dead that might be felt and handled and not a spirit without a body as most people do vainly imagine that spirits may be raised without bodies And as for that Lazarus and others that were raised by the power of God out of the ground after they had been dead they had bodies as well as spirits that might be seen with natu al eyes and handled and felt with natural hand So that Gods power in raising the dead it is no cheat the creature is not cheated nor deceived but is fully satisfied in his mind But for a familiar spirit to say or tell people they de or cantaise spirits out of the ground in such a shape without a body or bodily substance or shall say they hear voices from this spirit so raised is a mere cheat to the ignorant and unbelieving and leâ—ds them into the pit of darkness and makes them fear where no fear is and are afraid of their own shâ—dows for it is the nâ—â—ure of reason the devil to imagine that this way of raising of spirits without bodies to be of a more high nature then to raise spirit and body together as God doth and the imagination doth conceive it a more great power to raise spirits without bodies out of the dust of the ground then it is to râ—ise spirit and body together as Christ did for Christ always raised spiâ—it and body together as the Scriptures do testifie For the reasâ—n in man doth send forth the imagination of the heart the unclean spirit in man walking through dry places seâ—king â—est but can find none the ignorant dark thoughts of the imâ—gination goeth out of a man to enquire of one that hath a familiar spirit seeking rest but can find none as King Saul did for the imagination of the heart being continually evil it always walketh through dry places where no matter of life is to be had to quench the thirst of sin or a defiled conscience neiâ—her can the thâ—ughts of imagination be satisfied with what a Witch or a Familiar saith therefore called dry places they may be called dry because the heart is never satisfied with what a Witch saith for she always saith a lie To tell a man or woman that she doth or can raise spirits out of the ground without bodies as the Witch of Endor did to King Saul or that she did hear any low voice or speech of Samuel out of the ground as she told the King I say she did but cheat the King and made him believe she had raised Samuel and had heard him speak to her with a low speech out of the ground which had revealed unto her what sad things would befall the King so he believing her words his spirit fainted so that no strength was in him when as indeed and in truth that Samuel she said she saw arise out of the earth he did arise out of her own heart and that low speech she said Samuel spake it was all in her self by the motions of the familiar spirit begotten in her And King Sâ—ul believing her being partaker of her faith Samuel spake a low motional voice or speech in him also he believing it was Samuel spake out of the earth but it was nothing else but the voice of his own guilty conscience within himself as it was the voice her familiar spirit in her self that spake as aforesaid So that the meaning of the Prophet Isaiah chap. 29.4 concerning the destruction of Jerusalem that grief and sorrow of heart should speak in themselves as if the speech came out of the ground because they saw in themselves nothing but death and destruction did approch and was like to follow upon them all fearing they should all be destroyed by their enemies and slain and fall to the ground so that fear of heave of destruction 〈◊〉 spake a low speech in every mans heart even as if it spake out of the ground or as one that hath a familiar spirit for it is the nature of a familiar spirit to speak as if the speech did proceed from the earth and the speech doth seem to the Witch and those that enquire of her to whisper out of the dust whenas the speech cometh not out of the ground neither doth it whisper out of the dust as is imagined by most people because ignorance and darkness hath overspread the minds of most people in the world But that low speech the familiar spirit spe ks or whispers it is out of her own heart even that wisdom begotten by the imagination in her own thoughts that speaks as aforesaid and no spirit without her as hath vainly been imagined So likewise the people of the Jews the fear grief and sorrow of heart being begotten in them for such like lins as that of witchcraft idolatry dealing with familiar spirits causing their sons and daughters to pass through the fire as burnt offerings and sacrifices unto Devils which they supposed to be Gods these things caused their hearts to fail and faint and their thoughts were troubled within themselves which causeth their speech to grow weak and low within them even as if some familiar did speak out of the ground or whisper out of the dust fear grief and sorrow of heart but all come out of their own grieved hearts who were punished for their sins and not out of the natural ground or natural dust as people do vainly imagine This is the true meaning of the Prophets words and how familiar spirits may be said to speak out of the ground and whisper out of the dust CHAP. IX AGain it hath been objected by many that spirits may be raised without bodies and that spirits may be talked with after they have been dead and buried and that spirits have appeared in a shape to several people yet this spirit so appearing hath no body nor substance at all neither can it be felt or handled by mortal man nor no immortal creature neither this is the vain conceit of most people But to satisfie