By Gods blest Spirit an Epiniceon sing Ascribing Glory to th' Almighty King Miraculous thy Workes are worthy praise Lord God Almighty iust and true thy waies Thou God of Saints O Lord who shall not feare And glorifie thy Name who thy Workes heare Thou onely holy art henceforth adore Thee All Nations shall worship and fall before Thee Because thy Iudgements are made manifest This Song of Vict'rie is againe exprest Thus Now is Saluation now is Strength Gods Kingdome and the Power of Christ. At length The Sland'rer of our Brethren is refus'd Who day and night them before God accus'd By the Lambes bloud they ouercame him and Before Gods Testimonie he could not stand Because the Victors who the Conquest got Vnto the death their liues respected not Therefore reioyce you Heav'ns and those that dwell In these blest Mansions But shall I now tell The Weapons Engines and Artillerie Vsed in this great Angelomachy No Lances Swords nor Bombards they had then Or other Weapons now in vse with men None of the least materiall substance made Spirits by such giue no offence or aid Onely spirituall Armes to them were lent And these were call'd Affection and Consent Now both of these in Lucifer the Diuell And his Complyes immoderate were and euill Those that in Michael the Arch-Ange'll raign'd And his good Spirits meekely were maintain'd Squar'd and directed by th' Almighties will The Rule by which they fight and conquer still Lucifer charg'd with insolence and spleene When nothing but Humilitie was seene And Reuerence towards God in Michaels brest By which the mighty Dragon he supprest Therefore this dreadfull battell fought we finde By the two motions of the Will and Minde Which as in men so haue in Angels sway Mans motion in his body liues but they Haue need of no such Organ This to be Both Averroes and Aristotle agree It followes next that we enquire how long This Lucifer had residence among The blessed Angels for as some explore His time of Glory was six dayes no more The time of the Creation in which they I meane the Spirits seeing God display His glorious Works with stupor and amaâ—e Began at once to contemplate and gase Vpon the Heav'ns Earth Sea Stars Moone and Sunne Beasts Birds and Man with the whole Fabricke done In this their wonder at th'inscrutabilitie Of such great things new fram'd with such facilitie To them iust in the end of the Creation He did reueale his blest Sonnes Incarnation But with a strict commandement That they Should with all Creatures God and Man obey Hence grew the great dissention that befell 'Twixt Lucifer and the Prince Michael The time 'twixt his Creation and his Fall Ezechiel thus makes authenticall In midst of fierie stones thou walked hast Straight in thy wayes ev'n from the time thou wast First made as in that place I before noted To the same purpose Esay too is quoted How fell'st thou Lucifer from Heaven hye That in the morning rose so cherefully As should he say How happens it that thou O Lucifer who didst appeare but now In that short time of thy blest state to rise Each morning brighter than the morning skies Illumin'd by the Sunne so soone to slide Downe from Gods fauour lastingly t' abide In Hells insatiate torments Though he lost The presence of his Maker in which most He gloried once his naturall Pow'rs he keepes Though to bad vse still in th' infernall Deepes For his Diuine Gifts he doth not commend Vnto the seruice of his God the end To which they first were giuen but the ruin Of all Mankinde Vs night and day pursuing To make vs both in his Rebellion share And Tortures which for such prepared are Of this malignant Spirits force and might Iob in his fourtieth Chapter giues vs light And full description liuely expressing both In person of the Monster Behemoth The Fall of Adam by fraile Eve entic't Was his owne death ours and the death of Christ. In whose back-sliding may be apprehended Offendors three three ' Offences three Offended The three Offendors that Mankinde still grieue Were Sathan Adam and our Grandam Eve The three Offences that Sin first aduance Were Malice Weakenesse and blinde Ignorance The three Offended to whom this was done The Holy Spirit the Father and the Sonne Eve sinn'd of Ignorance and so is said Against the God of Wisedome to haue made Her forfeit that 's the Son Adam he fell Through Weakenesse and 'gainst him that doth excell In pow'r the Father sinn'd With his offence And that of hers Diuine Grace may dispence Malicious Hate to sinne did Sathan moue Against the Holy-Ghost the God of Loue And his shall not be pardon'd Note with me How God dealt in the censuring of these three He questions Adams Weakenesse and doth call Eve to account for th' Ignorance in her fall Because for them he mercy had in store Vpon their true repentance and before He gaue their doome told them he had decreed A blessed Sauiour from the Womans seed But Sathan he ne're question'd 't was because Maliciously he had transgrest his Lawes Which sinne against the Spirit