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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62397	The discovery of witchcraft proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.; Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Discourse concerning the nature and substance of devils and spirits.	1665 (1665)	Wing S945A; ESTC R20054	529,066	395

unto Saul saying that he came to her in a snare c. But Witches seldome make this objection saving when they mistrust that he which cometh to them will espie their Jugling for otherwise where the Witchmonger is simple and easie to be abused the Witch will be as easie to be intreated and nothing dangerous of her cunning as you see this Witch was soon perswaded notwithstanding that objection because she perceived and saw that Saul was afraid and out of his wits And therefore she said unto him Whom shall I raise up As though she could have brougt unto him Abraham Isaac or Jacob who cannot hear us therefore cannot rise at our call For it is written Look thou down from heaven and behold us c. as for Abraham he is ignorant of us and Israel knoweth us not CHAP. XII 1 Sam. 28.12 13 14. expounded wherein is shewed That Saul was cosened and abused by the Witch and that Samuel was not raised is proved by the Witches own talk THe manner and circumstance of their communion or of her conjuration is not verbatim set down and expressed in the text but the effect thereof briefly touched yet will I shew you the common order of their conjuration and specially of hers at this time used When Saul had told her that he would have Samuel brought up to him she departed from his presence into her Closet where doubtless she had had her familiar to wit some lewd crafty Priest and made Saul stand at the door like a fool as it were with his finger in a hole to hear the cosening answers but not to see the cosening handling thereof and the counterfeiting of the matter And so goeth she to work using ordinary words of Conjuration of which there are sundry varieties and forms whereof I shall have occasion to repeat some in another place as you see the Juglers which be inferior Conjurors speak certain strange words of course to lead away the eie from espying the manner of their conveyance whilest they may induce the mind to conceive and suppose that he dealeth with Spirits saying Hay fortune fury nunque credo passe passe when come you sirra So belike after many such words spoken she said to her self Lo now the matter is brought to pass for I see wonderful things So as Saul hearing these words longed to know all and asked her what she saw whereby you may know that Saul saw nothing but stood without like a mome whilest she played her part in her closet as may most evidently appear by the 21 ver of this Chap. where it is said Then the woman came out unto Saul Howbeit a little before she cunningly counterfeited that she saw Samuel and thereby knew that it was Saul that was come unto her whereby all the world may perceive the cosening and her dissimulation for by that which hath been before said it must needs be that she knew him And I pray you why should she not have suspected as well him to be Saul before when in express words he required her to bring unto him Samuel as now when Samuel appeared unto her Well to the question before proposed by Saul she answereth and lyeth that she saw Angels or Gods ascending up out of the earth Then proceedeth she with her inchanting phrases and words of course so as thereby Saul gathereth and supposeth that she hath raised a man for otherwise his question dependeth not upon any thing before spoken For when she hath said I saw Angels ascending c. the next word he saith is What fashion is he of which I say hangeth not upon her last expressed words And to this she answered not directly that it was Samuel but that it was an old man lapped in a mantle as though she knew not him that was the most notorious man in Israel that had been her neighbour by the space of many years and upon whom while he lived every eye was fixed and whom also she knew within less then a quarter of an hour before as by whose means also she came acquainted with Saul Read the text and see But she describeth his personage and the apparel which he did usually wear when he lived which if they were both buryed together were consumed and rotten or devoured with worms before that time Belike he had a new mantle made him in heaven and yet they say Taylors are skanty there for that their consciences are so large here In this Countrey men give away their garments when they dye if Samuel had so done he could not have borrowed it again for of likelihood it would have been worn out in that space except the donor had been a better husband than I for the testator was dead as it is supposed two years before CHAP. XIII The residue of 1 Sam. 28. expounded wherein is declared how cunningly this Witch brought Saul resolutely to believe that she raised Samuel what words are used to colour the cosenage and how all might also be wrought by Ventriloquie NOw cometh in Samuel to play his part but I am perswaded it was performed in the person of the Witch her self or of her confederate He saith to Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring up As though without guile or packing it had been Samuel himself Saul answered that he was in great distress for the Philistines made war upon him Whereby the Witch or her confederate Priest might easily conjecture that his heart failed and direct the Oracle or Prophesie accordingly especially understanding by his present talk and also by former Prophesies and doings that were past that God had forsaken him and that his people were declining from him For when Jonathan a little before overthrew the Philistines being thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen Saul could not assemble above six hundred souldiers Then said Samuel which some suppose was Satan and as I think was the Witch with a confederate for what need so far fetches as to fetch a Devil supernaturally out of hell when the illusion may be here by natural means decyphered And if you note the words well you shall perceive the phrase not to come out of a spiritual mouth of a Devil but from a lying corporal tongue of a Cosener that careth neither for God nor the Devil from whence issueth such advice and communication as greatly disagreeth from Satans nature and purpose For thus I say the said Samuel speaketh Wherefore dost thou asks of me seeing the Lord is gone from thee and is thine enemy Even the Lord hath done unto him as he spake by my hands for the Lord will rent thy Kingdom out of thine hand and give it to thy neighbour David because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lord c. This I say is no phrase of a Devil but of a Cosener which knew before what Samuel had Prophesied concerning Sauls destruction For it is the Devils condition to allure the people unto wickedness

