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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43992	A Collection of modern relations of matter of fact concerning witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people to which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God in preserving us from the malice and power of evil angels, written by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale, upon occasion of a tryal of several witches before him.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1693 (1693)	Wing H224; ESTC R23402	48,262	74

prefix a Meditation though not finished of that no less Wise Profound Sagacious and Ingenuous than Just and Good Man the late Lord Chief Justice HALE concerning the Mercy of God in preserving us from the Malice and Power of Evil Angels which he wrote at Cambridge the next Lord's day after the Tryal of certain Witches before him at St. Edmund's bury whom he there Condemned and ordered to be Executed after a long Tryal from Seven or Eight in the Morning till Seven or Eight at Night wherein be called to his assistance divers Physitians and other learned Men and at last after a full and careful Examination the Jury finding them Guilty he passed Sentence upon them with full Satisfaction of the Justice of their Verdict There is a Relation of it in print written by his Marshal which I suppose is very true though to the best of my Memory not so compleat as to some observable Circumstances as what he related to me at his return from that Circuit But that he was well satisfied in it may be perceived by his Writing this Meditation so immediately upon it And therefore I think it very proper for this place not only for the use which well-disposed People may make of it but also as an Evidence of the Judgment of so Great so Learned so Profound and Sagatious so Cautious Circumspect and Tender a Man in matters of Justice and especially in matter of Life and Death upon so great Deliberation for he knew by his Kalendar before-hand what a Cause he was to Try and he well knew the Notions and Sentiments of the Age and upon so solemn an Occasion to check and correct the Impiety the Vanity the Self-conceitedness or Baseness of such Witch-Advocates as either confidently maintain that there are no Witches at all making their shallow Conceptions an adequate measure for the extent of the Powers of Nature and of the Wisdom and Power of God or contrary to their Duty and their Oaths make light of the Examination and Tryal of them when brought before them Such Persons may have cause to be ashamed of themselves after notice of such a Judgment and others may hereby be admonished what to think of them if they persist in such Assertions or Pretences A DISCOURSE CONCERNING The great Mercy of God in preserving us from the Power and Malice of Evil Angels Written by Sir Matt. Hale at Cambridge 26 Mar. 1661. Vpon occasion of a Tryal of certain Witches before him the Week before at St. Edmund's-Bury 1. THat there are such evil Angels it is without all question The Old Testament assures us of it as it easily appears upon the consideration of the Temptation of our first Parents the History of Abimeleck and the Men of Shechem the History of Saul and the Witch of Endor the History of Mica●ah and the false Prophets the History of Job the Prophecy of the Desolation of Babylon wherein Jim and Ziim and the Satyrs were Prophesied to Inhabit The New Testament more explicitly and abundantly clears it by the History of the Temptation of our Lord the Demoniacks of several Symptoms Cured by our Lord and his Apostles the Procession of the Evil Spirit and his return with seven other Spirits the Vision of the Fall of Satan from Heaven like Lightning by our Saviour the several assertings of it in the Gospel and Apostolical Epistles the Prince of the power of the Air the Spirit ruling in the Children of Disobedience the Kingdom of Satan Principalities and Powers in high Places and more frequently yet in the Apocalyps It is also confirmed to us by daily Experience of the Power and Energy of these Evil Spirits in Witches and by them 2. That these evil Spirits have likewise a great measure of Power and a greater measure of Malice appears in the same Scriptures and by Experience The greatest Strength and Energy of any corporeal Creature is in the vigourand power of those Natural and Animal Spirits that are within them The great swiftness and strength of the Lyon the Wolf the Tyger and of the strongest of Men is the exerting of these Vital and Animal Spirits without which their Bodies tho of the exactest Model and Compages for strength were but a Trunk and iners moles Certainly therefore those Separate Spirits that are not clogged nor encumbred with Matter have a greater strength and energy which is evident in those Possessed Demoniacks both in the Gospel and in known Experience who could not be holden by the strength of Men when Possessed with this powerful and malignant Influence 3. And yet their Malice to the Children of Men is more extensive than their Power It began with the First Man in Innocence and it hath improved ever since The evidence both of his Power and Malice is mostlively seen in that display of the Invisible Administration and Exercise of it towards Job that it contented not it self with any Bounds his Goods his Children his Name his Body the very Peace of his Soul and Mind were not enough to content or quenoh it insomuch that had there not been a guard upon his Life his Malice had also seized that And which is yet more his Malice against the everlasting Soul of Man is unsatiable as appears in that express description of the Tempting of our Lord Tempting him to Presumption to Despair to Apostacy from God And this he did not only out of a particular or personal Malice against him but as in his first Temptation of the First Adam his Malice was not only at him but at the whole Kind which in a great measure he effected so in his Tempting of our Lord he aimed not only Personally at him but in him at the totum genus Humanum For tho possibly he might be ignorant of the hypostatical Union of the Divine Nature to our Lord yet doubtless he did suspect that much of the good of Mankind was deposited in that Treasury which if he could have shattered and broken he had exquisitely satisfied the extent of his Malice against Mankind 4. This Malice and Power of that Evil one is much advantaged in reference to Man 1. By his great Experience and Subtilty 2. By his Invisibility and Swiftness whereby he can secretly and powerfully insinuate and mingle himself with the Subject he means to mischief He knows the Avenues into Man and he knows how most subtily and unsuspectedly to seize upon them In reference to the Body of Man he knows his Humours his Temper his Distemper and hath the advantage of the higher Ground as Perseus had in his fight with the Monster in the Fable as the Eagle in his fight with the Dragon He can watch his Advantage and Undiscovered can derive into him a malignant Air or a poysonous Fume or a venomous Infusion His Experience in Natural Causes his Ability to discover fit Actives and to apply them effectually to Passives his acquaintance with the Natural Constitutions and his opportunities to disturb or invenom it his