the Reader in this I declare that there is no immortal spirit whatsoever but it hath a spiritual body sutable to its spirit if the spirit be immortal the body is immortal also for this I say no spirit can have any being at all without a body no not God himself who was from eternity his spirit could not be from eternity without a spiritual body in form like a man they were both from eternity and the one was never divided nor separated from the other but they were both eternal And further I declare that God was a spiritual body from eternity in form like a Man therefore God created man in his own image and likeness Now observe if man hath a body sutable to his spirit so hath God a body sutable to his spirit else man was not created in his image if God hath never a body but is all spirit as people do vainly imagine For this I know that God was spirit and body in form like a
some further knowledge in their own apprehension or else some visions are presented to their phâ—tasie for they have dedicated some certain words to be said in their minds motional to be used when they would do any feats besides their fasting and prayer and this thing they have dedicated to inquire of is that which they divine with or tell any thing from it is much like unto the Astrologers their Figure is dedicated for that purpose that he may tell things from and without the knowledge of the Figure he can tell nothing except he were skilled in it before but the Figure was the thing he came to know more then others at the first for wonderful things may be accomplished through the imagination of reason when it hath set it self apart on purpose to attain unto such things For I finde by experience within this seventeen years what strange things hath bin atchieved by man and woman who hath given themselves up to an unknown God upon a religions Account some hath by their fasting and prayer unto an unknown God attained unto visions apprisions appearance of Angels Voices and many other strange things yet altogether ignorant of the true God and the right devil and what Angels are so that these things hath bin all within them and they thought that God had revealed these things unto them when as they did attain unto these things aforesaid by their own endeavors as many Quakers and others can witness at this day if they would by hearkning to the light within them and fasting and such like Neither did God present any vision or speak any voice unto them but they do produce those things aforesaid by their own imaginations So is it with Witches they do raise shapes and voices out of themselves and those voices they hear they are no other but motional voices in themselves and the ignorant people that believes them is partakers of those motional voices also with the Witch For there is no spirit of the devil without them that doth assume any shape or speak any voice unro the Witch neither doth any spirit without the Witch reveal any knowledge unto them it is all produced by their own wicked imagination who hath begotten within themselves that familiar spirit they deal with and not from any devil or spirit without them But all cometh from the imagination within that is the devil and no other yet this familiar spirit is produced from within them to see shapes and hear motional voices meerly by watching the motion of the imagination that is placed in their minds or hearts even as the Quakers do by hearkning to the light within them they do procure many strange visions and motional voices but they being groundless and nonsensical they come to nothing CHAP. III. LEt the Reader observe when King Saul asked the Witch of Endor What forme the gods was of she had seen ascend out of the Earth The Woman answered and said An old man with a Mantle c. But Saul saw nothing but as the Woman told him and Saul believed her words and bowed himself to the ground Now mind the 15. verse Samuel said to Saul why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up the meaning is this now the Witch had full power over Saul so that he did really believe the Witch that she had indeed raised up Samuel though he saw nothing yet the fear of being destroyed by the Philistines and the belief of the womans words Samuel began to speak in Sauls conscience that is there came into Sauls minde the words that Samuel had told him in his life-time So that these was no speaking to Saul by Samuel but the reasonings of Sauls own heart and these voices that Samuel spake to Saul they were motional voices that did arise in Sauls own heart for an accusing conscience will speak dreadful voices in the Conscience as the blood of Abel cried for vengeance in Cain's Conscience and the Saints that were slain under the Altar cried for vengeance upon those that shed their blood so that a sinful conscience will have voices enough to torment him though God himself nor Prophet without him doth never speak unto him A guilty Conscience will speak with a motional voice their great terrour and torment which is greater then can be born as it was with Cain Saul and Judas Yea ia was fear and the remembrance of Sauls disobedience to Samuels words in his life-time this did arise a fresh in Sauls mind and spake with motional voices in Sauls conscience accusing him for his disobedience to Samuels words For the remembrance of Samuels words may be said to disquiet Samuel for Samuels words were buried in Sauls conscience But now by his going to enquire of a Witch Samuel is revived again in Sauls mind and there Samuel speaks fear wrath and terror for Samuels words spake in