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A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

comforted himself in the prospect hereof 2 Sam. 23.5 though his house should not grow though severe corrections and rebukes should cause the Beauty of his house to wither yet God would give him the Covenant-salvation it should be well with him in case of such coming though the Text less intend it the Doctrine is both true and useful 3. Sometime the Lord cometh to search and try mens state and conscience is awakened to make enquiry and to discover them to themselves While God stands as at a distance men are secure but when he cometh by his Word and Spirit and commands an admission he sets up that light within the mans soul that discovers what he hath done what he may expect and what he farther must do The word is sharp as a two-edged sword and searcheth the reins Heb. 4.12 And thus the secrets of mens hearts are discovered when God cometh with his word 1 Cor. 14.25 among men When God heweth men by his prophets and maketh his judgments as the light Hos 6.5 then he cometh into the heart and conscience Now certainly the Faithful and Diligent are in a good condition when their hearts do not condemn them when they know God will not condemn them But oh the sad condition of those that dare not look themselves in themselves that are self-condemned and afraid to know what God discovereth at such coming The Kings of Judah who did not obey the Command of the Lord could not endure the Prophets or their word But Josiah who was faithful to God can bear such a searching word 2 Chron. 34.19 27. ver Who desire to be faithful to God they dare abide this coming it doth discover their sincerity and declare them happy In this case though not directly intended by the Text it holdeth true All Gods faithful Servants and Stewards are found in a good and happy state But next which is that coming intended chiefly in the words and Doctrine 4. When Death is the Messenger God sendeth to let us know he is coming to us when he fetcheth us from amidst men and cometh to take account of each of us each man by man thus visited is either more or less happy as he is found more or less faithful and diligent at this coming of the Lord this is that coming of which by concurrent vote of our Interpreters the Text doth speak as also doth its Parallels Matt. 24. ver 42 43. and Mark 13. ver 34 35 36. of which I say the less because it passing with so general consent needs not much proof But Fifthly and lastly The Lord cometh in his Glory and Majesty to raise the dead and to Judg all men They who now do shall not eternally sleep in the dust God will come and call them out of their beds The Lord Jesus will descend with the voice of the Trump and the dead shall hear and rise to the great general and last judgment Thus he cometh to judg the world Psal 96.13 and 98.9 with righteousness and the people with equity Places that speaking of the Kingdom of the Messiah do include this Royal procedure which shall consummate his ministerial Government When he cometh as Rev. 1.7 in view of every eye for every eye shall see him when he thus cometh or as 't is described 1 Cor. 15.23 24 25 At this coming the Faithful diligent Servant is in good state Briefly then Whether our Lord come sooner or later to try the heart by his word or families by his Rod or Nations as he did try the Jews by more publick calamities In these cases the most faithful of his Servants and Stewards are in the most safe and blessed state but when he cometh as the judg of all men to particular judgment calling each man by death and to the general judgment calling all men before him He and he only is in a good and blessed state who is found to have been faithful and diligent in his Stewardship and Service within the House and Family of God giving to each what portion of meat is due to them Which is In the third place now to be proved by the more general Testimony of the Scriptures Where we find all faithful and diligent Servants and Stewards especially pronounced blessed and happy in their attendance to the work of doing good to all as they are able and therein serving their Lord and waiting for his coming So Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord Death is the greatest as well as last Enemy to our life yet if that natural life be spent for the Lord and we dye in him we are blessed for such mens Works do follow them and they rest from their Labours Now certainly lesser troubles and lighter afflictions cannot render him or her unhappy whom Death found and left in a blessed state so that to work those works which we would have to follow us and to dye in the Lord as they prove our Fidelity so they do prove our Felicity and at once prove us good Christians and in good state Again Matth. 25.34 35 Come ye blessed of my father c. These are such who fed cloathed harboured visited and refreshed those in the Lords Family though the least of his Family vers 40 which was as much a Duty to them who could do it as it was useful to others for whom it was done Now they are declared happy ones who had thus according to their opportunity Ministred unto others And much more will they appear blessed who have faithfully directed thirsty Souls to the Fountain of living Waters hungry Souls to the Bread of Life naked Souls to the white Robes wandring Souls to the rest of Souls Again Matth. 