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A85153	VVitchcraft cast out from the religious seed and Israel of God. And the black art, or, nicromancery inchantments, sorcerers, wizards, lying divination, conjuration, and witchcraft, discovered, with the ground, fruits, and effects thereof: as it is proved to be acted in the mistery of iniquity, by the power of darknesse, and witnessed against by Scripture, and declared against also, from, and by them that the world scornfully calleth Quakers. Shewing, the danger thereof, ... Also, some things to clear the truth from reproaches, lies and slanders, and false accusations, occasioned by Daniel Bott and his slander-carriers, ... / Written in Warwickshire, the ninth moneth, 1654. As a judgement upon witchcraft, and a deniall, testimony and declaration against witchcraft, from those that the world reproachfully calleth Quakers.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F513; Thomason E829_12; ESTC R202140	21,407	25

and the power of darkness by which thou art acted and thou labouredst by the power of darkness to have cast out the truth that opposed thy deceits but truth being raised up in the power of the holy Ghost thou couldst not but wert further laid open and discovered by it that the Scriptures thereby might be fulfilled for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness or what union hath light with darkness 2. Cor. 6. 14 15. which darkness acted thee forth in violence against the truth to resist it as Sorcerers Diviners Magicians Astrologers and Star-gazers aforetime in all ages because truth declares against the deeds of darkness and lying divinations as it did that day at Tamworth against thine Greaton who like Jannes and Jambres and also the Inchanters and Sorcerers and Diviners and Conjurers Wizards and Magicians of Pharaoh withstood Moses when he went by the true power of the Lord into Egypt for the accomplishing the work that God was about then the Devils instruments Sorcerers Inchanters and Wizards that were acted by the power of darkness and used witchcraft and lying wonders they withstood Moses and Pharaohs heart was hardened against him because he hearkened not to the messengers of God that were in the light and endued with the power of God but he took counsell of the Wizards black Artists and Magicians of Egypt that wrought signs and lying wonders by the power of darkness to deceive withall as it is written and when Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them by his power the Magicians and Wizards by their sorceries cast a mist to blind the eyes of people withall that were in darkness as they were and by their witchcrafts wrought their lying wonders to deceive withall and resisted the truth of God and the power of God acted by his servants Exod. 7. 19 20 21 22. And that wicked spirit in thee Nicholas Greaton sought to harden the peoples heart against the truth at Tamworth who was there discovered to be a fortune teller or an Inchanter a Wizard that tells people lyes for mony when their goods are wanting and other things in thy Inchantments and lying divinations which did not prove true as severall did witness against thee and thy lying divinations that day after that thou stoodst up a while to have maintained thy craft sorcery or lying divination by Scripture till truth cut thee out of them and thy folly was laid open and that Scripture was fulfilled by thee that day who came of set purpose to resist the truth and withstood it as Janne and Jambres withstood Moses but thy folly was made manifest to men as theirs was that withstood the truth that day at Tamworth till thy folly was made manifest as theirs was made manifest as it is written and witnessed also Read 2. Tim. 3. 8 9. And when thy sotcery and lying divinations and witchcrafts were discovered that day thou wouldst have justified it by Scripture but couldst not for they that spake forth the Scriptures were not Sorcerers nor Inchanters nor diuiners of lyes like thee but declared and witnessed against such practises and the plagues is due to all Witches and Wizards and diviners of lyes and those that join with them as it was with them that joined to Baal Peor to serve other Gods Numb. 15. 1. to the 10. And the Lord drave out the nations that did use such Inchantments Sorceries and Witchcrafts and it was and is an abomination to the Lord and they that do such things shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God but be cast into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone as it is written and witnessed Gal. 5. 19 20. 21 Rev. 22. 15. Rev. 20. 10 15. Rev. 21. 8 27. Thou broughrst in a place of Scripture to have proved thy sorceries and lying divinations which was this And God said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the night from the day and let them be for signs and for seasons and for daies and years Gen. 1. 