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A69640	An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.	Bromhall, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4885; ESTC R15515	377,577	402

without some reluctancy ask't him What Man or God art thou or what is thy businesse here The Vision answered O Brutus I am thy evil Angel and thou shalt see me again at Philippi At which Brutus nothing daunted said again I shall then But when it was vanished he called together his Servants who averred to him they neither saw nor heard either Vision or voyce after which Brutus took his rest again When it was light he went to Cassius and told him of this Phantasm When after Cassius was slain at Philippi whilest he prepared for a second fight wherein he was conquered after he had been Victor in the first In the night as the story sayes the same Vision appeared again to Brutus in the same shape not speaking a syllable but so vanisht Plutarchus in Bruto WHen Marcus Antonius became bankrupt at Actium Cassius of Parma his Partner fled to Athens where in the dead of the night as he lay in his bed ingulph't with cares and perplexities he phancied a man of a monstrous magnitude a black and ugly hue his beard incompt and squalid and his hair disorderly hanging down came to him And being askt who he was answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. thy evil Angel or Genius Being at last affrighted with so horrid a presence and so evill a name he called in his servants and questioned them whether they saw one of such a dresse and visage either come in or go out of his Chamber and when they had assured him they saw none such he again composed himself to his rest but presently the same Phantasm haunted him Wherefore he cast off all thought of rest and commanded a Candle up to his chamber and enjoyned his servants not to depart from him Between this night and his execution inflicted by Caesar was but a very short interval as you may read in Valerius Max. l. 1. c. 7. and Sueton. in Aug. and Plutarch in vita Antonii DIon of Syracusa after the Syracusans were made free and a little before he was slain by Calippus as he sate by chance in his Porch in the evening full of carefull thoughts heard a sudden noise and looking about him it being yet day-light he saw a huge woman in face and habit nothing differing from a Tragick fury sweeping the house with a Broom He very much terrified called his friends and acquainted them with the sight and intreated them to stay and lodge with him that night for he should sink under his terrour if they should leave him and the Ghost haunt him again The Ghost indeed troubled him no more but his Son being almost arrived to Manhood by reason of some slight and puerile crosse became so sorrowfull and enraged that he precipitated himself from the house top and so perished Plutarchus in Dione ALexander the third King of Scots took to Wife Joan Sister to Henry the third King of England which Joan dyed without issue after which he married Margaret daughter of the same King Henry who bare to him Alexander David and Margaret All these dyed yet the King not altogether dispairing of an Heir and Successor of his body married the third time one Iola daughter of a Knight of Draconum whilest by night they were celebrating the Wedding Feast he saw the likenesse of a dead Man follow the Dance The same year the King was knockt off his horse and slain Hence arose all that sedition and destruction which blasted that formerly flourishing Kingdome This fell out in the year of our Redemption MCCL. Cardanus de rerum varietate l. 16. c. 93. THere is a noble Family and among the chiefest of Parma called by the name of the Tortells which have a Castle wherein there is a Hall In it about the chimney an old woman for this hundred years uses to appear when any of the Family dyeth or is like to dye On a time a gallant Matron by name Paula of Barbia which was one of the same family when we were at Supper together at Belzois told me that one of the Maids of the house was very ill and that the old woman appeared all were of opinion that she would dye But it fell out otherwise for she recovered but another of the family which was well dyed suddenly They report that this old woman whose Ghost is now seen was formerly very rich and was by her own Nephews murthered for her moneys sake and hackt in pieces and thrown into the Privy Cardanus ibidem ANtonius Urceus Codrus a Grammarian of Brixia the very same night he dyed thought he saw one of a huge magnitude a bald pate his beard hanging down to the ground fiery eyes carrying Torches in both hands and terrible all over and he spake to him thus Who art thou which walkest up and down alone thus like a Fury in that time of the night when men are fastest asleep Speak out what dost thou look for or whither goest thou When he had thus said he skipt out of his bed to avoid him rushing in violently upon him Bartholomaeus Bononiensis in ejus vitâ JAcobus Donatus Patricius of Venice and also rich when on a night