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A07467	The admirable history of the posession and conuersion of a penitent woman Seduced by a magician that made her to become a witch, and the princesse of sorcerers in the country of Prouince, who was brought to S. Baume to bee exorcised, in the yeare 1610, in the moneth of Nouember, by the authority of the reuerend father, and frier, Sebastian Michaëlis, priour of the couent royall of S. Magdalene at Saint Maximin, and also of the said place of Saint Baume. Who appointed the reuerend father, Frier Francis Domptius, Doctor of Diuinity, in the Vniuersity of Louaine, ... for the exorcismes and recollection of the acts. All faithfully set down, and fully verified. Wherunto is annexed a pneumology, or discourse of spirits made by the said father Michaëlis, ... Translated into English by W.B.	Michaelis, Sébastien, 1543?-1618.; W. B., fl. 1613-1617.	1613 (1613)	STC 17854; ESTC S107052	483,998	666

must not now grudge and repine at labour Knowest thou not that it will bee said vnto me Soule render me an account of what thou hast done thou wert ' the mistrisse and shouldest therefore manage thy gouernment with discretion A man that chanceth vpon a sober discreet wife is in reason to intrust her and not his seruant with the domesticke and home-businesses of his family but thou hast done cleane contrary You that are men are iust of the same humour and say Wee are tender and of a delicate composition and must a little cherish and make much of our selues Others will say let vs bee frolicke I can liue without working I haue many goodly possessions I am noble in my blood and am descended from such a race I am able to keepe thus many horses maintaine thus many gentlemen in my attendance and bee waited on with thus many Pages and Lackeies Another will complaine of his old age and how vnable hee is to vndergoe the burthen of penance at those yeeres For this cause do those families perish and lie buried in their ruines where this cursed chambermaid beareth sway Do not you resemble those that as the Prouerbe noted of them are facete and pleasant abroad but sullen in their owne houses Then Verrine speaking to the assembly said you promise Paradise vnto your selues but thinke you not to attaine vnto it without much sufferance and aduersities in this world for the seruant is not greater then his master And if God was first to suffer and then to haue admittance into glory would you expect to enter into heauen on horse-backe or in your Caroach I tell you nay but you are to come thither on foot and to bee besides loden with store of good workes otherwise it will be told you I know you not you cannot come in for I and my children are in bed Whereby you are not to conceiue that these beds are beds of doune and delicacy as some lazy persons might apprehend it No these words shall be spoken to the stuborne and obstinate sinner that hateth to be conuerted If you will bee saued you must not abandon your selues vp to wantonnesse which doth emasculate and weaken all vertuous desires in you You all stand charged with the heauie burthen of your sinnes prostrate your selues before this little childe which lieth in the manger and come vnto him with the full burthen of your transgressions that hee may vnload you If you say vnto mee you haue no sinne I must tell you that it is false for all men are sinners Sinne is like vnto wood pile it vp and lay it on a heape that when the holy Ghost commeth hee may set fire to the same I meane the fire of his loue which searcheth still for stubble and other such combustible matter that it may consume and burne it What man can heere excuse himselfe hath not euery one a staffe in his hand whereon to leane and support himselfe which is the will whatsoeuer you haue besides you owe vnto God but this will is your owne since God hath made it ouer vnto you and therefore take this staffe vnto you For God is the shepheard and you are the sheepe of his pasture whom if the woolfe come to rauin vpon and to deuoure hee will take the staffe of your will and will swinge him so soundly that hee shall neuer returne for his prey but to his owne confusion Then did Verrine inuite all the creatures of Heauen all the Quires of Angels all Saints especially the blessed mother of God as also the whole Church triumphant and militant to praise God for the repentance of sinners especially of those that were obstinate as Magicians and Witches Sorcerers and Sorceresses in these words Verrine in the name of al Magicians Witches Sorcerers and Sorceresses and by the appointment of that Soueraigne God saith O yee foure elements praise yee the Lord all creatures reasonable and vnreasonable praise the Lord whatsoeuer hath grouth or motion laud the name of God Earth Sea Aire and Fire trees and starres praise ye all the Lord c. I tell you that if all the creatures of the world could make their eies gush foorth with teares of bloud they would bewayle as much as in them lyeth the impieties of Magicians and Witches so abominable are their courses before God All these things were pronounced by him whilest the Priest held the blessed Sacrament in his hands to giue the Communion to Louyse and Magdalene After this he renounced those abiurations of Magicians and Witches Sorcerers and Sorceresses as he had formerly done at midnight Masse Gresill and Sonneillon did also the same three seuerall times once when the Crede was said in the Masse another time at the eleuation and the third time at the Communion In like