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A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

sinful Mortals so they generally startle and awaken a secure and sinful World to meet God in the way of his Judgments or if they have not that good effect on the sensual and Disobedient they are at least Messengers of Joy and Harbingers of Grace to those who apply themselves to Study the Voice of God in his Providences Whilst we are foretold in the Holy Scripture that Wicked men and seducers shall wax worse worse deceiving and being deceived For the Spirit of Delusion to which they adhere shall betray them into gross mistakes and palpable deviations such are Generally Impenetrable by the Warning of Heaven they are Judicially Blinded and Infatuated that they should not come to the knowledge of the Truth Thus the Prophet Ezekiel tells us of a Spirit of Lying which entered into the False Prophets and they cryed Peace Peace when a sudden desolation and destruction from the Lord was coming upon them And this will be the dreadful case of those miserable Wretches who have given themselves up to the Conduct of the Father of Lyes Who either out of a belief that they have no souls have given themselves over to work Wickedness Or else despising the Glories of a Blessed Eternity have Listed themselves under the Banner of Satan to Fight against the Power of the Omnipotent And that Atheism Idolatry Sensuality and Debauchery have a Natural Tendence to promote this Impious and Diabolical Confederacy hath been hinted in the forgoing Pages Which being so Regulary Learnedly and Largely Treated of by the Excellent pens of Dr. H. M. and Mr. J. G. before mentioned in the second part of Saducismus Triumphatus I shall presume to Wade no further in the Argumentative and Philosophical part but proceed now to give an Account of the most Atested Relations of Ancient Witches and thence descend to some very remarkable and Credible Modern Relations most of which have happened in these Few years and will be attested by persons of Unquestionable Worth and Reputation now alive amongst us CHAP. VI. Examples of Witchcraft and Familiarity with Devils amongst the Antient Druids Sybils Vestal Virgins and Heathen Priests IT is one of the Black Marks which the Apostle of the Gentiles gives us of Antichrist That he shall sit in the Temple of God and shew himself to be worshipped as God And if we consider the Temples Groves Altars Sacrifices and Priests that the Antients in the days of their Blindness and stupid Idolatry Erected and Consecrated to their Infernal Deities we shall find that this Exaction of Worship and Adoration which Antichrist lays claim to was in the former Ages paid unto the Devil himself and that the Apostate Church of Rome usurped to her Revolted Head those Sacred Rites in conformity to those Sacrifices which their Idolatrous Ancestors paid unto the Revolted and Apostate Angels This Chapter therefore shall be filled with an Enumeration of some of the first Proficients in the Black Infernal Mysteries that we may make way to parallel them with an Account of the Proficience of divers Popes and Orders among the Idolatrous Romanists in the same dark and Diabolical Arts in some of the following Pages But what Astonishment may it well raise in us if we but remark that not only those Barbarous Nations that never knew the true God nor had the Advantages of his Law and his Prophets amongst them should follow the foul Abomination But even the chosen Israelites to whom as the Psalmist elegantly expresses the Almighty arose Early and sent his Prophets who saw his wonders in Egypt in the Red Sea and in the Wilderness who saw the Lightnings heard the Thunders and the solemn noise of Trumpets when their Captain Moses receiv'd the Law from the mouth of the Most High on Mount Sinai and had there that First Positive and Repeated Command against Idol-worship which by the dreadful and amazing Judgments inflicted on them for that provoking sin can be thought to be understood no otherwise than Devil-worship See Exod. 20.23 Yet notwithstanding that this Israel should forsake the God that bought them and marked them by special favours from all the Nations of the Earth This you 'l say is stupendious Ingratitude and tremendous Apostacy What can be thought of that Biggotted Ahab who is said to have Taught Israel to sin He had been nurst up under a Whorish Idolatrous Mother the Patroness of the Priests of Baal And he makes little less than a challenge to the Almighty to contend with his Adored Baalim See 1 Kings 18. They were then so besotted that they thought Baal to be a greater God that he who laid the Foundations of the Earth and whose Thunders their Rebellous Fathers had heard on the Sacred Mountain Was it possible that those Infernal Priests should expect an answer by Fire from their detestable Idol unless they had at some time or other by some Voice or Motion or by some Success of their Impious Adorations been deluded into an Opinion that there was something Sacred in that which they reared their Shrines unto It is I think indubitable that the Devil the Father of Lyes and Blasphemies