7.21 Not he that saith Lord Lord but he that doth the Will of my heavenly Father c. not a fruitless profession but a faithful obedience not an unactive complement but a diligent fulfilling the Will of our Lord is at last a blessing to us he is in a good state indeed whose Lord doth reward his Service with an entrance into and enjoyment of eternal life in Heaven And nothing can alter it to him who altereth not his course of Faithfulness and Diligence Such an one is Jam. 1.22 Blessed in his deed now who is blessed in doing his work can never be in ill-state whilst he is doing it and he is in better state when the work done is rewarded whose work is his happiness cannot but be happy whilst he attends his work and this is the case of all diligent and sincere observers of Gods Commandments The keeping them is a great reward Christians consider it if glory honour immortality and eternal life can be a blessedness to us we are assured of this For every soul that doth good as God requireth whether Jew or Gentile Rom. 2.13 There is a crown of righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 for St. Paul who had fought a good fight c. Yea but if it were limited to his person none could

guess at what I say by the resentment Cain of men one of the worst had of Gods refusing to accept him Gen. 4. ver 5. It cast him down and fill'd him with trouble No condition is uneasy to a soul that enjoys Gods Favour for it is better than life Psal 63. ver 3. and every condition is dark and doleful without his favour What is Hell but a place where hopeless Souls are under the inconceivable Tortures of an eternal rejection and separation from God What is Heaven but a glorious free full and eternal state of nearness to God and of favour with him This acceptance is the great blessing God hath promised to such as serve and love him Isa 56.7 It is the sum of all we obtain through Christ in whom we are accepted with God Eph. 1. ver 6. Matt. 25. ver 21 Well done good and faithful Servant is enough to make us blessed now enter thou into the joy of thy Master is fulness of the future blessedness In every state and at the coming of the Lord thus blessed is the good Servant 3. This Blessedness of the faithful and good Servant doth lie partly in the peace and tranquility of his mind perswaded that now sin is pardoned and his duties are accepted every condition shall at last give place to what is best and all shall work together for good to him though various troubles do toss him yet they like rowling waves carry the Ship toward the Harbour It is well with him because he knoweth the knife which lanceth him doth not make him a Sacrifice under avenging Justice And though he is corrected yet it is under the hand of a Father he is not destroyed by the hand of an Executioner He is satisfied that it is good for him that he hath been afflicted Psal 119. ver 67 71 75. When he suffers with others he seeth he needed it so all appears seasonable necessary and profitable to him 1 Pet. 1.6 We are in heaviness for a season if need be and for our profit Heb. 12. ver 10. It is blessed to be refined and God doth by his coming intend this Isa 48. ver 10 That he may chuse them before others Now this considered the faithful Servants of God do account their condition good for that it is always tending to and shall at last end in what is best for them It is on the increase towards full happiness 4. The faithful and good Servants happiness doth partly consist in that support which his Lord giveth to him under his burthens while he submits to the will of his Lord waits for him and doth his Duty he is supported by the presence of his Lord He sinketh not because the Lord upholdeth him Psal 94. ver 17 18. When Davids feet did well nigh slip the Lords mercy held him up It is an unutterable variety of helps that God affordeth to his faithful ones they are very secret unexpected strong and satisfactory many times beyond the belief of strangers and the hope of those who receive them Isa 43.2 In midst of Rivers and waters in midst of fire and flames if God promise to be with us we may account our condition good and safe for his presence shall save us from Rivers that they do not overflow us and from Fire that it kindle not on us Now thus safe and good is the condition of every faithful Servant of God he is pardoned accepted bettered and supported still The Angel of Gods presence is with him and saveth him Isa 63. ver 9. He is blessed whom God will save whom God will support It is sad to be left sinking under our burthens but to be supported under them is next to a blessed freedom from them or next to a life above them 5. However it may be death shall be the sad consequence of a faithful and diligent Servants sufferings with others yet he is in this case blessed too For he might die in peace and joy he doth at least die in safety and free from danger of future evils It is possible a good Servant may die under fears but he doth not die under danger of condemnation Who walk in their integrity enter into their Rest Isa 57. ver 2. Though Death be an enemy it is last to a child of God Stewards and Servants though faithful and diligent yet they must