he so abhor'd His Diuine Will no mercy for him stor'd Moreouer In the sacred Text 't is read The Womans Seed shall breake the Serpents head It is observ'd The Diuell had decreed To tempt our Sauiour the predicted Seed In the same sort though not the same successe As he did Eve our first Progenitresse All sinnes saith Iohn we may in three diuide Lust of the Flesh Lust of the Eye and Pride She sees the Tree and thought it good for meat The Fleshes lust persuaded her to eat She sees it faire and pleasant to the eye Then the Eyes lust inciteth her to try She apprehends that it will make her wise So through the Pride of heart she eats and dies And when he Christ into the Desart lead Bee'ng hungry Turne said he these Stones to Bread There 's Fleshly lusts temptation Thence he growes To the Eyes lust and from the Mountaine showes The World with all the pompe contain'd therein Say'ng All this great purchase thou shalt win But to fall downe and worship me And when He saw these faile to tempt him once agen Vsing the Pride of heart when from on hye He bad him leape downe and make proofe to flye And as the Woman yeelding to temptation Made thereby forfeit of all mans saluation And so the Diue'll who did the Serpent vse Was said by that the Womans head to bruse So Christ the Womans Seed making resist To these seducemeâ—ts of that Pannurgist Because by neither Pride nor Lust mis-led Was truly said to breake the Serpents head Angels bee'ng now made Diuels let vs finde What place of Torment is to them assign'd First of the Poets Hell The dreadfull Throne Where all Soules shall be sentenc'd stands saith one In a sad place with obscure darkenesse hid
time this Being not to be at all Nay thus he will not leaue it but proceeds For Ignorance an Insolence still breeds If to this God saith he no body's lent He then can haue no soule by consequent Hauing no soule all action hee 's depriv'd Or if he haue a body that 's deriv'd From substance therefore subiect vnto change Appeares not this as friuolous as strange To any Vnderstander Who but knowes That euery action of the body growes From the Intelligent Soule whose facultie Allowes it motion and dexteritie Therefore ô miserable Worme I can In this afford thee scarce the name of Man Ope but the eyes of Nature and looke out Meerely with them none else and thou no doubt Wilt find thy selfe's obfuscate and obscur'd So void of sens'ble light and so immur'd With palped darknesse to be blind at least And nothing diffring from th' irrational Beast And therefore that of Zenophantes may Be well confer'd on thee Heare him thus say Had Brutes the art of Painting they of force Must draw themselues a Horse figure a Horse An Asse or Mule their Like the reason why They 're capable of no sublimitie Beyond themselues nor haue further extension Than meerely their owne brutish apprehension Such childish and vnmomentary grounds These Atheists build vpon which whoso sounds But with the line of Reason shall descry Their irreligious fond impiety He that shall with himselfe exactly way Those grosse and absurd lies may soone display That they are arrogant full of vain-glory Irregular from truth and refractorie Vnlearn'd replenisht with all lust and vice Seducers Mockers full of Riotise Time-soothers Flat'rers perfidious all In word deed thought meere diabolicall Now these because themselues haue left the best And against Nature heinously transgrest Of the Creator hauing no respect And casting on their owne soules a neglect By ill example others would persuade That Diuine Lawes for policie were made That Hell 's a Bug-beare to keepe men in feare That Scriptures to that end deuised were Persuading others to eat drinke and play Since after death there is no further day To be Accountant in Their lusts to cherish Since that the Soule must with the body perish That Man was made vnto no other end Than please his appetite be his owne friend And That all euills euen with good things runne If politiquely and in priuat done Such are their actions and their liues but when They 're brought vnto the Test behold them then At the last gaspe most ready to catch hold Vpon the least hope durst they make so bold Looke on your father Aristotle the best And Ipse that Philosophy profest When vnto him who all strange Nouels sought 'Mongst others Moses his first booke was brought Cal'd Genesis Those few words hauing read God in the first beginning created The Heav'ns and Earth c. Away with this saith he 'T is full of fables and new fantasy That speakes of many things but nothing proues And that a true Philosopher not loues But drawing neere his end when he began More truly to consider What was man He into strange anxieties doth grow Whether the Soule immortall were or no His body trembles euery ioynt doth shake And these 't is said were the last words he spake Pollutedly into the world I came Sad and perplext I liv'd and from the same Much troubled I depart O pitty me Thou of all Beings onely knowne to