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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

in Latin is called Filia vocis in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in English the Daughter of speech CHAP. VI. Of Prophesies conditional whereof the Prophesies in the old Testament do intreat and by whom they were published Witchmongers answers to the objections against Witches supernatural actions CHrist and his Apostles prophesied of the calamities and afflictions which shall grieve and disturb the Church of God in this life also of the last day and of the signes and tokens that shall be shewed before that day and finally of all things which are requisite for us to foreknow Howbeit such is the mercy of God that all Prophesies Threatnings Plagues and Punishments are annexed to conditions of Repentance as on the other side corporal blessings are tyed under the condition of the cross and castigation So as by them the mysteries of our salvation being discovered unto us we are not to seek new signes and miracles but to attend to the doctrine of the Apostles who preached Christ exhibited and crucified for our sins his Resurrection Ascension and thereby the Redemption of as many as believe c. The Prophesies in the old Testament treat of the continuance the government and the difference of Estates or the distinction of the four Monarchies of their order decay and instauration of the changes and ruines of the Kingdoms of Juda Israel Aegypt Persia Graecia c. and specially of the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ and how he should be born of a Virgin and where of his Tribe Passion Resurrection c. These Prophesies were published by Gods special and peculiar Prophets endued with his particular and excellent gifts according to his promise I will raise them up a Prophet out of the midst of their Brethren I will put my words in his mouth c. Which though it were specially spoken of Christ yet was it also spoken of those particular Prophets which were placed among them by God to declare his will which were also figures of Christ the Prophet himself Now if Prophesie be an extraordinary gift of God and a thing peculiar to himself as without whose special assistance no creature can be a Prophet or shew what is to come Why should we believe that those lewd persons can perform by Divinations and Miracles that which is not in humane but in Divine power to accomplish Howbeit when I deny that Witches can ride in the Air and the miraculous circumstance thereof by and by it is objected to me That Enoch and Elias were rapt into the heavenly bodily and Habacuck was carryed in the Air to feed Daniel and so falsly oppose a Devils or a Witches power against the virtue of the holy Ghost If I deride the Poets opinions saying that Witches cannot Coelo deducere Lunam fetch the Moon from Heaven c they tell me that at Joshuah's battel the sun stayed and at the passion of Christ there was palpable darkness If I deny their cunning in the exposition of Dreams advising them to remember Jeremiah's connsel not to follow or credit the expositors of Dreams they hit me in the teeth with Daniel and Joseph for that the one of them expounded Pharaoh the Aegyptian Kings the other Nebuchadnezzar the Persian Kings dream If I say with Solomon That the dead know nothing and that the dead know us not neither are removeable out of Abrahams bosome c. they produce the story of Samuel wherein I say they set the power of a Creature as high as the Creator If I say that these Witches cannot transubstantiate themselves nor others into beasts c. they cite the story of Nebuchadnezzar as though indeed he were made a material beast and that also by Witchcraft and strengthen that their assertion with the fables of Circe and Ulysses his companions c. CHAP. VII What were the Miracles expressed in the old Testament and what are they in the new Testament and that we are not now to look for any more Miracles THe Miracles expressed in the old Testament were many but the end of them all was one though they were divers and differing in shew as where the sacrifices of Moses Elias and Solomon being abundantly wet were burnt with fire from heaven c. The variety of tongues at the building of Babylon Isaacs birth of Sarah being by nature past children the passage through the Red-sea Daniels foretelling of the four Monarchies in the fourth whereof he apparently foresheweth the coming of the Lord. All these and many other which are expressed in the old Testament were merciful instructions and notable miracles to strengthen the faith of Gods people in their Messias If you had gone to Delphos Apollo would have made you believe with his Amphibological answers that he could have foretold you all these things The Miracles wrought by Christ were the raising up of the dead which many would impute to the woman of Endor and also to our Witches and conjurors the restoring of the lame to limbs the blinde