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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

Church triumphant and militant and to the irreparable confusion of all hell that except Lewes Gaufridy be conuerted he should be taken bound and burnt And added that if euer oath were in force and validity it was this which he had taken and therefore said hee doe not aske further for any signes and so inuocated the wrath of God vpon himselfe if it were not true He further said that if he would be conuerted there should no harme betide vnto him but it was more probable that he should be punished The acts of the 4. of Ianuary This day during the time of Masse which Louyse heard Verrine cryed Lord suffer me to speake Spanish or Greeke for they are euer demanding signes of me or permit this Sub-Prior who is so ful of doubts and incredulity to be blinde of an eie or this father who is a Capuchin to fall presently lame or command fire from heauen so they shall haue signes enough Then he said if you make a doubt of the wisedome and discretion of your God you were best to helpe him with your aduice They demand signes and say that whatsoeuer is done or spoken proceedeth onely from Louyse notwithstanding they suffer her to receaue the Communion who hath so many times called for the wrath of God to fall vpon her I would say thus if she be not possessed as some would haue it she is worse then Lucifer and deceaueth the Church of God by vnfoulding so many propositions that are wrapt vp in admiration and astonishment as that Salomon is damned and Antichrist borne Shee were worthy to bee taken and burnt or that God should open the wombe of the earth to swallow her vp aliue if shee should bee guilty of a practise so full of insolency and boldnesse Then Verrine spake to Louyse and said Poore wretch looke well to thy selfe alas who will defend thee Thou art but a simple woman and doest put thy selfe in hazard of thy life if thou say that thou hast in all these discourses spoken no heresie But I tell you that there was neuer seene a thing like vnto this which you now behold What saiest thou Louyse speakest thou nothing Thou must bee apprehended and burnt in steed of the Magician O miserable blindnesse it is no wonder if hereticks beleeue not since you your selues after my relations of so many admirable things and after the booke which is already written doe thus stagger in your beleefe Michaelis thou knowest well whither Louyse spake this or no for thou art priuy to all her confessions Then he said take heed good Christians for euery one that thinketh himselfe to bee in the bosome of the Church shall not be saued neither shall all those that be in religious orders enter into the kingdome of heauen and added I protest before thee O Lord that I haue faithfully discharged thy commission See you not that Belzebub is contrary vnto mee and I to him Come come accursed Magician thou wilt be said to be innocent and then shall they suffer thee to depart The acts of the 5. of Ianuary VPpon this day was Magdalene exorcised by the Dominican father whereupon there went out of the body of Magdalene two and twenty Diuels being commanded thereunto by the Prince that was within yet so as they were to returne thither againe after a certaine space And in their issuing forth one after the other they made a rusling and noyse euery one calling himselfe by his owne name as Agrotier Perdiguier and so of the rest as they are afterward set downe in the following acts of the moneth of Ianuary Then Astaroth said in the latine tongue that Belzebub Leuiathan and Carreau were entred into the body of Lewes saying Belzebub est in intellectu Leuiathan in voluntate Carreau in corde The acts of the 6. of Ianuary VPon this day was Magdalene exorcised by father Paul Priest of the Christian doctrine whereupon Belzebub said as long as Magicians are partizans with vs we doe neuer vse to possesse them at the least not visibly but when they begin to apostate from vs and relinquish our Synagogue then we do begin to torment them and if I had leaue to tyrannize vpon the body of Magdalen and to let out my rage against her at the ful I would handle her in such an impetuous manner that she should neuer depart from hence with her life And when hee was bid to point forth the Magician that had bewitched Magdalene he answered he is not far from hence and added I am bound After dinner was Louyse exorcised by father Francis Domptius the Dominican whereupon Verrine said you will not yet beleeue but at the end and Catastrophe of this history which is not yet perfected you will giue credence thereunto God hath reserued to himselfe an illustrious manner of working by which in conclusion he will get the vpper hand They are to goe to Marseille to Auignon before the Vicelegate there it shall be seene whether the witch-craft of Louyse bee imaginary onely and builded vpon a coniecturall conceite as it was giuen out at S. Baume and whether the scope whereunto shee doth addresse