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A09118 A guide to grand-iury men diuided into two bookes: in the first, is the authors best aduice to them what to doe, before they bring in a billa vera in cases of witchcraft, with a Christian direction to such as are too much giuen vpon euery crosse to thinke themselues bewitched. In the second, is a treatise touching witches good and bad, how they may be knowne, euicted, condemned, with many particulars tending thereunto. By Rich. Bernard. Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. 1627 (1627) STC 1943; ESTC S101683 81,487 300

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skilfull Physician to helpe to discerne and to make a cleere difference betweene the one and the other that men may proceed iudiciously and so rightly with comfort of conscience that they be not guilty of bloud Sometimes with a naturall disease Satan may also intermix his supernaturall worke to hid● his and the Witches practices vnder such naturall ●iseases when they at one time work● together This requireth great vnderstanding to make a true decision and right distinction of one from the other by reason of the illusion as one saith of their d●ceiueable likenesses But though to the simple the likenesse be●weene both may seeme one and the same yet the truth is the Diuell cannot so m●xe his worke with a naturall disease but the same may be detect●d in the m●ni●●st oddes and that in two thing● very cleerely as I haue read out of a learned Physician I. By the Symptomes and effects which shew themselues beyond the natu●e of the disease The naturall disease with the true causes and proper e●fects being first knowne the other effects must needs be fro● the secret working of some supernaturall power As for exampl● in a Conuulsion with w●ich a Noble young man was extraordinarily for a long time tormented according to the ordinarie causes thereof in nature it bereaueth the Patient of motion for his limbes are starke and stiffe also it depriueth him of sense and vnderstanding Therefore in a Conuulsion to haue as the young man had an incredible swiftnesse of motion and withall vnderstanding and sense perf●ct it must needs be supernaturall II. By naturall remedies discre●tly and fi●ly applyed according to Art● for there are tw● wayes by these to detect the finger of Satan 1. When these naturall meanes do lose their manifestly known● nature and certainly approoue● vse and operation alwayes i● their due application to the disease whereto they properly belong 2. Withall when the vse o● these remedies doe produce effects cleane contrary to thei● proper and naturall oper●●ion as when one laboureth of a vehement burning ●hirst and sha●● receiue some mo●st and cooling thi●g to allay the heat the same shall not one●y lose his na●ure but also cause a greater thirst immediately and withall the hard closing vp the mouth therupon This must needs be supernaturall This second is to bee added to the former because medicines may for want of Gods blessing lose their operation and because that God will perhaps haue sometime the ●●sease to be incurable CHAP. 3. The supposed to be bewitched and tormented by the Diuell may be a very counterfeit THere may bee neither any naturall disease nor any ●upernaturall worke of the Di●ell in the seemingly afflicted ●arty but a meere counter●●iting of actions motions passions distortious perturbations agitations writhings tumblings tossings wallowings ●oamings alteration of speech and voice with gastly staring with ●he eyes trances and relation of visions afterwards For there is nothing almost in things of this nature so really true but some can so li●ely resemble the same as the spectators shall iudge the parties to be so indeed as they seeme to bee in outward apparance There was one Marwood a confederate with Weston Dibdale and other Popish P●iests who did so cunningly act his part in trembling foaming and raging when he was touched with Campions girdle forsooth as made the gull'd lookers ●n to weepe in beholding t●e cogging and iuggling companion in such a seeming miserable plight The like I saw of a lewd girle at Wells who to be reuenged of a poore Woman which had iustly complained against her to her Mistresse counterfeited to be bewitched by her and so plaide her part as shee made many to wonder and some to weepe as if she had been possessed The Boy of Bilson his counterfeiting discouered is notorious throughout the land which Boy seemed to bee bewitched and cryed out of a woman to haue bewitched him and when she was brought in very secretly he could discerne it He had strange fi●s and seemed therein deafe and dumbe hee could writhe his mouth aside roule his eyes as nothing but the white would appeare and his head