Be. If from the wisest of you all this came Learne to know Him who onely writes I am He is Heav'ns King and Lord of Earth alone In Person three but yet in Godhead one Truly Omnipotent All-knowing and In Heav'n and Earth of soueraigne sole command His Nature simple bodilesse vnseene Vncirconscribed t' whom nothing hath beene Is or shall be superior vnderstood Great without quantitie without quality good Most perfect without blemish without Time Eternall in his potencie sublime Strength without Weaknesse Life without Decay Present each where and yet doth no where stay All things at once without aduice directing All things at once without least paine protecting He is without beginning and yet giues A First to each thing that subsists and liues Who hath made all things changeable yet He Stable and free from mutabilitie Himselfe without place all things else instating Without materials all his works creating In greatnesse infinite goodnesse incomparable In vertue strong wisedome inestimable So secret no man can deceiue his trust In Counsels terrible in Iudgements iust Copious in Mercy glorious in his Name Holy in all his Works alwaies The same Eternall Sempiternall Liuing-God Inchangeable in Essence or Aboad Whom Space cannot enlarge nor Place confine Constant in Purpose and in Act Diuine Him Need compells not nor can Chances sad Disturbe neither can Ioyfull things make glad Obliuion takes not nor can Memory add To him Vnborne to whom old Time can lend No ' ncrease at all nor casuall Chance giue end He before Worlds Those are and These must be Was Is and shall liue to Eternity Aboue all Apprehension Thought Opinion Therefore to Him be all Praise Power Dominion All singular Honour Glory with Congruity Of Saints Angels and Men to perpetuity Be ascrib'd with all the Attributes extending Through all vnwearied Worlds and without ending QVod Deus est scimus sed quid si scire velimus Vltra nos imus sed quod sit sumus imus Vltimus primus scimus plus scire nequimus ¶ The English That there 's a God we know But what he is to show Beyond our selues we go His Height and Depth below Him First and Last we know But more we cannot show THEOLOGICALL PHILOsophicall Morall Poeticall Historicall Emblematicall Obseruations to the further illustration of the former Tractate THat nothing in these short Tractates may appeare difficult to the Ignorant I hold it necessarie vnto my present purpose as willing to be vnderstood by all to illustrate whatsoeuer may seem obscure as well by Precept as Historie Which though the Learned may passe ouer as things to them familiar and well knowne yet vnto others neither frequent in reading nor well trauelled in language no doubt but some of our marginal Annotations with other particular Obseruations may in their carefull perusall benefit such as reade not onely for fashion but vse and make it not their pastime but their profit For that was the end to which industrious Authors first aimed their Indeauors and spent so much Inke and Oile in their daies labours and nights watchings Nor do I this without president and therefore am the more willing to pattern my selfe by example Atheisme and Impietie saith Cardanus Paschal is a meere contempt of Religion and therefore by consequence the Fountaine of Impietie and Breeder of all Calamitie The contempt of Diuine Worship is injustice against God our Parents and Countrey as aduerse to Reason as Goodnesse and all that are thereunto obnoxious either beleeue not
she will place him 'mongst the Stars The Charioter Boötes who his Car Driues 'bout the Poles in compasse circular About whom Authors are diuided thus Some thinke him Arcas others Icarus The Crowne Septentrionall as most haue said Inamour'd Bacchus fitted first and made For Ariadnes browes being first his Bride And by the god soone after stellifi'de Eugonasin whom Hercules we call And from the Articke Circle seemes to fall Yet stedfast in his course conspicuous in His Club the Hydra and the Lions skin Lyra the Harpe in by-corn'd fashion made Some thinke the selfe same on which Orpheus plaid Who for his Musicks skill was so aduanc't That Beasts and Trees and Stones about him danc't Next him the Swan with wings displaid and spred Stucke full of Stars one fulgent in her head And therefore in th' Heauens thought to be plac't Because Iove Laeda in that shape embrac't Next whom Cepheus hath place King of the blacke And Sun-burnt Moores in whom is now no lacke Of Diuine splendor him the Authors say To be the Father of Andromeda His wife Cassiopeia durst compare With the Nereides therefore in a chaire Sits with her armes fast bound not mouing thence A iust infliction for her proud offence Andromeda the sequent place doth claime Daughter to these to whom we last gaue name Who for her loue to Perseus was so grac't Her 'mongst the Spheres Coelestiall Pallas plac't Perseus shines next who in his right hand beares A crooked Harpee in his left appeares The Gorgons head his burnisht helme of steele