her actions bee ambition or no. The schedules also must be restored otherwise these two cannot be freed Then one of the company said thou art not to presse that too farre whereunto Verrine suddenly replyed without being questioned thereof call to minde the miracle of Theophilus and Basill it could not indeed stand with expediency to presse this if no man should haue notice where they were but it is well knowne where these are and in whose custody they lye I tell you God is now more angry then hee was in the time of the Niniuites for the aire is infected with their malice and the earth can no longer bury in silence the death of so many children which they haue deuoured they please their appetites with the relish of this delicate flesh which doth cost them nothing The same day in the euening was Magdalene exorcised by Mr. Paule whereupon Belzebub being demanded whither the Diuell did torment Magicians or no He made answere that they did not except when they were conuerted or when they were in the way to conuersion but whensoeuer such conuersions should happen they might well bee filed in the lyst and catalogue of Myracles There be an hundred and an hundred that are dead and yet but one onely Parisian that in visiting of Lazarus was conuerted and three dayes after hee dyed And being asked touching the witch-craft of Louyse hee answered that it was two yeares since shee had these charmes vpon her and that shee had on her body inchantments markes ligatures and oyntments The acts of the 7. of Ianuary THis day before the Communion Verrine played many prankes full of resistance and insolency saying Louyse thou art lunatick as they report of thee thou art foolish thou doest counterfait and vse much iugling doest thou think to put a trick

aduise them thereunto Ioannes Euangelista was the great friend of God and Maryes gardian for her chastitie Stephanus cursed may'st thou be I must trumpet foorth thy charity in praying for those that stoned thee O Pernardus thou art Maries darling and thou Dominicke thou Stanislaus also though few take notice of thee P●ulus thou wert a sinner and persecutor of the Christians but afterwards diddest become a great Preacher of vertues Anthonius of Padua through thy humilitie and for thy other vertues thou art now in Paradise By thy obedience O Abraham thou art the Father of beleeuers Dauid is the glasse of repentance wherein sinners may behold themselues and how they are to returne vnto their God Tu Petrus thou hast denied thy Maister Accursed Peter thou hast cost me deere O Peter by thy example those that haue denied God will learne to be conuerted William the Hermite was a great sinner yet by his repentance he found mercie Some go to heauen through repentance others through innocence Mary is in Paradise for her innocence Magdalene for her repentance Lewes King of Fraunce is the Patron of Kings It is the good pleasure of God that men of all conditions should be saued Hee hath made election of Emperours and also of the basest sort of people of Shooe-makers and of Husband-men Crispinian was a Cobler Athanasius a Labouring-man yet was hee at length chosen to be a Bishop There are of all sorts in Heauen to our confusion be it spoken to the end that none might haue any pretension for excuse God placeth those in Paradise which loue his Commandements and keepe them and doe not quench in themselues his good inspirations Hee sets them at his table He causeth them to eate of his bread and drinke of his wine He doth not as the men of this world doe vse their seruants as if they were slaues Nay there bee diuers that doe a great deale worse who cherish and make much of their dogges but doe euill entreate their seruants Then he said that hee should not be abashed if God would elect Princes and not men of base condition yea we could be contented to haue patience that he should chuse men but that women should bee gadding to Paradise that is it that maddeth vs. Cunigonda was an Empresse and is in Paradise so is Catherine of Alexandria and eleuen thousand Virgines went in one day to Paradise besides men which are not numbred Margaret of Hungary was a Queene shee entred into a Monastery and became so humble that shee would not be called the daughter of a King but of a Citizen Cursed be her humility for which we haue payd so deere To this Belzebub replied Amen Then Verrine continuing on his discourse said Barbara was beheaded by her owne Father and presently the Diuell slew him vpon the place The earth and Paradise are two Countries very distinct and different heere those that are most rich goe formost in Paradise those that are most good most humble and most obedient Marie was a poore Chamber-maid and the Chamber-maid of a Paynim yet is shee now espoused vnto the King of glory and as great as Cunigunda Margaret of Scotland was a married woman and yet shee went to Heauen Codelana also was a married woman whose husband strangled her and afterwards caused her to be throwne into a pit Elizabeth was the