sleeping with his Wife he had a taper light and two Nurses also were asleep in a truckle-bed with a young child not a year old he saw the chamber door open by little and little and a man I know not who put in his head the Nurses also saw him but no body knew him The young man being affrighted as well he might be snatcht his Sword and Buckler each of the Nurses great Tapers into the Hall they come which was near adjoyning to the Chamber where all things were close The young man comes back with great admiration the small Infant which was well in health dyed the next day Cardanus de Rerum varietate lib. 16. cap. 93. VVHen Cursius Ruffus in his family notable for nothing of worth did act as Quaestor at Adrumetum a City of Africa walking up and down at noon in the porch he saw the shape of a woman of a more comely hue far beyond any mortal creature which spake unto him Thou art Ruffus which shalt shortly come Vice-Consull into this Province He being hopefully advanc'd with this prodigie not long after enjoyed the Proconsulship of Africa by Tiberius Caesar whereby the event of the Vision was fulfilled Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 6. EDwinus being banished by Ethelfred King of the Northumbrians fled to Redovaldus King of the East-Angles Not long after when Ethelfred by some in authority sought to kill him he began to take great care to secure himself In the night when all was still one of an unknown face and habit having met with him ask't him what he would give him if he told him that which would free his mind from all manner of sadnesse Edwinus made him this answer whatsoever was his that he might lawfully request and was in his power that he will freely give him Then he prognosticated to him that so

load of Hay with horses and Cart and all he cut off the head and feet of divers men did put them with their blood into a bason he flew through the Ayr hallowing like a hunter and the like pranks he played Chronicon Hirsaugiense and at last he killed Charls Calvus or the balld the King with poison IT is reported in the family of the Earls of the Andegavensium from whence Henry the second King of England sprung there was a Princess a notable Maga and a Witch who was constrained to worship and reverence the Eucharist who suddenly flew out of the windows of the Temple and was never heard of after Polydor 13. book A Certain Woman of Mediolensis near the Comiensem gate strangled a boy and devoured him and when she was wracked for her cruelty she said She was perswaded by the infernal gods that if she had sacrificed a boy three or four times she might do whatsoever she would Therefore she was bitterly tortured being laid upon the wheels crosse or latticewise and so her bones were broken and she dyed acruel and lingring death Artanus history Mediolan 1 Sect. writes that in his time this happened JOhn Fernelius relates in his first Book of Occult causes that he saw a certain man who by the strength of his words could cause divers sights to be in a glasse and those things which he commanded either in writing or in expresse Images were so lively imprinted that they might quickly and easily be discerned by those that sate by yea and there were holy words heard but filthily bespattered with obscene terms and after this sort they call upon the powers of the Elements and strange uncouth names of the Princes of the East West North and South Vierius book 2. chap. 7. of the Devils deceits FAcius Cardanus the Father of Jeremy Cardanus as he said had an aeriall devill to be his familiar for a long time who a long while used Conjuration and it gave him true answers but when he had shaken it off it returned him false answers he was eight and twenty years a Conjurer but he was freed from his familiar about five years but whilst he retained the spirit it was very profitable to him neither did it alwayes come alone although for the most part it did but sometimes it came with its companions Cardane of the variety of things 16. Book chap. 39. JAmes Jodoci de rosa Cortriensis carried a Ring about with him in which he thought the Devill was tyed by exorcisms and he did speak for five dayes together at the least and did consult with it about strange things and diseases and the manner of curing them At the last being bound and condemned to banishment first his ring in a publique place and a great company looking on was bruised and broken in pieces with the bea●ing of an Iron hammer by the Chancellor Done at Arnhemiae 14. July in the year 1548. Vierus Book 5. chap. 1. of the delusions of Devils IN the year of our Lord 1546. The daughter of John Vemerus a Citizen of Eslingensis whose name was Margaret was so swelled by the pains of her belly that the bignesse of her belly almost clouded her face and did seem to be ten palms in circumference she said that there were creatures of divers sorts was fed in her belly when in the mean time she feigned to be recreated and refreshed by sweet odours and delicate sauces those that stood about her Bed heard a crowing