greater, then the hanging, heading, or many +such shameful deaths, that good men will suffer? +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page060"></span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +for there is nothing in the bodies of the faithfull, +more worthie of honour, or freer from corruption +by nature, nor in these of the vnfaithful, while time +they be purged and glorified in the latter daie, as is +dailie seene by the vilde diseases and corruptions, +that the bodies of the faythfull are subject vnto, as +yee will see clearelie proued, when I speake of the +possessed and Dæmoniacques. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Yet there are sundrie that affirmes to haue +haunted such places, where these spirites are alleaged +to be: And coulde neuer heare nor see anie +thing. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I thinke well: For that is onelie reserued to +the secreete knowledge of God, whom he wil permit +to see such thinges, and whome not. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But where these spirites hauntes and troubles +anie houses, what is the best waie to banishe +them? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> By two meanes may onelie the remeid of +such things be procured: The one is ardent prayer +to God, both of these persones that are troubled +with them, and of that Church whereof they are. +The other is the purging of themselues by amendement +of life from such sinnes, as haue procured that +extraordinarie plague. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> And what meanes then these kindes of +spirites, when they appeare in the shaddow of a +person newlie dead, or to die, to his friendes? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> When they appeare vpon that occasion, +they are called Wraithes in our language. Amongst +the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Gentiles</span></span> the Deuill vsed that much, to make +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061"></span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +them beleeue that it was some good spirite that +appeared to them then, ether to forewarne them of +the death of their friend; or else to discouer vnto +them, the will of the defunct, or what was the way +of his slauchter, as is written in the booke of the +histories Prodigious. And this way hee easelie deceiued +the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Gentiles</span></span>, because they knew not God: +And to that same effect is it, that he now appeares +in that maner to some ignorant Christians. For he +dare not so illude anie that knoweth that, neither +can the spirite of the defunct returne to his friend, +or yet an Angell vse such formes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> And are not our war-woolfes one sorte +of these spirits also, that hauntes and troubles some +houses or dwelling places? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> There hath indeede bene an old opinion +of such like thinges; For by the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Greekes</span></span> they were +called λυκανθρωποι which signifieth men-woolfes. +But to tell you simplie my opinion in this, if anie +such thing hath bene, I take it to haue proceeded +but of a naturall super-abundance of Melancholie, +which as wee reade, that it hath made some +thinke themselues Pitchers, and some horses, and +some one kinde of beast or other: So suppose I +that it hath so viciat the imagination and memorie +of some, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">per lucida interualla</span></span>, it hath so highlie occupyed +them, that they haue thought themselues +verrie Woolfes indeede at these times: and so haue +counterfeited their actiones in goeing on their +handes and feete, preassing to deuoure women and +barnes, fighting and snatching with all the towne +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page062"></span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +dogges, and in vsing such like other bruitish actiones, +and so to become beastes by a strong apprehension, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Dan.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 4.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Nebucad-netzar</span></span> was seuen yeares: but as +to their hauing and hyding of their hard & schellie +sloughes, I take that to be but eiked, by vncertaine +report, the author of all lyes. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc39" id="toc39"></a> +<a name="pdf40" id="pdf40"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. II.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The description of the next two kindes of Spirites, +whereof the one followes outwardlie, the other +possesses inwardlie the persones that they trouble. +That since all Prophecies and visiones are nowe +ceased, all spirites that appeares in these formes are +euill.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Come forward now to the reste of these kindes +of spirites. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> As to the next two kindes, that is, either +these that outwardlie troubles and followes some +persones, or else inwardlie possesses them: I will +conjoyne them in one, because aswel the causes ar +alike in the persons that they are permitted to trouble: +as also the waies whereby they may be remedied +and cured. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> What kinde of persones are they that +vses to be so troubled? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Two kindes in speciall: Either such as +being guiltie of greeuous offences, God punishes +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063"></span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +by that horrible kinde of scourdge, or else being +persones of the beste nature peraduenture, that +yee shall finde in all the Countrie about them, +GOD permittes them to be troubled in that sort, +for the tryall of their patience, and wakening vp of +their zeale, for admonishing of the beholders, +not to truste ouer much in themselues, since they +are made of no better stuffe, and peraduenture +blotted with no smaller sinnes (as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> saide, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Luc.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 13.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +speaking of them vppon whome the Towre in +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Siloam</span></span> fell:) And for giuing likewise to the spectators, +matter to prayse GOD, that they meriting +no better, are yet spared from being corrected +in that fearefull forme. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> These are good reasones for the parte +of GOD, which apparantlie mooues him so to +permit the Deuill to trouble such persones. But +since the Deuil hath euer a contrarie respecte in all +the actiones that GOD employes him in: which +is I pray you the end and mark he shoots at in this +turne? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> It is to obtaine one of two thinges thereby, +if he may: The one is the tinsell of their life, +by inducing them to such perrilous places at such +time as he either followes or possesses them, which +may procure the same: And such like, so farre +as GOD will permit him, by tormenting them +to weaken their bodie, and caste them in incurable +diseases. The other thinge that hee preases +to obteine by troubling of them, is the tinsell +of their soule, by intising them to mistruste +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064"></span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and blaspheme God: Either for the intollerablenesse +of their tormentes, as he assayed to haue done +with <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Iob</span></span>; +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Iob.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> i.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +or else for his promising vnto them to +leaue the troubling of them, incase they would so +do, as is knowen by experience at this same time by +the confession of a young one that was so troubled. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Since ye haue spoken now of both these +kindes of spirites comprehending them in one: +I must nowe goe backe againe in speering some +questions of euerie one of these kindes in speciall. +And first for these that followes certaine persones, +yee know that there are two sortes of them: One +sorte that troubles and tormentes the persones that +they haunt with: An other sort that are seruiceable +vnto them in all kinde of their necessaries, and omittes +neuer to forwarne them of anie suddaine +perrell that they are to be in. And so in this case, I +would vnderstande whither both these sortes be +but wicked and damned spirites: Or if the last sorte +be rather Angells, (as should appeare by their actiones) +sent by God to assist such as he speciallie fauoures. +For it is written in the Scriptures, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Gen.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 32. +1. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Kin.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 6. +</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Psal.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 34.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +that <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">God +sendes Legions of Angels to guarde and watch ouer his +elect</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I know well inough where fra that errour +which ye alleage hath proceeded: For it was the +ignorant <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Gentiles</span></span> that were the fountaine thereof. +Who for that they knew not God, they forged in +their owne imaginationes, euery man to be still accompanied +with two spirites, whereof they called +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065"></span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the one <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">genius bonus</span></span>, +the other <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">genius malus</span></span>: the +Greekes called them ευδαιμονα & κακοδαιμονα: wherof +the former they saide, perswaded him to all the +good he did: the other entised him to all the euill. +But praised be God we that are christians, & walks +not amongst the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Cymmerian</span></span> conjectures of man, +knowes well inough, that it is the good spirite of +God onely, who is the fountain of all goodnes, that +perswads vs to the thinking or doing of any good: +and that it is our corrupted fleshe and Sathan, that +intiseth vs to the contrarie. And yet the Deuill for +confirming in the heades of ignoraunt Christians, +that errour first mainteined among the Gentiles, he +whiles among the first kinde of spirits that I speak +of, appeared in time of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistrie</span></span> and blindnesse, +and haunted diuers houses, without doing any euill, +but doing as it were necessarie turnes vp and +down the house: and this spirit they called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Brownie</span></span> +in our language, who appeared like a rough-man: +yea, some were so blinded, as to beleeue that their +house was all the sonsier, as they called it, that such +spirites resorted there. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But since the Deuils intention in all his actions, +is euer to do euill, what euill was there in that +forme of doing, since their actions outwardly were +good. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Was it not euill inough to deceiue simple +ignorantes, in making them to take him for an Angell +of light, and so to account of Gods enemie, as +of their particular friend: where by the contrarie, +all we that are Christians, ought assuredly to know +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066"></span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that since the comming of Christ in the flesh, and establishing +of his Church by the Apostles, all miracles, +visions, prophecies, & appearances of Angels +or good spirites are ceased. Which serued onely for +the first sowing of faith, & planting of the Church. +Where now the Church being established, and the +white Horse whereof I spake before, hauing made +his conqueste, the Lawe and Prophets are thought +sufficient to serue vs, or make vs inexcusable, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Luk.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 16.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +as Christ saith in his parable of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lazarus</span></span> and the riche +man. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc41" id="toc41"></a> +<a name="pdf42" id="pdf42"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. III.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The description of a particular sort of that kind of following +spirites, called </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Incubi</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> and </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Succubi</span></span><span style="font-style: italic">: +And what is the reason wherefore these kindes of spirites hauntes +most the Northeme and barbarous partes of the world.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The next question that I would speere, is likewise +concerning this first of these two kindes +of spirites that ye haue conjoyned: and it is this; ye +knowe how it is commonly written and reported, +that amongst the rest of the sortes of spirites that +followes certaine persons, there is one more monstrous +nor al the rest: in respect as it is alleaged, they +converse naturally with them whom they trouble +and hauntes with: and therefore I would knowe in +two thinges your opinion herein: First if suche a +thing can be: and next if it be: whether there be a +difference of sexes amongst these spirites or not. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That abhominable kinde of the Deuils +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067"></span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +abusing of men or women, was called of old, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Incubi</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Succubi</span></span>, according to the difference of the +sexes that they conuersed with. By two meanes +this great kinde of abuse might possibly be performed: +The one, when the Deuill onelie as a spirite, +and stealing out the sperme of a dead bodie, abuses +them that way, they not graithlie seeing anie +shape or feeling anie thing, but that which he so +conuayes in that part: As we reade of a Monasterie +of Nunnes which were burnt for their being that +way abused. The other meane is when he borrowes +a dead bodie and so visiblie, and as it seemes +vnto them naturallie as a man converses with +them. But it is to be noted, that in whatsoeuer way +he vseth it, that sperme seemes intollerably cold to +the person abused. For if he steale out the nature of +a quick person, it cannot be so quicklie carryed, +but it will both tine the strength and heate by the +way, which it could neuer haue had for lacke of +agitation, which in the time of procreation is the +procurer & wakener vp of these two natural qualities. +And if he occupying the dead bodie as his +lodging expell the same out thereof in the dewe +time, it must likewise be colde by the participation +with the qualities of the dead bodie whereout of +it comes. And whereas yee inquire if these spirites +be diuided in sexes or not, I thinke the rules +of Philosophie may easelie resolue a man of the +contrarie: For it is a sure principle of that arte, +that nothing can be diuided in sexes, except such +liuing bodies as must haue a naturall seede to genere +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068"></span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +by. But we know spirites hath no seede proper +to themselues, nor yet can they gender one +with an other. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> How is it then that they say sundrie monsters +haue bene gotten by that way. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> These tales are nothing +but <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Aniles fabulæ</span></span>. +For that they haue no nature of their owne, I haue +shewed you alreadie. And that the cold nature of a +dead bodie, can woorke nothing in generation, it +is more nor plaine, as being already dead of it selfe +as well as the rest of the bodie is, wanting the naturall +heate, and such other naturall operation, as is +necessarie for woorking that effect, and incase such +a thing were possible (which were all utterly against +all the rules of nature) it would breed no monster, +but onely such a naturall of-spring, as would haue +cummed betuixt that man or woman and that other +abused person, in-case they both being aliue +had had a doe with other. For the Deuilles parte +therein, is but the naked carrying or expelling of +that substance: And so it coulde not participate +with no qualitie of the same. Indeede, it is possible +to the craft of the Deuill to make a womans bellie +to swel after he hath that way abused her, which he +may do, either by steiring vp her own humor, or by +herbes, as we see beggars daily doe. And when the +time of her deliuery should come to make her thoil +great doloures, like vnto that naturall course, and +then subtillie to slippe in the Mid-wiues handes, +stockes, stones, or some monstruous barne brought +from some other place, but this is more reported +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069"></span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and gessed at by others, nor beleeued by me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But what is the cause that this kinde of +abuse is thought to be most common in such wild +partes of the worlde, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lap-land</span></span>, +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fin-land</span></span>, or in +our North Iles of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Orknay</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Schet-land</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Because where the Deuill findes greatest +ignorance and barbaritie, there assayles he grosseliest, +as I gaue you the reason wherefore there was +moe Witches of women kinde nor men. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Can anie be so vnhappie as to giue their +willing consent to the Deuilles vilde abusing them +in this forme. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Yea, some of the Witches haue confessed, +that he hath perswaded them to giue their willing +consent thereunto, that he may thereby haue them +feltred the sikarer in his snares; But as the other +compelled sorte is to be pittied and prayed for, so +is this most highlie to be punished and detested. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> It is not the thing which we +cal the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mare</span></span>, +which takes folkes sleeping in their bedds, a kinde +of these spirites, whereof ye are speaking? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> No, that is but a naturall sicknes, which +the Mediciners hath giuen that name of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Incubus</span></span> +vnto <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ab incubando</span></span>, because it being a thicke fleume, +falling into our breast vpon the harte, while we are +sleeping, intercludes so our vitall spirites, and takes +all power from vs, as maks vs think that there were +some vnnaturall burden or spirite, lying vpon vs +and holding vs downe. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page070"></span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc43" id="toc43"></a> +<a name="pdf44" id="pdf44"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. IIII.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The description of the Dæmoniackes & possessed. By what +reason the </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> may haue power to cure them.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Wel, I haue told you now all my doubts, +and ye haue satisfied me therein, concerning +the first of these two kindes of spirites that ye +haue conjoyned. Now I am to inquire onely two +thinges at you concerning the last kinde, I meane +the Dæmoniackes. The first is, whereby shal these +possessed folks be discerned fra them that ar trubled +with a natural Phrensie or Manie. The next is, how +can it be that they can be remedied by the Papistes +Church, whome wee counting as Hereticques, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Mat.