Queene Dowager of Hungary and in her great humility betooke her selfe to be the Mistresse of an Hospitall Notwithstanding we could let passe all this with patience but wee cannot chuse but bee enraged at those that haue committed folly and were great sinners as were Pelagia Thais and Magdalene which we speake without any preiudice to them or their glorie it doth rather conduce with the glorie of God and his bounteousnesse that he would vouchsafe to take them into blisse who did a thousand times deserue Hell They that will not beleeue what is here spoken will say that these two here be women and haue had their lesson giuen vnto them by which meanes these discourses will not proue vse-full vnto them which doth put vs in great comfort A Preacher is often wearied in preaching of one Sermon and I haue already made fifteene discourses by the mouth of this woman here meaning Louyse and haue sometimes made two or three in a day of greater extent and length then Preachers in their Aduents Cursed be thy force and cursed be him that hath bestowed it vpon thee Belzebub at this discourse cried out O power Then Verrine said it is the force which God giueth her How strange is it that Diuels should preach the Commandements of God and his Counsels and should teach the religious Clergie men Priests and Seculars and all sorts of people I tell you here are viands for all people to eate Eate he that will There are not a few of vs who are not well pleased with the sauce but would rather chuse the sauce of Hell You shall finde Notaries that for a matter of fiue sous will Register the Acts false and breake their oathes The Diuels are more faithfull vnto their Maister then you men are When the Diuels haue once sworne according to the purpose of God and his Church being thus adiured vnto the truth they want ability to lye Men haue their free-will if they doe ill they doe goe forth-with to hell if good they are straight admitted into heauen But the Diuell is meerely constrained to speake the truth when God would haue it so they haue no free-will to doe that which is good but are enforced accursed Fiends as they are to deliuer a truth Otherwise to what purpose scrueth the authority of the Church if oathes haue no tye or power or to what end are these bookes of Exorcisines published For they that denie this must denie the authoritie of the Church and those that haue composed and allowed the said bookes They must further say that there was neuer any dispossessed after the taking of an oath But they plunge into a gulfe from whence they can neuer issue out and either they must make search and inquisition after the curious persons that are in hell to make explanation of their curiosities or after the Saints in heauen to cause them to say that all their writings are nothing worth And so by a consequence they wil come to deny the Church and so stand defiled with the infectious opinions of the Caluinists How wonderfull is this that Diuels should preach of good intention pure affection puritie of conscience simplicitie humilitie and resignation of the world and teach men not to reserue the least loue of themselues as also to shew the meanes toward the attainment of Paradise and to discourse of chastitie and pouertie The Diuels will be a meanes of the reformation of many Monasteries the Diuels will yeeld more furtherance hereunto then their Bishops Abbots or Prelates are able to their great griefe doe they reueale it This must be the meanes

doe nothing but that which is euill and Angels can doe nothing but that which is good but men are able to doe either good or euill as being endowed with a free will and yet O God there are of these creatures that doe rebelliously demeane themselues against thee and are indeed worse then Diuels The paines that men suffer in this world are as flowers and Roses in comparison of the paines of Hell which are true torments indeed I tell you the fiers of this world are imaginarie and painted in respect of the fiers there and all furnaces are as nothing if they be compared but to a sparke in Hell Diuels are as wild and rauenous beasts they bite in their embracements Wee promise much and performe nothing because where nothing is nothing can bee expected You that are Priests bee circumspect and aduised in your calling because it is no offence if a man neglect and turne from an Angell of heauen to doe honour and reuerence vnto you The Angels indeed doe incessantly behold the face of their God but you with foure words doe make him descend vpon the Altar and since herein the King obeyeth his vassall how wretched must that Priest bee that doth rebell and mutter against his superiour you lumps of clay it will not go well with you vnlesse you humble your selues and bee repentant Disobedience was it that turned Adam out of Paradise and the same disobedience cast Lucifer headlong out of Heauen If God were capable of sadnesse hee would weepe when he seeth a rebellious and disobedient man so highly doth that sinne displease