had some way or other gull'd them into that opprobrious Worship They skipt up and down upon his Altars and lanced themselves until the blood gushed out with their Devils Littany O Baal hear us or We beseech thee to hear us O Baal What can this be but an Invocation of the Devil and bears so near a Resemblance unto Witchcraft as if it were the Original of it Do the False Prophets call upon the Devil in their Idol So do the Witches call upon their Familiar Do they offer Sacrifice to their Gods So do these to their Goblins They allure them with Incense and Perfumes they eat and drink by way of Oblation to them as the Priests used to do in their Idol-Temples And as the Hellish Priests offered their own Blood to Baal so do these Infernal Haggs in their Contracts with Beelzebub So that having now cleared the way by explaining the foul Conformity and Analogy betwixt Idolatry and Witchcraft it may well be expected that I should assume the premised Method and give some Instances of Antient Examples to make good the Thesis Therefore not to look back upon those dreadful Examples which the Sacred Writings afford us of the hardened Israelites I shall proceed with some Remarks upon the Antient and much Celebrated Sybils And that it was the usual Compellation the Ignorant Antients gave to their Familiars Spirits or Genii to call them Gods none need doubt who have read what is related of the Pythoness of Endor in the Book of Samuel where she replies to King Saul I see Gods coming up out of the Earth So in 1 Kings 20.21 The Syrians speak of the Gods of the Hills add of the Valleys by which it is evident they reckon'd those Daemons which used to shew themselves unto them in those places to be Gods nay the Idolatrous Gentiles paid an Adoration to them

that people They have amongst them a vast number of Priests which they have in high veneration and a prodigious accumulation of Rites and Ceremonies And though the Turks in their extended Empire do forbid the use of Idols yet we find in Knowles his History of them that they have amongst their Priests abundance of Conjurers which they call Wise or Cunning Men by which they maintain a Correspondence with the black Inhabitants of the Infernal World So that tho they do not permit the use of the more lawful and liberal Studies they yet give themselves up to be Scholars and Disciples to the most interdicted Mysteries In Lappland they maintain such an ordinary Correspondence with the expulsed Spirits that a Lappland Witch is almost grown to a Proverb with us And though it be common amongst the Inhabitants to Converse and Revel with their Daemons and Familiars yet the Priests among them generally acquire a dexterity in the Art above what the rest can pretend to So that they do as ordinarily train up their people in those Black Arts as we do ours in Trades and liberal Sciences There was in the year 1677. or 78. a Book printed Intituled The History of Lappland which gives a full relation of their many Methods of raising their Spirits and of divers forms and shapes in which they ordinarily shewed themselves to their Invocators and conversed with them sometimes like a Satyr sometimes in the likeness of a Man and there is amongst them such a kind of Familiarity maintained as if they were of the same Country and Descent Amongst the many ways they have to call the Spirits to their Attendance none is more in use then that of a Magical Drum they have and in great esteem amongst them they are very well described in the Book above mentioned and I have lately seen one of those Drums in Gresham Colledge it is all over marked upon the vellam with a sort of Necromantick Characters somewhat like the Arabick letters but doubtless a sort of Orthography taught by the Black Master of the Infernal Science When one of these Drums is beaten with the addition of some Diabolical Ceremonies and Incantations the Spirit presently attends and either answers to what is demanded out of the Drum or else appears in some form in a place assigned him and there resolves the matter for which he was invocated It is notorious amongst all Historians that the people of Lappland sell Winds to Merchants for certain Voyages by which they much enrich themselves But I fear I have stretched this Chapter beyond its due length though I have used all possible brevity to contract it I shall therefore here put a period to this and hasten to the seventh Chapter CHAP. VII Confederacy of several Popes and Roman Priests with the Devil Such the principal Incouragers and promoters of Idolatry in the Church HAving as succinctly as I could given an account of the Gentiles and Jewish Idolatry with the mischievous Consequences thereof in the former Chapters My Method now leads me to relate in this Chapter how fatal Idol-Adoration hath been and must still be to those that continue it tho under a different denomination So that Rome Antichristian will appear not to come short of if not to exceed the Daemonolatry of Rome Pagan I shall therefore first begin with a list of some of their Popes as I find them Registred by the Learned and Ingenious Mr. Wanly in his Wonders of the little