his own Vindication horridly wished that the Devil might put out his eyes if he had done as was suspected concerning him That very night a Rhume fell into his Eyes so as that within a few dayes he became stark blind His company being astonished at the Divine hand which thus conspicuously and signally appeared put him ashore at Providence and left him there A Physitian being desired to undertake his Cure hearing how he came to lose his sight refused to meddle with him This account I lately received from credible persons who knew and have often seen the Man whom the Devil according to his own wicked wish made blind through the dreadful and righteous judgement of God Moreover that worse than bruitish sin of Drunkenness hath been witnessed against from Heaven by severe and signal Iudgements It was a sign of the fearful Wrath of God upon that notorious Drunkard at a place called Seatucket in Long-Island who as he was in Drink fell into the Fire the People in the House then being in Bed and asleep and so continued for some considerable time until he received his Deaths wound At his first awakening he roared out Fire Fire as if it had been one in Hell to the great astonishment of all that heard him One in the House flung a pail of Water on him to quench his Clothes but that added to his torment so he continued yelling after an hideous manner Fire Fire and within a day or two died in great misery And though this Drunkard died by fire it is Remarkable that many of those who have loved drink have died by water and that at the very time when their understandings have been drowned with Drink It is an awful consiration that there have been at several times above forty persons in this Land whom death hath found in that woful plight so that their immortal Souls have gone out of Drunken Bodies to appear before God the Judge of all That Remarkable Iudgement hath first or last fallen upon those who have sought the hurt of the People of God in New-England is so notorious as that it is become the observation of every Man This Israel in the Wilderness hath eat up the Nations his Enemies he hath broke their Bones and pierced them through with his Arrows Some Adversaries have escaped longer unpunished than others but then their ends have been of all the most woful and tragical at last I shall instance only in what hath lately come to pass with respect unto the Heathen who rose up against us thinking to swallow us up quick when their Wrath was kindled against us Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us a prey to their Teeth The Chieftains amongst them were all cut off either by Sword or Sickness in the War time excepting those in the Eastern parts whose Ring-leaders outlived their fellows but now God hath met with them There were in special two of those Indians who shed much innocent Blood viz. Simon and Squando As for bloody Simon who was wont to boast of the Mischiefs he had done and how he had treacherously shot and killed such and such English-men he died miserably the last Winter Another Indian discharging a Gun hapned to shoot Simon so as to break his Arm. After which he lived two years but in extremity of pain so as that the Indians when enquired of how Simon did their usual Answer was Worse then Dead He used all means that Earth and Hell for he betook himself to Powaws could afford him for his recovery but in vain Thus was the wickedness of that Murtherer at last returned upon his own head Concerning Squando the Sachem of the Indians at Saco the Story of him is upon sundry accounts Remarkable Many years ago he was sick and near unto death after which he said that one pretending to be the English-mans God appeared to him in form of an English Minister and discoursed with him requiring him to leave off his drinking of Rum and religiously to observe the Sabbath day and to deal justly amongst Men withal promising him that if he did so then at death his Soul should go upwards to an happy place but if he did not obey these commandments at death his Soul should go downwards and be for ever miserable But this pretended God said nothing to him about Iesus Christ. However this Apparition so wrought upon Squando as that he left his Drunkenness and became a strict observer of the Sabbath day Yea so as that he alwayes kept it as a day of Fast and would hear the English Ministers Preach and was very just in his dealing But in the time of the late Indian War he was a principal Actor in the bloody 〈…〉 in that part of the Countrey 〈…〉 year the pretended English-mans God appeared to him again as afore in the form of a Minister requiring him to kill himself and promising him that if he did obey he should live again the next day and never die more Squando acquainted his Wife and some other Indians with this new Apparition They most earnestly advised him not to follow the murderous Counsel which the Spectre had given Nevertheless he since hath Hanged himself and so is gone to his own place This was the end of the Man that disturbed the Peace of New-England CHAP. XII An Account of some Remarkables at Norwich in New-England Special Answers of Prayer made in that place That People marvelously preserved The scandalous miscarriage of one so over-ruled by Providence as to be an occasion of the Conversion of several others A further account of some personal Deliverances in Norwich Concerning sudden Deaths which have hapned in New-England THere is lately come to my hand an account of some Remarkables which