him Euery one ought to liue contentedly in his vocation You that are Priests and religious persons ought to studie preach and search out the truth for you are sequestred from this world to be seruants vnto the light Many seeke truth and cannot find it because they search after it with a dim and obscure lanthorne other search it with a greater and fuller light and they finde it Faith is this light and humility the doore that openeth vnto truth The curious walke vpon the brinke of Hell and thinking alwaies that they shall finde out what they make inquisition after they doe at last stumble and fall downe the head first and the rest of the body after witnesse the Caluinists Caluin Beza Luther these were the heads of our new Hereticks and all the body to wit those that follow and adhere to their opinions doe fall into this gulfe if they die obstinately in their fancies this is it they must looke for vnlesse they be conuerted You that are in religious Orders attend seriously vnto your vocation and obserue the commandements and counsels of God and know that your life is a light vnto worldlings and a patterne or copie of their liues and conuersations you must studie a new booke a booke that hath but two leaues the first leafe containeth the manner of attaining vnto perfect humility in the birth of the Son of God the other leafe containes the obedience which till his death hee euer practised I tell you that those who shall reade this booke aduisedly and as they ought I dare bee bold to promise them on Gods behalfe life eternall because in this booke is comprehended the beginning and end of perfection He that is humble is neither curious nor rebellious but is apt for commands and full of obedience and the obedient cannot die but liue eternally by obedience I vnderstand such a kind of subiection that shall no way be disagreeable vnto God or his Church or the saluation of soules for if I should say otherwise I should lie And I say turning himselfe to the Assembly speaking vnto you in generall not in particular that our Lord had twelue Disciples of whom one was starke naught The Iewes were formerly the true children of God but now they are a reprobate Nation so I say if you see a wicked priest you are not presently to ground from hence that all the rest are like vnto him if you see a wicked Frier or religious person you are not by and by to coniecture that their religion is naught But here is the great misery of worldly men who when they see a wicked Priest are presently ready to say this is the conuersation of them all I say vnto them that herein they doe bely them and they are not to speake after this manner for the wicked cannot preiudice or disparage the good and those that thus despise Priests doe it to this end that they may haue freer scope to liue in liberty and licentiousnesse The booke of humility is hard to be vnderstood by a man that is not very intelligent but when hee once shall know the interpretation of the same hee will find all manner of vertues contained therein for she is a Queene that bringeth with her many Princesses and Ladies in her traine and as in a chaine one ring followeth and dependeth vpon another so doth humility vpon obedience the ground-worke of true perfection is humility and the end is obedience Great God for this cause wast thou borne for this cause didst thou die thou wert borne in a manger and died'st naked vpon the Crosse and hast endured death it selfe yea a most cruell and ignominious death Cursed be those that shall fight in single cumbate for hereby they transgresse the Commandement of God and of their King and doe contemne the Excommunication of the Church Many children are so il-aduised that they beleeue neither father nor mother and doe well deserue the miseries which doe afterward ouertake them Absolon may be a true witnes of the same In the world all things goe by friendship and partiality but it is not so with God the Monarch and the begger the faire and the foule the lame and the perfect are all alike if they be in grace alike You of the laity keepe the Commandements of God and his Church and you shall be saued Heauen was not made meerely and solely for religious persons bee you onely carefull to loue God and to serue and obey him Such and so admirall is the power of God that he stinteth not himselfe to the praises of Angels or of his creatures but goeth further and commandeth the Deuill himselfe by compulsion and not out of loue to glorifie him and to put his good pleasure in execution Though all Angels all men and all Hell should incessantly enlarge and extend their speaches to relate at full the glory and perfections of God yet could they neuer attaine vnto the same it is an abisme whose bottome is inscrutable and cannot be diued into by the greatest Seraphins or the Mother of God her selfe God is onely he who can comprehend it Many curious persons conceiue their iudgments so able that they can comprise within the same all Gods power all his sapience and goodnesse and all his other perfections Ha! how short commeth their vnderstanding of these mysteries they must humble themselues if they will goe to