World page 473. where out of their own Authors and particularly their Celebrated Platina he gives a Catalogue of divers of them who stand Recorded for Conjurers and such as have had Familiarity with the Devil And here it ought not to pass without good Observation that in the first Centuries before their Bishops had made a defection from the humility and purity of the Evangelical Doctrine we find none of them branded with that blackest of Characters but after the Apostacy from the Primitive Simplicity had gradually obtained among them then came they to fall off from the Worship of God himself to a down-right contracting with if not Worshipping of the Devil We will first observe by what degrees this defection obtained upon them For 1. Alexander the first introduced that which they call Holy Water mixed with Salt and ordered it to be used 2. Sixtus the first ordered that Priests should Minister in linnen Surplices 3. Faelix the first appointed yearly Sacrifices in memory of the Martyrs 4. Marcus the first brought in the singing of the Nicene Creed and the giving the Pal to the Bishop of Ostia 5. Zosimus brought the use of Tapers into the Church 6. Boniface the third obtained of Phocas a Murtherer of his Lord that Popish Supremacy which to this day is so much stood upon and was the first that Usurped the proud Title of Universal Bishop 7. Boniface the fourth instituted All-hallow day and dedicated the Temple of Pantheon an Idol Temple to the Virgin Mary 8. Martin the first ordered Priests to shave their Polls and to keep themselves single 9. Vitalianus the first first brought Organs in use in the Church of Rome He sent Theodorus and Hadrian into England to introduce the Latin service 10. Leo the second Ratifyed the sixth Synod to confirm the Mass and brought in the kissing of the Pax. 11. John the seventh noted for building Churches and erecting Images 12. Gregory the second Excommunicates the Emperour Leo Isaurus for standing against Images 13. Gregory the third Excommunicates the Emperour upon the quarrel about Images 14. Paul the first Excommunicates the Emperour Constantine Capronimus upon the same Quarrel upon which it was well worth noting that the Emperours who were descended from Idolaters and Persecutors withstood Images being convinced of the dangerous consequences of them when those who pretended to be the Successors of the Apostles were the Introducers of Heathenish Idolatry into the Church of God 15. Stephen the third brought in Worshipping and Censing of Images So the point was gained 16. Martin the second his Father Palumbus was acknowledged to be a Conjurer by which Arts it is said he sought the Papacy 17. Christopher the first is Recorded to have got into the Chair by the aforesaid evil Arts and was therefore deposed and thrust into a Monastery 18. Sergius the third ordained the bearing of Candles in the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary 19. John the thirteenth a man from his Youth polluted with all kind of villany and dishonesty deposed in Council by the Emperour Otho slain in the Act of Adultery 20. John the fourteenth began to Baptize Bells and give them Names 21. Silvester the second was a Magician and contracted with the Devil for the Papacy 22. John the nineteenth given to Magick he took off the Election of the Pope from the People and appointed the Feast of All-Souls 23. Benedict the ninth a Conjurer wont with Laurence and Gratian two Conjurers whom he made Cardinals to wander

in the Woods to invocate Devils and bewitch Women to follow them 24. Nicholaus the second a great contender for Transubstantiation 25. Innocent the third brought in the Doctrine of Transubstantiation 26. Sixtus the fourth brought in Beads into the Divine Worship 27. Alexander the sixth Incestuous with his own Daughter and gave himself to the Devil By this short yet dreadful List it may appear by what degrees first Superstition then Idolatry and after that Daemonolatry or a Correspondence if not a Confederacy with the Prince of Darkness crept into the world nay that part of it that claims the name of an Apostolick Church Tho nothing more contrary or rather Diametrically opposite to the Doctrine and Faith established by the Holy Jesus and his blessed Apostles The Heathen Oracles had been struck dumb by the coming of the Eternal Redeemer and the Divine Miracles wrought by him in Confirmation of the everlasting Gospel the Magicians and Sorcerers confounded by the Sacred Authority derived to the constituted Apostles as we find recorded in their Acts in the cases of Simon Magus and Elimas the Sorcerer with divers others of that kind But after the Christian Doctrine had been confirmed by so many and unquestionable Divine Miracles so that there wanted nothing that might assure the World of the mighty hand of God that accompanied his Ministers in their first planting the Gospel of Salvation Then again do we find the Arch-Enemy of our Souls unchained and we may well calculate his losing from the time of Stephen the third which was that fatal period that again spread the foul Contagion over the Apostate Church For now the mystery of