shake as one distracted Hee vsually would cast vp his meate vomit pinnes ragges strawe wrest and turne his head backward grate with his teeth gape hideously with his mouth cling and draw in his belly and guts groane and mourne pittiously tell of the apparition of a spirit after his fits seeming like a blacke bird He made water like inke sometimes which some tried and wrote with it At the mentioning of the beginning of Saint Iohns Gospell In the beginning was the Word c. he would fall into his fits as if he could not indure to heare these words Hee became with f●sting very weake and his limbes by induring extremities were benummed And to conclude so resolued was hee to beare out his counterfeiting as when hee was pinched often with fingers pricked with needles tickled on the sides and once whipped with a rodde being but thirteene yeeres old hee could not bee discerned by either shrinking or shrieking to bewray the least passion or feeling And yet was hee discouered to be a counterfeit and openly confessed the same and bow he came to learne these trickes and by whom and wherefore At the Assises hee cryed God mercy craued pardon of the poore Woman and lastly prayed the whole Countrey to admit of his hearty confession and satisfaction To this may bee added another example deliuered by Master Scot in his discouerie of Witchcraft booke 7. chap. 1. and 2. The story is of one Mildred a Bastard of one Alice Norrington seruant to one William Spooner of Westwell in Kent Anno 1574. Shee feigned the voice of a Diuell within her distinct from her owne voice This counterfeit Diuell made answer to a great number of questions propounded by Ministers Hee named one old woman for a Witch one old Alice who kept him twenty yeeres in two bottles on the backe side of her house and elsewhere and that he came in the likenes●e of two birds and was called Partener and that at her instigation hee had killed three and named who they were with many other things Of all which there were many witnesses the names set down by Master Scot and yet all this was counterfeited and found out by one Master Wotton and one Master Darrel Iustices she confessed and for the same receiued due punishment In this strange counterfeiting it may yet verily bee thought that Satan might therein help him and her to play so cunningly this part as they did for Satan is euer ready to further wickednesse especially tending to the shedding of bloud and to further Popish Idolatry which the Boy of Bilson was enti●ed to doe and the Pop●sh Priests sought for to establish in exorcising the Boy and professing to dispossesse him of three Diuels if his parents would turne forsooth Cathol●ques Did not our late King Iames by his wisedome learning and exp●rience discouer diuers
out of all these his or her fraud may be disco●ered as vndoubtedly it may in conuenient time though not on a suddaine not in the concourse of an ignorant wondring talking and amazed multitude necessarily to bee remoued in trying a cunning Counterfei●e II. Hauing thus considered the first thing for the discouerie the next is to know what he goeth about to counterfeite not professedly as Stage-Players doe the actions manners conditions places and states of men but one of these two either the naturall but violent diseases or supernaturall workes of the Deuill If he or she counterfeite naturall diseases as the Apoplexie the Epilepsie the Convulsion the Frensie Histerica passio the Suffocation of the Matrix or the Mother the motion of Trembling and Pan●ing the Crampe and Stifnesse or the diseases mingled of these the learned iudicious and experienced Physicians must discouer him or her so counterfeiting But in absence of these for the present if any be otherwise learned and haue bookes let him or them I. Consider the nature of any disease and the accidents thereof which is to haue their times of beginning of increasing of full force and so of declination Now this being so the nature of naturall diseases and ●ccidents thereof as Physici●ns doe teach enquiry must be made whether they began by little and and little increasing in time to full force or that at the first when they seemed to take beginning they at once then mounted to the vtmost extr●mitie and doe likewise cease all in a moment then the disease and accidents thereof are either counterfeit or supernaturall ●s were the Boyles on the Egyptians and blaynes suddenly breaking out as did the sore boyles on Iobs body and were not naturall II. Consider the fits and to what speciall disease those fits may be resembled and if any haue such bookes as doe describe the nature of such dis●eases let them looke thereinto and compare them together to see the ●ddes and differences betweene them III. Consider how that naturall