Sauls conscience one motional voice and the guilt of Sauls disobedience spake fear and horror in Sauls conscience this was a motional voice in Sauls conscience also for the voice of truth will speak or the voice of obedience and the voice of sin and disobedience will speak in mans Conscience as if they were two distinct spirits This many guilty Consciences can witness as we may reade by Cain that killed his brother and Judas that betrayed his Lord and many others who hath been guilty of the like crimes So that the Witch did raise no Samuel nor spirit but a meer shadow it was the Witch saw which she could raise by her Art neither was there any Samuel or spirit not at all that did speak to Saul but that motional voice in Sauls Conscience as aforesaid And in this sence Samuâ—l may be said to be disquieted for if Saul had never gone to the Witch to enquire of her Samuels words had been quiet in Saul neither would Saul have had such reasonings in himself nor have been so sensible of the worm of his Conscience So that there was no voice of Samuel spake unto Saul but a motional voice in Sauls own minde or Conscience his fear and his disobedience and what Samuel had told him before these all speaking with voices in his wounded Conscience Samuels words spake one voice and his own disobedience spake another so that the Witch of Endor did neither raise Samuel but only made the King believe she did neither did Samuel speak to the King but as aforesaid For the Kingdom being rent out of his hands his sons being destroyed and all other threatnings of Samuel they came into Sauls minde afresh with strong motions so that they became as voices in Sauls heart as if Samuel had spake to the hearing of the ear for there was no Samuel raised nor no Samuel spake but what was motional in the minde of Saul and what did visionally appear unto the Witch which was a meer shadow which she could produce by her Witchcraft-Art to all those that were more ignorant then her self or had faith in her power
he may see how men have enquired of the Lord by motional voices in the minde by that spirit of faith which is gotten by revelation which is called the Spirit of God In the time of the Law of Moses the Ephod was a standing Rule for to enquire of God for good or bad success Now there was no man could tell what the event would be that looked upon the Ephod but such men as had the spirit of revelation and prophesie in them as David and the High Priest assoon as ever they looked upon the Ephod they could tell whether they should prosper in battel or not but if any other man which had not the spirit of revelation and prophesie should look upon the Ephod they could tell nothing by it Though the Ephod was appointed of God on purpose to enquire of God yet none could find out Gods minde but such men aforesaid for as soon as ever David or the High Priest looked upon the Ephod they could tell what the event would be as may be seen 1 Sam. 23.6 9. how David called for the Ephod and Abiathar the Priest to bring it to enquire of the Lord. Yet God never spake to them by voice yet they had motional voices in themselves in their hearts assuring them that they prosper or not prosper yet God never appeared himself nor any Angel neither did God speak by any voice yet they are bade to go prosper as if they had heard som voice by looking upon the Ephod so that those voices that bade them go and prosper they were motional voices that did arise from the revelation and spirit of Prophesie within them by that skill they had in the Ephod which was appointed of God for that purpose so that all Davids voices and the High Priests voices that were motional voices yet called the voice of God because they did arise from the seed of faith in David and others which is the divine Nature of God therefore called the Spirit of God For this I say if Saul had not lost that spirit of Prophesie by his disobedience as he once had when the good spirit departed from him he might have enquired of the Ephod and have been answered with a motional voice by the Ephod as he was by enquiring of a Witch For the spirit of Samuel did speak no more to Saul then the Spirit of God did speak to David they were both motional voices that did arise from their two seeds the one voice spake peace and deliverance and the other spake wrath and destruction the one did enquire in the way that God did appoint even of the Ephod or of the Lords Prophets the other did enquire of that which was forbidden and forsook the Lord and his Prophets and went to a Witch to enquire it was because one was the seed of Adam which is the seed of God and so chosen of God in mercy even David and the other was the seed of the Serpent even the devil who was chosen King in Gods wrath even Saul This is the true Interpretation of those voices that Samuel spake to Saul and of his being raised by the Witch of Endor Therefore you that can understand these things aforementioned you may see how the whole world lieth in darkness and are cheated of their sense and reason by this lying and vain imagination to believe that spirits can be without bodies or that spirits can be raised without bodies or that spirits can speak without bodies or that spirits departed can assume any shapes afterwards these things and many more are produced by the dark imagination of the heart of man and if the Reader hath any true light of faith in him he may understand the Interpretation I have given of the Witch of Endor and how a familiar spirit is produced or begotten in them and be satisfied in his mind as to that