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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26477	A perfect discovery of witches shewing the divine cause of the distractions of this kingdome, and also of the Christian world : very profitable to bee read by all sorts of people, especially judges of assizes, sheriffes, justices of the peace, and grand-jury-men, before they passe sentence on those that are condemned for witch-craft / by Thomas Ady.; Candle in the dark	Ady, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing A676; ESTC R19148	123,593	172

the prayers of the people went home bewitched to that devillish Idolatry by that grand Witch that Whore of Rome that hath deceived all Nations with her Witchcraft Revel 18.23 yet to the grief of the hearts of this Popish crew in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth many of their devillish Witchcrafts were daily discovered as in Master Lumberts Book of the Perambulation of Kent it appeareth was discovered the Rhood of grace in Kent who was always accompanied and helped by little St. Rumball which Idol as Mr. Scot noteth in Lib. 7. Chap. 6. was not inferiour in all deluding Impostures to the great Idol Apollo or Apollos Oracle whose Priests were the grand Witches of the World in its time yet afterward the wires that made the eyes of the Images to goggle and the Pins and Instruments for several delusions were discovered with all the Witchcraft of the jugling Priests with every circumstance thereof which Image and Instruments were openly burnt together by the authority and command of the Queen And now it falleth in my way to speak of another grand Witch of the World that is Mahomet the great Idol of the Turks who by his Juglings and Divinations hath seduced a great part of the World to an Idolatrous worship so absurd and silly that his Disciples are ashamed to let any Christians come neer the place of his supposed Sepulchre at Mecha lest they should laugh at their folly in worshipping an Iron Sepulchre therefore all Christians are forbidden to come within five miles of that place upon pain of death and because various reports have been abroad by several Authors concerning this Deceiver of the world I will only cite the most allowable reports confirmed by Lampadius in Mellificio Historico and also by Gulielmus Biddulphus an English Travellor called The Travels of certain English-men into farre Countries very agreeable to the foresaid Lampadius This devillish Impostor Mahomet desiring to magnifie himself among the people did first of all delude his Wife making her beleeve that he was a Prophet of God for having the Falling-sickness with which he fell often and lay like a man in a trance he told his Wife that Gabriel the Arch-angel did often appear to him and reveal secrets from Heaven and for the confirmation thereof Sergius a wicked Monck who was his instructer affirmed That Gabriel did use to appear to all Prophets and so both of them together did perswade the silly Woman that the reason of his falling in a Trance was because the Angel was so glorious that he was not able to behold him without falling and that all the time of his lying thus prostrate the Angel was talking with him this silly Woman rejoycing in this That she was married to a Prophet reported the thing among other Women so that in time this fellow obtained among pratling Women and common people the name of a Prophet the Devil by this fellow taking occasion and waiting his opportunity to deceive the World as also by Sergius the Monck who was his companion it hapned about the year of our Lord Christ 591. about which time also began the Antichristian Popedome at Rome that Heraclius the Roman Emperour makeing use of the Armies of the Sarazens against the Persians and not giving them their daily pay or stipend which they expected and required of his Captains over them they revolted from him then this Mahomet with his companion Sergius seconding him became the Head of the Rebellion or at least desired so to be thought by the people that so he might any way become great among them but the Souldiers not much regarding him Sergius and he did so use their wits to perswade them telling them That he was ordained by God to that end and sent by the Angel Gabriel to bring the people to the worship of God by the power of the Sword for said he Christ came only by Miracles and Signs to perswade but I am the next Prophet and the last that shall come and am to compel people by the Sword so that partly by subtilty and partly by compulsion hee drew a mighty Army to him to the overthrow of the Emperours power in those parts from whence came that mighty Empire of the Turks and because that Sergius had counselled him that the only way to increase in strength was to set up a New Religion he gathered unto him besides Sergius John Presbyter an Arrian Heretick and Selan a Jewish Astrologian and another Barran Persam Jacobitam who together that they might draw all people after him Coyned a Religion partly of the Circumcision that so he might win the Jews and the Saracens who coming of Ishmael do use the Circumcision of Abraham to this day and were called Saracens because Hagar was Sarahs Maid and Hagarens from their Mother Hagar and partly of Christianity that so he might win Christians for the Turks do acknowledge Christ to have been a Prophet but they deny his Divinity and his satisfaction for the Sins of Man for they say that God had no Wife and therefore could have no Son and of this and the like silly conceits is composed the Turkish Alcoran and that he might distinguish his Sect from Jews and Christians he hath instituted his Sabbath on the Friday and for the inticing of all men to his Religion he telleth them That they that fight boldly for his Worship shall if they bee slain enter directly into Paradice where they shall injoy plenty of pleasures meat and drink and pretty Wenches abundance and with these hopes saith Lampadius his Souldiers are so bewitched that they are always furious and greedy of fighting be their danger never so great Much more is reported of this Impostor by several Historians but I have only described him briefly by these his seducements although he had many more wherein may be noted that he was a Jugling false Prophet in faining himself to be in extasie of minde in a miraculous manner talking with the Angel Gabriel according to this fifth term of description in the text whereas he was only visited with the fits of his Epileptick disease and in that he pretended these absurd Fantasies to be revealed to him by the Angel he was a Diviner and a lying Enthusiast according to the second term of description in the text in both which sense Sergius the Monck and the rest of his Companions aforesaid who joyned with him in his delusions were Witches also and herein it is strange to see the world of people that are infatuated by so groundless a Religion for were it not for the stupidity of mens mindes and understanding God did enough discover this Mahomet the founder of this Turkish Religion to bee an Impostor at his death for when hee boasted himself that at his death he would rise again the third day as Christ did Albunar one of his Disciples to try the truth of his Doctrins and vaticiniations gave him a cup of deadly poyson which being drunk he swelled