die but after death there is no other enemy all is then safe to them they pass by Death to the enjoyment of the love of their Lord to be filled with that love which is inconceivable and possess that love which is eternal from which Nothing can ever separate them Rom. 8. ver 37 38. thus death is theirs 1 Cor. 3. ver 22. Now that is a blessed state indeed which is so full of safety How do dying men acknowledg this when Death brings no danger with it we are happy indeed This Balaam wish'd for though he never attained it The untrusty and slothful Servant is unhappy in his death because he dyeth under greatest danger he dyeth an evil and wicked Servant the good Servant dyeth as safe as he can wish and as happy as he can be made Which will appear in the Sixth thing wherein the blessed state of such doth consist They pass after death immediately into an inconceivable glory where their souls purifi'd from all sin and made perfectly holy enjoy a blessed though not a full consummated glory they are in the joys of their master they live in the sight of their glorifi'd redeemer triumph over sin and temptation assured of the future resurrection of their bodies without tediousness of a delay wait for it they possess their building of God their house not made with hands which is eternal in the heavens 2 Cor. 5.1 They are before the throne c. Rev. 7.14 Thus blessed in life in death after death are the faithful Servants of the Lord. And yet this is not all there is A seventh thing part of their blessedness which when their Lord cometh they shall enjoy that is the resurrection of their bodies in a glorious conformity to the glorifi'd body of their redeemer When the Lord of these Servants and Stewards we speak of shall come and awaken all out of their beds of dust His good Servants whose bodies were sown in dishonour shall receive their bodies raised in honour those bodies which were sown mortal and weak shall be raised immortal and in strength fit to be the eternal habitation of immortal souls and both soul and body united shall ever live in a most delightful regular and sinless harmony and friendship You that admire the unparallel'd beauties of mortal creatures and judg That their happiness which is your envy or wish withdraw your eye and look to the Grave whence the rarest beauties are at last to rise whence the firmest strength the most desirable activity and the spiritfullest vigor And then say whether you can think them less than blessed who have their part in this Resurrection

of Enquiring of her was supposed verse 7th Besides it seems evident that the Samuel there raised up was not by the power of the Witch for she was affrighted when she saw Samuel and cryed out like one in a surprise and under a Disappointment of what she Expected This was none of her Familiars that appeared for then we may conclude she had not been transported with such a fear Her Confederates were tyed up and could not answer her but it is most probable to be the Prophet Samuel raised by the power of God to pronounce the Sentence of death upon Saul and his Sons for his Disobedience which the Holy man had told him was as the sin of Witchcraft and for Violating the Righteous Command in applying himself to the Witch of Endor contrary to the declared will of God Not unlike to this was that dreadful Judgment of Fire from Heaven which at the prayer of Eliiah fell upon the two Captains and their Fifty's when Ahaziah King of Samaria had sent his servants to Enquire of Baalzebub the Idol or Daemon of Ekron in 1. chap. 2 Book of Kings But how many more of this kind are mentioned in Scripture besides the Witch of Endor will appear if we read what is recorded of Manasseh Jesebell Simon Magus and Elimas the Sorcerer with many other Instances of the same kind whereof the New Testament as well as the Old hath divers extraordinary Relations but of that the passage in the Prophesie of Isaiah chap. 2. ver 6. they are southsayers like the Philistines And it is evident by the 19. verse of the 18. chap. of the same Prophesie that the Jewish Nation were in a great measure given up to the Satanicall delusion of enquiring after Witches and Sorcerers and such as divined to them by Pythons so that they forsook the holy Oracles of the Divine Law and in their difficulties they counselled one another to apply themselves to those forbidden abominations Therefore it must proceed from a Neglect or careless Perusal of the Sacred Books that any one should be ignorant of other instances of Witches besides that of the Pythoness of Endor Suidas has a most considerable proof of the Daemons answering the Heathens by Oracles where speaking of Augustus Caesar's enquiring at an Oracle who should be his Successor the Oracle returned him this answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may thus be Englished A Boy Of Hebrew Offspring whom the Gods Adore Commands me hence to Hell my proper shore Henceforth forbear Our Altars to implore The Emperour at his return commanded an Altar to be Erected in the Capital having this Inscription Haec est Ara Primogeniti Dei This is the Altar of the first-born of God Now it is plain that our Saviour was born dureing the Reign of this Augustus for in the second chap. of St. Luke we find that Joseph and Mary went up to Judea