diseases and motions thereof especially violent which these vndertake to counterfeite leaue the bodies wea●●●●● the vsage pa●e the breath panting the pulse changed the spirits infeebled with such other effects as violent diseases from naturall causes doe produce and leaue as true testimonies of the truth thereof If therefore after the violent fits the parties be strong can walke about talke with merry company tosse the pot whiffe the Tobacco pipe and such like the disease if it be not supernaturall it is counterfeite for it is not naturall But before I leaue this one thing more may be noted that euen a Counterfeite may haue some naturall disease vpon him or her and make aduantage thereof adding their owne iuggling tricks therto As Mahomet the Turkish false prophet made benefit of the falling sicknesse with which disease hee was afflicted So some with mealancholy affected may become pale and meager and being subtile in their inuention will thereof make vse to play their prankes Many before named had the Hysterica passio and added thereto counterfeit trances Care therefore must be had to difference the counterfeiting from that which is naturall wich requireth iudgement And therefore albeit I haue set downe these ●s some helpes where the Physician cannot be had to informe the Gentlemen of the Iewry yet if it be possible let them vse the learned mens helpe and aduice in these things And thus much for the discouering of a counterfeit in naturall diseases But now if he or shee counterfeit Diabolicall practices of persons bewitched and possessed then are the Gentlemen to acquaint themselues with the true signes of such as bee poss●ssed so to discouer the dissembler and according as I finde in holy Scripture they be these I. An extraordinary strength accompanyed with exceeding fiercenesse to be able to pull chaines in sunder and to breake fetters in pieces to cut themselues with stones to teare off their cloathes to go naked to runne into solitary and hideous places and not to be tamed Here is a Deuil Mar. 5.4.5 Luk. 8.29 II. When one is suddenly taken vp and throwne with violence among and in the 〈◊〉 of a c●mp●ny and not be ●ur Luk. 4.35 III. When one is Lunaticke taken often and cast into the fire or water to be d●stroyed Math. 17.15 M●r 9 22. IV. When one walloweth foameth gnasheth with his teeth is rent and throwne to and fro and withall pineth away in body as in Mar. 9.18 20. and that for a very long time to be so tormented V. When sight hearing and speech is taken from one strangely as in Math. 12.22 Mar. 9.25 VI. When one is violently tormented the spirit bruising the partie making him or her with tearings to foame againe and suddenly to crie out Luk. 9.39 VII When one speaketh in his or her fits in an extraordinary manner not after their owne naturall or ordinary course of vnderstanding as did Saul 1. Sam. 18.10 speaking such truths as possible they by no naturall apprehension or by instruction could attaine vnto as did diuers possessed concerning Christ who they said was the holy one of God Mar. 1.24 The Son of God Mar. 3.11 The Sonne of the most high God Mar. 5.7 and as the Pythonysse said of Paul and Sylas These are the seruants of the euer liuing God and teach vnto you the way of Saluation Act. 16. This knowledge they had not by naturall reason for flesh blood reuealed it not Mat. 16 Neither did they learne it of men for the Iewish Teachers opposed these truths Math. 27.43 26.64 It was then the Deuill in them that knew him who made them so speake Mar. 1.34 We may reade in learned relations of such as in their fits would speake strange languages Fernelius an vndoubted testimony mentioneth how he saw an ignorant and franticke boy and heard him in his madnesse to speake Greeke Melanchton saith that hee saw a Damoniacke woman in Saxony who could neither write nor reade and yet spake both Greeke and Latine VIII When one diuineth as the Pythonisse did Act. 16. foretelleth 〈◊〉 such as come to demand questions of things to come or doeth reueale hidden things As Sleiden in his Commentary telleth of Anabaptisticall Maides when some hid their monies they would ●ell where they hid the same IX When holy means is vsed as Christ did by his Word and power thē the party to cry with a lowd voice to be sore torne 〈◊〉 spirits departing to be 〈◊〉 or d●ad in the iudgement of the beholders Mar. 1.26 9.26 Luk. 4 34 15.42 Thus it tell out w●●h t●e p●ssessed recorded in holy Scriptures Let the pract●ces of Counterfeits be tryed hereby and also by the signes of those that are bewitched Of which in the next booke and 12. Chapter hereafter CHAP. IV. That the Diuell and euill spirits through Gods permission may doe much euill vnto the godly for their tryall and vnto the wicked for their punishment