And plumes like wings fastned to either heele Auriga mounted in a Chariot bright Else styl'd Heniochus receiues his light In th' aestiue Circle in that station nam'd Because he was the first who Coursers tam'd And in a foure-wheel'd Wagon taught them run To imitate the Chariot of the Sun The Serpentarius Ophincus who Is also call'd the Astrologians show To be a yong man rounded with a Snake Stucke full of starry lights and him they take For AEsculapius who a Dragon slew And was the first who Physicke taught and knew The Arrow plac't in Heauen still to remaine Alcides shot by it the Egle slaine Who then did on Prometheus intrals tyre Because from Iove he stole Coelestiall fire Which being risen you shall finde it fixt Th' AEstiue and AEquinoctiall line betwixt Next shines the Princely Egle who is sed To ' haue snatcht from earth the Trojan Ganimed And beare him vp to Heav'n for Ioves delight Both his Cup-bearer now and Catamite The Dolphine figur'd with his crooked traine Is therefore said his glorious Orbe to gaine Because when good Arion play'd and sung He listned to his voice and Harpe well strung And from the ship whence he was dropt before Swam with him safe to the Tenarian shore The Horse amongst the other Stars inroll'd The Articke Line directly doth behold And is that Pegasus the winged Steed Which Perseus backt when from the Whale hee freed Andromeda he in mount Helicon Strooke with his hoofe cleare water from a stone From him call'd Hippocrene the Muses Well Whence all high Raptures may be said to swell Deltoton we a meere Triangle call 'Twixt th' AEstiue Line and th' AEquinoctiall Like the Greek letter Delta It sends light From foure coruscant Stars and as some write Therein is figur'd the World Tripartite Others because that Delta doth emply Dios the word that God doth signifie It had it's place Next it appeares the Whale By Perseus slaine i' th Circle Hyemal For it 's great strength and bignesse so transpos'd And Pistrix call'd Eridanus inclos'd As in a bed of Stars is seene to shine The face in obiect of th' Antarticke Line Some Writers call 't Oceanus and those Not of meane iudgement others Canopos Of the bright splendor Canopos an Isle Whose bounds are washt still by th' AEgyptian Nile The Hare was said to make Orion sport In hunting and was stellified for 't Plac't in the Winters Circle Next shines He The Sonne of Neptune and Euriale Who in his course was said to be so fleet To run o're Riuers and not drench his feet Or on the land through well-growne Medowes passe Yet with his weight not once to bend the grasse Slaine by an Arrow from Diana sent After translated to the Firmament Arm'd with a Club and Sword in hostile guise And in his Course doth still with Cancer rise The greater Dog by Iupiter was set To watch when he with faire Europa met After bestow'd on Procris and by her On Cephalus her husband Some auer It was Orions Dog who tooke delight In hunting much which Star doth shine so bright It for the flame can scarce be lookt vpon And therefore by the Greeks call'd Syrion The lesse Dog did to Icarus pertaine Who 'cause he mourn'd his Master being slaine And was the cause the Murd'rers were descry'd Thought therefore worthy to be stellifi'de Him in the Milky Circle you may spy Fixt betweene Cancer and the Gemini The Ship call'd Argo for it's speed was such Doth almost the Antarticke Circle touch In this the antient Heroes launcht from Greece To Colchos and brought thence the Golden-Fleece Chiron from Saturne and Philiris bred You may perceiue to lift his star-crown'd head Betwixt th' Antarticke and the Hyemal Lines And for his justice shew'd on earth there shines He AEsculapius and Achilles tought And for his great sinceritie 't was thought The gods would suffer him to liue for euer But by a Shaft drawne from Alcides Quiuer The head thereof in Hydra's bloud being dipt Vpon his foot it through his fingers slipt A small wound it appear'd but searcht and try'd Fester'd Gangren'd and of that hurt he dy'd The Altar to it 's Sphere coelestiall borne With Aries sets riseth with Capricorne On which the gods their Coniuration made When Tytans Issue did the Heav'ns inuade And men since them who great things enterprise Before th' attempt on Altars sacrifice Hydra is figur'd with a Cup and Crow The reasons why would be too long to show This ougly many-headed Monster bred In Laerna was by Hercules strooke dead To take the length of three whole Signes 't is said Cancer the Lion and the Heauenly Maid The Stars of Piscis whom we Notius call Are twelue in number and Meridionall It with a yawning mouth seemes to deuoure Water Aquarius from aboue doth poure Who for a curtesie to Isis done A constant place amongst the Stars hath won Since whose translation to that glorious Seat Of diuers Fish the Syrians will not eat But keepe their shapes and figures cast in gold And these to be their houshold gods they hold The reason why one Circle in the night When all the rest 's blacke doth alone shine bright And therefore Lacteus call'd some hold to be Iuno vn'wares