manner these three Diuels confirmed by oath all that was aboue mentioned in the same manner as at the midnight before The same day the Dominican Father wrote a letter to father Michaelis in answere vnto one of his written the 13. of this moneth wherein hee intreateth him to come to S. Baume The same day Verrine said vnto the Dominican Father command mee in the Name of God and by the authority of the Church triumphant and militant to goe foorth about an imployment which God hath imposed vpon mee then hee called father Romillon and father Andrew Godan of the Order of S. Dominick to be witnesses hereunto and then departed Moreouer there happened a very memorable accident on the same day for Belzebub began to speake in this strange manner as followeth Verrine not long agoe cryed out that all Hell was constrained by God to renounce whatsoeuer the Magicians and Witches had proiected and I Belzebub cheefe of the Diuels that are in the body of Magdalene am compelled by the Almighty to make the like abiuration in effect contrary to my resolution and the greatnesse of my pride Yes yes yes in despight of my selfe and against my customary pride and rebellion in the name of all my companions I renounce I renounce I renounce I say whatsoeuer I haue suggested vnto Magdalene as well for the time past as for thetime to come both against her God and conscience Yes yes yes I reuoke it all I condemne and disclaime it now at this very instant The same day at high Masse were the two women that were possessed exorcised by the Dominican father and Verrine began to speake in this manner Thou God of power cause now an Angell to descend from Heauen vpon this Altar that these men may beleeue what meanest thou to doe Wilt thou vse the ministry of a Diuell in a businesse of this importance Thou hast here Doctors able and ready to say the same that I say men will euer bee saying that Louyse is not possessed cursed be her folly I could endure Hell better then her Then the said Verrine began to scoffe at Belzebub and his Princes in this manner What Belzebub art

all his companions as in the like occasion being semblably charged by Caiphas to declare whether hee were the Sonne of God or no hee then answered more cleerely and amply then at any time before although hee well knew that Caiphas was vncapable of that mysterie and would not make his aduantage of the same What ought we then to cōceiue of Diuels being adiured in the power of the name of God shall they not deliuer the truth when by the vertue of the same name they are compelled to relinquish and abandon the bodies of those whom formerly they did possesse The second point to be noted is that vpon the interrogatories of Iesus Christ they haue spoken and answered truely and consequently they doe somtimes tell truth not of their owne accord or motion but vpon constraint and that of him who is powerfull to constraine them to wit Christ Iesus and his Lieue-tenants that are endowed with this power to whom hee saith I haue giuen you power to tread on Serpents and Scorpions and ouer all the power of the enemy And in another place he saith to the successors of the Apostles that they shall cast out Diuels in his name If then the answeres of Diuels are inserted in the Gospell why may not the like answeres be now written and published to the world The old Testament doth not stick to say that the euill Spirit of God hauing possessed Saul besides tormenting him did prophesie also that is to say hee spake after the manner of Prophets of things absent and hidden from the vnderstanding of men Saint Chrysostome in the 13. Homily vpon Saint Matthew giueth vs his resolution of this pointe inueighing against Atheists who deny the paines of bell They are taught by the Deuils saith he who being full of pride will not confesse that they indure any torments and being replenished with malice would disswade vs from beleeuing it yet are they oftentimes compelled besides the confessions made by them in the Gospell to say and confesse publickly the great torments which they suffer and are constrained thereunto by the omnipotency of God and the excessiuenesse of the torments wherewith they are punished as a malefactor that is questioned extraordinarily doth by the force of the tortures that are presented vnto him confesse the truth If then the Atheists will not beleeue the Scriptures God maketh the Deuils themselues to confesse it and those saith hee that will not then beleeue are worse then Deuils For answere vnto the second wee will make remonstrance vnto them that by their reckoning the Scripture should net haue laid before vs the History of the yong Preists that were the sonnes of Hely who did snatch the flesh from the pots that belonged to the sacrifice and did deflower the deuout women that came into the Temple to watch there at night Neither should the narration of the sinnes of Dauid who was a Prophet and father of the future Messias be set downe much lesse should the Euangelists mention the treason of Iudas which are so farre from ministring occasion of scandall vnto the people that on the contrary many wholesome doctrines tending much to edification may be drawne from thence This is declared by Saint Paul when hauing spoken of Hymeneus and Philetus that did scandalize the Church hee addeth The foundation of God remaineth sure and hath his seale on those that are his Notwithstanding saith he is it not true that in the house of a great Lord there bee vessels of gold and vessels of siluer vessels of wood and vessels