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A19407	The triall of vvitch-craft shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?	1616 (1616)	STC 5836; ESTC S108830	92,097	138

wise-women so vulgarly termed for their reputed knowledge cōcerning such diseased persons as are supposed to be bewitched But it may be obiected that many of these two last mentioned forts are rather deceiuers and Impostors onely who by an opinion of this power and not by any reall power herein do deceiue seduce and beguile the people This cannot in some be denied notwithstanding least impious imposture be still tolerated to bee a couert to hide the manifest diuellish practice of Witches vnder pretense thereof wherby it shall euer continue in this shape neglected or vnspied I will both briefely giue satisfaction how the one may be distinguished from the other and also declare how men ceasing to enquire at Diuels and Witches or Impostors may learne to enquire of their God alone and by the light of nature and reason which he hath giuen vnto them in his feare with his allowance and approbation more truely and certainely informe themselues CHAP. IX Of Wisards and Impostors how they differ from Witches HOw Witch-craft in diuers kindes may according to euidence of reason be detected hath beene before made manifest How imposture may be discouered since there is so good vse and necessitie of the distinction thereof for the more perfect separating and setting apart of Witch-craft by it selfe wee will likewise briefely make manifest The Impostor is he who pretendeth truth but intendeth falshood For this cause sometimes vnder an holy pretense he maketh God the Author of his vnholy prestigiation and slandereth God vnto his face Sometimes to be reputed an Angell of light he maketh himselfe a license to counterfet the Diuell He proposeth it his trade to seduce and liueth by lying Sometimes in shew and pollicitation hee is a Witch but in the performance of the greater sinne hee is lesse iust and in the personate resemblance solely a Iuggler For as the Witch performeth that which in true and infallible reason is transcendent and aboue nature so the Impostor performeth that which in false and fallible reason and opinion onely seemeth parallel Hence as Witches doe strange and supernaturall workes and truely vnto reason worthy of wonder so the Impostor doth things voide of accomptable reason in shadow shew and seeming onely supernaturall wondred and admired And hence it commeth to passe that with vndiscerning mindes they are sometimes mistaken and confounded one for another From hence it is also necessarily concluded that as Witch craft is discouered by a supernaturall worke aboue reason whereto the Witches consent is accessary so an Impostor is detected by a worke voide of accomptable reason but in a deceiuing false Visar or shew wherewith the purpose and intention of the Deceiuer or Impostor doth concurre As therefore the suspected Witch is tyed to answere vnto any iust doubt which may bee directly vrged against his or her manifest voluntary action that is proued supernaturall so is a truely doubted Impostor bound to giue satisfaction for such his ambiguous actions as doe in likely reason appeare fraudulent vaine prestigious iuggling couzening or deceiuing And thus shall each appeare in his owne true shape apart Of diuers kindes of Witch-craft I haue here produced examples I may here likewise very pertinently for further illustration propose some examples of Imposture in generall that the odiousnesse of this foule sinne may appeare more foule and the ougly face thereof may be more fully discouered Among multitude of examples I will recite onely some few whereof some consist in lewd and guilefull contriuement of action other in the bewitching power of false prophecies reuelations predictions and prognostications Concerning the first who can be ignorant of the impious and infamous Impostures of Mahomet who by guileful counterfeit miracles and pretended angelicall illuminated works first magnified and set vp that heathenish Empire and Religion of the blasphemous Turkes The History of Sebastian the pretended Portugall King as it is set forth by Iohn de Serres according to Master Grimstones translation thereof if he were a true Impostor indeed and were not iniuriously traduced and blurred with vndeserued reproch is an incomparable example aboue and beyond many other I will referre my Reader to the Author himselfe If wee desire more neere or domesticall examples herein behold in the raigne of Henry the seuenth a boy of meane parentage through imposturous machinations opposed set vp and crowned King in Ireland against that famous and renowned Prince Henry the seuenth putting him in great danger