these that Truth transcendeth all The King 's inthron'd his Peeres about him stated To heare this strife betwixt them three debated The first begins O men who can define Vnto the full the pow'r and strength of Wine For needs must that be said to tyrannise Which tames the Strong and doth deceiue the Wise. The minde it alters and 't is that alone That makes the Scepter and the Sheep-hooke one For you in Wine no difference can see Betwixt the Poore and Rich the Bond and Free It glads the heart and makes the thoughts forget Trouble and sorrow seruitude and debt It doth inrich the minde in ev'ry thing That it remembers Gouernor nor King And causeth those who are in state most weake Not thinking of their wants of Talents speake It puts a daring in the cowards brest To loue those Armes he did before detest To draw his sword in fury and to strike Opposing his best friends and foes alike But from the Wine and when the tempest 's o're He soone forgets all that had past before Then ô you men for I 'le not hold you long Thinke Wine that can do these things is most strong He ceast the next began and thus O men Are not you strongest first by land and then By sea Are not all things in them contain'd Yours as at first vnto your vse ordain'd But yet the King is greater he rules all And is the Lord of these in generall Such as negotiate by sea or land Are but meere Vassals and at his command If he shall bid them war with least facilitie They take vp armes and run into hostilitie And if he send them against forrein Powers They breake downe Citadels demolish Towers Mountaines they with the vallies shall make ev'n Or in the dales raise structures to braue heav'n They kill or they are slaine in ev'ry thing They do not passe the precept of the King And if they ouercome by right or wtong The spoile and honour doth to him belong Nay those which do not to the battell go But stay at home to plow to till to sow The fruits of all their labours and increase They bring vnto the King to keepe their peace Yet he is but one man If he bid kill There is no sauing then much bloud they spill But if the word passe from him they shall spare To shed least bloud who 's he so bold that dare If he bid smite the smite or if he frowne And bid demolish all things are torne downe If he say Build they build or if destroy All goes to hauocke and yet he in ioy Meane time sits downe doth eat doth drinke doth sleep And all the rest a watch about him keepe Neither can any tend his owne affaires But the Kings only ev'ry man prepares To do him seruice reason too for they Dare not but his great potencie obey Then aboue others is not he most strong This hauing said the second held his tongue The third reply'd O men neither confine Strength to the potent Monarch nor to Wine Nor to the Multitude 'gainst their opinion Hath not the Woman ouer these dominion Woman into the World the King hath brought And all such people as haue Empire sought By land or sea from them had Being first Bred from their wombes and on their soft knees nurst Those that did plant the Vine and presse the juice Before that they could taste it to their vse Had from them their conception they spin they weaue Garments for men and they from them receiue Worship and honour needfull th' are no doubt As being such men cannot liue without If he hath gath'red siluer or got gold Or found out ought that 's pretious to behold Doth he not bring it to his choice Delight Her that is faire and pretious in his sight Leaues he not all his bus'nesse and affaire To gaze vpon her eyes play with her haire Is he not wholly hers doth he not bring Gold to her siluer and each pretious thing Man leaues his Father Mother Countrey all What he esteemes most deare to become thrall In voluntary bondage with his Wife To leade a priuat and contented life Which life for her he hasardeth and her 'Fore Father Mother Countrey doth prefer Therefore by these you may perceiue and know Woman to whom Man doth such seruice owe Beares rule o're you Do you not trauell sweat And toile that of your labors they may eat Man takes his sword regardlesse of his weale And Madman-like goes forth to rob and steale He sailes the seas sounds Riuers nothing feares He meets a Lion and his way he steares Through darknesse and what purchase spoile or boot Is got he prostrats at his mistresse foot This shewes his Woman is to him more deare Than he that got or she that did him beare Some haue run mad some Slaues to them haue bin Others haue err'd and perisht in their sin Do I not grant the King in pow'r is great And that all Nations homage to his seat Yet I haue seene Apame her armes twine About his necke the Kings lov'd Concubine And daughter to the famous Bartacus I haue beheld her oft times vse him thus From the Kings head to snatch the Royall Crowne And smiling on him place it on her owne Then with her left hand on the cheeke him smite Yet he hath gap'd and