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A69640	An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.	Bromhall, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4885; ESTC R15515	377,577	402

better cherish his Family went down into the same cave hoping to find some Money But he going on a little way and finding nothing but Mens bones there in great amazement instantly came back again quite frustrated of his hope Teste Johanne Stumpffio in Chron. Helvetiae VIncentius reports this out of Helinandus lib. 3. cap. 27. that In the Diocesse of Colony there is a famous and great Palace which looks over into the River Rhene 't is called Juvamen where many Princes in former times being met suddenly there came to them a small Bark which being fastned to her neck a Swan hall'd along with a silver chain From thence a young Souldier not known to any of them skip't forth and the Swan brought home the ship Afterwards this Souldier married and had children At last remaining in the same Palace and beholding the Swan comming with the same Bark and chain he presently went into the Ship and was never seen more but his children abide there till this very day From him in the Castle Clivens where you may see also a very high and antient Tower named Cygnea on the top whereof the picture of a Swan is whurried to and fro most bravely wrought do they derive the antient pedigree of the Clivens Dukes Vierius lib. 2. cap. 46. de praestigiis Daemon WHen the Persians Megara being invaded betook themselves to the City Thebes to Mardonius their General by Diana's pleasure 't was dark on a sudden they mistaking their way went on the hilly side of the Country There by the delusions of Spirits were armies shooting darts at the stroaks of them the next rocks did as 't were groan again they thinking they were men that groaned by reason of their wounds and hurts never gave over shooting till they had spent all their arrows And when 't was day those of Megara being well-armed fell upon them that had no weapons very violently and slew a great number of their army And for this successefull event they erected an Image to Diana their Protectresse Pausanias in Atticis IN the Battel of Marathon against the Persians a certain rude and rustick fellow both by shape and habit help't the Athenians who when with his plough he had killed very many of those barbarous people on a sudden he vanished away And when the Athenians made enquiry who he was the Oracle made this answer onely Honour noble Ethelaeus In that very place they set up a trophy made of white stone Pausanias in Atticis In the same fight Theseus his Ghost was seen by many to invade the Medes After that the Athenians adored him as a God Plutarchus in ejus vita WHen the Persians under the command of Xerxes went to Minervaes Chappel which is before Apolloes Temple at the same time lightning fell down from Heaven upon them and two stones at the top of Parnassus making an huge noise fell down and prevented many of them Whereupon they which were in Minervaes Chappel gave a great shout rejoycing much The Barbarians fled those of Baeotia made known their ruine And they which remained fled straightway to Baeotia reporting that they saw two huge armed men following after them The people of Baeotia told them they were two noble Heroes of their own Country Phylacus and Autonous whose Temples are to be seen That which was Phylacus his Temple was the same way beyond Minervaes but the Temple of Autonous was hard by Castalia under the top Hyampeus The stones which fell down from Parnassus were in Herodotus his time whole fixt in Minervaes Temple porch to which the Barbarians brought them Herodotus lib. 2. WHil'st the Greeks were fighting against Xerxes at Salamin 't is rumour'd that a great light shone from the City Eleusis and that there was such a great noise in the fields of Thria as 't were of a great many men that they heard them even to the Sea side from this company which made the noise was seen a cloud arising a little above the Earth and to go from that continent and to fall upon the Ships Others saw as 't were armed men reaching forth their hands from Aegina to help the Graecian ships they did suppose that they belong'd to Aeacides whom before the battel they had humbly implored Plutarchus in Themistocle WHen the Arcadians in a hostile manner came on the coasts of the City Elis and the Inhabitants thereof had set themselves in battle array against them 't is reported that a woman which gave suck to a man-child came to the chief officers of the Eleans and that she said when she told them 't was her child that she was warn'd in a dream that he should be put to the Eleans as a Souldier to fight on their side the Generals took order that the naked Infant should be rank't before the Colours because they were of opinion that the woman was to be credited The Arcadians making the first onset the child in the open view of them all was Metamorphosed into a Snake the Enemies being affrighted with this strange and prodigious sight presently ran away This notable victory being obtained he was