of his life and crowne of England In the late raigne of Queene Mary there arose an Impostor stiling himselfe Edward the sixth The danger of the progresse of that Impostor if it had preuailed who knoweth not The manifest wrongs iniuries and impeachments also from counterfeit prophecies reuelations and predictions issuing not onely vnto priuate men and families but vnto kingdomes Empires and common-weales are infinite Iulian an Emperour of Rome though otherwise a mighty and learned Prince and valiant souldier by a prophecie of an Impostresse or seeming Pythonisse promising his conquest and triumph ouer the kingdome of Persia was thither hastened vnto his deserued death and the vengeance of God vpon his infamous Apostasie It is reported by Iohn de Serres the French Chronicler that the power and force of some pretended reuelations and visions of a yong Shepheard in the raigne of Charles the seuenth King of France was so preualent that it perswaded Pothon that great famous French Captaine with the Martiall of France to arme and incounter the then victorious English in the bowels of that kingdome by which vnaduised attempt the French were supprised and taken by the English It is recorded by the same Author that one Martha Brosier counterfeiting the fits and passions of such as were possessed in short time became so powerfull in illusion that she ministred much matter of wonder and amazement not onely vnto priuate men but vnto the Kings Counsell to Preachers in pulpits yea vnto the whole Parliament vntill the counterfet Diuell induring some punishment and restraint forsooke his pretended possession If we require examples in our own country behold in the raigne of Edward the fourth his brother George Duke of Clarence was hastened vnto his vntimely death euen by the allowance of his brother King vpon the feare of a vaine and flying prophecie that G. of King Edwards heyres should bee the murtherer In the time of Henry the eight the holy Maide of Kent by her seeming miraculous reuelations deceiuing not onely the common sort but euen-diuers learned and some men of the best ranke and prime note stirred vp in the King great iealousie and feare of his Crowne and safety as by the records of her attaindour doth appeare wherein doth stand proued and sentenced her treason-some imposture of most dangerous consequent if it had obtained equall issue In the same kings raigne the bewitching esteeme credit and hope of force and vertue in counterfeit predictions and pretended reuelations whet the

the Diuell and answereth me no more neither by Prophets neither by dreames therfore haue I called thee that thou maist tell mee what I should doe Here is a manifest graunt of knowledge in Spirits aboue men Secondly reason doth hence collect that all Spirits that doe suffer themselues to be enquired at are euill Spirits and therefore Diuels because Almightie God hath here expressely forbidden the enquiring at any other Spirit beside himselfe and therefore good and holy Spirits will not nor can not disobey the commandement of God nor countenance or assist men in so doing Thirdly reason doth necessarily hence conclude that such men as are enquired at for reuelations of things hidden from the skill and possibilitie of knowledge in man are Sorcerers Witches and Southsayers The consequence and inference of this reason is iust for that to promise those things or to vndertake those things which are out of their owne knowledge and solely and properly in the knowledge of Spirits and Diuels doth manifestly proue in the performance their interest societie and contract with Spirits and Diuels which is Sorcery and Witch-craft It may bee here obiected that there are some men who affect to be resorted vnto and to bee enquired at in things supposed hidden from the knowledge of man and to be reputed able vnto such Reuelations though haply they practise to deceiue vnder the colour or pretence of such abilitie It is iustly hereto answered that this their presumption ought to be seuerely enquired into whether it doe taste of ought that is diabolicall of the Diuell or supernaturall and if nothing so doe yet in this grand cause of God himselfe the religious iealousie of the prudent Magistrate ought to punish their presumption which dare affect to vndertake the name or note of a sinne so odious and abominable vnto Almightie God Let vs for better impression againe repeate and iterate those things which were collected out of the propounded text First that there is knowledge in Spirits of things hidden and separated from the knowledge of man Secondly that such Spirits as are enquired at and doe reueale such knowledge vnto man are Diuels Thirdly that men which doe practise to be enquired at for such supposed Reuelations