to sight the dumb to speech and finally the healing of all diseases which many believe our Witches can do yea and as they themselves will take it upon them As for casting out of Devils which was another kind of Miracles usual with Christ Witches and Conjurors are said to be as good thereat as ever he was and yet if you will believe Christs words it cannot be so for he saith Every Kingdom divided against it self shall be brought to nought c. If Satan cast out Satan he is divided c. and his Kingdom shall not endure c Peters Chains fell off in Prison so did Richard Gallisies fetters at Winsor marry the Prison doors opened not to Richard as they did to Peter Elias by special grace obtained rain our Witches can make it rain when they list c. But sithhence Christ did these Miracles and many more and all to confirm his truth and strengthen our faith and finally for the conversion of the people as appeareth in John 6.7 12. insomuch as he vehemently reproved such as upon the sight of them would not believe saying Wo be to thee Corazin wo be to thee Bethsaida if the miracles had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you they had a great while ago repented c. Let us settle and acquit our Faith in Christ and believing all his wonderous works let us reject all these old wives fables as lying vanities whereof you may finde in the Golden Legend M. Mal. and specially in Bodin miraculous stuffe enough to check all the Miracles expressed in the old and new Testament which are of more credit with many bewitched people then the true Miracles of Christ himself Insomuch as they stand in more awe of the menacies of a Witch then of all the threatnings and curves pronounced by God and expressed in his Word And thus much touching the word Kasam BOOK X. CHAP. I. The interpretation of this

whatsoever shall be touched thereby or sprinkled therewith may be void of all uncleanness and all resistance of spiritual iniquity through our Lord. Amen What can be made but a Conjuration of these words also which are written in the Canon or rather in the Saccaring of Masse This holy commixtion of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ let it be made to me and to all the receivers thereof health of mind and body and a wholesome preparative for the deserving and receiving of everlasting life through our Lord Jesus Amen CHAP. XXXVII That Popish Priests leave nothing unconjured a form of Exercism for Incense ALthough the Papists have many Conjurations so as neither Water nor Fire nor Bread nor Wine nor Wax nor Tallow nor Church nor Church-yard nor Altar nor Altar-cloth nor Ashes nor coals nor Bells nor Bell-ropes nor Copes nor Vestments nor Oyl nor Salt nor Candle nor Candlestick nor Beds nor Bed-staves c. are without their form of Conjuration yet I will for brevity let all pass and end here with Incense which they do conjure in this sort ✚ I conjure thee most filthy and horrible Spirit and every vision of our enemy c. that thou go and depart from out of this creature of Frankincense with all thy deceipt and wickedness that this creature may be sanctified and in the name of our Lord ✚ Jesus ✚ Christ ✚ that all they that taste touch or smell the same may receive the virtue and assistance of the holy Ghost so as wheresoever this Incense or Frankincense shall remain that there thou in no wise be so bold as to approach or once presume or attempt to hurt but what unclean Spirit soever thou be that thou with all thy craft and subtilty avoid and depart being conjured by the name of God the Father Almighty c. And that wheresoever the fume or smoke thereof shall come every kind and sort of Devils may be driven away and expelled as they were at the increase of the liver of fish which the Archangel Raphael male c. CHAP. XXXVIII Toe Rules and Laws of Popish Exorcists and other Conjurors all one with a confutation of their whole power How S. Martin conjured the Devill THe Papists you see have their certain general Rules and Laws as to abstain from sin and to fast as also otherwise to be clean from all pollutions c. and even so likewise have the other Conjurors Some will say that Papists use Divine Service and Prayers even so do common Conjurors as you see even in the same Papistical form no whit swarving from theirs in faith and doctrin nor yet in ungodly and unreasonable kinds of petitions Methinks it may be a sufficient argument to overthrow the calling up and miraculous works of Spirits that it is written God only knoweth and searcheth the hearts and only worketh great wonders The which argument being prosecuted to the end can never be answered in so much as that Divine power is required in that action And if it be said That in this Conjuration we speak to the Spirits and they hear us and therefore need not know our thoughts and imaginations I first ask them Whether King Bael or Amaymon which are Spirits raigning in the furthest regions of the East as they say may hear a Conjurors