have hapned at Norwich in New-England drawn up by Mr. Fitch the Judicious and eminently Faithful Pastor of the Church in that place which that others may be incouraged to follow his Example in observing and recording the special Works of Divine Providence I shall here insert as I received it and so hasten to finish this Essay it is that which follows Remarkable Providences at Norwich 1. Many times the Heavens have been shut up but God hath answered our Prayers in sending Rain and sometimes so speedily and so plentifully after our seeking the Lord by Fasting and Prayer that the Heathen now for more than twenty years upon occasion of want of Rain will speak to us to call upon the Name of the Lord our God one especial Instance of this kind I have already given and it s upon Record in the History of the War with the Indians in New-England 2. Many among us have been in more than ordinary hazard by Rattle-Snakes some have set their feet upon them some have been bitten by them upon the skin and one as he was stooping down to drink at a Spring of Water spied a Rattle-Snake within two foot of his head rising up against him thus manifold wayes in danger by this
us there was crept up into the scuttle of the Quarter Deck to come unto us but presently came another wave and dashing the Pinnace all to pieces carried my Wife away in the Scuttle as she was with the greater part of the quarter Deck unto the Shoar where she was cast safely but her Legs were something bruised and much Timber of the Vessel being there also cast she was sometime before she could get away being washed by the Waves All the rest that were in the Barque were drowned in the merciless Seas We four by that wave were clean swept away from off the Rock also into the Sea the Lord in one instant of time disposing of fifteen Souls of us according to his good pleasure and will His pleasure and wonderful great mercy to me was thus Standing on the Rock as before you heard with my eldest Daughter my Cousin and his eldest Son looking upon and talking to them in the Barque whenas we were by that merciless wave washed off the Rock as before you heard God in his mercy caused me to fall by the stroke of the wave flat on my face for my face was toward the Sea insomuch that as I was sliding off the Rock into the Sea the Lord directed my toes into a joynt in the Rocks side as also the tops of some of my fingers with my right hand by means whereof the wave leaving me I remained so having in the Rock only my head above the water When on the left hand I espied a Board or Plank of the Pinnace And as I was reaching out my left hand to lay hold on it by another coming over the top of the Rock I was washed away from the Rock and by the violence of the waves was driven hither and thither in the Seas a great while and had many dashes against the Rocks At length past hopes of Life and wearied in body and spirits I even gave over to nature and being ready to receive in the waters of Death I lifted up both my heart and hands to the God of Heaven For note I had my senses remaining perfect with me all the time that I was under and in water who at that instant lifted my head above the top of the water that so I might breathe without any hindrance by the waters I stood bolt upright as if I had stood upon my feet but I felt no bottom nor had any footing for to stand upon but the waters While I was thus above the water I saw by me a piece of the Mast as I suppose about three foot long which I laboured to catch into my arms But suddenly I was overwhelmed with water and driven to and fro again and at last I felt the ground with my right foot When immediately whilest I was thus groveling on my face I presently recovering my feet was in the water up to my Breast and through Gods great mercy had my face unto the shoar and not to the Sea I made hast to get out but was thrown down on my hands with the waves and so with safety crept to the dry shoar Where blessing God I turned about to look for my Children and Friends but saw neither nor any part of the Pinnace where I left them as I supposed But I saw my Wife about a Butt length from me getting her self forth from amongst the Timber of the broken Barque but before I could get unto her she was gotten to the shoar I was in the water after I was washed from the Rock before I came to the shoar a quarter of an hour at least When we were come each to other we went and sat under the Bank But fear of the Seas roaring and our coldness would not suffer us there to remain But we went up into the Land and sat us down under a Cedar Tree which the wind had thrown down where we sat about an hour almost dead with cold But now the Storm was broken up and the wind was calm but the Sea remained rough and fearful to us My Legs were much bruised and so was my head other hurt had I none neither had I taken in much quantity of water but my heart would not let me sit still any longer but I vvould go to see if any more were gotten to the Land in safety especially hoping to have met with some of my own poor Children but I could find none neither dead nor yet living You condole with me my miseries who now began to consider of my losses Now came to my remembrance the time and manner how and when I last saw and left my Children and Friends One was severed from me sitting on the Rock at my feet the other three in the Pinnace my little Babe Ah poor Peter sitting in his Sister Ediths arms who to the uttermost of her power sheltred him from the