24. That was nothing at all to prove Sorcery and Inchantments thou Beast God did never say that by them they should use Inchantments and lying divinations and cast figures and tell fortunes as Sorcerers and Witches and black Artists Nicromancers Wizards that do divine lyes which thing God abhorres and all lyars and diviners for mony like thee Read Deut. 18. 10 11. But God set the Stars in the firmament of heaven to praise him and to be for lights upon the earth and God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the Stars also and God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and not for Witches to cast figures and Iyars to divine for mony by them but he set them to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darknesse and God saw that it was good as it is written and witnessed Gen. 1. 15 16 17 18. Secondly the Sun Moon and Stars were set in the firmament of heaven to know the regiment or government thereof and to hold forth the wisdom of God to praise him in the host of heaven in his wonderous works above the earth and not for fortune-tellers and Inchanters to divine for mony by them as Wizards and thou diviner of lies wouldst have them let the Scriptures be witnesse against thee and the Star-gazers Wizards and all that divine for mony thereby who would have the Scriptures to bear thee out in that which they witnesse against thee for acting contrary to them Thirdly the Stars were not set in the firmament for such as thou art to tell destinies or fortunes by nor to divine lyes for mony by nor to cast figures by to cast a mist before peoples eyes to deceive them by Witchcrafts as Wizards do that take peoples mony for false dreams and lying divinations and as thou sorcerer and perverter of the Scripture wouldst have them but the Stars were set to give light and to know the noble works of God in them and by them in their covenant as they stand and keep their course and to hold forth the wisdom of God in the firmament of heaven and also that man might praise him for his noble acts and as it is written in the book of Psalms Oh give thanks unto the Lord of Lords for his mercy endureth forever to his own host Oh give thanks to him that by wisdome made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever Oh give thanks to him that made the great lights for his mercy to his endureth for ever the Sun to rule the day and the Moon and the Stars to rule the night for his mercy endureth for ever and they were not set to divine lyes by and cast figures to tell fortunes so called and speak lying divinations by as thou sorcerer and diviner of lyes wouldst have them the Scriptures witnesse against

and it is commanded to be avoided by the Israel of God for such Witchcrafts were practised amongst those nations that knew not God and it was and is an abomination unto the Lord therefore the Lord spake to Moses to speak to the children of Israel to command them to avoid it And saith he when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after those abominations of those nations there shall not be found amongst you any that useth divinations which thou Greaton dost that divinest lyes for mony as Wizards do plagues upon thee thou art to be holden accursed that art in the abominations and out of the doctrine of God and of Christ Gal. 1. 8 9. 1. Cor. 16. 22. And again saith the Lord by Moses to Israel in the command to avoid Nicromancy or black Art or Witchcraft saith he there shall not be found amongst you an Inchanter nor Witch plagues in flames of fire upon such 2. Thes. 2. 12. Rev. 16. 9 10 c. Neither shall there be amongst you saith the Lord a Charmer nor a consulter with familiar Spirits nor a Wizard nor a Nicromancer for all that do these things are an abomination unto me saith the Lord and because of those abominations the Lord drove out the nations that used those things for saith the Lord unto Israel those nations which thou shalt possesse hearkened unto observers of times and unto diviners and Wizards and such like but as for thee the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do and thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live but thou shalt walk before me and be perfect speaking to his own people that were in covenant with him for saith he I am the Lord thy God as may be read Deut. 18. 9 10 11 12 13 14. Also read Exod. 22. 18 Mic. 5. 12. c. Nebuchadnezzar Pharaoh and the heathen that knew not the only true God had their Magicians Sorceries Inchanters or Wizards to enquire at and plagues was the portion of such wo unto all you that go to Wizards or Charmers or consulters with familiar Spirits or Diviners and Inchanters or Sorcerers or Conjurers or Witches or the Divels Wise men Wizards to take counsell you are one with them in the upholding of them you ought to have no fellowship with unfruitfull works of darknesse but rather to reprove them and declare against them for it is light that discovers darknesse and the children of light are commanded to declare against the works of darknesse read Ephes. 