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

thou the master of Pride and doest thou now slinke away in this sort Thou art he that doest suggest vnto the Nobility What sir will you yeeld to him you are noble and of an ancient stock why will you abase your selfe before a fellow of such cheapenesse You must not doe it it doth detract from your nobility Miserable Belzebub was it not thou that wouldest haue throwne God from his seate of Maiesty How art thou now abased hauing nothing to reply and being swallowed vp in shame and confusion And thou Leuiathan the Arch-Doctor of Hereticks art thou not hee that bestowest vpon them the apparance and shew of light But thy light is nothing else but darknesse for no man can giue that which hee hath not Thou bringest an itch vpon the curious to dispute of this place and of that place of Scripture because it is not interpreted as it ought to bee and seing them to bee proud beyond measure thou diddest by this course hinder them from humbling themselues I tell thee that the proud and curious shall not enter into Paradise vnlesse they become humble and lay aside their curiosity What answerest thou vnto this thou art a iolly doctor and very pregnant in replyes but I see thou hast litle to say for thy selfe and giuest sufficient proofe of thy insufficiency There bee heere very able men that would gladly heare thee argue but it appeareth that thou art confounded as much as thy companion And thou Balberith that doest secreetly whisper in the eares of Gentle-men and doest tell them that what they loue in their hart they should oftētimes vse in their mouth and by this meanes thou makest them to deny and foresweare God from the head to the soale of the foote Thou doest also suggest vnto them what sir doe you not meane to defend your reputation Can you endure such an affront Remember such and such speaches and how he thus and thus belyed you hee is a base fellow and in an vnder-ranke vnto you I tel you you must reuenge yourselfe vpon him and call him into single combate Thus though they be forbidden by God excommunicated by the Church and prohibited by the Kings Edicts yet are they transported beyond their temper and reason and doe desire nothing but to come to blowes neither lyeth it in the power of man to giue preuention vnto these mischances Then Verrine iested at Asmodee and said and thou accursed fiend doest perswade yong folke that it is no sinne to offend God and so doest spread a vaile over their eies that they cannot haue the light to bee their guide but are forced to stumble in the darke And thou Astaroth master of the slouthfull be thou their speaker defend thy cause for thou art a powerfull Prince and doest excuse no man Kings and Clergy men are allured by thy blandishments and thou hast accesse euery-where euen when the gates and windowes of mens hearts are locked vp And thou Carreau art he that maintainest that Lazarus could not be raised vp to life by Lazarus meaning the obstinate sinner but I doe hold it as a truth that he may bee raised againe not of himselfe but by the assistance of the Church and of God who said Lazare veniforas and so commanded the stone to be taken away Hee it is that is able without paine vnto him to doe whatsoeuer seemeth pleasing in his sight I affirme that God is able to take away the stone from the heart of an vnrepenting sinner but hee must confesse himselfe receiue absolution from the Priest according vnto that authority which God hath giuen vnto his Church and in this manner is the dead raised vp to life Then he said hee that wants charity is not truely noble for true nobility commeth from aboue All the Citizens of heauen did reioyce at the birth of the Sonne of God neither is there any difference there put betweene the soule of a King and of a begger if it stand in the state of grace Vnto you a child is borne and to you a son is giuen he is both a King a Iudge yet but litle in his natiuity that it might be published vnto all how tractable he is and how easie to be appeased euen with an apple The apple signifieth the soule with the three powers thereof the Memory pointeth out vnto vs the Father the Vnderstanding the Son and the Will the holy Ghost D●dicate and bequeath your thoughts your desires and your workes to this Childe whereby you shall also offer vp vnto him the odour sweetnesse and bewty of this apple this is the present that will appease and still him and for this cause was hee made contemptible that you might bee bold to tender the same vnto him He is co-eternal with his Father which Marie and none but shee did at the first vnderstand yet had he not where to lay his head giue therefore now vnto him the stone of your heart that hee may make a pillow of the same whereupon to repose himselfe If the deceased King of glorious memory should haue giuen his Sonne the Dauphin