Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94031	The strange vvitch at Greenvvich, (ghost, spirit, or hobgoblin) haunting a wench, late servant to a miser, suspected a murtherer of his late vvife: with curious discussions of walking spirits and spectars of dead men departed, for rare and mysticall knowledge and discourse, / by Hieronymus Magomastix. April 24. 1650. Imprimatur. John Dovvname.	Hieronymus Magomastix.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5920; Thomason E600_15; ESTC R206398	23,528	30

King 3.22.23 But chiefely melancholy men Bedlam Birds and frantick persons by the tumultuations of malignant spirits distemper of their braines and fascinations of Sathan fishing in a troubled water as his Proselites since in these streames in Church and State which themselves made doe not onely conceit themselves to bee oft strangely metamorphized Creatures into Birds and Beasts which was Nabuchadnezzar's Case Dan 3. yea into Urinalls Glasses and the like of which abundant instances are given by Gallen Avicen our Doctour Bright and Burton in his love Melancholy but sometimes they thinke they see Spirits and Spectars yea that they themselves are Divells as Bessus and those who murthered Ibicus thought chatering Swallowes to bee their Accusers as Plutaâ—k hath it de sera niminis vindicta besides those who have beene long sick and bedrid or distempered in their braines with swimmings and vertigoes chiefely our new Seekers and braine sick Enthusiasts especially according to P. Egineta lib. 3. cap. 16 those who are oppressed with the Ephialtes or Night Mare or riding of the Witch as vulgar people call it are most deluded with seeming Spectars and Apparitions of all which reade for further satisfaction Aretius his Probleames loco 113 circa finem Scept But since not only the vulgars as strongly conceit that these spectars and visions which have been so oft discerned in the visible shapes of this or that man or woman deceased are the very persons or ghosts of those whom they so lively represent but they are so held by the tenents and opinions of all the learned Jesuits Priests and Schoolemen yea by the determinations of their Councels of Trent of Constance and else where as resolutely as other Counsels at Rome (a) cap. 3. 7. Carthage (b) cap. 4. 5. Laodicea (c) cap. 24 26. Antioch (d) cap. 10. with their Clemens (e) epist 5. ad Iacobumâ— Anacletus (f) epist â— and Caius (g) epis ad felice determine and ordaine Exorcists to adjure them to know their errands and to conjure them downe I pray you according to your various readings satisfie me from Scripture grounds and consent of antiquity what they are and from whence they proceed in the affirmative and why they are not the spirits or ghosts of the dead according to the vulgar errour if it be an errour Verid. First to remove the mists and clouds which have so long dazled and darkned the blinde and superstitious Plebeians that these walking or talking spectars in humane shapes are such men and women really as have been dead and buried this is not only a sixion unprobable but impossible for these Reasons First to hold they are the soules of the dead is false for the soules of the Saints are in the hands of God to whom they are commended Psal 31.5 Now who shall take them out of Gods hands this were as the Proverb is more then to take or pull away Hercules his Club loves Scepter or Neptunes Trident which the Pagans held impossible Secondly they are departed in peace as Simeon Prophesied Luke 2.29 Syracid 3. v. 3.4 now who can disturbe this Peace to bring them from Heaven to earth again Thirdly they are bound up in the bundle of life 2 Sam. 25.29 and who shall loose and unbundle them Fourthly they are in Paradice with the soule of Christs penitent fellow sufferer Luk. 23.43 and of Lazarus Luk. 16.22 where being in refrâ—gerio in fruition of joy though not in fulnesse till the Resurrection according to Esdras lib. 2. cap 7. v. 51 52 53 and Musculus on Math. cap. 9 cap. 27. fol. 641. How can this joy be interupted by their activities here on earth againe in such labours from which they have for ever rested Revel 14.13 Now as these spectars are not the soules of Saints much lesse of the wicked for the day of their visitation being neglected in which they should have wrought out their salvation Luke 19 42.44 their soules are inclosed closed in Hell out of which there is no jayle delivery Psal 55.16 as the cruel rich Churle experimented Luke 16.22 their death feeds on them Psal 49.14 yea the worme ever gnawes them Marke 9.49 to which Poets alluded by the Eagle and Vulture ever gnawing on the Livers of Titius and