matter so much concerning those words in Samuel aforementioned CHAP. VI. AGain it is said Isa 8.29 the Prophet speaking there to unbelieving Israelites that did not believe the Word of the Lord through the Prophets mouths concerning the destruction that should come upon Israel this judgement did the Lord threaten by the mouth of his Prophet Isaiah to bring upon Israel for their unbelief and this Prophet seeing the people would not hearken unto the voice of the Lords Prophets nor inquire of them but altogether persecuted them as false prophets deceivers and liers and the inclination of their hearts was more willing and desirous to enquire of a Witch or Wizard who had a familiar spirit then of the Prophet of the Lord as you may see chap. and verse aboâ—e-written the words are these as followeth And when they shall say unto you seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and that mutter should not a people seek unto their God for the living to the dead the meaning of these words is this that unbelieving men do think and believe that Witches and Wizards who hath a familiar spirit can rise out of the ground where dead men were buried living spirits without bodies that can reveal things unto them by that motional voice that doth proceed from these familiar spirits which doth peep and mutter That is the whisperings that proceeds from this familiar spirit that is begotten by the imagination of reason the father and the seed of reason the mother as I said before is that motional voice all Witches and Wizards have whereby they peep and mutter in themselves as if they did hear voices and see shapes and living spirits arise out of the ground as the Witch of Endor said to King Saul She saw Gods ascend out of the earth Whenas there was no spirit nor shape came out of the ground at all but the gods she saw ascend out of the earth came out of her own imagination even that familiar spirit begotten in her it seemed unto her as if it did ascend out of the earth but those gods she said she saw ascend out of the earth they ascended out of her own imagination and Saul beleeved her and so was partakers with her and he did believe that she had raised Samuels spirit out of the earth as the Witch had said And this is to be minded by the Reader that when spirits are to be raised by Witches her familiar spirit always ariseth out of her own self even from the seed of reason and imagination of her own heart whereby she doth hear voices within her whispering low voices as if some other spirits without her did speak with a low voice unto her and present shapes unto her dazled eyes which seemeth to the Witch to be real voices of a spirit without her and a real shape without her when as in deed and in truth it ariseth out of her own self even from the seed of reason and imagination of her own heart whereby she doth hear voices within her whispering low voices as if some other spirit without her
did speak with a low voice to her and present shapes to her dazled eyes which seemeth to the Witch to be a real voice of a spirit without her and a real shape without her when as in deed and in truth it is nothing else but a motional voice begotten in her self and shapes begotten in her self by the imagination in the Womb of reason as aforesaid which is that familiar spirit Which is that familiar spirit she doth deal with she thinking it is from some spirit without her she not knowing it is begotten in her and this familiar spirit begotten in her it whispers within her with a low motional voice as if some spirit did whisper out of the ground According to that saying of the Prophet Isa 28.4 concerning the destruction or Judgement of God upon Jerusalem the words are these And thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the ground and thy speech shall be low out of the dust and thy voice shall be as one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust As if the Prophet should say Seeing you have refused to hearken to the voice of the Prophets which hath declared the mind of the God of Israel openly with a loud voice you have heard them speak plain words with your ears but you have not believed they spoke truth unto you therefore you have reâ—ected the word of the Lord by his Prophets and have persecuted and slain some of them as false Prophets because they spake unto you in the Name of the Lord as it was revealed by the spirit of revelation in them They spake plain words unto you as might be heard to the outward ear by the standers by they were visible men that spake unto you so that you need not to enquire after any that hath a familiar spirit who speaketh so softly and so low that no standers by can hear this familiar spirit speak but he or she that hath it But as for plain words openly declared by the Prophets and publickly heard by the outward ear these you have rejected despised persecuted and counted them lyars deceivers false prophets and such like Therefore God hath given you over to strong delusions to enquire of a Witch who makes you believe that spirits may be raised out of the ground and that spirits do come out of the dust and whisper to the Witch with a low voice that none can hear but her self So those that enquire do believe as King Saul did that a familiar spirit can enter into the dust or ground and bring up another mans spirit that is dead without its body and so their two spirits whisper so low together that none can hear that stands by nor tell what this spirit that is raised did say nor whether the spirit so raised is gone into the body again or into the