of earth destinated vnto diuers vses If therefore any man purge himselfe frō the ordures which are in the contemptible vessels the same shall be a vessel of honour in the house of God True it is that the vessels of greatest contempt and dishonour are the wicked Preists as for example Iudas in the Colledge of Christ Iesus and Diacrus Nicolaus in the society of the Apostles and the reasons thereof are apparent First because of their great ingratitude which maketh the grace of God to depart farre from them and consequently they are the more blinded by the working of the Deuill Ingrati scelesti saith S. Paul Another reason is because they are more ignominious to Christ Iesus as appeareth by Magicians The third reason is for that the corruption of those things that are excellent is worse then the corruption of things lesse excellent as the putrification of the blood is more pernicious then of any of the other humours And this would Ieremy haue said in the vision of the two baskets of figges the one being full of figges not onely good but excellently good and the other full of figges not onely naught but extreamely naught in porta templi And this is amply declared by Saint Augustine in an Epistle which he wrote vpon a suggestion against a Preist of his who was accused of some soule crime In the house of Adam saith hee there was Abel and Cain in the Arke of Noah liuing creatures both cleane and vncleane and in his house one Cham with Sem and Iaphet In the house of Abraham Ismael with Isaac in the house of Isaac Esau with Iacob in the house of Iacob incestuous Rubin with chaste Ioseph in the house of Dauid Absolon with Salomon And how be it God himselfe had twice talked with Salomon and had bestowed on him so many indowments of his grace in the house of his father yea although himselfe was a Prophet and the author of some of the sacred and Canonicall writtes yet did not the Deuill cease to gaine vpon him and to cause him to present vnto him the sacrifices that were appointed for God Finally Saint Augustine bringeth in the example of Iudas and concludes I haue by long experiences learned that as there are not on the earth better Christians then good Preists so on the contrary I neuer knew a Christian so euill as a wicked Preist To the same purpose speaketh Saint Ierome no man did euer disesteeme the Colledge of the Apostles because Iudas plaid the villaine among them no man euer misconceiued of the Quires of Angels by reason of Lucifer and his confederates but rather by their vnhappy end we should learne to do well and be strengthned the more in the Christian faith when it commeth into our consideration that the Deuill paineth not himselfe to draw a Minister to make his supper in a Synagogue nor a Rabbin of the Iewes nor a Musulman of the Turkes for from hence can redound no ignominy vnto Christ Iesus neither can he by this gaine in any thing in his pretensions as he would by the assistance of a wicked Preist that doth consecrate the body of Christ Iesus Neither doth God suffer such execrable villanies to passe without great and maruellous wonders as shall be seene in this History but discouereth all by the extraordinary meanes of his vnbounded power and doth inforce the Deuils themselues to make

although she be a woman yet is shee the second after God and is neuerthelesse the mother of God After dinner Sonneillon vttered many things tending to edification that Vertue was ascended vp to heauen and in her ascent had let her mantle fall which Impiety that remained vpon the earth tooke vp and clothed it selfe therewithall vnder which couerture and maske it commeth abroad to deceiue men who otherwise would decline the rock of such seducements He further said that the damned should bee punished in all the faculties of their soule in their memory vnderstanding and will together with their fiue senses and all this by the vision of Diuels At the euening Verrine said that the time would come that his name should bee rased out and that many men should see the same The same euening Louyse was not exorcised but Verrine made a terrible inuectiue against Magdalene because she grew coole in the acknowledgement of Gods mercie towards her and had not yet humbled her selfe with a full and perfect repentance Then he admonished euery one in particular how they should discreetly carry themselues in that great businesse of their saluation The Acts of the 27. of December being the feast of S. Iohn THis day in the morning the Dominican Father exorcised and Verrine after his acustomed manner began to speake thus Harken and be attentiue the houre of that great day of Iudgement is at hand for Antichrist is borne and brought forth some moneths past by a Iewish woman God will rase out Magick al Magicians and witches shall returne home vnto him the Soueraigne high Priest shall giue them plenary absolution and all their complices shall be laid open vnto the world These are not fables or fancies or words of ieast and derision I foretell you these things by the appointment of the holy Ghost all which is true I beare but the name thereof and the Church shall heereafter admit it as a Reuelation God would preuent the Diuel and therefore he doth cause this annunciation to be made that the day of Iudgement is at hand and that Antichrist is borne Seauen yeares before the great day of the Lord the earth shall bring forth no fruite the women shall not conceiue and many signes and wonders shall bee seene as is in part already made manifest For the sonne rebelleth against