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A03468	A treatise against vvitchcraft: or A dialogue, wherein the greatest doubts concerning that sinne, are briefly answered a Sathanicall operation in the witchcraft of all times is truly prooued: the moste precious preseruatiues against such euils are shewed: very needful to be knowen of all men, but chiefly of the masters and fathers of families, that they may learn the best meanes to purge their houses of all vnclean spirits, and wisely to auoide the dreadfull impieties and greate daungers which come by such abhominations. Hereunto is also added a short discourse, containing the most certen meanes ordained of God, to discouer, expell, and to confound all the Sathanicall inuentions of witchcraft and sorcerie.; Treatise against witchcraft.	Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.	1590 (1590)	STC 13590; ESTC S104153	71,772	90

mihi nota sunt eorum studia artes quatenus de ijs verbo Dei sacrosancto omnes edocemur Surely I list not willingly to dispute of deuills and there ministers the witches c. and I am so farre acquainted with their studies as we are all taught by the word of God And as for transformations I warned thee before to looke for no supernaturall works in witchcraft I answer thee therefore this question with Danaeus also Quare illa etiam falsissima censenda sunt quae de lycanthropis quibusdam narrantur These things are to be thought most fabulous which are reported of transformations Content thy selfe Mysodaemon I pray thee with this answer for these things be not the great grounds of witchcraft Howbeit I denie not but witches may haue also sundrie such Sathanicall delusions in many which abounde in melancholy but no reall transformations indeede Myso-daemon But before we end our conference Theophilus I must be bold to aske you yet a fewe more questions wherein I would most gladly be resolued both for mine owne instruction and the benefite of some of my friendes Theophilus If thy questions be needfull and necessarie for thy selfe or any friend to know I will answere them but as for foolish and vnlearned questions the Apostle hath forewarned vs they doe but ingender strife Myso-daemon I promise you Theophilus I wil no more cumber you but onely with a few points which shal be good for the vse of edifying First I would knowe what your iudgement is of some bigge volumes of witchcraft which as farre as I can see conteine sundrie intollerable prophane and wicked Treatises and formes of idle and vaine iuglings and blasphemous coniurations Theophilus Surely this I thinke Myso-daemon all the godly learned men who tenderly regard the good state of the Saintes of God are no doubt agrieued in hart to see such horrible impieties suffered to be broched in the open face of the Church of God for young wits are more apt to practise these wares of Sathan which are thus put to sale then to search for anie good purpose in them which is most hard to be founde Againe this in a worde I adde that the Lawyers tell vs such authours are ouertaken by Lawe for the Lawe saith Libros magicae artis apudse nemini habere licet et si penes quoscunque reperti sunt bonis ademptis ambustisque ijs publice in insulam deportantur humiliores capite puniuntur It is lawfull for no man to haue the bookes of Magicke and with whome soeuer they are founde their goodes confiscate and their bookes openly burnt they are banished and the poorer sort are punished with death Avoide therefore Myso-daemon such dreadfull impieties I warne thee Myso-daemon Well then I will if God assist me followe your counsell redeeme also the time if I can in better studies which I haue so vainely and wickedly lost my next question is whether there may be in verie trueth at this daye such coniuration and calling vp of deuilles which they call Necromancie so as the witch of Endor did for albeit it bee not vnlike but that Sathan practiseth with witches in these dayes as in former times as you haue partly shewed yet in my iudgement it is a thing impossible to call vp or to conjure deuils by any atte out of hell for the Scripture saith that all passages are stopt concerning the egresse out of hell in the 16. Chap. of Saint Lukes Gospell Theophilus I counsell thee Myso-damon neuer to credite any more such magicall glosses vpon holy Scripture for albeit the reprobates departed are tormented for euer with deuils in hell yet the prince the god and the gouernours of this worlde are in the ayer also rounde about vs and may be coniured Myso-daemon as well from aboue as from belowe for the Apostle sayeth They are not in hell onely but in high places also CHAP. III. What a dreadfull and fearefull sinne it is to consult at any time or neede with witches and sorcerers Mysodaemon Theophilus I Woulde gladly be resolued in another doubt Theophilus most men are wont to seeke after these wise men and cunning women such as they cal witches in sickenesse in losses and in all extremities what thinke you of this Theophilus Theophilus I am assured Mysodaemon that such miserable people commit a most horrible dreadfull sinne that they are iustly brought into Sathās snares for the contempt of God his word that they seeke helpe of the same serpent that stung them that against the knowen principle of the Gospel they would haue Sathan to drive out Sathan and to be short that they are in very trueth but meere Gentiles Pagans in religion blind in their mindes hardened in their harts strangers from the life of God and that if God giue them not speedie repentance they will become past feeling by custome continuance in their sinnes Mysodaemon What reason haue you to prooue this custome so vnlawfull and so vile as you would haue it to appeare to be for those sinnes which God would haue vs most to dread to feare to auoide he warneth vs of them many waies by his Worde by examples and by his iudgements from heauen against them Theophilus It is well obserued Mysodaemon and surely God warneth vs all these waies of the greatnes of this sinne wherefore it is no doubt a most dreadfull abhomination Mysodaemon How First by his Word Theophilus First thou knowest Mysodaemon how the Lorde in his Word chargeth vs to renounce the workes of the Gentiles the Apostle saith This I say and testifie in the Lord that you hencefoorth walke not as other Gentiles walke in vanity of their minde think not that hencefoorth euery thing is lawfull vnto them that the rest of the Nations which are without God in the world thinke it not vnlawfull for them to doe The same charge Moses giueth often Now this practise was most rife among all those idolatrous Gentiles for the Egyptianes in all their neede called for their wise men so did the Moabites so did the Petsians and Babylonians So did the Romanes as there histories record euen there Emperours Romulus Nero Maxentius Iulian and others and the great Chame of Tartary and the Persians as Danaeus saith seeke after these helpes of the deuill in all their necessities euen to this day Mysodaemon What manifest and cleare testimonies of Scripture haue you against this practise Theophilus There is nothing cleare and manifest Mysodaemon vnto those in whome the word of God abideth not and which haue not ouercome that wicked one which is the deuill for Sathan so amazeth them that they are more ready to reele into euery sinne though it be neuer so monstrous then to see the greatest light that God offereth them Are not those prohibitions of God in his Law and in his Prophets so plaine and so evident that as the Prophet saith he that runneth may