ground from whence the Witch said it was raised which spirit that is said to be raised or said to speak out of the ground I say it was raised out of the Witches own body and no where else and those low voices and whisperings were both within her and not without her CHAP. VII NOw how a man may be said to be brought down and shall speak out of the ground and their speech shall below out of the dust The meaning is when a particular man or woman or a people or nation be in the same distress and condition as King Saul was that is in danger of losing his Crown and Kingdom his natural life and not onely so but his Soul is tormented with the fear of eternal death this maketh the heart of man to melt in him it makes his speech to grow weak and feeble so that his speech can hardly be heard it is even as if a man did speak out of death or out of the ground A man with the extremity of outward and inward trouble he becomes speechless yet he speaks in his thoughts but so low that none that stands by can hear or tell what he saith This many can experience that have seen their friend or relation in this condition this is like speaking out of the ground and low out of the dust And the voice of every such troubled soul who hath the plagues of this life and the horrour of conscience as to the life to come as King Saul had the voice such people have is as one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground and their speech shall be as if one did whisper out of the dust This place of Scripture hath the same meaning as the place before mentioned Isai 8.19 where such as King Saul was are bade to seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and mutter that is that whisper out of the ground for whisper peep and mutter signifies all one thing These things did Manasseh 2 Kings 21.6 he dealt with familiar spirits and did great abominations he made his sons to pass thorough the fire in offering them up as a sacrifice to an unknown Devil which he thought was God and this he did by the whisperings of the familiar spirit within him and being acquainted with others who were known to have familiar spirits also And so did several other Kings of Israel deal with familiar spirits and had those low whispering voices in themselves as if spirits had risen out of the ground or from the dust to speak unto them and this they did attain unto by industry in that they forsook the words of the Prophets and would not hearken unto them but gave themselves up to follow the imaginations of their own hearts imagining they might as well know God and what worship would please God as well as the Prophets therefore why should we being Kings hearken to such mean inferiour men as these may not we by our familiar spirit as well know God and what worship will please him by our familiar spirit as the Prophets do by the spirit of prophecy why should we be in such bondage that we can do nothing but what they say the Lord commands us to do so the imagination saith Come we will not be tied up thus we will see what our familiar spirit begotten in us will do we will erect and build altars in several places and sâ—crifice bullocks and lambs to an unknown God and so by this means they procure in themselves low motional voices which whisper in themselves which becomes in them a familiar spirit is produced in themselves and there is a more increase of low motional voices which doth whisper in the mind moving them to a further degree of knowledge and endeavour after more voices so that to attain to this diabolical wisdom in a more high measure They are moved by this low voice within them to offer up their own children in sacrifices to their imaginary God which they believe is an invisible spirit without a body which reveals these things unto them and whispers
and speaks those voices unto them They count nothing too dear for this their imaginary God no not their own sons and daughters as Manasseh and others did that made their sons and daughters pass through the fire as a sacrifice to their imaginary God that had spake so many voices to them and had whispered to them But all these whisperings and low voices and peeping of spirits out of the ground as they thought I say they were all within them for when they came in any trouble their familiar spirit departs from them and will not comfort them any more let it be either in poor or rich nay Kings that have dealt with familiar spirits when they have been in trouble all their comfort hath been lost as the poorest Witch that is as may be seen by Manasseh and other Kings spoken of in Scripture Now observe when God doth bring upon a people nation or partitular person some great judgment and destruction let it be either outward or inward in the mind when it comes upon a people nation or particular person for their sins and wickedness they have committed in forsaking the Lords Prophets and dealing with Witches and familiar spirits as Sâ—ul forsook the Lord and went to a Witch and Manasseh and several other Kings of Israel who ought onely to have obeyed the Prophets of the Lord but they forsook him and enquired of Witches and Wizards and dealt with familiar spirits themselves and caused the people to worship the Devil whom they imagined to be God instead of the true God whom the Prophets would have had them to worship But when this punishment for sin is inflicted upon a people nation or particular person for dealing with familiar spirits and worshipping of devils when punishment comes it makes the heart or hearts to fail for the spirit is brought down by this judgment