vnto you it is to be conceiued that you would haue receiued him with great ioy and applause the celestiall Father hath giuen vnto you the Dauphin of heauen equall to himselfe in Maiesty the Kings of the East came from a farre to seeke after him and to worship him and doth it not become you to adore him in like manner The time is at hand that God will fill the voide seates of heauen that great day of the Lord approacheth wherein hee will place you in Paradise for euermore Then Verrine said I Verrine doe renounce c. as is before mentioned at midnight Masse After that he inuited againe all creatures to praise God for his vnexpresseable bounty and infinite mercy as is afore written When he had finished his abiurations Gresill followed with the like and last of all Sonneillon did the same who further added Almighty God mai'st thou be pleased to create a thousand hells anew for all those that will not be conuerted giue vnto them a thousand liues and as many as there bee starres in the firmament for all this is very possible vnto thee that they may suffer as many seuerall deaths as they had seueral liues bestowed vpon them The same day in the euening the two possessed women were exorcised by Father Francis Billet Priest of the Doctrine and Verrine began to discourse thus The heate of hell is not more vnsupportable vnto mee then are thy Exorcismes and would God I had beene dease when I was first exorcised Then he said Belzebub thou tormentest Magdalene yet let it not trouble thee Magdalene for it is now our custome to doe thus because wee were guided neither by reason nor counsell The Exorcist said vnto him Recede maledicte who answered him in latine Non est tempus And when the Exorcist said Angeli decantanerunt Gloria Verrine spake these

Magdalene were bound and could not speake and that hee was free from the same and therefore said hee you ought to listen vnto mee who am of a contrary faction vnto them Vpon this hee was bid to discouer the ambushments of the Diuell whereunto Verrine said since you will needs haue mee to expresse and explaine vnto you what I formerly had said listen vnto me It is the pleasure of God that all men know what I haue said this morning and not the confessors of Louyse onely for God will now make demonstration of his exceeding bounty The truth is Magdalene is not throughly conuerted but is perpetually vexed with the Incubi who commit a thousand impurities with her It is true Michaelis that God will bee offended with thee vnlesse thou take some order that this be redressed and doe not thinke that I speake it for her behoofe or for the sake of her heere whom I now possesse for if shee bee not possessed why doe you exorcise her were it not better to send her backe into the kitchen She would be contented with such a place as she was formerly before she came hither What think you why doth not Magdalene harken now vnto mee The reason is because I speake the truth and shee is not yet throughly conuerted shee obeyeth not her superiours and confesseth her sins with nicenesse and affectation like a Player Magdalene you must not confesse them so but you are to reueale them vnto the Priest with much penitency and compunction Then Verrine was commanded to speake lower for he cried as loud as possibly the forces of a woman could giue assistance thereunto Vnto which Verrine answered when I speak low you despise mee and when I talke aloude you put me to silence Sodome neuer were such abominations spoken by thee nor in the time of the flood did there euer happen so strange a fact as this is yet were they drowned in the waters and burned with the fire Was it euer heard of before that the Diuell should come to reprehend sinners You know there is a difference to haue a Diuell in the body and to haue a Diuell in the soule or to haue him in the body for the conseruation of the soule Afterward when some or other had told him that hee was to obey the Church as the spouse of God hee answered that this spouse also was to humble her selfe before her husband God goeth about to enlighten you with the brightnesse of his grace yet do you euer cry vnto me Verrine obmutesce I tell you I will speake but it shall be for the glory of God Did I euer bid you worship Verrine no I euer told you that I was a damned Diuell If I haue spoken euill reproue me of this euil but good God said hee command me to speake Hebrew or to doe some other prodigious and amazefull act for these poore blind caitiffes are yet calling vpon me for a signe But what did you Lord to those that asked a signe of you you could haue giuen them signes from heauen which their curiosity did itch after but you would not satisfie their brain-sicke fancies herein because they wanted faith which should be in men Michaelis the young sucking Infants which they haue eaten and others which they haue strangled and digged vp from graues to make pies withall cry loud for vengeance before God for crimes so punishable and full of execration Yet are not these accursed