named Sosipolis from the City which was preserved this Snake was seen to hide himself The battell being over they raised up a Temple and dedicated it to its proper genius Sosipolis Honours were ordained for Lucina because by her means this child was born into the World Pausanias libr. 6. WHen the people of Locris skirmished with the Crotoni in the Locrensians army were seen two young men on milk-white Horses they were the foremost in the fight who when they had conquer'd and subdued their enemies never appeared more The Victory in the same instant it was obtain'd was publish'd at Athens Lacedemon and Corinth though places far remote from Locris and Croton three hundred thousand of the people of Sybaris were slain by a small number and the city it self utterly destroyed Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 6. THe Ere●rians on a time going from their own City Eubea by ship and invading the Country Tahagrus they say that Mercury led forth some young striplings and himself also who was but a youth armed onely in a wrestlers habit in comparison of the rest forc'd the Eubeans to take their heels and for this very cause th●y erected a Temple to Mercurius Promachus Pausanias in Baeoticis IN the fight which the Romans had against Tarquinius going to Rome as the report goes that Castor and Poll●x were seen in the battel and immediately after the fight was done the horses being very hot and trickling down with sweat messengers also of the victory were seen in the Market place where in stead of their well they have a house From whence they consecrated a day to Castor and Pollux in the Ides of July In the Romane war Castor and Pollux were seen to wipe off the sweat of their horses at the lake Juturna when their house which was near the fountain was wide open Valerius Maximus lib. 1. cap. 6. When A. 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he hurries them into destructions gulph sometimes a consort of musicall instruments are heard but more oftner the noise of Drums Munsters Cosmograph Book 5. THere was a certain Citizen of Erphord that for some years together kept a Crow in his house and when he saw any silent or sorrowfull he used these words after a jesting manner O my Crow what makes thee so sad what thinkest thou of To which beyond all expectation the Crow or the Devill in it clearly and with a lively voice recited a Verse out of the 77. Psalm I have thought of old and I have had eternity in my mind and thus the Devill spoke out of the Crow Caspar Goldw. in his Book of Miracles HIeronimus Cardanus told his Father that there appeared seven spirits which did dispute with him about divers wonderfull things and did enucleate and unmask hidden mysteries that were before unknown out of the Manuscript writings of Averroes of Physitians principles IN the raign of Trajan a Crow but rather the Devill out of the Crow began to speak with humane voice and cryed out of the Capitol in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnia bellè se habebunt i. e. All things shall be well from whence came that distick of an unknown Authour Tarpeio quondam consedit culmine cornix Est bene non potuit dicere dixit Erit Englished thus A Chough did from Tarpeia's top foretell Though things now are not yet they shall be well A Most certain argument to prove that those men are possessed is they speak those tongues which they never learnt Bodin saith there was one whose name was Samuel being but twelve years of age in the Village of Wantelet ad Laod he was the Son of a Noble man Lord of the Land who was possessed of the Devill a Month after his Mothers death and grievously vexed and buffe●ted also the Devill had power over his body and if any one would withdraw the bo●● he did retract him again by violence his father would not have him exorcised for Religion's sake which he professed And whether or no he was freed from it the twelfth or thirteenth year he was past in which the woman of Vervinens was possessed by an evill spirit but she had an exorcism I know not which History I passe over because it was related in diverse books which are now printed Italy and Spain abounds with such demoniacal persons which had need be bound up in chains those can speak Greek and Latine and other tongues which they never learnt or which is more likely the Devill speaks in them for if at any time that Woman of Vervinensis had put out her tongue a great length the spirit then spoke most Eloquently Melancthon reports that he saw a woman in Saxony that was possessed who could neither read nor write yet did speak Greek and Latine and Prophesie of that cruell war in Saxony saying Great misery shall come upon this Country and Famine upon this people Fernelius in his book of the secret causes of things tells that he saw a possessed Boy speaking Greek for all that he knew no letters Hippocrates in his Book De Sacro morbo thought it to be the falling sicknesse but some afterwards in Greek did accurately note the difference For those who were possessed spoke divers languages and prophesied which could not be observed in those who