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 12. +</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Mark.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 3.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +it should appeare that one Deuil should not cast out +an other, for then would <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">his kingdome be diuided in +it selfe</span></span>, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> said. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> As to your first question; there are diuers +symptomes, whereby that heauie trouble may be +discerned from a naturall sickenesse, and speciallie +three, omitting the diuers vaine signes that the +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes</span></span> attributes vnto it: Such as the raging at holie +water, their fleeing a back from the Croce, their +not abiding the hearing of God named, and innumerable +such like vaine thinges that were alike fashious +and feckles to recite. But to come to these +three symptomes then, whereof I spake, I account +the one of them to be the incredible strength of the +possessed creature, which will farre exceede the +strength of six of the wightest and wodest of any +other men that are not so troubled. The next is the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071"></span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +boldning vp so far of the patients breast and bellie, +with such an vnnaturall sturring and vehement agitation +within them: And such an ironie hardnes +of his sinnowes so stiffelie bended out, that it were +not possible to prick out as it were the skinne of anie +other person so far: so mightely works the Deuil +in all the members and senses of his body, he being +locallie within the same, suppose of his soule +and affectiones thereof, hee haue no more power +then of any other mans. The last is, the speaking of +sundrie languages, which the patient is knowen by +them that were acquainte with him neuer to haue +learned, and that with an vncouth and hollowe +voice, and al the time of his speaking, a greater motion +being in his breast then in his mouth. But fra +this last symptome is excepted such, as are altogether +in the time of their possessing bereft of al their +senses being possessed with a dumme and blynde +spirite, whereof Christ releiued one, in the 12. of +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mathew</span></span>. And as to your next demande, it is first to +be doubted if the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes</span></span> or anie not professing the +the onelie true Religion, can relieue anie of that +trouble. And next, in-case they can, vpon what respectes +it is possible vnto them. As to the former vpon +two reasons, it is grounded: first that it is knowen +so manie of them to bee counterfite, which +wyle the Clergie inuentes for confirming of their +rotten Religion. The next is, that by experience +we finde that few, who are possessed indeede, are +fullie cured by them: but rather the Deuill is content +to release the bodelie hurting of them, for a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072"></span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +shorte space, thereby to obteine the perpetual hurt +of the soules of so many that by these false miracles +may be induced or confirmed in the profession of +that erroneous Religion: euen as I told you before +that he doth in the false cures, or casting off of diseases +by Witches. As to the other part of the argument +in-case they can, which rather (with reuerence +of the learned thinking otherwaies) I am induced +to beleeue, by reason of the faithfull report +that men sound of religion, haue made according +to their sight thereof, I think if so be, I say these may +be the respectes, whereupon the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes</span></span> may haue +that power. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> gaue a commission and power +to his Apostles to cast out Deuilles, which they +according thereunto put in execution: The rules +he bad them obserue in that action, was fasting and +praier: & the action it selfe to be done in his name. +This power of theirs proceeded not then of anie +vertue in them, but onely in him who directed +them. As was clearly proued by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Iudas</span></span> his hauing as +greate power in that commission, as anie of the +reste. It is easie then to be vnderstand that the casting +out of Deuilles, is by the vertue of fasting and +prayer, and in-calling of the name of God, suppose +manie imperfectiones be in the person that is +the instrumente,</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Mat.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 7.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> him selfe teacheth vs +of the power that false Prophets sall haue to caste +out Devils. It is no wounder then, these respects of +this action being considered, that it may be possible +to the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistes</span></span>, though erring in sundrie points +of Religion to accomplish this, if they vse the right +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page073"></span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +forme prescribed by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> herein. For what the +worse is that action that they erre in other thinges, +more then their Baptisme is the worse that they +erre in the other Sacrament, and haue eiked many +vaine freittes to the Baptisme it selfe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Surelie it is no little wonder that God +should permit the bodies of anie of the faithfull to +be so dishonoured, as to be a dwelling place to that +vncleane spirite. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> There is it which I told right now, would +prooue and strengthen my argument of the deuils +entring 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 soule: how much +more will God permit him to enter in their dead +carions, which is no more man, but the filthie and +corruptible caise of man. For as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span> sayth, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Mark.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 7.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It is not any thing that enters within man that defiles him, +but onely that which proccedes and commeth out of him</span></span>. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc45" id="toc45"></a> +<a name="pdf46" id="pdf46"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. V.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The description of the fourth kinde of Spirites called the</span></span> +Phairie: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What is possible therein, and what is but +illusiones. How far this Dialogue entreates of all these +thinges, and to what end.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Now I pray you come on to that fourth kinde +of spirites. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> That fourth kinde of spirites, which by +the Gentiles was called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Diana</span></span>, and her wandring +court, and amongst vs was called the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Phairie</span></span> (as I +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074"></span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +tould you) or our good neighboures, was one of +the sortes of illusiones that was rifest in the time +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Papistrie</span></span>: for although it was holden odious to +Prophesie by the deuill, yet whome these kinde of +Spirites carryed awaie, and informed, they were +thought to be sonsiest and of best life. To speake of +the many vaine trattles founded vpon that illusion: +How there was a King and Queene of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Phairie</span></span>, of +such a iolly court & train as they had, how they had +a teynd, & dutie, as it were, of all goods: how they +naturallie rode and went, eate and drank, and did +all other actiones like naturall men and women: I +thinke it liker <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Virgils</span></span> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Campi Elysij</span></span>, nor anie thing +that ought to be beleeued by Christians, except in +generall, that as I spake sundrie times before, the +deuil illuded the senses of sundry simple creatures, +in making them beleeue that they saw and harde +such thinges as were nothing so indeed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But how can it be then, that sundrie Witches +haue gone to death with that confession, that +they haue ben transported with the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Phairie</span></span> to such +a hill, which opening, they went in, and there saw a +faire Queene, who being now lighter, gaue them a +stone that had sundrie vertues, which at sundrie +times hath bene produced in judgement? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I say that, euen as I said before of that imaginar +rauishing of the spirite foorth of the bodie. +For may not the deuil object to their fantasie, their +senses being dulled, and as it were a sleepe, such +hilles & houses within them, such glistering courts +and traines, and whatsoeuer such like wherewith +he pleaseth to delude them. And in the meane +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075"></span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +time their bodies being senselesse, to conuay in +their hande any stone or such like thing, which he +makes them to imagine to haue receiued in such a +place. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But what say ye to their fore-telling the +death of sundrie persones, whome they alleage to +haue scene in these places? That is, a sooth-dreame +(as they say) since they see it walking. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I thinke that either they haue not bene +sharply inough examined, that gaue so blunt a reason +for their Prophesie, or otherwaies, I thinke it +likewise as possible that the Deuill may prophesie +to them when he deceiues their imaginationes in +that sorte, as well as when he plainely speakes vnto +them at other times for their prophesying, is but +by a kinde of vision, as it were, wherein he commonly +counterfeits God among the Ethnicks, as I +told you before. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> I would know now whether these kindes +of spirites may only appeare to Witches, or if they +may also appeare to anie other. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> They may do to both, to the innocent sort, +either to affraie them, or to seeme to be a better +sorte of folkes nor vncleane spirites are, and to the +Witches, to be a cullour of safetie for them, that ignorant +Magistrates may not punish them for it, as I +told euen now. But as the one sorte, for being perforce +troubled with them ought to be pittied, so +ought the other sorte (who may bee discerned by +their taking vppon them to Prophesie by them,) +That sorte I say, ought as seuerely to be punished +as any other Witches, and rather the more, that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076"></span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that they goe dissemblingly to woorke. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> And what makes the spirites haue so different +names from others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Euen the knauerie of that same deuil; who +as hee illudes the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Necromancers</span></span> with innumerable +feyned names for him and his angels, as in special, +making <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sathan</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Beelzebub</span></span>, +& <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lucifer</span></span>, to be three +sundry spirites, where we finde the two former, but +diuers names giuen to the Prince of all the rebelling +angels by the Scripture. As by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Christ</span></span>, the +Prince of all the Deuilles is called, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Beelzebub</span></span> in that +place, which I alleaged against the power of any hereticques +to cast out Deuils. By <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Iohn</span></span> in the Reuelation, +the old tempter is called, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sathan the Prince of +all the euill angels</span></span>. And the last, to wit, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lucifer</span></span>, is but +by allegoric taken from <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the day Starre</span></span> (so named in +diuers places of the Scriptures) because of his excellencie +(I meane the Prince of them) in his creation +before his fall. Euen so I say he deceaues the +Witches, by attributing to himselfe diuers names: +as if euery diuers shape that he trans formes himselfe +in, were a diuers kinde of spirit. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But I haue hard many moe strange tales of +this <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Phairie</span></span>, nor ye haue yet told me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> As well I do in that, as I did in all the rest of +my discourse. For because the ground of this conference +of ours, proceeded of your speering at me +at our meeting, if there was such a thing as Witches +or spirites: And if they had any power: I therefore +haue framed my whole discours, only to proue that +such things are and may be, by such number of examples +as I show to be possible by reason: & keepes +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077"></span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +me from dipping any further in playing the part of +a Dictionarie, to tell what euer I haue read or harde +in that purpose, which both would exceede fayth, +and rather would seeme to teach such vnlawfull +artes, nor to disallow and condemne them, as it is +the duetie of all Christians to do. +</p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc47" id="toc47"></a> +<a name="pdf48" id="pdf48"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Chap. VI.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +ARGVMENT. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Of the tryall and punishment of Witches. What sorte of accusation +ought to be admitted against them. What is +the cause of the increasing so far of their number in +this age.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Philomathes.</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then to make an ende of our conference, +since I see it drawes late, what forme of punishment +thinke ye merites these <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magicians</span></span> and Witches? +For I see that ye account them to be all alike +guiltie? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> They ought to be put to death according +to the Law of God, the ciuill and imperial law, and +municipall law of all Christian nations. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But what kinde of death I pray you? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> It is commonly vsed by fire, but that is an +indifferent thing to be vsed in euery cuntrie, according +to the Law or custome thereof. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> But ought no sexe, age nor ranck to be exempted? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> None at al (being so vsed by the lawful Magistrate) +for it is the highest poynt of Idolatrie, wherein +no exception is admitted by the law of God. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Then bairnes may not be spared? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Yea, not a haire the lesse of my conclusion. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page078"></span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +For they are not that capable of reason as to practise +such thinges. And for any being in company and +not reueiling thereof, their lesse and ignorant age +will no doubt excuse them. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> I see ye condemne them all that are of the +counsell of such craftes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> No doubt, for as I said, +speaking of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magie</span></span>, +the consulters, trusters in, ouer-seers, interteiners +or sturrers vp of these craftes-folkes, are equallie +guiltie with themselues that are the practisers. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Whether may the Prince then, or supreame +Magistrate, spare or ouer-see any that are guiltie of +that craft? vpon som great respects knowen to him? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> The Prince or Magistrate for further tryals +cause, may continue the punishing of them such a +certaine space as he thinkes conuenient: But in the +end to spare the life, and not to strike when God +bids strike, and so seuerelie punish in so odious a +fault & treason against God, it is not only vnlawful, +but doubtlesse no lesse sinne in that Magistrate, +nor it was in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Savles</span></span> sparing of +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Agag</span></span>. And so comparable +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span style="font-size: 80%">1. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Sam.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 15.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +to the sin of Witch-craft it selfe, as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Samvell</span></span> +alleaged at that time. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Surely then, I think since this crime ought to +be so seuerely punished. Judges ought to beware to +condemne any, but such as they are sure are guiltie, +neither should the clattering reporte of a carling +serue in so weightie a case. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> Iudges ought indeede to beware whome +they condemne: For it is as great a crime +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Pro.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 17.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +(as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Salomon</span></span> +sayeth,) <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">To condemne the innocent, as to let the +guiltie escape free</span></span>; neither ought the report of any +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079"></span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +one infamous person, be admitted for a sufficient +proofe, which can stand of no law. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> And what may a number then of guilty persons +confessions, woork against one that is accused? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> The assise must serue for interpretour of +our law in that respect. But in my opinion, since in a +mater of treason against the Prince, barnes or wiues, +or neuer so diffamed persons, may of our law serue +for sufficient witnesses and proofes. I thinke surely +that by a far greater reason, such witnesses may be +sufficient in matters of high treason against God: +For who but Witches can be prooues, and so witnesses +of the doings of Witches. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Indeed, I trow they wil be loath to put any +honest man vpon their counsell. But what if they +accuse folke to haue bene present at their Imaginar +conuentiones in the spirite, when their bodies lyes +sencelesse, as ye haue said. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I think they are not a haire the lesse guiltie: +For the Deuill durst neuer haue borrowed their +shaddow or similitude to that turne, if their consent +had not bene at it: And the consent in these +turnes is death of the law. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Then <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Samvel</span></span> +was a Witch: For the Deuill +resembled his shape, and played his person in +giuing response to <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Savle</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Samvel</span></span> +was dead aswell before that; and +so none coulde slander him with medling in that +vnlawfull arte. For the cause why, as I take it, that +God will not permit Sathan to vse the shapes or similitudes +of any innocent persones at such vnlawful +times, is that God wil not permit that any innocent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080"></span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +persons shalbe slandered with that vile defection: +for then the deuil would find waies anew, to +calumniate the best. And this we haue in proofe by +them that are carryed with the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Phairie</span></span>, who neuer +see the shaddowes of any in that courte, but of +them that thereafter are tryed to haue bene brethren +and sisters of that craft. And this was likewise +proued by the confession of a young Lasse, troubled +with spirites, laide on her by Witchcraft. That although +shee saw the shapes of diuerse men & women +troubling her, and naming the persons whom +these shaddowes represents: yet neuer one of them +are found to be innocent, but al clearely tried to be +most guilty, & the most part of them confessing the +same. And besides that, I think it hath ben seldome +harde tell of, that any whome persones guiltie of +that crime accused, as hauing knowen them to be +their marrowes by eye-sight, and not by hear-say, +but such as were so accused of Witch-craft, could +not be clearely tryed vpon them, were at the least +publickly knowen to be of a very euil life & reputation: +so iealous is God I say, of the fame of them +that are innocent in such causes. And besides that; +there are two other good helpes that may be vsed +for their trial: the one is the finding of their marke, +and the trying the insensiblenes thereof. The other +is their fleeting on the water: for as in a secret murther, +if the deade carcase be at any time thereafter +handled by the murtherer, it wil gush out of bloud, +as if the blud wer crying to the heauen for reuenge +of the murtherer, God hauing appoynted that secret +super-naturall signe, for tryall of that secrete +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page081"></span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +vnnaturall crime, so it appeares that God hath appoynted +(for a super-naturall signe of the monstruous +impietie of the Witches) that the water shal +refuse to receiue them in her bosom, that haue shaken +off them the sacred Water of Baptisme, and +wilfullie refused the benefite thereof: No not so +much as their eyes are able to shed teares (thretten +and torture them as ye please) while first they repent +(God not permitting them to dissemble their +obstinacie in so horrible a crime) albeit the women +kinde especially, be able other-waies to shed +teares at euery light occasion when they will, yea, +although it were dissemblingly like the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Crocodiles</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Phi.</span></span> Well, wee haue made this conference to +last as long as leasure would permit: And to conclude +then, since I am to take my leaue of you, I +pray God to purge this Cuntrie of these diuellishe +practises: for they were neuer so rife in these partes, +as they are now. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Epi.</span></span> I pray God that so be to. But the causes +ar ouer manifest, that makes them to be so rife. For +the greate wickednesse of the people on the one +parte, procures this horrible defection, whereby +God justlie punisheth sinne, by a greater iniquitie. +And on the other part, the consummation of the +worlde, and our deliuerance drawing neare, +</p><div class="tei tei-marginnote tei-marginnote-margin"><div class="tei tei-marginnotetext"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-style: italic">Reuel.</span></span><span style="font-size: 80%"> 12.</span></div></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +makes Sathan to rage the more in his instruments, knowing +his kingdome to be so neare an ende. And so +fare-well for this time. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +FINIS. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082"></span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc49" id="toc49"></a> +<a name="pdf50" id="pdf50"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Newes from Scotland.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Declaring the Damnable +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">life and death of Doctor Fian, a</span></span> +notable Sorcerer, who was burned at +Edenbrough in Ianuary last. +1591. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Which Doctor was regester to the Diuell</span></span> +that sundry times preached at North Barrick +Kirke, to a number of +notorious Witches. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With the true examinations of the saide Doctor +and Witches, as they vttered them in the presence +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">of the Scottish King</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Discouering how they pretended +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">to bewitch and drowne his Maiestie in the Sea</span></span> +comming from Denmark with such +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">other wonderfull matters as the like +hath not been heard of at +any time</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Published according to the Scottish Coppie. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +AT LONDON<br /> +Printed for William +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Wright</span></span>. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083"></span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +</p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 100%; text-align: center"><img src="images/083.png" width="500" height="384" alt="Illustration: Country Scene" /></div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page084"></span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc51" id="toc51"></a> +<a name="pdf52" id="pdf52"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To the Reader.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Manifolde vntruthes +which is spread abroade, concerning +the detestable actions and apprehension +of those Witches wherof +this Historye following truely +entreateth, hath caused me to +publish the same in print: and the rather for that +sundrie written Copies are lately dispersed therof, +containing, that the said witches were first discouered, +by meanes of a poore Pedler trauailing to +the towne of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Trenent</span></span>, and that by a wonderfull +manner he was in a moment conuayed at midnight, +from <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scotland</span></span> to <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Burdeux</span></span> +in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fraunce</span></span> (beeing +places of no small distance between) into a Marchants +Seller there, & after, being sent from +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Burdeux</span></span> into <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scotland</span></span> by certaine Scottish +Marchants to the Kinges Maiestie, that he discouered +those Witches and was the cause of their +apprehension: with a number of matters miraculous +and incredible: All which in truthe +are moste false. Neuertheles to satisfie a number +of honest mindes, who are desirous to be enformed +of the veritie and trueth of their confessions, which +for certaintie is more stranger then the common +reporte runneth, and yet with more trueth I haue +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085"></span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +undertaken to publish this short Treatise, which +declareth the true discourse of all that hath +hapned, & aswell what was pretended by those +wicked and detestable Witches against the Kinges +Maiestie, as also by what meanes they wrought the +same. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All which examinations (gentle Reader) I haue +heere truelye published, as they were taken and +uttered in the presence of the Kings Maiestie, +praying thee to accept it for veritie, +the same beeing so true as cannot +be reproued. +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086"></span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc53" id="toc53"></a> +<a name="pdf54" id="pdf54"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Discourse.</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A true discourse, of the apprehension of sundrye Witches lately taken in Scotland, +some are executed, and some are +yet imprisoned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With a particuler recitall of their examinations, +taken in the presence of the Kinges +Maiestie. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +God by his omnipotent power, +hath at al times and daily +doth take such care, and is so +vigillant, for the weale and +preseruation of his owne, +that thereby he disapointeth +the wicked practises and euil +intents of all such as by any +meanes whatsoeuer, seeke indirectly to conspire +any thing contrary to his holy will: yea and by +the same power, he hath lately ouerthrown and +hindered the intentions and wicked dealinges +of a great number of vngodly creatures, no better +then Diuels: who suffering themselues to +be allured and inticed by the Diuell whom they +serued, and to whome they were priuatelye +sworne: entered into the detestable Art of witchcraft, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087"></span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +which they studied and practised so long +time, that in the end they had seduced by their +sorcery a number of other to be as bad as themselues: +dwelling in the boundes of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lowthian</span></span>, +which is a principall shire or parte of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scotland</span></span>, +where the Kings Maiestie vseth to make his +cheefest residence or abode: and to the end that +their detestable wickednes which they priuilye +had pretended against the Kings Maiestie, the +Common-weale of that Country, with the Nobilitie +and subjects of the same, should come to +light: God of his vnspeakeable goodnes did reueale +and lay it open in very strange sorte, therby +to make knowne vnto the worlde, that there +actions were contrarye to the lawe of God, and +the naturall affection which we ought generallye +to beare one to another: the manner of the +reuealing wherof was as followeth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Within the towne of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Trenent</span></span> in the Kingdome +of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scotland</span></span>, there dwelleth one +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dauid Seaton</span></span>, +who being deputie Bailiffe in the saide +Towne, had