laught and tooke delight To see himselfe so vs'd If she but smil'd As if all pow'r from him were quite exil'd He laught on her If angry he was faine To flatter her till she was pleas'd againe 'T is you ô men whom I appeale vnto Are they not strongest then who this can do At this the King and Princes in amase Began each one on others face to gase When he proceeded thus Say ô you men Resolue me Are not Women strongest then The Earth is spatious and the Heav'n is hye And the Sun swiftly in his course doth flye For in one day the Globe he wheeleth round And the next morning in his place is found Him that made these things must we not then call Great and Truth therefore great'st and strong'st of all All the Earth calls for Truth Heav'n doth proclaime Her blessed all things tremble at her name For Truth no vniust thing at all can doo The Wine is wicked so the King is too Women are wicked all the sonnes of men Most wicked are and such must needs be then Their wicked works there is no Truth therein And wanting Truth they perish in their sin But Truth shall abide strong and still perseuer For it shall liue and reigne euer and euer With her of persons there is no respect She doth to this way nor to that reflect She knowes no diffrence what is just she loues But what 's impure and sinfull she reproues And all men fauor her good works because Her judgements are vpright and iust her lawes Shee 's the Strength Kingdome Power Dignitie And of all Ages Sov'raigne Majestie Blest be the
to euery sundry Planet 445. The vainnesse of these superstitions discovered 446 All Magicke condemned at Paris 447. Of wilfull ignorance 448. Salomon of wilfull Ignorance 449. The excellencie of Knowledge 450. Of the Knowledge of our selues 451. The Poets of Selfe-knowledge 452. The difference betwixt knowledge and wisdom 453. The etymologie of Wisedome ibid The excellencie of Wisedome 454. The wisedome of the Iust ibid. The Poets of Wisedome 455. Wise and witty sayings 457. Ianus Vitalis of antient Rome 459. Sundry Apothegmes of Orators Captaines and Emperors 460. Of things prodigious 462. Of Prodegies hapning before the death of Princes 463. God made not death 464. Adam Eve and the Serpent 465. Of Spirits that challenge to themselues Diuine worship 466. The Sarronides of Gaul 467. Humane Sacrifices performed at Rome 468. The antiquitie of Magicke as being before the Floud 469. The seuerall sorts of Magicke ibid. Of the Witch Hercyra and the Magition Artesius 470. All Magicke includes a compact with the diuell 471. A strange historie of one Theophilus ibid The manner of homage done to the Diuell 472 Of Pythagoras and the Magition Iamnes 473 A story of the Count of Vestravia 474. The Witch Oenoponte and others 475. Of Spirits called Paredrij inclosed in Rings and of such as vsed them 476. Of women that haue changed their sex 477. Histories to that purpose 478. The history of Machates and Philemium 479. Spirits that haue possessed dead bodies 480. A discourse of Astrologie 481. Philosophers concerning it 482. Against Iudicatorie Astrologie 483. Of Mathesis or Mathema 484. An Emblem 485. A Meditation 488. THE CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH TRACTAT OF Daemons in generall 495 Homer Tresmegistus and others of Daemons 496 Their power and practise 497. Powers and Potestates of the aire 499. Spirits called Incubi and Succubae 500. A story of an Incubus and a Succubus 501. Spirits of the foure Elements 502. Spirits of fire and strange prodegies 503. Of Ignes fatui Ambulones c. 505. Spirits of the aire strange prodegies wrought by them 506. Spirits of the water 507. A strange historie of two Scottish noblemen 508 Of diuers great Magitions 509. Spirits of the earth Genij Lares Larvae Lemures c. 510. Discourse of Spectars 511. Further of Paredrij or Familiar Spirits 512. A pleasant story of Iohn Teutonicus ibid. A strange story of a familiar Spirit 514. Of Galeatius Sforza and others 515 c. Of Pride 519. The effects of Pride 520. Of Pambo and the pride of Domitian Caesar 522. Of Sapor King of Persia and others 523. Of Ingratitude 525 c. Of Michael Traulus and others 528. Scripture and the Poets of Ingratitude 529. Of Humilitie 530. The Fathers of Humilitie 531. The Poets of Humilitie 532. Of Gratitude 534. Histories of Gratitude 535. An Hierogliphycke 536. An Emblem 537. The Poets extolling Gratitude 538. The story of a Votaresse called Christian 539. Of the Mahumetan Neffesoglij 540. A strange accident hapning in the Diocesse of Cullein 541. A strange and miraculous Birth ibid. Diuers other strange relations ibid c. Spirits haue no power of the heauens nor starres 543. A strange tale of Spectars 544. Stories of the Spirits of the aire and of the Indian Magi 545. Strange prodigious things in the aire 546. Of Bruno Bishop of Herbipol 547. The manner how the Duke of Venice yearly marieth the Ocean ibid. A strange story of Hotherus king of Suetia and Daciae 548. Strange things of watry Spirits 549. Diuers sorts