Prometheus in their Avernus or Tartarus as the Tree falls so it lyes whether to the North or South Eccles 11.3 and as they go downe to Hell Psal 9.17 with Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16.31 so ex inferis nulla redemptio there is no redemption out of Hell its reductio per impossibile they shall never see light more Psal 49.19 Thus if the soules of the godly would not return to the Earth if they could nor the soules of the wicked could if they would how then after the seperations from their bodies can they walke heere any more Scept Then it is their bodies which walke Verid. Bodies to walke without soules this were but like a Puppet Plays motion or as though Milstones Mountains should walk or Trees in Jothams Parable Judges 9. or any other things inanimate but to take you from this conceit the bodies of the Saints are a sleepe in the Lord as it s sayd of David 1 Kings 2.10 and of Solomon 1 Kings 11.43 as also else where of Asa Ezekiah Jehosophat that they sleepe with their Fathers they go into their Graves as into their beds Esay 57.2 they enter into the sleeping chambers of death and the doores are shut upon them Esay 26.20 and who shall awaken them out of this sleepe till the last Trumpe 1 Thess 4.16 at what time v. 17. they shall bee caught up in the cloudes to meete the Lord in the Ayre and to bee ever with him not on Earth for a thousand yeares as our new Seekers and arch Hereticks dreame but in the Heavens which are Gods Throne where a place is prepared for them in Gods House where are many Mansions John 14.2 not in Earth which is his footstoole much lesle shall the bodies of the wicked kept in the shackles of the Grave as Prisoners in Newgate for Tyburne till the Resurrection for Hell returne till that time prefixed of God any more to the Earth or to their forsaken houses Job 7.10 they shall rot and perish in the Grave the eye which saw them shall see them no more Job 20.7.8 there shall they bee tyed as guilty fellons for execution with the chaines and cords of their sinnes Prov. 5.22 their memories shall rot cap. 20.7 their hopes and expectations shall perish cap. 11.8 Secondly if the dead walke on Earth it s either by Gods command or by their owne private motion not by any mandate from God of which the Scripture is altogether silent ne gri quidem and according to Tertullian quod non habet ignorat what it hath not it is ignorant of quod non jubet prohibet what it commands not it prohibits what it affirmes not either directly

out of her Grave did believe as their Creed verily and assuredly Verid. But as a woman being askt by Bonner if shee believed not Christs body and blood to bee in the Sacrament substantially and really Shee told him it was a substantiall lye and a reall lye so I assure you what ever the Pontificians doate or faigne or our Vulgars dreame of the Ghosts or Spirits of this man or that man walking after their deaths in this or that shape is a very lye an assured lye take this from me yea from Scripture Fathers Reason and Experience assuredly Scept But doe you not believe that many strange visions and apparitions have appeared unto men and have revealed divers strange things unto them and future events sometimes visible in bodily shapes and formes are not these the soulâ—s of the dead Verid. No they are not yet I should give a lye to abundant Histories and to all Antiquities if I should deny all Visions for the Author of the Booke of the Machabâ—â—s tells us of two yong men who appeared to Heliodorus 2 Machab. 3.25.26 of five to Judas Machabeus 2 Machab. 10.23 and Zozomens Ecclesiasticall Historie relates a feare full spectar terryfying Julian the Apostate as hee was consulting with an Oracle lib. 5. cap. 2. and another in forme of a big woman with a horrid noise in the night terrifying the Antiochians lib. 7. cap. 23. and of another appearing to Apelles the Painter whose face hee burned with a hot Iron lib. 6 cap. 28. as St. Dunstan is sayd to take the Divell by the nose with a paire of hot pinchers yea to reflex from Ecclesiasticall on secular History a spectar appeared to Julius Caesar as hee led his Army into France incouraging him by a loud pipe to passe over the River Rubico another to Brutus telling him hee would meete him at Philippos another to Dionysius the Syracusan in forme of a woman as hee sate very solitary in the Porch of his house another to Polizelus the Athenians Generall in the Battle of Marathan where hee was victorious though it struck him blinde another to Athenodorus the Stoick which hee dispossessed out of a house in Athens which it haunted just as the Spirit now doth the house of Meriday and another in the Parish of Mentz who by breaking open doores casting stones pulling down walls and the like reakes that our Greenwich Spirit doth troubled and terrified many and another to Henry the third Emperour in Hungary neare Danubius in the shape of a black and big Aethiopian another also to Maximilian the first Emperour Anno 1503. in the forme of an Abatesse who was dead of all which with many more which I purposely pretermit for further satisfaction consult with Came arius in his Centuries Cent. 1. cap. 70. cap. 72. with Richtherus in his Occonomicall Axioms Reg. 2. 