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A19409	The infallible true and assured vvitch, or, The second edition of the tryall of witch-craft shevving the right and true methode of the discoverie : with a confutation of erroneous waies, carefully reviewed and more fully cleared and augmented / by Iohn Cotta ...	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?; Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1550-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 5838; ESTC S300	112,889	182

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 counterfeit the Diuell He proposeth it his trade to seduce and liueth by lying Sometimes in shew and pollicitation he is a Witch but in the performance of the greater sinne hee is lesse iust and in the personate resemblance solely a Iugler 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 on 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 prooued 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 kinds of Witchcraft I haue before 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 Example 1 Concerning the first who can be ignorant of the impious and infamous Impostures of Mahomet who by guilefull counterfeit miracles and pretended angelicall illuminated workes first magnified and set vp that heathenish Empire and Religion of the blasphemous Turkes Example 2 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 indeede 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 we 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 Example 4 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 only vnto priuate men and families but vnto Kingdomes Empires and Common-weales are infinite Example 5 Iulian an Emperour of Rome though otherwise a mightie 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 Example 6 It is reported by Iohn de Serres the French Cronicler that the power and force of some pretended reuelations and visions of a young Shepheard in the raigne of Charles the seuenth King of France was so preualent that it perswaded Pothon that great and famous French Captaine with the Marshall 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 Example 7 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 counterfeit Diuell induring some punishment and restraint forsooke his pretended possession Example 8 If wee require examples in our owne countrey 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 heires should be the murtherer In the time of Henry the eight the holy Maide of Kent Example 9 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 doeth appeare wherein doeth stand prooued 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 Example 10 and hope of force vertue in counterfeit predictions and pretended reuelations whet the ambitious heart of Edward Lord Stafford Duke of Buckingham first into high Treason and to reach at the Crowne and after from thence thrust him headlong or headlesse into his graue In the raigne of Edward the sixt there was a prophecie Example 11 divulged from the mouth of some pretended Wizard by which the coniuration of Kett and those Norfolke Rebels was hartned and encouraged to proceede in their rebellion and outrage vnto the great danger and damage of the Kingdome and in the end vnto their owne destruction That blind pretended prophecie in the insidiation of vaine and credulous mindes was somewhat like vnto that ambiguous Oracle in the Poet. Aio te Aeacida Romanos vincere posse I say the sonne of Aeacus the Romane power shall quell This Oracle may on either side indifferently either actiuely or passiuely bee vnderstood Like vnto it was that prestigious prophecie which the rebellious Norfolcians with their Kett trusted Hob Dic and Hic with clubbes and clouted shoone Shall fill vp Dussin-dale with slaughtered bodies soone The Rebels vnderstanding this blinde reuelation or prediction concerning the victory wherein they themselues should bee Agents and not Patients as afterward their owne ruine did truely interpret it and dreaming the

of 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 prooue 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 It is said of Apollonius that he foretold the day the houre of the day the moment of the houre wherein Coccius Nerra the Emperour should die long before the time and being in farre distant places remooued from him It is reported of the same Apollonius that being consulted by one who for that purpose came vnto him how he might grow rich Apollonius appointed him to buy a certaine field or ground and to be carefull in tilling and plowing thereof which after he had done a while he found in the end a great treasure and so became rich It is written of the same Apollonius also He made knowne vnto Titus Vespatian the time and manner of his death enquiring it at his hands These things with many other the like Ianus Iacobus Boissardus relateth in the life of Apollonius Who hath not heard of the name and mention of that famous and renowmed British Wizard Merlin and of his high and great esteeme among Princes for his prophesies Vnto his fore-sight and predictions from many foregoing ages the successes and euents of diuers Princes affaires in their seuerall raignes haue beene 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 John and of Henry the fourth doth our of Malmesbury and others recite diuers accidents and 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 foreseeing 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 beene herefrom 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 we 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 she had many miraculous Reuelations whereof the King then Charles the seauenth and all his Armie and men of warre were open wondering witnesses and in those reuelations for the most part there was found no lesse wondrous truth then true wonder as saith Serres although some others haue iudged her an Imposteresse only 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 Wizard foretold Duke Biron of his death and that hee should dye by the backe blow of a Burguignon who afterward prooued his Executioner beeing that Countrey man Melancton our of Carion doeth recite the mention of a woman of the order of the Druides among the Tungri who foretold Dioclesian that hee should bee Emperour of Rome when he had first killed a Boare which prooued afterward one Apor then an Vsurper which in the Latine tongue signifieth a Boare Suctonius writeth of a Diuinour who long 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. booke chap. 19. doeth make mention of one Frier Hierome and of his many admirable reuelations and predictions concerning the affaires of the King of France which as from Friers owne mouth hee himselfe did oft heare so with his owne eyes hee 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 wee desire or affect more specially to viewe what our owne Histories at home afford who can deny him a Wizard or Witch who as Master Speede and others testifie in the reigne of Richard the Vsurper foretold that vpon the same stone where hee dash his spurre riding toward Bosworth field hee should dash his head in his returne which prooued accordingly true when being slaine in battell hee 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 in repassage where before in passage hee had strooken his heele and spurre What can be deemed lesse of the Author of that prophecie in Edward the fourth that is that G. should murder King Edwards heires which G. vnderstood of the Duke of Glocester was too true How can he likewise escape the iust suspition of the same foule crime from whom originally or first was deriued that prophecie or prediction in Henry the fift concerning his sonne as yet then vnborne videlicet that