Iniquity shewed itself in the Temple of God and the old Serpent began again to be Worshipped as God and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Altars in the obnoxious Tem●●●… And here I cannot omit that which is irrefragably urged upon this Argument by the learned Doctor Brevint in his Book intituled Saul and Samuel at Endor a Treatise that perhaps gives some of the clearest demonstrations of the defection of the Roman Church of any thing yet extant though many of our Reverend and Learned Divines have acquitted themselves with singular Honour upon that occasion to whose Memories Posterity will be obliged to pay the most grateful acknowledgments But this Gentleman had the opportunity of a long co-habitation amongst their Fathers beyond the Seas and the advantage of making such discoveries and observations as cannot fall under the cognizance of others I shall therefore make bold to cite some passages out of the fore-named book of that excellent Authors in refutation of the pretended Roman Miracles I shall begin with p. 45. where he makes a quotation out of St. August de Civit. l. 10. c. 16. There are some of the Devils Miracles saith St. Austin that as to the work itself seem to be no lesser then Gods are but their end must distinguish them And therefore he will have the Miracles of the latter times to be tryed by the true Church as we find it in the Scriptures and not the Church by these Miracles Bring Roman Miracles to this Rule you may divide them into three Ranks for some of them are but meer Tales some are counterfeit Impostures and Artificial tricks of Juglers others have a real Being but the Question is whence they have it As for the first sort of Miracles The Papists have by little and little heaped them to such an extravagancy that divers of their Communion who have some Modesty left them can scarce forbear blushing at the Relation Gregory of Tours and Gregory the first Bishop of Rome if the four Books of Dialogues be truly his did begin pretty well to tell stories but these are nothing to the advances made by other Prelates and great Roman Doctors in the following Ages And I may say confidently that these Romanists are not much short of the most extravagant Romancers There you shall read of Constantine the Great being a Leper and transferring his Roman Empire upon that Pope that made him clean of Wolves and Lyons bringing back Lambs and restoring them out of their Entrails after they had torn them to pieces of Birds flocking about to hear Sermons and of Asses becoming Roman Catholicks at least kneeling to adore the Mass-Sacrament c. They cannot conceive any great man to be a Saint unless he hath an extraordinary gift for the working of such Miracles How true they be you may best learn of the very Saints who deny them As for Example S. Bernard S. Chrysostom and St. Gregory and yet they are forced upon them And you can hardly pass for a true Catholick unless you believe that St. Bernard was saluted and suckled several times by our Lady in her Image that St. Chrysostom did Raise the dead did cure all sorts of incurable diseases and had every night St. Paul himself whispering in his Ear what he did write on his Epistles And as to St. Gregory the Great he had no meaner whisperer then the Holy Ghost in Person under the shape of a Pigeon sitting quietly upon his head and sometimes stretching down her Bill into his Mouth when he was Preaching And we know that the Grand Impostor Mahomet pretended somewhat the like about the same time Now you may be sure all these things are Fabulous since disowned by the very men who are pretended to have had them and who therefore knew best the truth of all these works and assistances Much like to these are the Miracles of Ignatius Loyola when he cures Women in their Travail if you but set his Seal or Signet on their Belly when he makes the house where he happens to be horribly shake and when himself grows as hot and as terrible as Mount Aetna by the fierce motion of that Spirit which from a debauch'd Soldier made him a holy Jesuit or when he sees the Soul of his dearest Friend Hosius mounting up into the Sky far more gorgeous then the Soul of any other or when he works greater Miracles with his own name in a little piece of paper Cum nomine suo Chartae inscripto then Moses and the Apostles did in Gods name We cannot deny says the Bishop of Canaries but sometimes very grave men write and leave to posterity such reports about Saints Miracles humouring hereby both themselves and the people whom they perceive both prone to believe and importunate to have them do so For the Authority of the above cited Fables that worthy Divine quotes their own various Authors citing the several Books and Pages where they are related for confirmation of which I must refer you to the 45 th p. of his Book before mentioned And is it not hereby evident to all that will not wilfully blind themselves to their own delusion that these Stories if true are no other than Diabolical Cheats being such as in no wise can be imagined to confirm the Evangelical Doctrine but rather the Superstitions and Orders by the Romanists imposed upon