of Spirits of the earth 550. A strange disease as strangely cured 551. Of Spectra Meridiana or Noone-Diuels ibid. Discourse of Alastores 552. The Lamiae or Larvae and stories concerning them 553. A desperat aduenture of two Bohemian knights 554. An Emblem 555. A Meditation 558. THE CONTENTS OF THE NINTH TRACTAT THe power and strength of Wine 564. Of the King ibid. Of Women 565. Of Truth 566. Of Zijm Ohim Satyrs Ostriches c. 567. Of Subterren Spirits called Cobali 568 Spirits the cause of earth-quakes 569. Of treasure kept by Spirits 570. A strange attempt of a Botcher 571. A strange story of Cabades King of Persia 573. Of Spirits called Luci-fugi Hob-goblins Robin Good-fellowes Fairies c. 574. A strange story reported by Fincelius 575. Of Dacius Bishop of Mediolanum ibid. A strange story of one recouered to life 576. A pleasant story of a Spirit of the Buttry 577. Certaine marks to know good Spirits from bad 580. What shape Diuels may assume and what not ibid. How euill Spirits may be knowne 581 Of Musicke and the velocitie of the heauens and Planets 582. The ambition of man to search into hidden secrets 583. Seueral opinions of Philosophers touching God ibid. Their opinions of the Soule 585. And the immortalitie thereof 586. Of Couetousnesse 589. The Poets of Couetousnesse 590. The sordidnesse thereof 591. The power of Gold 592. The Fathers of Auarice 594. Historicall examples of Auarice 595. Couetous Emperors 596. An Hierogliphycke Emblem c. of Couetousnesse 597. The Witches of Warboys 598. Of seuerall kindes of Spirits 599. A strange story of a Nobleman of Silesia 600. Diuers stories of Sylvan Spirits 601 c. The seuen Sleepers 606. A strange story of a Spirit 607. Anton. Laverinus and the Diuell 609. Miserable ends of sundry Magitions 610. Empedocles Michael Sidecita and others 613 614. The miserable end of Cornel. Agrippa 615. An Emblem 616. A Meditation 619. FINIS Errata PAg. 9 Lin. 21. reade effect p 12 l. 4. r. one p. 14. l 13. r. Theognis p. 30. l. 4. r. summus p. 51 l. 18. adde puella p. 61 l. 20. a mistake in the star p. 148. l. 16. r. tenent p. 188. l. 1 r. Vrbem p. 190 l. 30. r. blessed p. 200 l. 7. for two r. three p. 203. l. 26 r. the other p. 212 l. 20 r. or p. 242 l. 1. then r when p. 263 l. 35. r globus p. 264 larco r. lurco nique r inque ni r. in p. 283 l. 28. r. symptoms p. 297 lâ— 31. r. flouds p. 349 l. 22 r. tye p. 382 l. 18. r. terram p. 400. l. 30. r. Acherontis p. 433 l. 10. alasâ—e r. a losse p. 439 l. 19. aine r. paine p. 485 l. vlt. r. cupessas p. 506 l. 11. r. tunnes p. 538 l. 17. r. rependere l. 24. r. medullis p. 557 l. 4. r. meus p. 574 l. 3 adde sends God in the Conscience In the Stars The Sun The Moon The Earth The Beasts Riuers Fields Seas The globe of the Earth Man Homo microcosmus Hermes Tresmâ—gist Cicer. de Nat. Deor. lib. 2. Arist. Metaph. The Poets concerning God Tit. Calphur. Eglog 4. Hor. lib. 3. Od. 4. Lucan lib 3. de Bel. Ciuil Metamor lib. 8 Petron. Arbit in Fragm Stat. Sylv. ti 5. Meaning the Angels Arist. ad Antip. AEneas Numa Pompil Virg. AEnead Epirus Brennus Sacriledge punished Religion from the beginning The multiplicitie of gods among the Gentiles * As twice borne Priap god of
Emerald the Carbuncle with Gold The Timbrel and the Pipe were celebrated For thee in the first day thou wert created Thou art th' anointed Cherub made to couer Thee I haue set in honour aboue other Vpon Gods holy Mountaine placed higher Thou walked hast amidst the stones of fire At first of thy wayes perfect was the ground Vntill iniquitie in thee was found Thy heart was lifted vp by thy great beauty Therein tow'rds God forgetfull of thy duty By reason of thy Brightnesse being plac't ' Boue them thy Wisedome thou corrupted hast But to the ground I 'le cast thee flat and cold Lay thee where Kings thy ruin may behold In thy selfe-wisedome thou hast been beguild And by thy multitude of sinnes defil'd Thy Holinesse A Spirit still peruerse Stain'd by th' iniquitie of thy commerse Therefore from midst of thee a fire I 'le bring Which shall deuour thee into ashes fling Thee from thy height that all the earth may see thee This I haue spoke and who is he can free thee Their terror who did know thee heretofore Most Wretched thou shalt be yet be no more In this the Prophet as these would allude Striues in this first-borne Angell to include All Wisedome Pow'r Gifts Ornaments and Graces Which all the rest had in their seuerall Places God this precelling Creature hauing made With all the Host of Angels some haue said He then began the Vniuersall Frame The Heav'ns Sun Moon and Stars and gaue them name Then Earth and Sea his Diuine Will ordain'd With all the Creatures in them both contain'd His last great Workemanship in high respect Of Reason capable and Intellect But to the Angels natures much inferior Who with th' Almighty dwell in th' Heav'ns superior To all Eternity sounding his praise Man whom from Dust he did so lately raise Subsists of Soule and Body That which still