had the falling sicknesse IN the reign of Argyropolis Emperour of Rome in the Thracian Province at the bottome of the Fountain of Curena there was a miserable dolefull noise heard mixed with howlings and lamentations not onely for once or twice but continually dayes and nights from March to July And when some came to see the place from whence the voice was heard there was another howling thwarted them I suppose this miracle did foretell the slaughter of the Romans in Coclosyria Cedrenus CAlligraphus a reverend man of Alexandria going out of his house in the night time at midnight he saw brazen statues speaking with a loud voice that Mauritius the Emperour of Constantinople was slain together with his children at Byzantium going forth in the morning he related it to Augustulus who warned him not to tell it to any and prescribing a day in the ninth day there came a Messenger declaring the death of Mauritius Then Augustulus did publish to the people the Devills Prophecy Paul Diacon Book 17. of Romane History and Nicephorus Book 18. Chap. 41. HIrcanus 3d Captain of the Jews and High Priest when he had deputed his two sons Aristobulus and Antigonus to the siege of Samaria and the Samaritans having implored help of Antiochus Cyzicenus it was reported that in the very same day in which his sons had entred battell with Cyzicenus the High Priest being alone in the Temple heard a voice that mentioned the new gotten victory of Antioch by his sons which he ●and by going forth published to the people and a while after his Oracle came certainly to passe Josephus Book 13. chap. 18. WHen the Romans in a great battell with the Tarquinians sent away L. Junius Brutus Consull but in the following night such an affrightment seized upon the Enemies The Tarquinians and the Vejentes in silent troops returned home as conquer'd men The report is that in the next night after the battell out of the next wood which Livy calls Ars●a and Dyonisius said it was a Holy wood a loud voice was heard whether it was the voice of a Faune or Silvaine it could not be resolved which happened more then once in the Hetrusian war which prodigy did so affright the enemies that they yielded themselves as conquer'd Sabellicus Book 7. Ennead 2. Valerius Book 1. chap. 8. IN that day which Caesar fought with Pompey at Pharsalia C. Cornelius of Patavia being Augur when he had taken augury at the first sight suddenly turning to those that were by him said now the businesse is done now the men begin their work and trying his augury the second time he with a loud voice cryed out O Caesar Thou overcomest they that stood about him admiring at the thing he took the Crown from off his head and swore he would not put it on again untill the businesse made his art believed or credited Livius and Plutarch in Caesar and Pliny saith there such a noise came when two armies were fighting one against the other to the augurs sitting on the Patavian Mountains being bold to affirm by that either the world would be dissolved quickly or Caesar was fighting with Pompey Sabellicus Book 7. Ennead 6. out of the 15th Book of Gellius chap. 18. WHen Antonius fell from Domitius and a great war was expected in Germany the City being affrighted and the people of themselves without any other author dispersed the same of the victory and a report going throughout Rome that Antonius was killed and that no part of his army was left alive it was so really believed that a great part of the Magistrates sacrificed But when the Authour

began to boyl as though a huge wind had agitated and stirr'd it the quaverings machines and engines of the King's wall and the famous yea supererogating works of the Thessalian Nicomedes with their great noise and crack did prophesie and foretell what would come to pass afterwards a very stormy South-wind did rise which in a semi-moments space did so palsie and shoulder-shake a woodden Tower of the heighth of a hundred cubits and other machinaments and fortifications that it levelled their sky-towring tops with the ground But some relate it thus That Minerva was seen in Visions to very many to whom she appeared in their dreams sweat trickling down her and shewed part of her embroidered garment or veil which was rent and that she said She was even now come from ayding the Cyzenians But Mithridates being almost famished although not in Hungaria gave over the siege and returned into Bythinia Lucullus following him Plutarchus THe Boetians being enslaved and captivated by the Thracians when they plumed their feet and flew into the Trophonian den it was told them in a Dream That Bacchus was to be their helper they fell upon the Thracians being drunk having Bacchus with them also they redeemed one another and built a Temple to Bacchus their redeemer as Herac●dus Ponticus writes IT is reported That Cleomenus King of the Spartans after the Argians were vanquished sacrificing in Juno's Temple a flame of fire streamed out of the breasts of the Image which was an evident sign that Argos was not to be conquered by assault for if the flame had issued out of the head of the