Magicians contented but will plucke God from his Throne they worship a Goate and sacrifice vnto him euery day What Thinke ye not that God is exceedingly incensed by these audacious prouocations At their tables and meales they vse no kniues because they will not pare off their imperfections they vse no salt because they hate the vertue of wisedome they haue no Oliues nor oyle because they loue nothing but crudities and cruelties In this very Baume doe they keepe their Sabbaths in this very Baume doe they deuoure man● flesh in this very Baume do they belch forth vnconceiueable blasphemies against the sacred Trinity the Sacraments the mother of God and all the Saints in Paradise Hath not God then inst occasion to bee incensed against them The Turke with his vnbeleefe the Iewes with their expectation of the Messias the Heretickes with their adorations of the bastardly figments and conceptions of their owne braines are not to bee held in such detestation as these Magicians heere for they doe day by day renounce God and there passeth not a minute wherein they crucifie him not I do further affirme that if this which hath been pronounced and published in S. Baume had been declared at Geneua they would haue shaken off the chaines and ●etters of their obstinacy yet doe the children of the Church keepe the Magician from mee and will not suffer mee to speake vnto him O Michaelis the Magician is now in thy custodie haue a curious and quick regard ouer him for hee doth yet put Magdalene to shrewd plunges After this Lewes was sent for from his chamber to come vnto the Church and as he entred Verrine did barke and bay wondrous like a dogg and said Meruaile not that I thus barke for I see the woolfe Then he spake to Lewes and said thou art a Magician thou art an execrable Sorcerer I lay it heere before thee that if thou be not speedily conuerted thou shalt bee burned and these two women heere must bee exorcised before the Parliament at Aix If Lewes be not conuerted within eight dayes I tell you heere before hand and doe call to witnesse the blessed mother of God the Seraphins Martyrs Virgins Saints and as many as be of you that he shall be deliuered vp into the hands of the gouernour of Marseille and then let them speak whither Louyse were possessed or no. Heere is to bee obserued that the Capuchin fathers found not any thing in the chamber of Lewes that might any wayes concerne Magick and this search displeased many at Marseille and presently it was bruted abroad through all the citty that father Michaelis was the author of all this You must further note that the Magicians and Witces which came inuisibly into S. Baume left very vile and offensiue sauours behind them and cast now vpon one and now vpon another certaine powders and oyles once vpon father Francis Billet and twice vpon father Anthony Boilletot who found himselfe benoynted ouer the lippes and when hee asked Lewes what the meaning thereof might bee hee onely laughed at the same They also threw such kinde of stuff vpon sister Catherine who was co-adiutour of the company of S. Vrsula so that shee was a long time greeuously sick vpon the same Besides all this Verrine tooke his oath on Gods behalfe the Creator of heauen and earth and on the behalfe of the blessed mother of God and of Angels Patriarches Apostles Martyrs Doctors Confessors Virgins and Widowes and on the behalfe of the whole

qui facitis verbum eius ad audiendani vocem sermonum eius Thus were the euill Spirits thrust out of heauen for their pride whereas the good Spirits were still made blessed in the participation of the vision and presence of God This did Christ signifie vnto his Apostles when out of pride they demanded of him who among them should bee the greatest in the kingdome of heauen hee tooke a litle childe by the hand saying if you become not like vnto this litle childe yee cannot enter into that kingdome and beware how you offend one of these litle ones for their Angels doe alwayes see the face of my Father which is in heauen whereby he giueth to vnderstand that children by reason of their naturall humility are like vnto Angels which Angels by this meanes doe see the face of God Since this great reuolte in heauen there hath euer been a contrariety and warre betweene the will 's of good and bad spirits and betweene good and bad men also as between Abel and Cain Isaac and Ismael Iacob and Esau. And this is it which S. Iohn speaketh of in the Apocalypse that there was a great battell in heauen between Michael and his Angels the Dragon with his Angels and S. Iude bringeth in the same Michael disputing and chiding with Satan Since therefore hee is full of wickednesse and altogether depriued of the grace of God he can doe nothing but what is naught and because hee cannot wreake his malice vpon the Saints in Paradise hee conuerteth his fury against man that is made after the image of God and is heere seated vpon the earth that hee may worship his Creator and acknowledge and serue him with