waters my poor William standing close unto them all three of them loâ—king ruefully on me on the Rock their very Countenances calling unto me to help them whom I could not go unto neither could they come at me neither would the merciless waves afford me space or time to use any means at all either to help them or my self Oh I yet see their cheeks poor silent Lambs pleading pity and help at my hands Then on the other side to consider the loss of my dear Friends with the spoiling and loss of all our Goods and Provisions my self cast upon an unknown Land in a Wilderness I knew not where nor how to get thence Then it came to my mind how I had occasioned the Death of my Children who caused them to leave their native Land who might have left them there yea and might have sent some of them back again and cost me â—othing these and such like thoughts do press down my heavy heart very much But I must let this pass and will proceed on in the Relation of Gods goodness unto me in that desolate Island on which I was cast I and my Wife were almost naked both of us and wet and cold even unto death I found a Snapsack cast on the shoar in which I had a Steel and Flint and Powder-horn Going further I found a drowned Goat then I found a Hat and my Son William's Coat both which I put on My Wife found one of her Petticoats which she put on I found also two Cheeses and some Butter driven ashoar Thus the Lord sent us some clothes to put on and food to sustain our new lives which we had lately given unto us and means also to make 〈◊〉 for in an Horn I had some Gun-powder which to mine owâ— and since to other mens admiration was dry So taking a piece of my Wives Neckcloth which I dried in the Sun I struck fire and so dried and warmed our wet Bodies and then skinned the Goat and having found a small Brass-pot we boyled some of her Our Drink was brackish water Bread we had none There we remained until the Monday following When about
Only to let the World know that I Murdered a Man and buried him in this place in the year 1635. Then the Spectre laid down the Sword on the bare ground there whereupon grew nothing but seemed to Goddard to be as a Grave sunk in All this while William Avon remained where Goddard left him and said he saw no Apparition only heard Goddard speak to the Spectre and discerned another voice also making Reply to Goddard's enquiries but could not understand the words uttered by that voice The next day the Mayor caused men to dig in the place where the Spectre said the Body was buried but nothing could be found These examples then shew that the Ghosts of Dead men do sometimes appear and that for such causes as those mentioned There have been some in the world so desperate as to make solemn Covenants with their living Friends to appear unto them after their Death and sometimes though not alwayes it hath so come to pass It is a Remarkable passage which Baronius relates concerning Marsilius Ficinus and his great Intimate Michael Mercatus These two having been warmly Disputing about the immortality of the Soul entred into a solemn Vow that if there were truth in those Notions about a future State in another World he which died first should appear to his surviving Friend Not long after this Ficinus Died. On a morning when Mercatus was intent upon his Studies he heard the voice of Ficinus his Friend at his Window with a loud cry saying O Michael Michael Vera vera sunt illa O my Friend Michael those notions about the Souls of Men being immortal they are true they are true Whereupon Mercatus opened his Window and saw his Friend Marsilius Ficinus whom he called unto but he vanished away He presently sent to Florence to know how Ficinus did and was informed that he Died about the hour when his Ghost appeared at Mercatus his Window There are also later Instances and nearer home not altogether unlike to this For in Mr. Glanvil's late Collection of Relations which we have had occasion more than once to mention It is said that Dr. Farrar and his Daughter made a compact that the first of them which Died if happy should after Death appear to the surviver if possible his Daughter with some difficulty consenting to the agreement Some time after the Daughter living then near Salisbury fell in Labour and having by an unhappy mistake a noxious Potion given to her instead of another prepared suddenly Died. That very night she appeared in the room where her Father then Lodged in London and opening the Curtains looked upon him He had before heard nothing of her illness but upon this Apparition confidently told his Servant that his Daughter was Dead and two Dayes after received the News Likewise one Mr. Watkinson who lived in Smithfield told his Daughter taking her leave of him and expressing her fears that she should never see him more that should he Die if ever God did permit the Dead to to see the living he would see her again Now after he had been Dead about half a Year on a night when she was in Bed but could not sleep she heard Musick and the Chamber grew lighter and lighter she then saw her Father by the Bed-side Who said Mall did not I tell thee that I would see thee again He exhorted her to be patient under her afflictions and to carry it dutiful towards her Mother and told her that her Child that was born since his departure should not trouble her long And bid her speak what she would speak to him now for he must go and she should see him no more upon Earth Vid. Glanvil's Collections P. 189 192. Sometimes