to be taxed at that time when Augustus had imposed a General Tax upon the World and that during their abode at Bethlehem the blessed Nativity happened of which the Eastern Sages had notice by his Star and that the Roman Cesar had some such apprehension or Impression at least the words upon the Altar do plainly manifest And if this relation of Suidas obtain credit it may easily be Evinced that they were Daemons or Crafty Spirits which answered at the Oracles of the Heathens for if we admit that many answers were given by the Cunning and Jugling of their Priests Yet it could not make for their interest to discredit their Oracle nor for the Credit of their Deity But the almighty power of the Son of God forced those Infatuating Spirits to acknowledge his Soveraign Divinity as the unclean Spirit in the 8. chap. of Luke verse 28. What have I to do with thee Jesus thou Son of the most High God Thus at the arising of the Son of Righteousness did the Dark Oracles vanish as the shadows of the night are chased away by the Appearing of the Sun beames To which may be added what Plutarch relates in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He tells yee that a certain company sailing from Greece towards Italy happened of a sudden to be becalmed and one Thamus an Egyptian who was of the Ships Crew was called three times at the third call he made answer Here am I whereupon the voice bad him when he came to the Palodes certain Shelves in the Ionian Sea that then he should publish that the great Pan was dead And then the Ship was discharged of her restraint and went forward so that wh●n they came to the place appointed Thamus from the Poop of the Ship published what he had been commanded whereupon followed a great noise of shrieking and lamenting together so that the Sea resounded with the lamentation The Emperour Tiberius having been made acquainted with this passage demanded of his wise men who this great God Pan might be But the best answer they could give him was that he was the Son of Mercury and Penelope But this circumstance happening just at the time when our Saviour was crucified it was concluded by more intelligent and considerate men that by the Great God Pan was meant the Blessed Redeemer of Mankind who by his Death on the cross Overthrew the Kingdom and power of Satan so that the Devils were now to Quit those Oracles by which they had so long deceived the World and on this account those Spirits might be thought to make that great and dismall lamentation For from that time they soon ran into decay and the Delphi Oracula cessant which Juvenal records makes it plain that they were but of short continuance after the fatal blow given them on the Cross when our blessed Saviour gave up the Ghost with an It is Finished Now had these Oracles been managed only by the subtilty and artifice of the Priest it is very improbable but they might have been of longer continuance for the Priests continue to be as Crafty and Covetous as ever and as dexterous at all the feats of Juggling and Legerdemain But it is plain the time of their delusions was expired and it is no small Argument of the power of the Gospel of Truth that those vanquished Spirits flye before it they retire with the molten and Carved Images to the Owls and to the Batts not being able to endure the splendour of the Tidings of Salvation Hence it is that in those Countries where there is least Idolatry and where the sincere preaching of the Word of Power is countenanced there it is very rare comparatively to meet with instances of the Satanical craft and power his strong holds are beaten down tho some small forts he still retains amongst the ignorant and superstitious but in countries where Idolatry and Paganism prevail he Governs as among the Children of disobedience Here he hath his Groves his Cells and Hermitages and Altars He

and all and so died thrice She had a mighty knack at Miracles all her life long for to save Souls from the pains of Purgatory she loved to throw her self into all the hottest Ovens and burning Fires she could find that she might endure here what they suffered there and to atone for Gluttons she resolv'd to starve her self till finding the pains of a sharp hunger she had Milk came into her Paps so allayed the cravings of her Stomach by sucking her self she expiated for proud Souls by applying her self to the worst way of common begging she could distinguish too between the honesty and dishonesty of those which gave her alms for the Bread that came from good hands tasted like Bread but that which came from wicked hands tasted like Toads-flesh To satisfy for all Sorts of sins contracted by those which used much company keeping she resolv'd to forsake mankind and to come near none but Beasts at last that she might be safe from all contagion of Flesh and Blood she parched her self on the tops of Trees there her thin body being made thinner both by continual fasting and great fervency of Spirit she did at her prayer contract her self into a round form much like that of a Hedg-hog She could climb up the highest Trees like a Squirrel and swim in Rivers like a Fish till her Friends barbarous it seems and not believing all these Miracles put her in Chains as a Mad Woman and there she miserably lacerated her poor body with