his father the daughter against her mother as you see by experience euery day and that now there are some of all Nations vnder Heauen who are conuerted Iohn the Euangelist thou hast beene intrusted with many celestiall secreets thou wert a doue in thy simplicity and diddest leane vpon the breast of thy Redemer at his last supper and doest now take thy rest in Paradise Moses Enoch and Elias you are there also for your bodies were neuer found vpon the earth Great God of the Christians thy Saints haue many reuelations but such a one as this was neuer disclosed vnto them because the time of this Reuelation was not then come and the sonne of perdition was vnborne I tell thee O Spouse of God thou shalt bee beyond measure vngratefull if thou make nice to receiue so excellent a present sent vnto thee by thy husband but I am assured thou wilt receiue it as shal also the chief dealers in Magick if they will be conuerted whereby they shall reape much mercy and fauour and then the secular arme shall haue no power to inflict the rigour of iustice vpon them It is the good pleasure of God that his goodnesse should be founded forth by them and that they should bee the meanes of the conuersion of many soules as they were the instruments of their perdition The Priests duety is to absolue Magicians and Witches that shall repent and craue of God the remission of their sinnes And thou Prince of Magicians shalt be particularly sis●ed and examined and God shal menace and affright thee by the Diuell because other creatures haue no force to worke vpon thee France is infected with this dangerous Art of Magick all the sisters of the company of Vrsula are bewitched at Marseille at Aix and at many other places so that the country swarmeth with the multitude of charmes Come and draw neere vnto the childe Iesus his hands be tender and cannot gripe you hard yet euer haue you in remembrance that this childe onely shall be your Iudge that of all Nations some shall bee conuerted and that this miracle shall bee spread abroad ouer all the world There are yet many voyd seates in Heauen which God will haue filled Lucifer thou goest about to get those soules for whom thou hast payed no ransome but God hath fully shewed that no man can wring that out of his hands which hee hath determined to saue In this God doth offer vnto consideration a new tract of his wisedome power and authority which thou couldest not perceiue for hee confoundeth and beateth thee by a Diuell who is thy seruant and subiect and by two women hee doth conuert soules and set all hell in an vproare and distraction For since the time of this accident more then a thousand soules haue beene conuerted to the faith yet diddest thou accursed spirit think that thou knowest all things when as I ●ell thee Marie her selfe knoweth not all although she be inriched with perfection and hath much authority and power in heauen These discourses are not drawne from the pit of Hell for the tree is knowne by the fruite When God giueth the fire of Charitie he also adioyneth thereunto the cinders of humility for the fire is conserued vnder the ashes Then hee spake to Carreau and said thou also art a wretched spirit thou art he that saiest that God was not able to raise Lazarus to life I tell thee thou liest and he shall conuert the Cheife and ring-leaders in Magick and God shall be praised for his great goodnes by those that shall behold the same God perceaueth that men esteeme not of his Preachers and therefore sent the Diuell to deliuer his truth by the mouth of a woman Phisitians to new maladies haue new remedies and appliances so because this sicknesse of men went beyond ordinary it was expedient for the cure thereof to apply extraordinary remedies especially to those whom the Diuell had deceaued and conquered I affirme that it is necessary to goe to Rome for God will haue this businesse examined and looked into Then he desired to haue his oath ministred vnto him and because hee had reuealed diuerse things full of nouelty and admiration it was thought fit that he should sweare vpon the blessed Sacrament And whilest the Priest was holding the same Verrine spake of diuers matters and amongst the rest that the company of the Christian Doctrine and of Saint Vrsula and the order of Saint Dominicke should sprout vp and flourish alwaies without offence vnto other Orders as vnto the Iesuits and the like that the Father

where hee purposely laboureth to magnifie the power and goodnesse of God in the worke of Creation And in good reason doth he take his beginning from this question since the weightiest argument that Saduces and Atheists can alleage for themselues is that Moses speaking of all the creatures of God and of the heauens themselues doth yet make no mention of Angels whereupon the ancients haue endeauoured to giue a satisfying resolution heereunto as S. Chrysostome S. Athanasius Theodoret and others S. Chrysostome particularly in two passages doth determine this point I know well saith hee speaking vnto the people that you are accustomed to demand why it is not said In principio creauit Deus Angelos Archangelos as well as it is written In principio creauit Deus coelum terram especially since Angels and Archangels are vndoubtedly compositions of more noblenesse and puritie then heauen or earth You are to know saith hee that the holy Scripture is nothing else but a letter missiue which God by his Ministers doth send vnto vs no lesse then when wee read that Helias was sent from God vnto Ioram king of Israell