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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

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

of Enquiring of her was supposed verse 7th Besides it seems evident that the Samuel there raised up was not by the power of the Witch for she was affrighted when she saw Samuel and cryed out like one in a surprise and under a Disappointment of what she Expected This was none of her Familiars that appeared for then we may conclude she had not been transported with such a fear Her Confederates were tyed up and could not answer her but it is most probable to be the Prophet Samuel raised by the power of God to pronounce the Sentence of death upon Saul and his Sons for his Disobedience which the Holy man had told him was as the sin of Witchcraft and for Violating the Righteous Command in applying himself to the Witch of Endor contrary to the declared will of God Not unlike to this was that dreadful Judgment of Fire from Heaven which at the prayer of Eliiah fell upon the two Captains and their Fifty's when Ahaziah King of Samaria had sent his servants to Enquire of Baalzebub the Idol or Daemon of Ekron in 1. chap. 2 Book of Kings But how many more of this kind are mentioned in Scripture besides the Witch of Endor will appear if we read what is recorded of Manasseh Jesebell Simon Magus and Elimas the Sorcerer with many other Instances of the same kind whereof the New Testament as well as the Old hath divers extraordinary Relations but of that the passage in the Prophesie of Isaiah chap. 2. ver 6. they are southsayers like the Philistines And it is evident by the 19. verse of the 18. chap. of the same Prophesie that the Jewish Nation were in a great measure given up to the Satanicall delusion of enquiring after Witches and Sorcerers and such as divined to them by Pythons so that they forsook the holy Oracles of the Divine Law and in their difficulties they counselled one another to apply themselves to those forbidden abominations Therefore it must proceed from a Neglect or careless Perusal of the Sacred Books that any one should be ignorant of other instances of Witches besides that of the Pythoness of Endor Suidas has a most considerable proof of the Daemons answering the Heathens by Oracles where speaking of Augustus Caesar's enquiring at an Oracle who should be his Successor the Oracle returned him this answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may thus be Englished A Boy Of Hebrew Offspring whom the Gods Adore Commands me hence to Hell my proper shore Henceforth forbear Our Altars to implore The Emperour at his return commanded an Altar to be Erected in the Capital having this Inscription Haec est Ara Primogeniti Dei This is the Altar of the first-born of God Now it is plain that our Saviour was born dureing the Reign of this Augustus for in the second chap. of St. Luke we find that Joseph and Mary went up to Judea to be taxed at that time when Augustus had imposed a General Tax upon the World and that during their abode at Bethlehem the blessed Nativity happened of which the Eastern Sages had notice by his Star and that the Roman Cesar had some such apprehension or Impression at least the words upon the Altar do plainly manifest And if this relation of Suidas obtain credit it may easily be Evinced that they were Daemons or Crafty Spirits which answered at the Oracles of the Heathens for if we admit that many answers were given by the Cunning and Jugling of their Priests Yet it could not make for their interest to discredit their Oracle nor for the Credit of their Deity But the almighty power of the Son of God forced those Infatuating Spirits to acknowledge his Soveraign Divinity as the unclean Spirit in the 8. chap. of Luke verse 28. What have I to do with thee Jesus thou Son of the most High God Thus at the arising of the Son of Righteousness did the Dark Oracles vanish as the shadows of the night are chased away by the Appearing of the Sun beames To which may be added what Plutarch relates in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He tells yee that a certain company sailing from Greece towards Italy happened of a sudden to be becalmed and one Thamus an Egyptian who was of the Ships Crew was called three times at the third call he made answer Here am I whereupon the voice bad him when he came to the Palodes certain Shelves in the Ionian Sea that then he should publish that the great Pan was dead And then the Ship was discharged of her restraint and went forward so that wh●n they came to the place appointed Thamus from the Poop of the Ship published what he had been commanded whereupon followed a great noise of shrieking and lamenting together so that the Sea resounded with the lamentation The Emperour Tiberius having been made acquainted with this passage demanded of his wise men who this great God Pan might be But the best answer they could give him was that he was the Son of Mercury and Penelope But this circumstance happening just at the time when our Saviour was crucified it was concluded by more intelligent and considerate men that by the Great God Pan was meant the Blessed Redeemer of Mankind who by his Death on the cross Overthrew the Kingdom and power of Satan so that the Devils were now to Quit those Oracles by which they had so long deceived the World and on this account those Spirits might be thought to make that great and dismall lamentation For from that time they soon ran into decay and the Delphi Oracula cessant which Juvenal records makes it plain that they were but of short continuance after the fatal blow given them on the Cross when our blessed Saviour gave up the Ghost with an It is Finished Now had these Oracles been managed only by the subtilty and artifice of the Priest it is very improbable but they might have been of longer continuance for the Priests continue to be as Crafty and Covetous as ever and as dexterous at all the feats of Juggling and Legerdemain But it is plain the time of their delusions was expired and it is no small Argument of the power of the Gospel of Truth that those vanquished Spirits flye before it they retire with the molten and Carved Images to the Owls and to the Batts not being able to endure the splendour of the Tidings of Salvation Hence it is that in those Countries where there is least Idolatry and where the sincere preaching of the Word of Power is countenanced there it is very rare comparatively to meet with instances of the Satanical craft and power his strong holds are beaten down tho some small forts he still retains amongst the ignorant and superstitious but in countries where Idolatry and Paganism prevail he Governs as among the Children of disobedience Here he hath his Groves his Cells and Hermitages and Altars He