of Cocks cackling of Hens a gagling of Geese barking of Dogs bleating of Sheep grunting of Hogs lowing of Cattle and neighing of Horses There came out of her side worms and Serpents of a wonderfull bignesse about a hundred and fifty Many Physitians and Surgeons were enquired of and amongst them Leonhartus Fuchsius Tubingensis archiatrus At length came the Physitians of Charls the 5th Emperour and Ferdinand and the Hungarian King accompanied by some of the Nobles neither found they any thing false or counterfeit When the disease had almost endured for the space of four years and her pains did seem to encrease more and more the Magistrate of Eslingensis sent his Physitian together with three Surgeons and a Nurse that they might open the belly of the maid they tyed her with thongs they found her belly finely moulded up as with hands very artificially stuffed with pillows with divers arches by which the roundnesse of her belly was expressed the Virgin being uncovered had a very beautifull body her belly was brought into Court and reserved in the place of Anathematism The Mother of this daughter was a Witch and being examined upon the rack confessed that by Satans counsell and for gain she had done thus and her neck being first broken she was publickly burned and the daughter having holes boared thorow her knees with a hot Iron was condemned to perpetual imprisonment Lycosthenes in his prodigies IN Creet there was one Moses that went about almost a whole year stirring up the Jews being about to draw them through the Sea no otherwise then Moses of old performed Those Jews gathered up all that they could At the appointed day he drew forth the miserable people a great multitude of men and Women going with him the false Prophet brought them unto a steep place and there sheweth them a promontory unto the Sea and perswaded them to leap into the Ocean that they might swim to him being on the other side And afterwards he promised that they should have a safe journey Most of them leapt in being bewitched by his large promises but some were drowned and perished in the waters others were drawn out of the waves by Fishermen coming that way by chance but many of them followed him excepting those that narrowly escaped who returned to the rest of their company and did tell of the danger and destruction that others suffered In the mean while when these things were transacted the false Prophet vanished therefore they were not much out of their way who judged him to be an evill spirit who by Gods permission did delude that pittifull multitude and destroyed many Socrat. 7. Book 38. chap. ARchas the chief of the Indian Wisemen being instructed by Apollonius did tell his name Parents manners and whatsoever happened to him as if he had been present at all Philostratus WHen the Antiochians desired of Apollonius Antiocheno that he would turn away the Earthquake by which they were afflicted sighing he writ thus in his Tables Wo to thee O miserable City because thou shalt be levelled eeven with the ground by many Earthquakes and the River of Orontes shall wash thee to its banks Cedrenus JAmblicus returned from his sacrifices into City talking with his Schollers and by and by fastning his eyes a while upon the ground saith he Let us go another way because not far from hence lies a dead carcase Some of his Schollers followed him But others amongst whom Aedesius going forward in their journey they met the Cats

his sleep standing by him and saying Dost thou know how audacious a fault thou hast committed against me but it will fall on thy own head On the morrow the Saracens defending the walls and the battel being joyned he miserable wretch running to the wall being struck on the head and face with a hurled stone he had a punishment according to the deserts of his wickedness Paulus Diaconus lib. 21. Rerum Rom. Cedrenus COnstantine the Bishop of Cyprus in the 4 th action of Nicena the second doth declare That a certain heardsman who had pulled out the right eye of the Image of Mary with a prick afterwards going out into the field when he struck the cattel his own eye dropt out And there was another certain man in Cizium a Town of Cyprus because that he had driven a nail thorough the head of the same Image painted upon a wall had a mighty pain in the head which he could be in no wise eased of before that he had drawn out the nail Also the same man doth affirm That an Agarene endeavouring to pluck out the eye of the Image of Mary with a long Spear in the City Gabala of Syria digged out his own eye and was tormented with a burning Feaver And in the 5 th action yet other 3 miracles are published which were executed by Images to confirm the worship of them which Charls the Great in his book of the worship of Images doth refer it to the force of superstition A Certain Jew having received baptism in Hannonia being lifted up from the holy fountain by William a Knight of Holland returning with the Dog to his vomit he smote the Image of the Virgin Mary in the Temple privily with a