with a letter missiue to reclaime him from his faults and to instruct him in the will of God Now when a great Lord writeth his letters missiue hee doth accommodate the stile and matter of them vnto the qualitie and capacitie of the person vnto whom he doth addresse them for hee must write to a Prince after one fashion and after another fashion vnto a Philosopher and in a different maner from these when hee writeth to his wife or to his children Now the first letter missiue which God in his goodnes sent vnto man was the fiue bookes of Moses which hee directed to the people of Israel This people of Israel vnto whom the letter was addressed was a rude and an ignorant people because they were newly infranchised from the slauery and seruitude of Egypt where they had been for the space of 400 yeares very cruelly oppressed being all of them constrained to apply themselues to manuall trades and workes as to gather straw and clay to carry great baskets vpō their shoulders ful of such stuffe wherof they were afterwards to make bricks and then to carry them where the Cities and Pyramides of Aegypt were a building and this they daily did not hauing leasure to breath or to serue their God one day as may be easily seene in the beginning of Exodus so that whatsoeuer was said of Ioseph may very appositly be applied vnto this people Diuertit ab oneribus dorsum eius manus eius in cophino seruierunt Which was the cause that they were a rude nation altogether vnacquainted with good literature And this is the peculiar slight of tyrants as Aristotle writeth in his Politicks who will not permit their subiects to study and attaine vnto learning which was the practise of Iulian the Apostata against the Christians They were all then very ignorant except Moses who was exempted from such rudenesse because he had his education in the Kings Palace and was the adopted sonne of King Pharaoes daughter and this S. Stephen well obserueth saying Erat Moses doctus in omni scientia Aegyptiorum for he had skill in Astronomy Geometry and the Mathematicks but the rest of the people were exceedingly ignorant and could not conceiue of any thing but what they could see with their eyes which is the ordinary fashion of illiterate people who are not able to eleuate their spirites higher then the earth and laugh at Philosophers when they dispute of the roundnesse of the Sunne of the height of heauen and of the sphericall forme of the sea and earth and heereupon it is that Moses saith to God alas Lord I assure my selfe that they will not beleeue that which I shall say vnto them for when I shall speak of thee Lord what fashion shall I hold in my discourse to make thy Maiesty knowen vnto them since their apprehensions doe sauour so much of earth and dulnesse But God answered him it shall be sufficient for thee to tell them that hee who is hath spoken vnto thee for hee would not that hee should speake vnto them in a higher straine then of his being onely which is a thing common and agreeable to the least creature of the world although if these words bee vnderstood by nature not by participation they haue a high and mysterious meaning but this distinction was not mentioned vnto them because he would fit his discourse to their vnderstandings And this is the very opinion of S. Dydimus who sheweth that according to the diuersitie of tymes and persons there came Prophets and others in the name of God some with the name of him that was Almighty others with the name of him that was replenished with all goodnes and others with the name of vnappeasable rigour and iustice And thus saith hee was Moses sent vnto this rude people with the name of him That is for God would at that time exact nothing from them but that they should vnderstand that the God of their fathers is and was not like the false Gods of Egypt who indeed were not because they had not so much as an existence which is the least that any thing may haue In like manner when Christ Iesus did addresse himselfe vnto the seauen Churches of Asia hee set downe diuers attributes of his Maiestie in the beginning of those letters according to the diuersitie of persons And S. Paul preaching at Athens among the Philosophers did purposely decline to make particular mention of the Trinity but thought it sufficient to expresse vnto them that there was a God who created heauen and earth Deus inquit qui fecit mundum omniae quae in eo sunt coeli terrae ' Dominus non in manu factis Templis habitat S. Peter also in his first sermon to the Iewes doth not at the first cast plainely expresse that Christ Iesus was the true God but accommodating himselfe vnto them hee is contented if at the first he may winne thus much vpon their beleefe that Christ Iesus was a holy and innocent man sent from God Iesum inquit Nazarenum virum approbatum a Deo signis virtutibus but afterwards he speaketh vnto them in a higher straine hauing once prepared them for more diuine instructions And so heere likewise in processe of time did God manifest vnto this people that there were Angels and that they had their creation from him as wee shall presently see Which is also more expresly vnfoulded in the new Testament at what time men grew more familiar and better acquainted with the secrets of God This is S. Chrysostoms reason which is very probable and fit to be admitted S. Athanasius yeeldeth another reason saying that this people was exceeding ready to beleeue and admit plurality of Gods which in processe of time they tooke from the superstitions of the Egyptians