the Great and Holy God hath permitted and by his Providence ordered such Apparitions to the end that Atheists might thereby be astonished and affrighted out of their Infidelity Nam primus timor fecit in orbe Deos. Remarkable and very solemn is the Relaon of the Appearance of Major Sydenbam's Ghost mentioned in the Book but now cited P. 181. It is in brief this Major George Sydenham of Delverton in Somerset and Captain William Dyke of Skillgate in that County used to have many Disputes about the Being of God and the Immortality of the Soul in which point they continued unresolved To issue their controversies they agreed that he that died first should the third night after his Funeral between the hours of twelve and one appear at a little House in the Garden After Sydenham was dead Captain Dyke repairs to the place appointed between them two He acquainted a near Kinsman Dr. Thomas Dyke with his design by whom he was earnestly disswaded from going to that place at that time and was told that the Devil might meet him and be his ruine if he would venture on in such rash attempts The Captain Replied that he had solemnly engaged and nothing should discourage him accordingly betwixt twelve and one he went into the Garden-house and there tarried two or three hours without seeing or hearing any thing more than what was usual About six weeks after Captain Dyke rides to Eaton to place his Son a Scholar there The morning before he returned from thence after it was light one came to his Bed-side and suddenly drawing back the Curtains calls Cap. Cap. which was the term of familiarity which the Major when living used to call the Captain by He presently perceived it was his Major and replieth What my Major On the Table in the Room there lay a Sword which the Major had formerly given to the Captain After the seeming Major had walked a turn or two about the Room he took up the Sword and drew it out and not finding it so bright and clean as it ought Cap. Cap. said he This Sword did not use to be kept after this manner when it was mine He also said to the Captain I could not come to you at the time appointed but I am now come to tell you That there is a God and that he is a very just and a terrible God and if you do not turn over a new leaf you will find it so So did he suddenly disappear The Captain arose and came into another Chamber where his Kinsman Dr. Dyke lodged but in a visage and form much differing from himself his Hair standing his Eyes staring and his whole Body trembling telling with much affection what he had seen The Captain lived about two years after this but was much altered in his Conversation the Words uttered by his Majors Ghost ever sounding in his Ears Thus of that remarkable Providence I have not mentioned these things as any way approving of such desperate Covenants There is great hazard attending them It may be after Men have made such agreements Devils may appear to them pretending to be their Deceased Friends and thereby their Souls may be drawn into woful Snares Who knoweth whether God will permit the persons who have
implicitly communion with the Diabolical Covenant And so is the case here Who was this Art of unbewitching Persons in such a way first learned of If due enquiry be made it will be found that Magicians and Devils were the first discoverers Porphyrie saith it was by the revelation of the Daemons themselves that Men came to know by what things they would be restrained from and constrained to this or that Eujeb praep Evan. L. 5. C. 7. Dr. Willet in Ex. 7. Quest. 9. To use any Ceremonies in vented by Satan to attain a supernatural end implies too great a concernment with him Yea such persons do honour and worship the Devil by hoping in his Salvation They use means to obtain Health which is not natural nor was ever appointed by God but is wholly of the Devils Institution which he is much pleased with as being highly honoured thereby Nay such practices do imply an invocation of the Devil for relief and a pleading with him the Covenant which he hath made with the Witch and a declaration of confidence that the Father of Lies will be as good as his word For the nefandous Language of such a practice is this Thou O Devil hast made a Covenant with such an one that if such a Ceremony be used thou wilt then cease to torment a poor creature that is now afflicted by thee We have used that Ceremony and therefore now O Satan we expect that thou shouldest be as good as they word which thou hast covenanted with that Servant of thine and cease tormenting the Creature that has been so afflicted by thee Should Men in words speak thus What horrid Impiety were itâ— therefore to do actions which import no less is whatever deluded Souls think of it great and hainous Iniquity 3. Let such practitioners think the best of themselves they are too near a Kin to those creatures who commonly pass under the name of white Witches They that do hurt to others by the Devils help are called black Witches but there are a sort of persons in the World that will never hurt any but only by the power of the Infernal Spirits they will un-bewitch those that seek unto them for relief I know that by Constantius his Law black Witches were to be pâ—nished and white ones indulged But M. Perkins saith that the good Witch is a more horrible and detestable Monster than the bad one Balaam was a black Witch and Simon Magus a white one This later did more hurt by his Cures than the former by his Curses How