punniard in the face abundance of bloud gushed out The Jew prepared himself for flight The Virgin did appear to a Smith in a Dream doth shew him the author of the mischief doth exhort him to pursue him and offering a duell to convince him of his wickedness He doth obey and by single combat doth drive the conquered Jew to the Cross Johannes Trithemius in Chronico Hirsaugiensi WHilest a peace was contracting between Henry and Philip the Kings of England and France certain Officers being brought in from Richard son of Henry King of England which that Age called Coterelli while they played at dice a certain man having lost his money seeing the Virgin in the Porch of the Temple holding her son in her right hand throwing a stone at the Image he broke a part of her son's arm from whence blood plentifully flowing it proved a remedy to many sick people who devoutly sought help thereby the Officer being taken away by the Devil dyed most miserably the same day Robertus Gaguinus lib. 6. THe sixth year of King Charls the Frenchmen took a Town called Burburgum and having broken into the Temple a French Souldier seeking to lay hold upon a silver Image of St. John it is reported That the Statue turning to him he fell mad and killed himself with his own teeth Robertus Gaguinus AT Buda a City of Panonia two Gamesters meeting together the one said he playd in the Name of God and the other in the name of the Devil he which made God by his vain words a favourer of his wickedness lost not onely all his money but his cloaths also and going towards home about mid-night desperately inraged by his loss as he went through a Church-yard thus possessed with anger and fury looking upon the Image of our Saviour crucified upon a Cross he snatcheth up a stone and strikes it into the face of the Crucifix which making a hole therein stuck fast in it whereupon great store of blood miraculously issued thence a Butcher who was troubled with the Gout living close to the Church-yard being an old man and in his bed heard a low voyce which bid him rise and strike with his great knife whomsoever he should meet which words when they had been thrice re-iterated and that with threats of much mischief to befall him if he refused he resolved to obey the voyce Therefore when at first he was not able to rise out of his bed by reason of his infirmity at length slowly rising he layes hand on his slaughter-knife and going to the Church-yard meets the wretched mad Gamester coming towards him and thrusts his knife into him which done coming to the house of the Judge he desires to speak with him The Judge at first believed it to be meerly an imposture of the Devil though he declared to him his Dream and the slaughter he had committed but when it was light coming to the Church-yard whilest the people flocked about the dead body Devils with terrible howling snatching away the corps carried it into the ayr in a trice out of the sight of the spectators which with the hole in the Crucifix out of which blood issued demonstrated the perfidiousness of the Gamester and freed the Butcher from danger M. Frischius in Meteoris IN the year of our Redemption 1383. there was in this Countrey a certain fellow named Schelkrop of mean Parentage one of the infamous rout who naturally was indued with a bold malignant wit and by licentiousness and custome was come to a great heighth of wickedness wherein he not onely delighted but gloried he passed his time in Bawdy-houses and Taverns and with great eagerness followed Play from whence all kind of vices ingender as fast as vermin from the putrefaction of a dead carcass and especially impiety towards God is thereby begot In all which Schelkrop was so notorious a Captain that the time wherein he lived could hardly parallell him He upon a certain time according to his custome tryed his fortune at play having choyce of companions like himself they went to a publick Gaming-house a Tavern in the Suburbs of Moguntinum called Filtsbach the sign of the flower which was commonly called Zuder Blumen and when they had for some time playd there at dice it fell out that Schelkrop was so unfortunate that he had lost almost all his money which when by continuing of play he did not onely not recover but very much augmented his loss he began as he was wont not onely to vapour with his fellow Gamesters and give them base and unhandsome language but likewise most impiously to blaspheme God and his Saints some report that when he was thus with rage and impiety incensed that he openly threatned That whatsoever Image of our Saviour he first met withall of it he would take revenge of his present loss But I will not confidently affirm it but it appears plainly that when he went from his companions he came to a certain Chappel seated betwixt the Church of Saint Alban and the Temple of the blessed Virgin where Images were kept and suddenly fiercely hacked and hewed the Image of our blessed Saviour crucified upon the Cross and that with one stroke he cut off the head thereof so that it fell from the