a maide seruant called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geillis Duncane</span></span>, +who vsed secretly to be absent and to lye +foorth of her Maisters house euery other night: +this <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geillis Duncane</span></span> took in hand to help all such +as were troubled or greeued with any kinde of +sicknes or infirmitie: and in short space did +perfourme manye matters most miraculous, +which thinges forasmuch as she began to doe +them vpon a sodaine, hauing neuer doon the like +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088"></span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +before, made her Maister and others to be in +great admiracion, and wondred thereat: by +meanes wherof the saide <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dauid Seaton</span></span> had his +maide in some great suspition, that she did not +those things by naturall and lawfull wayes, but +rather supposed it to be doone by some extraordinary +and vnlawfull meanes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Whervpon, her Maister began to growe very +inquisitiue, and examined her which way and +by what meanes she were able to perfourme +matters of so great importance: whereat she +gaue him no answere, neuerthelesse, her Maister +to the intent that he might the better trye +and finde out the trueth of the same, did with the +helpe of others, torment her with the torture of +the Pilliwinckes vpon her fingers, which is a +greeuous torture, and binding or wrinching her +head with a corde or roape, which is a most cruell +torment also, yet would she not confesse any +thing, whereupon they suspecting that she had +beene marked by the Diuell (as commonly witches +are) made dilligent search about her, and +found the enemies marke to be in her fore crag +or foreparte of her throate: which being found, +she confessed that all her dooings was doone by +the wicked allurements and inticements of the +Diuell, and that she did them by witchcraft. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +</p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 100%; text-align: center"><img src="images/088.png" width="500" height="476" alt="Illustration: Examination of several witches" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +After this her confession, she was committed +to prison, where she continued for a season, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089"></span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +where immediatly she accused these persons following +to be notorious witches, and caused +them foorthwith to be apprehended one after an +other, vidz. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Sampson</span></span> the eldest Witch of +them al, dwelling in Haddington, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnes Tompson</span></span> +of Edenbrough, Doctor <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fian</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">alias Iohn +Cunningham</span></span>, maister of the Schoole at Saltpans +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090"></span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in Lowthian, of whose life and strange +actes, you shall heare more largely in the ende of +this discourse: these were by the saide <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geillis +Duncane</span></span> accused, as also <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">George Motts</span></span> wife +dwelling in Saltpans, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Robert Griersonn</span></span> skipper, +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Iennit Bandilandis</span></span>, with the Porters +wife of Seaton, the Smith at the brigge Hallis +with innumerable others in that partes, and +dwelling in those bounds aforesaide: of whom +some are alreadye executed, the rest remaine in +prison, to receiue the doome of Iudgement at the +Kings maiesties will and pleasure. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The said <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geillis Duncane</span></span> also caused <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ewphame +Meealrean</span></span> to be apprehended, who conspired +and perfourmed the death of her Godfather, and +who vsed her art vpon a gentleman being one +of the Lords and Iustices of the Session, for +bearing good will to her Daughter: she also caused +to be apprehended one <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Barbara Naper</span></span>, for bewitching +to death <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Archibalde</span></span>, last Earle of +Angus, who languished to death by witchcraft +and yet the same was not suspected, but that he +died of so strange a disease, as the Phisition +knew not how to cure or remedy the same: but +of all other the saide witches, these two last before +recited, were reputed for as ciuill honest +women as any that dwelled within the Citie of +Edenbrough, before they were apprehended. +Many other besides were taken dwelling in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091"></span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Lieth, who are detayned in prison, vntill his +Maiesties further will and pleasure be known: +of whose wicked dooings you shall particularly +heare, which was as followeth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This aforeaside <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Sampson</span></span> which was +the elder Witch, was taken and brought to Haliciud +house before the Kings Maiestie and sundry +other of the nobility of Scotland, where she +was straitly examined, but all the perswasions +which the Kings maiestie vsed to her with the rest +of his counsell, might not prouoke or induce her +to confesse any thing, but stood stiffely in the deniall +of all that was laide to her charge: whervpon +they caused her to be conueied awaye to +prison, there to receiue such torture as hath been +lately prouided for witches in that country: and +forasmuch as by due examination of witchcraft +and witches in Scotland, it hath latelye beene +found that the Deuill dooth generallye marke +them with a priuie marke, by reason the Witches +haue confessed themselues, that the Diuell +dooth lick them with his tung in some priuy part +of their bodie, before hee dooth receiue them +to be his seruants, which marke commonly is +giuen them vnder the haire in some part of their +bodye, wherby it may not easily be found out or +scene, although they be searched: and generally +so long as the marke is not seene to those which +search them, so long the parties that hath the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page092"></span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +marke will neuer confesse any thing. Therfore +by special commaundement this <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Sampson</span></span> +had all her haire shauen of, in each parte of her +bodie, and her head thrawen with a rope according +to the custome of that Countrye, beeing a +paine most greeuous, which she continued almost +an hower, during which time she would +not confesse any thing vntill the Diuels marke +was found vpon her priuities, then she immediatlye +confessed whatsoeuer was demaunded of +her, and iustifying those persons aforesaid to be +notorious witches. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Item, the saide <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Tompson</span></span> was after +brought againe before the Kings Maiestie and +his Counsell, and being examined of the meetings +and detestable dealings of those witches, +she confessed that vpon the night of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Allhollon</span></span> +Euen last, she was accompanied aswell with +the persons aforesaide, as also with a great +many other witches, to the number of two hundreth: +and that all they together went by Sea +each one in a Riddle or Ciue, and went in the +same very substantially with Flaggons of wine +making merrie and drinking by the waye in the +same Riddles or Ciues, to the Kerke of North +Barrick in Lowthian, and that after they had +landed, tooke handes on the land and daunced +this reill or short daunce, singing all with one +voice. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093"></span><a name="Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Commer goe ye before, commer goe ye,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If ye will not goe before, commer let me.</span></span></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At which time she confessed, that this <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geilles +Duncane</span></span> did goe before them playing this reill +or daunce vpon a small Trump, called a Iewes +Trump, vntill they entred into the Kerk of north +Barrick. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These confessions made the King in a woderful +admiration, and sent for the said <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geillis Duncane</span></span>, +who vpon the like Trump did playe the +said daunce before the Kings Maiestie, who in +respect of the strangenes of these matters, tooke +great delight to bee present at their examinations. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Item, the said <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Tompson</span></span> confessed that +the Diuell being then at North Barrick Kerke +attending their comming in the habit or likenes +of a man, and seeing that they tarried ouer long, +he at their comming enioyned them all to a pennance, +which was, that they should kisse his +Buttockes, in signe of duetye to him: which being +put ouer the Pulpit barre, euerye one did as +he had enioyned them: and hauing made his vngodly +exhortations, wherein he did greatlye enveighe +against the King of Scotland, he receiued +their oathes for their good and true seruice +towards him, and departed: which doone, they +returned to Sea, and so home againe. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page094"></span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At which time the witches demaunded of the +Diuel why he did beare such hatred to the King, +who answered, by reason the King is the greatest +enemy he hath in the worlde: all which their +confessions and depositions are still extant vpon +record. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Item, the saide <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Sampson</span></span> confessed before +the Kings Maiestie sundrye thinges which +were so miraculous and strange, as that his +Maiestie saide they were all extreame lyars, +wherat she answered, she would not wishe his +Maiestie to suppose her woords to be false, but +rather to beleeue them, in that she would discouer +such matter vnto him as his maiestie should +not any way doubt off. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And therupon taking his Maiestie a little aside, +she declared vnto him the verye woordes +which passed betweene the Kings Maiestie and +his Queene at Vpslo in Norway the first night +of their mariage, with their answere eache to other: +whereat the Kinges Maiestie wondered +greatlye, and swore by the liuing God, that he +beleeued that all the Diuels in hell could not +haue discouered the same: acknowledging her +woords to be most true, and therefore gaue the +more credit to the rest which is before declared. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Touching this <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Tompson</span></span>, she is the onlye +woman, who by the Diuels perswasion +should haue entended and put in execution the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095"></span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Kings Maiesties death in this manner. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She confessed that she tooke a blacke Toade, +and did hang the same vp by the heeles, three +daies, and collected and gathered the venome as +it dropped and fell from it in an Oister shell, and +kept the same venome close couered, vntill she +should obtaine any parte or peece of foule linnen +cloth, that had appertained to the Kings Maiestie, +as shirt, handkercher, napkin or any other +thing which she practised to obtaine by meanes +of one <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Iohn Kers</span></span>, who being attendant in his +Maiesties Chamber, desired him for olde acquaintance +betweene them, to helpe her to one +or a peece of such a cloth as is aforesaide, which +thing the said <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Iohn Kers</span></span> denyed to helpe her too, +saying he could not help her too it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And the said <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Agnis Tompson</span></span> by her depositions +since her apprehension saith, that if she had +obtained any one peece of linnen cloth which the +King had worne and fouled, she had bewitched +him to death, and put him to such extraordinary +paines, as if he had beene lying vpon sharp thornes +and endes of Needles. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Moreouer she confessed that at the time when +his Maiestie was in Denmarke, she being accompanied +with the parties before specially named, +tooke a Cat and christened it, and afterward +bound to each parte of that Cat, the cheefest +partes of a dead man, and seuerall ioynts of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096"></span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +his bodie, and that in the night following the +saide Cat was conueied into the midst of the sea +by all these witches sayling in their riddles or +Ciues as is aforesaide, and so left the saide Cat +right before the Towne of Lieth in Scotland: +this doone, there did arise such a tempest in the +Sea, as a greater hath not beene seene: which +tempest was the cause of the perrishing of a +Boate or vessell comming ouer from the towne +of Brunt Iland to the towne of Lieth, wherein +was sundrye Iewelles and riche giftes, which +should haue been presented to the now Queen of +Scotland, at her Maiesties comming to Lieth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Againe it is confessed, that the said christened +Cat was the cause that the Kinges Maiesties +Ship at his comming foorth of Denmarke, had +a contrary winde to the rest of his Ships, then +being in his companye, which thing was most +strange and true, as the Kings Maiestie acknowledgeth, +for when the rest of the Shippes +had a faire and good winde, then was the winde +contrarye and altogither against his Maiestie: +and further the saide witche declared, that his +Maiestie had neuer come safelye from the Sea, +if his faith had not preuailed aboue their ententions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Moreouer the said Witches being demaunded +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page097"></span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +how the Diuell would vse them when he +was in their company, they confessed that when +the Diuell did receiue them for his seruants, and +that they had vowed themselues vnto him, then +he would Carnallye vse them, albeit to their little +pleasure, in respect of his colde nature: and +would doo the like at sundry other times. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As touching the aforesaide Doctor <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fian, alias +Iohn Cunningham</span></span>, the examination of his actes +since his apprehension, declareth the great subtiltye +of the diuell, and therfore maketh thinges +to appeere the more miraculous: for being apprehended +by the accusation of the saide <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Geillis +Duncane</span></span> aforesaide, who confessed he was their +Regester, and that there was not one man suffered +to come to the Diuels readinges but onlye +he: the saide Doctor was taken and imprisoned, +and vsed with the accustomed paine, prouided +for those offences, inflicted vpon the rest as is aforesaide. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +First by thrawing of his head with a roape, +wherat he would confesse nothing. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Secondly, he was perswaded by faire means +to confesse his follies, but that would preuaile +as little. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Lastly he was put to the most seuere and cruell +paine in the world, called the bootes, who after +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page098"></span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +he had receiued three strokes, being enquired +if he would confesse his damnable acts and wicked +life, his tung would not serue him to speak, +in respect wherof the rest of the witches willed +to search his tung, vnder which was found two +pinnes thrust vp into the head, whereupon +the witches did laye, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Now is the Charme +stinted</span></span>, and shewed that those charmed Pinnes +were the cause he could not confesse any thing: +then was he immediatly released of the bootes, +brought before the King, his confession was taken, +and his owne hand willingly set ther-vnto, +which contained as followeth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +First, that at the generall meetinges of those +witches, hee was alwayes preasent: that he +was Clarke to all those that were in subiection +to the Diuels seruice, bearing the name of witches, +that alwaye he did take their othes for +their true seruice to the Diuell, and that he wrot +for them such matters as the Diuell still pleased +to commaund him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Item, he confessed that by his witchcrafte he +did bewitch a Gentleman dwelling neere to the +Saltpans, where the said Doctor kept Schoole, +onely for being enamoured of a Gentlewoman +whome he loued himselfe: by meanes of which +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099"></span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +his Sorcerye, witchcraft and diuelish practises, +he caused the said Gentleman that once in xxiiij. +howres he fell into a lunacie and madnes, and so +continued one whole hower together, and for the +veritie of the same, he caused the Gentleman to +be brought before the Kinges Maiestie, which +was vpon the xxiiij. day of December last, and +being +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100"></span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in his Maiesties Chamber, suddenly he gaue a +great scritch and fell into a madnes, sometime +bending himselfe, and sometime capring so directly +vp, that his head did touch the seeling of the +Chamber, to the great admiration of his Maiestie +and others then present: so that all the Gentlemen +in the Chamber were not able to holde +him, vntill they called in more helpe, who together +bound him hand and foot: and suffering the +said gentleman to lye still vntill his furye were +past, he within an hower came againe to himselfe, +when being demaunded of the Kings Maiestie +what he saw or did all that while, answered +that he had been in a sound sleepe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Item the said Doctor did also confesse that he +had vsed means sundry times to obtain his purpose +and wicked intent of the same Gentlewoman, +and seeing himselfe disapointed of his intention, +he determined by all waies he might to +obtaine the same, trusting by coniuring, witchcraft +and Sorcery to obtaine it in this manner. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It happened this gentlewoman being vnmaried, +had a brother who went to schoole with the +said Doctor, and calling his Scholler to him, +demaunded if he did lye with his sister, who answered +he did, by meanes wherof he thought to +obtaine his purpose, and therefore secretlye promised +to teach him without stripes, so he would obtain +for him three haires of his sisters priuities, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101"></span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +at such time as he should spye best occasion for +it: which the youth promised faithfullye to perfourme, +and vowed speedily to put it in practise, +taking a peece of coniured paper of his maister +to lappe them in when he had gotten them: and +therevpon the boye practised nightlye to obtaine +his maisters purpose, especially when his sister +was a sleepe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But God who knoweth the secrets of all +harts, and reuealeth all wicked and vngodlye +practises, would not suffer the intents of this diuilish +Doctor to come to that purpose which he +supposed it would, and therefore to declare that +he was heauilye offended with his wicked entent, +did so woorke by the Gentlewomans owne +meanes, that in the ende the same was discouered +and brought to light: for she being one night +a sleepe, and her brother in bed with her, suddenlye +cryed out to her mother, declaring that her +Brother would not suffer her to sleepe, wherevpon +her mother hauing a quick capacitie, did vehemently +suspect Doctor <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fians</span></span> entention, by reason +she was a witche of her selfe, and therefore +presently arose, and was very inquisitiue of the +boy to vnderstand his intent, and the better to +know the same, did beat him with sundry stripes, +wherby he discouered the trueth vnto her. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102"></span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Mother therefore being well practised +in witchcrafte, did thinke it most conuenient +to meete with the Doctor in his owne Arte, and +therevpon tooke the paper from the boy, wherein +hee should haue put the same haires, and +went to a young Heyfer which neuer had borne +Calfe nor gone to the Bull, and with a paire of +sheeres, clipped off three haires from the vdder +of the Cow, and wrapt them in the same paper, +which she againe deliuered to the boy, then +willing him to giue the same to his saide Maister, +which he immediatly did. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Schoolemaister so soone as he had receiued +them, thinking them indeede to bee the +Maides haires, went straight and wrought +his arte vpon them: But the Doctor had no sooner +doone his intent to them, but presentlye the +Hayfer or Cow whose haires they were indeed, +came vnto the doore of the Church wherein +the Schoolemaister was, into the which the +Hayfer went, and made towards the Schoolemaister, +leaping and dauncing vpon him, and +following him foorth of the church and to what +place so euer he went, to the great admiration +of all the townes men of Saltpans, and many +other who did beholde the same. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The reporte whereof made all men imagine +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103"></span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that hee did woorke it by the Diuell, without +whom it could neuer haue beene so sufficientlye +effected: and thervpon, the name of the said Doctor +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fian</span></span> (who was but a very yong man) began +to grow so common among the people of Scotland, +that he was secretlye nominated for a notable +Cuniurer. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +</p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="width: 100%; text-align: center"><img src="images/103.png" width="500" height="484" alt="Illustration: Country scene with cattle and church" /></div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104"></span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All which although in the beginning he denied, +and would not confesse, yet hauing felt the pain of +the bootes (and the charme stinted, as aforesayd) +he confessed all the aforesaid to be most true, without +producing anie witnesses to iustifie the same, +& thervpon before the kings maiesty he subscribed +the sayd confessions with his owne hande, which +for truth remaineth vpon record in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scotland</span></span>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +After that the depositions and examinations +of the sayd doctor <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fian Alias Cuningham</span></span> was taken, +as alreadie is declared, with his owne hand +willingly set therevnto, hee was by the master of +the prison committed to ward, and appointed to +a chamber by himselfe, where forsaking his wicked +wayes, acknowledging his most vngodly lyfe, +shewing that he had too much folowed the allurements +and entisements of Sathan, and fondly practised +his conclusions by coniuring, witchcraft, inchantment, +sorcerie, and such like, hee renounced +the deuill and all his wicked workes, vowed to +leade the life of a Christian, and seemed newly +connected towards God. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The morrow after vpon conference had with +him, he granted that the deuill had appeared vnto +him in the night before, appareled all in blacke, +with a white wand in his hande, and that the deuill +demaunded of him if hee would continue his +faithfull seruice, according to his first oath and +promise made to that effect. Whome (as hee then +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105"></span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +sayd) he vtterly renounced to his face, and sayde +vnto him in this manner, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Auoide Satan, auoide</span></span>, +for I haue listned too much vnto thee, and by the +same thou hast vndone mee, in respect whereof I +vtterly forsake thee. To whome the deuill answered, +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">That once ere thou die thou shall bee mine</span></span>. And +with that (as he sayde) the deuill brake the white +wande, and immediatly vanished foorth of his +sight. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thus all the daie this Doctor Fian continued +verie solitarie, and seemed to haue care of his +owne soule, and would call vppon God, shewing +himselfe penitent for his wicked life, neuerthelesse +the same night hee founde such meanes, that hee +stole the key of the prison doore and chamber in +the which he was, which in the night hee opened +and fled awaie to the Salt pans, where hee was +alwayes resident, and first apprehended. Of +whose sodaine departure when the Kings maiestie +had intelligence, hee presently commanded diligent +inquirie to bee made for his apprehension, +and for the better effecting thereof, hee sent publike +proclamations into all partes of his lande +to the same effect. By meanes of whose hot and +harde pursuite, he was agayn taken and brought +to prison, and then being called before the kings +highnes, hee was reexamined as well touching +his departure, as also touching all that had before +happened. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106"></span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But this Doctor, notwithstanding that his +owne confession appeareth remaining in recorde +vnder his owne hande writing, and the same +therevnto fixed in the presence of the Kings maiestie +and sundrie of his Councell, yet did hee vtterly +denie the same. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Wherevpon the kinges maiestie perceiuing +his stubbourne wilfulnesse, concerned and imagined +that in the time of his absence hee had entered +into newe conference and league with the deuill +his master, and that hee had beene agayne newly +marked, for the which hee was narrowly searched, +but it coulde not in anie wise bee founde, yet +for more tryall of him to make him confesse, hee +was commaunded to haue a most straunge torment +which was done in this manner following. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +His nailes vpon all his fingers were riuen and +pulled off with an instrument called in Scottish +a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Turkas</span></span>, which in England wee call a payre of +pincers, and vnder euerie nayle there was thrust +in two needels ouer euen up to the heads. At all +which tormentes notwithstanding the Doctor +neuer shronke anie whit, neither woulde he then +confesse it the sooner for all the tortures inflicted +vpon him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then was hee with all conuenient speed, by +commandement, conuaied againe to the torment +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107"></span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of the bootes, wherein hee continued a long +time, and did abide so many blowes in them, +that his legges were crushte and beaten togeather +as small as might bee, and the bones and +flesh so brused, that the bloud and marrowe spouted +forth in great abundance, whereby they were +made unseruiceable for euer. And notwithstanding +al these grieuous paines and cruell torments +hee would not confesse anie thing, so deepely had +the deuill entered into his heart, that hee vtterly +denied all that which he had before auouched, +and woulde saie nothing therevnto but this, that +what hee had done and sayde before, was onely +done and sayde for feare of paynes which he had +endured. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Upon great consideration therefore taken by +the Kings maiestie and his Councell, as well for +the due execution of iustice vppon such detestable +malefactors, as also for example sake, to remayne +a terrour to all others heereafter, that shall attempt +to deale in the lyke wicked and vngodlye +actions, as witchcraft, sorcery, cuniuration, & such +lyke, the sayde Doctor <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fian</span></span> was soone after araigned, +condemned, and adiudged by the law to die, +and then to bee burned according to the lawe of +that lande, prouided in that behalfe. Wherevpon +hee was put into a carte, and beeing first strangled, +hee was immediatly put into a great fire, +being readie prouided for that purpose, and there +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108"></span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +burned in the Castle hill of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Edenbrough</span></span> on a saterdaie +in the ende of Ianuarie last past. 1591. +The rest of the witches which are not yet executed, +remayne in prison till farther triall, and +knowledge of his maiesties pleasure. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">This strange discourse before recited, may perhaps +giue some occasion of doubt to such as shall happen to +reade the same, and thereby coniecture that the Kings +maiestie would not hazarde himselfe in the presence +of such notorious witches, least therby might haue insued +great danger to his person and the generall state +of the land, which thing in truth might wel haue bene +feared. But to answer generally to such, let this suffice: +that first it is well knowen that the King is the child & +seruant of God, and they but seruants to the deuil, hee +is the Lords annointed, and they but vesselles of Gods +wrath: he is a true Christian, and trusteth in God, they +worse than Infidels, for they onely trust in the deuill, +who daily serue them, till he haue brought them to vtter +destruction. But heereby it seemeth that his Highnesse +carted a magnanimious and undanted mind, not +feared with their inchantmentes, but resolute in this, +that so long as God is with him, hee feareth not who +is against him. 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