and not in this sort to admonish warn and rebuke them from evil And the Popish writers confess That the Devil would have been gone at the first naming of God If it be said That it was at God's special commandement and will that Samuel or the Devil should be raised to propound this admonition to the profit of all posterity I answer that then he would rather have done it by some of his living Prophets and that Satan had not been so fit an instrument for that purpose After this falleth the Witch I would say Samuel into the vein of Prophecying and speaketh to Saul on this wise The Lord will rent thy Kingdom out of thine hand and give it to thy neighbour David because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lord nor executedst his fierce wrath upon the Amalekites therefore hath the Lord done this unto thee this day Moreover the Lord will deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me and the Lord shall give the host of Israel into the hands of the Philistines What could Samuel have said more Me thinks the Devil would have used another order encouraging Saul rather than rebuking him for his evil The Devil is craftier than to leave such an admonition to all posterities as should be prejudicial unto his Kingdom and also be void of all impiety But so divine a sentence maketh much for the maintenance of the Witches credit and to the advancement of her gains Howbeit concerning the verity of this Prophesie there be many disputable questions First Whether the battel were fought the next day Secondly Whether all his sons were killed with him Item Whether they went to heaven or hell together as being with Samuel they must be in heaven and being with Satan they must be in hell But although every part of this Prophesie were false as that all his sons were not slain Ishbosheth living and reigning in Israel two years after Sauls death and that the battel was not on the morrow and that wicked Saul after that he had killed himself was not with good Samuel yet this Witch did give a shrewd guess to the sequel Which whether it were true or false pertains not to my purpose and therefore I will omit it But as touching the opinion of them that say it was the Devil because that such things came to pass I would fain know of them where they learn that Devils foreknow things to come If they say he guesseth only upon probabilities the Witch may also do the like But here I may not forget the Decrees which conclude That Samuel appeared not unto Saul but that the Historiographer set forth Sauls mind and Samuels estate and certain things that were said and seen omitting whether they were true or false and further that it were a great offence for a man to believe the bare words of the story And if this exposition like you not I can easily frame my self to the opinion of some of great learning expounding this place and that with great probability in this sort to wit that this Pythonist being Ventriloqua that is speaking as it were from the bottom of her belly did cast her self into a trance and so abused Saul answering to Saul in Samuels name in her counterfeit hollow voice as the Wench of Westwel spake whose history I have rehearsed before at large in pag. 71 72. and this is right Ventriloquie CHAP. XIV Opinions of some learned men that Samuel was indeed raised not by the Witches art or Power but by the special miracle of God that there are no such visions in these our dayes and that our Witches cannot do the like AJas and Sadajas write That when the Woman saw the miracle indeed and more then she looked for or was wont to do she began to cry out that this was a vision indeed and a true one not done by her art but by the power of God Which exposition is far more probable than our late writers judgements hereupon and agreeth with the exposition of divers good Divines Gelasius saith It was the very spirit of Samuel and where he suffered himself to be worshipped it was but in civil salutation and courtesie and that God did interpose Samuel as he did Elias to the messenger of Ochosias when he sent to Belzebub the God of Acharon And here is to be noted that the Witchmongers are set up in this point for the Papists say that it cannot be a Devil because Jehovah is thrice or five times named in the story Upon this piece of Scripture arguments are dayly devised to prove and maintain the miraculous actions of Witchcraft and the raising of the dead by Conjurations And yet if it were true that Samuel himself were raised or the Devil in his likeness and that the Witch of Endor by her art and cunning did it c. it maketh rather to the disproof than to the proof of our Witches which can neither do that kind of miracle or any other in any such place or company where their jugling and cosenage may be seen and laid open And I challenge them all even upon the adventure of my life to shew one piece of a Miracle such as Christ did truly or such as they suppose this Witch did diabolically be it not with art nor confederacy whereby some colour thereof may be made neither are there any such visions in these dayes shewed Heretofore God did send his visible Angels to men but now we hear not of such apparitions neither are they necessary Indeed it pleased God heretofore by the hand of Moses and his Prophets and specially by his Son Christ and his Apostles to work great Miracles for the establishing of the faith but now whatsoever is necessary for our salvation is contained in the Word of God our faith is already confirmed and our Church established by Miracles so as now to seek for them is a point of Infidelity Which the Papists if you note it are greatly touched withal as in their lying Legends appeareth But in truth their Miracles are knaveries most commonly and specially of Priests whereof I could cite a thousand If you read the story of Bell and the Dragon you shall finde a cosening Miracle of some antiquity If you will see newer devices read Wierus Cardanus Baleus and specially Lavaterus c. There have been some walking spirits in these parts so conjured not long since as afterwards they little delighted to make any more apparitions CHAP. XV. Of vain Apparitions how people have been brought to fear Bugs which is partly reformed by the Preaching of the Gospel the true effect of Christs Miracles BUt certainly some one knave in a white sheet hath cosened and abused many thousands that way specially when Robin Good-fellow kept such a coil in the Countrey But you shall understand that these Bugs specially are spyed and feared of sick folk children women and cowards which