5. 11 12 13. You that go to Wizards you hold them up and so are upholders of the Divels kingdom and except you come out from them and declare against them you shall partake of the plagues with them you that go to take counsell of Wizards you go from God to the Divell and the light of God in your consciences will tell you the same and reprove you for it in secret and wo to all that do so read Isa. 30. c. Pharaoh he had his Magicians Sorcerers Inchanters or Wizards to take counsell of and by their black Art or the power of darknesse and Nicromancy or Witchcraft they could by their Inchantments or Conjurations raise up the formes of living things and they were in the Inchantments and in the Witchcrafts of whom Pharaoh took counsell and so of the Divell and plagues was his portion and vengence from God and utter destruction Exod 7. 11 22. Exod. 8 9 10 11 and 12 chap. And Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams wherewith his spirit was troubled and his sleep brake from him and he commanded to call the Magicians and the Astrologers and the Sorcerers and Wizards which he had to take counsell of Dan. 2. 1 2. But because the thing stood in the counsell of God they could not tell him of it that were but in the Divels counsell only as Sorcerers and Wizards are for which he was wrath with them Dan. 2. 8 9 10 11 12. And Daniels interpretations of the dreams and reading and interpreting the writing by the Spirit of the Lord Dan. 2. 19 20. to the 24. Dan. 4. which was hid from the black Artists and Astrologers Star-gazers and Wizards Sorcerers and Inchanters and Diviners of lyes like thee that tels people of things which are wanting and destinies and such like and take their mony for it and were lying divinations wo to such Wizards and diviners of lyes as thou art that would have the Scriptures for thy cloak silent deceit Daniels Interpretations by Revelation is no ground for Nicromancy plagues upon all Nicromancers black Artists Witches Sorcerers Inchanters and Wizards and diviners of lyes the Devill and his angells are for the lake go ye cursed into hell and all that forget God to take counsell of you Psal. 9. 17. Isai. 30 33. Math. 25. 41. Rev. 20. 10. Then thou Greaton and diviner of lyes thou seemedst to have had that prophecy of Christ for thy cover and to prove thy Art till I cut thee out of that where he prophesied and said Imediately after those dayes the Sun shall be darkened and the Moon shall not give her light and the Stars of heaven shall fall and the powers of heaven shall be shaken which is as I said a prophecy of the coming of Christ to gather his elect from the four windes Mat. 24. 29 30 31. which thou knowest nothing of by thy Sorceries and lying divinations that art in the reprobation professing God in words but to every good work abominable and reprobate who art an Inventour of evil things and filled with wickednesse in the reprobation Tit. 1. 16. Rom. 1. 28. to the end and that of Joel the 2. 30 31 32. is also no cover for thee but a Witnesse against thee which is a prophecy of the great day of the Lord wherein thou and all such shall cry bitterly Zeph. 1. 14. c. and shalt be rewarded with flames of fire 2. Thes. 1. 8 9. Thou Sorcerer and perverter of Scripture and as Elimas the Sorcerer was thou full of all subtilty and child of the Divell and enemy of all righteousnesse that perverts the right waies of the Lord as he did Act 13. 6. 7 8 9 10. 2. Thes. 1. 12. Wo to thee thou Sorcerer and perverter of the right waies of the Lord thou false prophet that divines or conjures for mony and art found amongst the Inchanters or Wizards and Star-gazers that tels destinies and fortunes and casts figures and thou tellest of things that are gone and such like practises by a spirit of divination that brings thee in gain and thou wast witnessed against for it at thee meeting at Tamworth and proved to be a diviner of lyes for mony and those things came not to passe according to thy Inchantments neither but proved lying divinations and when thou couldst not maintain by Scripture which thou labouredst to have done thou saidst thou wouldst give him his mony again thou Beast and Wizard