persons that shall unbewitch others by putting Uâ—â—n into a Bottle or by casting Excrements into the fire or nailing of Horse-shoes at Mens doors can wholly clear themselves from being white Witches I am not able to understand 4. Innocent persons have been extreamly wronged by such Diabolical tricks For sometimes as is manifest from the Relation of the Groton Maid mentioned in the fifth Chapter of this Essay the Devil does not only himself inflict Diseasâ—s upon Men but represent the visages of innocent persons to the phansies of the diseased making them believe that they are tormented by them when only himself does it And in case they follow the Devils direction by observing the Ceremonies which he has invented hee 'l afflict their Bodies no more So does his malice bring the persons accused by him though never so innocent into great suspicion And he will cease afflicting the body of one in case he may ruin the credit of another and withal endanger the Souls of â—hose that hearken to him If the Devil upon scratchings or burnings or stoppings of Urin or the nailing of an Horse-shoe c. shall cease to afflict the body of any he does this either as being compelled thereto or voluntarily To imagine that such things shall constrain the Evil Spirit to cease afflicting whether he will or no is against all reason But if he does this voluntarily then instead of hurting their bodies he does a greater mischief to Souls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Devil heals the Body that he may wound the Soul He will heal them with all his heart provided that he may but thereby draw men to look unto him for help instead of seeking unto God alone in the use of his own means and so receive that honour the thing that he aspires after which is the Lords due How gladly will that wicked Spirit heal one body upon condition that he may entangle many Souls with Superstition And if Men and Women especially in places of light will hearken to him it is a righteous thing with God to suffer it to be thus It is past doubt that Satan who has the power of death Heb. 2. 14. has also by divine permission power to inflict and consequently to remove Diseases from the bodies of men In natural Diseases he has many times a great operation and is willing to have them cured rather by the use of Superstious then of natural means It is noted in the Germanic Ephemeris for the year 1675. that a Man troubled with a Fistula which the Physitians by all their Art could no way relieve a person that was esteemed a Wizard undertook to cure him and applying a Powder to the wound within a few dayes the sick party recovered The powder was some of the ashes of a certain Woman who had been burnt to death for a Witch This was not altogether so horrid as that which is by Authors worthy of credit reported to come to pass in the days of Pope Adrian VI. when the Plague raging in Rome a Magician whose Name was Demetrius Spartan caused it to be stayed by sacrificing a Bull to the Devil See P. Iovius Histor. Lib. 21. Such power hath the righteous God given unto Satan over the sinful Children of Men yea such a Ruler hath he set over them as a just punishment for all their wickedness His chief design is to improve that power which by reason of sin he hath obtained to seduce into more sin And the Holy God to punish the World for iniquity often suffers the Enemy to obtain his desires this way What strange things have been done and how have Diseases been healed by the sign of the Cross many times By which means Satans design in advancing 〈◊〉 to the destruction of thousands of Souls has too successfully taken place And this 〈◊〉 did he early and gradually advance amongst Christians I have not been able without astonishment to read the passages related by Austin de civitate Dei Lib. 22. Cap. 8. He there speaks of one Innocentia whom he calls a most Religious Woman who having a Cancer in her Breast the most skilful Physitians doubted of the cure But in her sleep she was admonished to repair unto the Font where she had been Baptized and there to sign that place with the sign of the Cross which she did and was immediately healed of her Cancer In the same Chapter he reports that a Friend of Hesperius did
from Ierusalem send him some Earth that was taken out of the place where our Lord Christ had been buried that Hesperius had no sooner received it but his House which before had been molested with Evil Spirits was rid of those troublesome guests He giveth an account also of strange Cures wrought by the Reliques of the Martyrs It was not he saith known where the bodies of Protasius and Gervas holy Martyrs were buried but Ambrose had it revealed to him in his sleep and a blind Man approaching near unto thâ— Bodies instantly received his sight Another was cured of Blindness by the Reliques of the Martyr Stephen And a Child playing abroad a Cart wheel run over him and bruised him so that it was thought he would immediately expire but his Mother carrying him into the House that was built to honour the memory of St. Stephens life and health were miraculously continued Many other wonderful cures doth Austin there mention as done by Stephen's Reliques But who seeth not that the hand of Ioab was in all these things For by this means Satan hath filled the World with Superstition The Cross is worshipped The Reliques of Martyrs are adored The honour due to God alone is given to the creature The same method has the grand Enemy observed that so he might