his whole heart that so he may at length participate of that diuine glory and felicity which the Diuell by reason of his pride is vtterly depriued of as we haue already alleaged And this is the next pointe which offereth it selfe to consideration in the ensueing chapter CHAP. IIII. The meanes which Diuels haue to appeare and come vnto vs in what part of the world they reside how they are bound and their sundrie waies to tempt men TOuching the meanes which Spirits haue to performe this the scripture teacheth vs that in their downe-fall from heauen some remained in the middle region of the aire which is darksome obscure because the Sun-beames passe through the same without refraction of any solid body which by repercussion might double their force and light and without which they shine not at all as is euidently seene in a caue where there is no light at all perceiued but in the place where the sunne-beame doth fall And although we had no other proofe then that generall rule of Saint Ierome it might sufficiently euince the same for these are his very words Omnium doctorum opinio est quod aër iste qui coelum terram medius diuidens inane appellatur plenus sit contrarys fortitudinibus Since then there was neuer any Doctor of the Church which made scruple of the truth hereof wee must thinke that they had good warrant for the same from the Scripture They did no doubt consider that our Lord in the parable of the seede did by the birds of heauen which deuoured the corne vnderstand and also interpret it to be the Diuels whom he calleth the birds of heauen thereby meaning the aire according to the vsuall Hebrew phrase and agreeable vnto our maner of speech also who commonly say the raine falleth from heauen when the meaning is from the aire For as S. Ierome hath well obserued all Philosophers doe agree in their opinions that the clouds by the dissoluing of which the raine is engendred are not drawne vp aboue two miles at the most from the earth whereas the distance betwixt heauen and earth is incomparably greater And this is S. Pauls meaning when hee telleth the Ephesians that our fight is not chiefly against men but against the princes of this world which are the wicked spirits that haue their abode aboue in high places and as himselfe explaneth all these authorities in the second chapter of the same Epistle by these high places he meaneth the aire Secundum seculum mundi huius saith hee secundum principem potestatis aëris huius spiritus qui nunc operaetur in filios diffidentiae Which is also declared by S. Iude in his Canonicall epistle shewing that these wicked spirits are abiding in that darksome aire are there reserued for the day of iudgement when they shall heare these words Goe yee cursed into hell fire which is from the beginning prepared for the Diuell and his angels His words are these Angelos qui non seruauerunt suum principatum sed dereliquerunt suum domicilium in indicium magni diei vinculis aeternis sub caligine reseruauit And here may be fitly alleaged that which is written in S. Luke where it is related that the Diuels besought Christ Iesus not to send them out into the deepe but rather into the heard of swine and they doe likewise complaine vnto our Sauiour saying Vt quid venisti ante tempus torquere nos As if they should haue said we are assured of our totall and vtter damnation but the time thereof is not yet come for this shall bee put in execution at the last day of iudgement which being not yet present thou maist doe well to leaue vs in these parts vntill that time approch The like may be said of that place in the Reuelation Vah mari terrae quia descendit diabolus ad vos habens iram magnam and it is againe declared in the same booke that our aduersarie the diuell was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone And that wee may resolue what the difference is betweene the diuels that are in hell and those whose abode is in the aire although S. Ierome maketh daintie to meddle with it because he conceiued it to be from the matter whereof he intreated as also for that hee feared as himselfe excuseth it lest hee should trespasse too farre vpon the readers patience in dwelling so long vpon this argument yet will we speake somewhat of the same because this present discourse doth demaund it It is an infallible truth that there are great multitudes of wicked spirits who abide in that gloomie region of the aire and come also lower and neerer vnto vs which God in his prouidence hath and doth permit First because himselfe imployeth these his creatures although it be in base and seruile offices as a King or ciuill Iustice are accustomed to condemne certaine malefactors not vnto death but vnto the performance of some worke which aduantageth these offenders nothing at all but is onely charged with laboriousnesse and toyle and tendeth meerely to the publike good Thus were many in times past banished or confined to some Isle or mountaine to labour and digge in the Quarries of Marble for the Princes