even to death and so goeth to the ground so that the very fear trouble and sorrow of heart shall speak as it were out of the dust or out of death for sin will speak out of the ground and the speech of death will below in them that have escaped the destruction which others did go through for there will be a resemblance in those that have escaped how their friends and relations are fallen to the ground or dust of the earth for their wickedness so that sorrow and grief will speak in the mind of those that have escaped with a low speech even as one doth who hath a familiar spirit Or as if their friends and relations the remembrance of their destruction being taken away in wrath for sin it speaks a small low voice of grief and sorrow in the heart of those that are alive even as one thâ—t hath a familiar spirit even a low motional voice of sorrow and grief and it cometh as it were out of the ground or out of the dust That is the very influence of grief and sorrow for their dead friends and people it causeth where grief is to hear as it were low voices and small speeches even out of the ground or out dust of the earth just as it was with Cain in another case the Lord said to Cain Thy brothers bloud crieth from the ground for vengeance and so the bloud of those that were slâ—â—n under the altar did from the ground cry for vengeance as in Rev. 6.10 it crieth for vengeance in the consciences of all bloudy persecutors So in like manner doth the death and destruction of a people who are destroyed for wicked idolatry as those were the Prophet Isaiah speaketh of they spake from the ground a low speech in the conscience of those that were concerned grief sorrow and fear of the same punishment and such like CHAP. VIII FOr where grief and sorrow is rooted and settled in the heart it speaketh with low motional voices in the mind that is the thought of fear in the mind both of temporal losses and the loss of eternal peace The fear moves to and fro in that mind as if it were a speech out of the ground for the thoughts of the heart are low voices which cannot be heard by any but themselves So is it with those that have a familiar spirit their voices and speech they hear from spirits without them as if spirits did speak to them out of the ground which speech they say they hear is nothing else but the thoughts that pass to and fro in their own minds a low motional voice in themselves as if spirits did speak to them with a low voice out of the ground or out of the dust For their faith is strong and above all those that come to enquire of a Witch they do all believe that spirits may be raised without bodies out of the ground as the Witch doth so they both do believe that the spirit come out of the ground that spake those low voices to the Witch and she tells it to the other that enquire of her and they believe her as King Saul did So they are wholly departed from the Lord and believe a lie to think that spirits can be raised out of the ground without bodies after men have been dead it is a thing God never did we never read in Scripture that God or his Prophets did ever raise any spirits out of the ground without bodies after they were dead but we read in Scripture that God and his Prophets have raised some from the dead with bodies as that of Lazarus being raised out of the ground by Christ and the Child that was raised from death by the Prophet Elijah and another Child raised from death to life by the Prophet Elisha and several others come forth out of the ground at the rising again of Christ from death as those Saints that did arise out of the graves and appeared to many that were alive these all did arise out of the graves with bodies after they were dead and Lazarus came forth out of the ground after he was dead but his spirit came not out of the ground without his body but body and soul came out of the ground together For it was always Gods practice to raise soul and body together and because the imagination of reason in those that have a familiar spirit cannot do so nor those that enquire of them therefore they do imagine that spirits may be raised out of the ground without bodies or assume a shape and appear like a body yet it shall be of no substance a shape that can neither be felt nor handled by the hand of man Now mind all those God doth raise out of the ground after they were deâ—d they may be handled and felt though they be spiritual bodies yet they may be felt and handled as Christ said to Thomas Feel me and handle mâ— after he was risen from the dead and Thomas laid his fingers in the print of the nails and on his side Yet Christ was at that time a spiritual body that was risen from the
CHAP. IV. FOr the Reader must minde that Witches and all those that doth attain to the Visions and hear Voices within them they do use means to attain unto it also they have some standing Rule or Art by which they come to enquire or to know things that are above that knowledge which is common to other people it is much like unto the ways of God Therefore let the Reader mind the ground-work laid down at the first that the imagination of reason had begotten a son out of the Womb of the seed of reason in man which I call the Mother and Imagination the father and the son that is begotten in the womb of reason by imagination the father is that great wisdom knowledge and power by which they go beyond other people who are of a lower capacity This son is that familiar spirit Witches doth deal with it is another spirit begotten in them which was not in their birth when they were born but