ought not onely to be iustly suspected and inquired into but that if they be found therewithall to know and reueale those things which are indeed and really aboue and beyond the knowledge of man and are properly and onely in the power of Spirits that then this doth infallibly proue their interest power and societie with Diuels which is certaine and assured Sorcery and Witch-craft And thus hath reason drawne a demonstration out of the booke of God of a certaine Witch and manifest Sorcerer Let vs now exercise our selues in the consideration examination and tryall of some particulars herein Who hath not heard of the name and mention of that famous and renowmed British Wisard Merlin and of his high and great esteeme among Princes for his prophesies Vnto his fore-sight and predictions from many fore-going ages the successes and euents of diuers Princes affaires in their seuerall raignes haue been vsually by diuers times and histories referred For this cause Master Camden in the description of Caermarden-shire doth terme him the Tages of the Britans Speede in his tractate of the ancient Inhabitants of great Britane as also of the life of Aurelius Ambrosius and of the raigne of King Iohn and of Henry the fourth doth out of Malmesbury and others recite diuers accidents euents in seuerall succeeding ages vnto his oraculous and miraculous illuminations ascribed to haue beene foreseene foretold and knowne If there be truth in those Oracles and ancient fore-seeing Reuelations they doe necessarily inferre the assistance of a power farre superiour vnto all the power of man Therefore whosoeuer doth finde them true must conclude their Author a Witch or Sorcerer Neither hath the generall reception or opinion of Authors been here-from different who haue published him the sonne of an Incubus or the sonne of a Witch begotten by the Diuell As it is said of this ancient time-noted and age-viewed Sorcerer so may be testified of many other What shall wee iudge of that infamous woman among the French called Ioane of Arc by others Ioane Pucell de Dieu Iohn de Serres the French historian doth report that shee had many miraculous Reuelations whereof the King then Charles the seuenth and all his armie and men of warre were open wondring witnesses and in those reuelations for the most part there was found no lesse wondrous truth then true wonder By her sole incouragement and stout assurance of successe built vpon miraculous reuelations the French prosperously incountred the victorious English in France at seuerall times and against all humane reason recouered their in reason-vnrecouerable and most desperate standing euen neere vnto the pit of vtter downefall with more then vnspeakeable amazement and terrour vnto the sodainely confounded English Notwithstanding at length shee was taken prisoner by the English executed and burnt for her Witch-craft What shall wee say or iudge of other the like Authors and broachers of supernaturall reuelations and predictions in other times The fore-mentioned Historian reporteth that a Wisard foretold Duke Biron of his death and that he should dye by the backe blow of a Burguignon who afterward proued his Executioner being that Countrey man Melancton ont of Carion doth recite the mention of a woman of the order of the Druides among the Tungri who foretold Dioclesian that hee should be Emperour of Rome when he had first killed a Boare which prooued afterward one Aper then an Vsurper which in the Latine tongue signifieth a Boare Suetonius writeth of a Diuinour who loug before was able to make knowne the death and the manner of the death and murder of Iulius Caesar. Philippe de Commines in his 8. Book Chap. 19. doth make mention of one Frier Hierome and of his many admirable reuelations predictions concerning the affaires of the king of France which as from the Friers owne mouth he himselfe did oft heare so with his owne eyes he did witnesse and behold their issue true It was disputed whether in these transcendent reuelations the Frier were a man of God or no and it is doubtfully there concluded In these like reuelations and prophecies reason cannot deny but must acknowledge the manifest impression and stampe of more then humane Science or demonstration If we desire or affect more specially to viewe what our owne Histories at home afford who can deny him a Wisard or Witch who as M r. Speede and others testifie in the reigne of Richard the Vsurper foretold that vpon the same stone where hee dashed his spurre riding toward Bosworth fielde he should dash his head in his returne which proued accordingly true when being slaine in battell he was carryed naked out of the field and his head hanging low by the horse side behinde his bearer did smite vpon the same stone