bring that Superstition of Iconolatry or Image Worship which is so provoking to the jealous God into repute amongst Christians It would be endless to enumerate how many in Popish Countries have been cured of Diseases which for their sins God hath suffered the Devil to punish them with by touching the Image of this or that Saint Nay some whose bodies have been possessed with evil Spirits have in that way of Superstition found relief in a more especial manner when the Image of the Virgin Mary hath been presented before persons Possessed the Devil in them hath cried out and shrieked after a fearful manner as if he had been put to horrible torture at the sight of that Image and so hath seemed to depart out of the miserable creature molested by him and all this that so deluded Papists might be hardened in their Superstitious opinion of that Image Many such devices hath Satan to ensnare and ruin the Souls of Men. Some report that the Bodies of Excommunicates in the Greek Churches at this day are strangely handled by the Devil after Death hath taken hold of them M. Ricaut in his Relation of the present state of the Greek Churches Page 279. c. saith that a grave Kaloir told him that to his own certain knowledge a person who fell under their Church-censure after he had been for some time buried the People where his corps lay interred were affrighted with strange Apparitions which they concluded arose from the Grave of the accursed Excommunicate which thereupon was opened and they found the Body uncorrupted and replete with Blood the Coffin furnished with Grapes Nuts c. brought thither by infernal Spirits The Kaloirs resolved to use the common remedy in those cases viz. to cut the body in several parts and to boyl it in Wine as the approved means to dislodge the evil Spirit but his Friends intreated rather that the Sentence of Excommunication might be reversed which was granted In the mean time Prayers and Masses and Offerings were presented for the dead and whilst they were performing these Services on a sudden was heard a rumbling noise in the Coffin of the dead party Which being opened they found the body consumed and dissolved into dust as if it had been Interred seven years The hour and minute of this dissolution being compared with the date of the Patriarchs release when signed at Constantinople was found exactly to agree with that moment If there be truth in this Relation 't is a dreadful evidence of Satans Reigning amongst a Superstitious People who nevertheless call themselves Christians and that he does by such means as these keep them under chains of darkness still The Devil hath played such Reax as these are not only amongst Christians but amongst the Gentiles of old For Titus Latinus was warned in his sleep that he should declare unto the Senate that they must reniew that Stage-plays he neglecting to deliver his Message was again by the same Daemon spoken unto in his sleepâ— and severely reproved for his Omission and his Son died Still persisting in his omission the Daemon again cometh to him so that he was surprized with an acute and horrible disease Hereupon by counsel of his Friends he was carried in his Bed into the Senate and as soon as he had declared what he had seen his Health was restored that he returned home upon his feet The issue was Stage-plays were more in fashion than ever before Augustin de civitate Dei Lib. 4. Cap. 26. Learned men are not ignorant that strangeâ— Cures were effected amongst the Heathen by the use of Talismans or Images of which inventions Zoroaster the Father of Magicians is supposed to be the first Author It is reported that Virgil made a brazen fly and a golden horse-leach whereby Flies were hindred from coming into Naples and the Horse-leaches were all killed in a Ditch Thus doth Beelzebub draw miserable Men into Superstition And although I am upon a serious Subject and my design in writing these things that is so I might bear witness against the Superstition which some in this land of light have been found guilty of and that if God shall bless what has been spoken to convince men of the error of their way the like evils may no more be heard of amongst us this notwithstanding it may not be improper here to recite some facetious passages which I have met with in Hemmingius his Discourse De superstitione Magica since they are to my present purpose as discovering what delight the infernal Spirits take in drawing Men to make use of Superstitious means for the recovery of health unto their bodies The Learned Author mentioned reports that as he was instructing his Pupils in the Art of Logic he had occasion to recite a couple of Verses consisting of nine Hobgoblin words Fecana cajeti daphenes c. adding by way of Joke that those Verses would cure a Feaver if every day a piece of Bread were given to the sick person with one of these words written upon it A simple Fellow that stood by thought Hemmingius had been in earnest in what he spoke and not long after having a Servant that fell sick of a Feaver he gave him the first day a bit of Bread with a Paper wherein Fecana was written and so on for six dayes until he came to the word Gebali and then on a sudden his Servant was well again Others seeing the efficacy of the Amulet did the like and many were cured of Feavers thereby In the same Chapter P. 908. Hemingius writeth of a knavish Scholar that a certain Woman repairing to him for help who was excedingly troubled with sore eyes promising him a good