begotten in themselves sence by Imagination as aforesaid neither is this familiar spirit produced or doth come from any thing or any devil without them as people do vainly imagin but the familiar spirit it is produced and doth come from within for out of the heart cometh evil thoughts murder adultery c. and all familiar spirits they are all conceived in the heart and being conceived there in its season it bringeth forth such spirits as are conceived in the heart if envy and murder be conceived as it was in Cain then it bringeth forth the spirit or deed of murder if lust be conceived in the heart it bringeth forth the spirit and act of adultery as it did in David and if a familiar spirit be conceived in the heart then it bringeth forth such a spirit that shall speak motional voices within them as if some spirits without them did appear without a body and speak to them and reveal those things unto them Many wicked spirits more then is mentioned are conceived in the hearts of men and women and acted by them spirits essay that were never of Gods Creation but hath been conceived in the minde of man since for when sin is conceived as in James 1.15 When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death so that there is a conception of sin first in the heart and if it doth not die before it quickens into life that is into act then it bringeth forth death which is the punishment due to such sins that are alive in mans actions after they were conceived in the heart and as the evil of murder adultery and theft is conceived first in the heart so is that familiar spirit witches and wizards have they are first conceived in the mind and in a little season it groweth alive in them and speaketh unto them as if it were without them for this I say that a familiar spirit is conceived and begotten in the heart of man and womâ—n as the other sins aforementioned are and the cause why God is more angry with those that deal with a familiar spirit and hath commanded them to be Put to death more then for other sins conceived in the mind is because they imitate the way of God or the spirit of Prophesie which causeth the people to believe in a meer fiction or shadow without any substance that a spirit may be raised out of the ground without a body and so they forsake the living God who hath a body of his own and gave life to every creature thâ—t hath a body and doth beleeve a lie which hath been conceived in the mind and hath quickned into a familiar spirit and this spirit doth always live within the Witch and not without her and this familiar spirit thus conceived first in the evil minde and afterward quickning in the evil heart it goeth from strength to strength and from one degree of knowledge to a further degree of evil knowledge and evil wisdom as all things else doth that hath life for sin hath life in it and the outward Law causeth sin to revive in every one that doth evil as St. Paul saith Rom. 7.9 thus in some measure the Reader may understand what a familiar spirit is and how it comes to have a being in Witches and Wizards and how the ignorant are partakers with the familiar spirit In the next place I shall shew how those that have a familiar spirit do imitate the way of God or the way of true Prophets observe the way and manner of true Prophets High-Priests and all other people who are richly gifted with the spirit of Prophesie or revelation for the seed of faith planted in the heart is the seed and nature of God as reason is the seed and nature of the Serpent or devil and as the seed of reason is the womb or mother for imagination to get a son So likewise the seed of faith in man is the womb or mother for the revelation of faith to beget a son out of the seed of saith answerable as the Imagination doth out of the seed of reason And this son the revelation hath begotten out of the seed of faith is that heavenly wisdome discerning knowledge and power over the spirits of others and knowledge of things above the Stars and knoweth the true God in forme and nature with many other heavenly secrets which none else can know but those that believe them So that the Revelation of faith hath begotten this heavenly wisdom power and glory out of the seed of faith which is the seed of God even of his divine nature and this wisdom power and glory is that son or spirit by which all Prophets High-Priests Apostles and others that have it I say this is that by which they can truly divine by in that they can foretel truly what shall come to pass according to the knowledge of the revelation of faith and this wisdome and knowledge being produced by revelation out of the womb of the seed of faith it may and is called the spirit of God in man that doth teach and shew the wisdom of God to others so that others cometh to be taught and subjected by it to their great peace here and eternal Joy hereafter CHAP. V. ANd this spirit of wisdom knowledge and power which is produced by the revelation as aforesaid it hath motional voices in the Conscience as the familiar spirit hath in the evil Conscience but the motional voices in a good conscience speaketh peace likewise this motional voice in Prophets High Priests Apostles and others is that by which they do foretel things by whether it be good or bad that shall befal those that shall enquire Also the spirit of revelation hath a standing rule to inquire by as those have that doth tell things by a familiar spirit as I said before for the Witches doth imitate the way of Prophets and the devils way is as like Gods way as he can Now let the Reader minde and