image it would have intimated That he should win and take the City from the Tower but when the lightning sprung out of her breasts then all was done that the gods would have done Herodotus lib. 6. IN a black sorrowful conflict and battel at Pharsalia in which Pompey was overcome by Caesar which was foreshewed and written by great and wonderful signs and wonders in Elide there was an image of Victory which stood in Minerva's Temple which had its back to the gate and in that same day that the battel was fought of its own accord it turned towards the door At Antiochus in Syria and in a Town by the red-Sea called Ptolemais twice in that very same day there was such a noise heard about that City as though there were a great mutiny and murmuring of Souldiers about the walls and there was the noise of a Drum heard in Pergamus's Temple Valerius lib. 1. cap. 6. WHen Attila the King of the Hunni made an attempt about the intrenching upon the borders of the Roman Empire the images of their gods was not onely seen in the night but also in the day time to command every one to pray for himself and that crimson and bloody drops came from Heaven and two headed monstrous Infants were born and many of their consecrated houses and Temples were struck with lightning and a voice was oft heard Cave tibi Italia O Italy take heed to thy self Bonfinius lib. 3. Decad 1. A Little before the destruction and demolishment of Troy the fire in Minerva's Temple did spare to burn the sacrifices that were laid upon the Altars the common people being much troubled at this thing flocked together to Apollo's Temple to the Altar there and laying the parts of the intrails upon it and fire being put to that on a suddain all things began to be disturbed fell to the ground by which Spectacle all the people being enter'd in much afraid and dismayed incontinently there came an Eagle with a huge noise and snatched away apart of the intrails and carried them to the Grecian ships Dict. lib. 5. CAesar Augustus in one part of the Capitol erected a Temple to thundring Jove which he had vowed in the Cambrick War and did frequent this dedicated place daily and he thought he saw in his Dream Jupiter complain that he had taken away his worshippers and that he answered that there was the Thunderer set for his Porter And by and by he decked and encompassed the top of the dedicated place with little bells which then in a manner did hang and were pendant upon the gates and doors ZOnaras Annalium tom 3. relates That under Anastasius the Manichaean Emperour a Magitian a most wicked man that had set up a brazen Image to the Goddess Fortune in the shape of a Countrey woman whose feet being brass stood in a ship which was of the same mettal in the City of Constantinople which aforesaid ship was either eaten away by hungry time or broken by some other secret means so that some fragments were taken away from it And for this cause ladened ships could not arrive any more at Byzantium but whensoever they approached near to it they were driven back again by the violence of the winds and unless they had brought their bagg and baggage in long Vessels or Ships rowed with Oars perhaps the people might have been famished which thing continuing for a good while at last the Magistrates took care of the business and the cause of this dysaster they enquired of a Magitian a notable diviner and so that the broken pieces and fragments of that brazen Ship being diligently sought up and gimmer'd and set in their proper places then the Sea or Harbour was filled with voyage navigation and little ships but as soon as they knew certainly the obstacle at the last the fragments were dislocated and whatsoever ships were to arrive there by the strength of the winds were cast and driven back and the thing being discovered the Ship was renewed and made up again with great care and pains THere were in a Tower in Athens Olive-trees dedicated to Pallas which were called Moriae Halirhotius the son of Neptune did attempt to cut them down with an Axe because by reason of their making and production he was overcome by Minerva and as he was a hewing of them struck himself by the axe and by that wound he perished Coelius lib. 12. cap. 20. SOme say that Aesculapius was not born of the Nymph Coronis but of an Egg of a little Crow because the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth both a little Crow and also a Nymph so called as Luc●an in his Dialogue de falso vate affirms It is reported of the Antient Priests who included and put a very little Serpent into a wind-Egg of a Crow and studiously anointed it with wax and hid it in a certain myery and by and by an Altar was erected in that place and he called the people together to a Sermon or Oration and when he had declared openly before them all that he was about to shew himself to be a god After the Oration was ended using some unknown uncouth words he invocated and called upon Apollo and Aesculapius that they would be propitious and fortunate and draw near to that City Afterwards dipping a water-pot into a deep place to fetch up some water