struggling hard to free her self and this violence in Prison gave occasion to more Miracles for the Milk in her Breasts turned into Oyl wherewith she did anoint her sores and sometimes too she used it as Butter to sweeten her Bread Cardinals and whole Towns can aver these extravagancies and therewith we shall conclude the first kind of Roman Miracles omitting what might be said of S. Brigit S. Julia S. Clara S. Vrsula with hundreds more known and famous in that Church with whose stories their Voluminous Legends do crawl all over In the mean time it will not be amiss for satisfaction of the curious to insert the names of those Authors our Reverend Doctor hath made use of in this Section Alan Rediv. part 2. c. 4. Jul. ●omer in vita Ildeph ap Sur. 23. Jan. Chronick Deipar an 985. Leander in vita Reginald Robert Archid. in vita S. Albert. ap Sur. 7. Apr. Chronic. Deip. an 598. Histor Eccl. Carnot an 1020. Chronic. Deip. an 1152. Ibid. an 1476. Ibid. an 1235. Matth. Paris in vita S. Godric Menol. Cisters 29. Octob. Bov. 14. anal an 1317. n. 2. Flamin in vita S Catharin Henriques Fascicul S. S. Chronic. ord praedict Henriques 3. Jam Chronic. Deip. an 1285. Ibid. an 1235. S. Bonavent in vit S. Fran. Job Garg in vita S. Dominic Tho. Cantapr in vita S. Christinae ap Sur. Jun. an 1160. Jacob de Vitriaco in vita S. Mariae Ocigniar CHAP. VIII A further evidence of the Confederacy of Roman Priests with evil Spirits THE Argument that we are now upon having already taken up too much Paper for one Section I have thought it proper to continue it in the following Chapter lest those who are ignorant of Satans devices and of the Artifices of his Priests should want so convincing a Demonstration of the danger of Communion with them as is laid before them in the subsequent lines I must therefore resume the Discourse as it is continued in the forecited Book of the Reverend Dr. Brevint and having already transcribed the sum of what he speaks upon the first Head namely That the Miracles of the Roman Church are ordinary such trifling and Ludicrous pranks as cannot possibly seem to hold any proportion with those solid and Divine Operations which attested the Truth and Excellency of the Doctrine of the Holy Gospel The Second Evidence that he mentions is the Tendency and Design of the Popish Miracles which look quite another way from those wrought by our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles For whereas those last confirmed the Faith and Doctrine of the first Preachers of the Doctrine of Salvation and those which anciently were wrought at the Sepulchres of the Primitive Martyrs cannot be thought to justify or assert any other Faith or Doctrine than what was Taught Believed and Practised by those Holy Men Aug. de Civit. l. 22. c. 9. says What is it that these Miracles will attest but the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ St. Paul tells us that they taught nothing but what was concluded within the Law and the Prophets and it cannot be supposed that the extraordinary things done by them should confirm any other Doctrine than what they Taught So at this day tho all sorts of Operations were to be seen at the Sepulchre of St. Paul they could not be presumed to confirm the Popes Bulls or the Innovations of the Roman Church but those truths which were contained in his Preachings and his Epistles But as for Roman Miracles they follow their Novel Doctrines which sometimes are contrary to and always quite different from the true Christian Gospel How many Volumes would be required to contain all the revelations and the strange wonders that encourage and excite men in general to the Worship of the Virgin Mary As many more are bestowed upon the doing it by special ways and at her particular Feasts for upon that score great Indulgences are promised to her Adorers or else what mean those swarms of Monks that lie hid under her Coats or the Ladders whited with her Milk from which no body that takes that way to Heaven can ever tumble down Or those Quires of supposed Angels heard in the bottom of a deep Well to sing her praises What can be thought of those Images that bleed or speak or fly as light as Feathers unless it be to bring mankind to the Worshipping of Wood or Stone or something more sordid and abominable which seems to give motion to those inanimate Stocks What all those thousands of sad Souls to ramble up and down the World since the time of Pope Gregory but to reveal Purgatory and recommend Masses for the dead What abundance of strange Feats have been done by St. Francis and St. Dominic on purpose to confirm their new orders and ways What can signify those heaps of excommunicated Flies and a poor Raven pining to death under the same Curse for having fled away with a Bishops Ring but to shew the Terrour of the Roman Keys And those multitude of small and great Toads crawling in and out of mens mouths when they do observe well or ill the rules of Auricular Confession but to justify that jugling piece of Priest-Craft Or the many little Children standing upon consecrated Wafers but to maintain the Doctrine of Transubstantiation What can the many pretended Miracles wrought by the five wounds in the body of St. Francis or the Rope about his Loyns signify but to keep up an Opinion of the Sanctity of