Doth comprehend the Vnderstanding Will And Memorie namely the Soule Partaker Of those great Gifts is th' Image of the Maker The nature of the Body though it be Common with Beasts yet doth it disagree In shape and figure for with Eyes erected It beholds Heav'n whilest Brutes haue Looks deiected This compos'd Man is as a ligament And folding vp in a small continent Some part of all things which before were made For in this Microcosme are stor'd and layd Connexiuely as things made vp and bound Corporeall things with incorporeall Found There likewise are in his admired quality Things fraile and mortall mixt with Immortality Betweene those Creatures that haue Reason and Th' Irrationall who cannot vnderstand There is a Nature intermediate That 'twixt them doth of both participate For with the blessed Angels in a kinde Man doth partake of an intelligent Minde A Body with the Beasts with Appetite It to preserue feed cherish and delight And procreate it 's like in shapes and features Besides Man hath aboue all other Creatures That whereas they their Appetites pursue As solely sencible of what 's in view And gouern'd by instinct Mans eminence Hath pow'r to sway his Will from common Sence And besides Earthly things himselfe apply To contemplate things mysticall and hye And though his Excellence doth not extend To those miraculous Gifts which did commend Great Lucifer at first in his Majoritie Yet in one honour he hath iust prioritie Before all Angels to aduance his Seed Since God from all eternitie decreed That his owne Sonne the euerlasting Word Who to all Creatures Being doth afford By which they first were made should Heav'n forsake And in his Mercy humane Nature take Not that he by so doing should depresse The Diuine Majestie and make it lesse But Humane frailtie to exalt and raise From corrupt earth his glorious Name to praise Therefore he did insep'rably vnite His Goodhood to our Nature vs t' excite To magnifie his Goodnesse This Grace showne Vnto Mankinde was to the Angels knowne That such a thing should be they all expected Not knowing how or when 't would be effected Thus Paul th' Apostle testates 'Mongst the rest Without all opposition be 't confest Of Godlinesse the mysterie is high Namely That God himselfe apparantly Is manifest in Flesh is iustify'd In Spirit by the Angels clearely ' espy'd Preacht to the Gentiles by the World beleev'd Into eternall Glory last receiv'd With Pride and Enuy Lucifer now swelling Against Mankinde whom from his heav'nly Dwelling He seemes in supernaturall Gifts t' out-shine Man being but Terrene and himselfe Diuine Ambitiously his Hate encreasing still Dares to oppose the great Creators Will As holding it against his Iustice done That th' Almighties sole begotten Sonne Mans nature to assume purpos'd and meant And not the Angels much more excellent Therefore he to that height of madnesse came A stratagem within himselfe to frame To hinder this irrevocable Deed Which God from all eternitie decreed And that which most seem'd to inflame his spleene And arrogance was That he had foreseene That many Men by God should be created And in an higher eminence instated Of place and Glory than himselfe or those His Angels that this great Worke ' gant t' oppose Disdaining and repining that of Men One should be God Omnipotent and then That others his Inferiors in degree Should out-shine him in his sublimitie In this puft Insolence and timp'anous Pride He many Angels drew vnto his side Swell'd with the like thoughts Ioyntly these prepare To raise in Heav'n a most seditious Warre He will be the Trines Equall and maintaine Ouer the Hierarchies at least to raigne 'T is thus in Esay read I will ascend Into the Heav'ns and there my Pow'r extend Exalt my Throne aboue and my aboad Shall be made equall with the Stars of God Aboue the Clouds I will my selfe apply Because I will be like to the Most-Hye To this great Pride doth the Arch-Angell rise In boldest opposition and replies Whose name is Michael Why what is he That like the Lord our God aspires to be In vaine ô Lucifer thou striv'st t' assay That we thine innovations should obey Who know As God doth purpose be it must He cannot will but what is good and iust Therefore with vs That God and Man adore Or in this place thou shalt be found no more This strooke the Prince of Pride into an heate In which a Conflict terrible and great Began in Heav'n the Rebell Spirits giue way And the victorious Michael winnes the day Thus Iohn writes of the Battell Michael Fought and his Angels with the Dragon fel The Dragon and his Angels likewise fought But in the Conflict they preuailed nought Nor was their Place in Heav'n thence-forward found But the great Dragon that old Serpent bound They Diuell call'd and Sathan was cast out He that deceiueth the whole World about Ev'n to the lowest earth being tumbled downe And with him all his Angels headlong throwne This victorie thus got and he subverted Th' Arch-Angell with his holy Troupes directed