Jesus Judas is the way to perdition and destruction Daniel Bott the light of Christ in thy conscience which did convince thee of the evil of thy heart and did cause thee to confesse the same that light is my witnesse for the truth against thy deceit and in thy condemnation remember that in thy life time thou wast warned who received not the truth with the love of it as to continue therein but taketh plagues in thy unrighteousnesse as such did which were enemies to the truth as thou art therefore great is thy condemnation as theirs was 2. Thes. 2. 12. offences must come as it is written in Scripture but wo to thee and them by whom ye do come it were better that a milstone were hanged about the necks and be cast into the sea then to offend one that believes in the Lord Jesus as thou and such may read Math. 18. 6 7. to the truth of this against the deceit that in the conscience shall witnesse in the terrible day of the Lords fierce wrath revealed from heaven in flames of fire upon the children of disobedience who are enemies to the truth of the Lord Jesus as thou hast read thy condition 2. Thes. 1. 6 7 8 9. answered with that in thy conscience which thou hast back-slided from and disobedient to but the light is the same that it was and though thou beest backslided from it yet it stands a witness against thee who hast erred from the truth and wouldst have overthrown the faith of some as Hymeneus and Philetus did but the spirit of truth witnesseth against thee as it did against them by such as live in the faith of the son of God as he did which said none the least he foreknoweth them that are his and let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity Gal. 2. 20. 2. Tim. 2. 17 18 19. but thou and all such as depart from the light turns into the iniquity who art found in that mistery the workers of iniquity and saith Christ though ye have prophesied in my Name and be found in the work of iniquity I will say I know you not depart from me you that be workers of iniquitie 2 Thess. 2. 1 2. to the 13. verse Matth. 7. 12. 23. Therefore Go ye cursed into Hell prepared for the Devil and his angels for the wicked and ye that forget God shall be turned into Hell therefore Woe to thee and all such Esa. 3. 11. Psalm 9. 17. Matthew 25. 41. to the end Therefore all whose minds are turned with the light towards the Lord Jesus from whence the Light comes upon it wait and in it abide that ye may be preserved in the grace and be kept for turning into errour and deceit and as Daniel hath done who hath turned from the light as Judas did and so is an enemy to the Truth as he was but though he have so done who now turns the grace of God into wantonness and lasciviousness Wo from God is his reward and the reward of all such And though Truth have many enemies now as it ever had yet Truth is the same that it ever was And though the said Daniel by turning from the Light maketh ship-wrack of Faith and a good Conscience as Himeneus and Alexander did that were given over to Satan as he is yet some held fast and doth hold fast Faith and a good Conscience in which the mystery of Faith is held praysed be the Lord and Truth is the same still 1 Tim. 1. 19. 20. 1 Colos. 1. 27. 1 Tim. 3. 9. And though many that had for a time walked with Christ and because yee though it hard To eat his flesh and drink his blood and whereupon ye forsook him to wit Christ and walked no more with him John 6. to the 6-7 yet the Truth was the same though ye did back-slide and ye that knew the word of eternall Life abode then and so do ye now John 6. 6. 7. to the end And whereas many slanders hath been cast upon the Truth occasioned by Daniel Bott upon him and his slander-cariers they are cast and with them doth remains Truth is cleared and hath cleared it self of them all and Daniel the light in thy conscience which did convince thee and tend thee for a time and let thee see the evill that thou hadst done thee I desire but the light I own which thou art back-slided from and an enemy unto yet the light changeth not but is the same and in thy condemnation Remember thee it will of what against the Truth thou hast done and as was said in that Epistle which after was red at thy house amongst them then met appeareth upon Record to witness further for the Truth and against thee and thy deceit Written from and witnessed by and with the Spirit of the Lord in his children and servants that are guided thereby though unknown yet well known and as it was it is in the life which the Scripture witnesseth to and against all ungodlyness and unrighteousness of men which hold the Truth in unrighteousness as thou dost who by us art witnessed against Romans 1. 18. 19. 28. 29. Romans 8. 14. 15 16. Gal. 4. 6. 7. 1 John 3 1. 2. 2 Cor. 6. 1. 2. to the 15. Iohn 1. 12. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 22. 23. Ephes. 5. 11. Romans 2. 5. and 6. And the severall passages and particulars by severall witnesses some in one particular and some in another for the Truth and against the deceit of Daniel Bott and also here witnessed by severall friends and known neighbours near about where he livethin the outward I John Farmer and Anthony Bickley and William Stowrey and Thomas Teler and John Smith and Hugh Read Thomas Doe and Thomas Orton and others can witness to the Truth and against the deceit as aforesaid concerning Daniel Bott FINIS