90. Aretius in his Probleams Page 113. Pliny in his seventh booke of Epistles to Sura Wolfius in his memorable Lecticus Tom. 1. Aventine in his Annalls lib. 5. Boiorum Artunus in his first Section of the History of Millaine together with Plutark in his Brutns and Dion Suetonius in his Caesar with others all which instances doe not onely confute and confound the ancient Saduces who denyed that there were either Spirits or Angells Acts 23.8 Math 22.23 yea conceited God himselfe to bee corporeall according to Lorinns in acta cap. 23.8 fol. 869. from Chrysostome and Oecumenius and not a spirit denying also the Holy Ghost according to Hierom in Math. 22. to bee a spirit or to bee any person in the Diety nor doe they onely muzzle the mouth of Atheisticall Politicians who with that Trismegistus in Saint Augustines City of God lib. 3. cap. 23. hold that there be no reall or substantiall Divells but onely the Furies and Erinnis of wicked consciences but also some neotorick and moderne Fantasticks and Scepticks who conceit all to bee meere fantasmes and delusions in this kinde and no more to bee credited then the fictitious Tritons Gerions and Chimeras of the Poets yea of no more credence then the old Wives Tales of King Oberon and Queene of the Fairies Scept To deny all Apparitions of spirits which the Disciples themselves feared when they saw Christ walking on the waters Math. 14.26 Mark 6.46 were to deny plaine Scriptures for they thought hee had beene a spirit for I believe the Relation of Suetonius in the life of Nero that after that Truculent Tyrant had butchered so many noble Senators made Bonefires of so many Christian Martyrs put to death his Master Seneca when hee was 114. yeares of age crucified Peter and Paul and unripped the bowells of his Mother Octavia with other such barbarous cruelties that hee was not onely racked and tortured with his owne guilty conscience and terrified with agonizing feares in his dreames as were Caligula his Successor Herod after his assassinations of the Bethlem Infants and Jewish Synedrim Alexander after tue murther of Clitus Philip after the butchering of his innocent sonne Demetrins and our bloody Boare Richard the third after his murthering of his Brother and Nâ—phewes in the Tower by Tirell whose pannick feares and terrours in the guilt of blood are more largely related by Patritius in his bookes of a Kingdome lib. 5. tit 8. pag 313. and by Strigellius in his Ethicks lib. 1. pag. 6.7.8 and in his Comments on 2 Sam. 3. pag. 9. pag. 15â— but I believe also the Relation of the same Authours that hee was so whipped and scourged and scorched in his flesh as with hot brands with a spirit in the shape of his Mother that as Balthazar consulted with his Magitians in the like pannick feares Dan. 5. hee used all the helps hee could by Magick to appease as hee thought her angry Ghost neither have I any reason to contradict the received Relation of that terrible Vision of an ugly man in bulke like a Gyant appearing in the night to Pisistratus the Tyrant thundering to him what hee found true that nemo Improbus non luit poenam no wicked man must escape unpunished yet for all this I perswade my selfe many conceit they see or heare spirits when there is no such matter Verid. That is certaine for in the guilt of conscience Theoderick a cruel King of the Gothâ—â— thought hee saw the bloody head of Symachus which hee had out off to gape with open mouth upon him when onely the head of a great Fish was set on his table by which Guilt of Conscience some have strangely discovered their owne murthers as many notorious Villaines have beene discovered by others of which many instances may bee seene in Gualters Homilies upon Luke cap. 12. pag. 324. as also Bucholcerus his Chronologies pag. 59. chiefely in Melancton in locis Manlii pag. 290. 308. Sometimes withall the senses are mainely deluded as the Moabites thought the waters were dyed with the blood of the Israelites when it was onely the Sunne which shined upon them to a waterish rednesse 2

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