voyce which calleth for them being in the extreamest parts of the West there being such noises interposed where perhaps also they may be busie and set to work on the like affairs Secondly Whether those Spirits be of the same power that God is who is everywhere filling all places and able to hear all men at one instant c. Thirdly Whence cometh the force of such words as raise the dead and command Devils If sounds do it then may it be done by a taber and a pipe or any other instrument that hath no life If the voyce do it then may it be done by any Beasts or Birds If words then a Parret may do it if in mans words only where is the force in the first second or third syllable If in syllables then not in words If in imaginations then the Devil knoweth our thoughts But all this stuffe is vain and fabulous It is written All the generations of the earth were healthful and there is no poyson of destruction in them Why then do they conjure wholesome creatures as Salt Water c. where no Divels are God looked upon all his works and saw they were all good What effect I pray you had the seven sons of Sceva which is the great objection of Witchmongers They would needs take upon them to conjure Devils out of the possessed But what brought they to pass Yet that was in the time whilest God suffered miracles commonly to be wrought By that you may see what Conjurors can do Where is such a promise to Conjurors or Witches as is made in the Gospel to the faithful where it is written In my name thay shall cast out Devils speak with new tongues if they shall drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall take away Serpents they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover According to the promise this grant of miraculous working was performed in the primitive Church for the confirmation of Christs doctrin and the establishing of the Gospel But as in another place I have proved the gift thereof was but for a time and is now ceased neither was it ever made to Papist Witch or Conjuror They take upon them to call up and cast out Devils and to undo with one Devil that which another Devil hath done If one Devil could cast out another it were a Kingdom divided and could not stand Which argument Christ himself maketh and therefore I may the more boldly say even with Christ That they have no such power For besides him there is no Saviour none can deliver out of his hand Who but he can declare set in order appoint and tell what is to come He destroyeth the tokens of Soothsayers and maketh the Conjecturers fools c. He declareth things to come and so cannot Witches There is no help in Inchanters and Soothsayers and other such vain sciences For Devils are cast out by the finger of God which Matthew calleth the Spirit of God which is the mighty power of God and not by the virtue of the bare name only being spoken or pronounced for then might every wicked man do it And Simon Magus needed not then to have proffered money to have bought the power to do Miracles and Wonders for he could speak and pronounce the name of God as well as the Apostles Indeed they may soon throw out all the Devils that are in Frankincense and such like creatures wherein no Devils are but neither they nor all their holy-water can indeed cure a man possessed with a Devil either in body or mind as Christ did Nay why do they not cast out the

most horrible executions as the revenger of a doting old womans imagined wrongs to the destruction of many innocent children and as a supporter of her passions to the undoing of many a poor soul And I see not but a Witch may as well inchant when she will as a lyer may lye whey he list and so should we possess nothing but by a Witches licence and permission And now forsooth it is brought to this point that all Devils which were wont to be spiritual may at their pleasure become corporal and to shew themselves familiarly to Witches and Conjurors and to none other and by them only may be made tame and kept in a box c. So as a malicious old Woman may command her Devil to plague her neighbor and he is afflicted in manner and form as she desireth But then cometh another Witch and she biddeth her Devil help and he healeth the same party So as they make it a kingdome divided in it self and therefore I trust it will not long endure but will shortly be overthrown according to the words of our Saviour Omne regnum in se divisum desolabitur Every kingdom divided in it self shall be desolate And although some say that the Devil is the Witches instrument to bring her purposes and practices to pass yet others say that she is his instrument to execute his pleasure in any thing and therefore to be executed But then methinks she should be injuriously dealt withal and put to death for anothers offence for actions are not judged by instrumental causes neither doth the end and purpose of that which is done depend upon the mean instrument Finally if the Witch do it not why should the Witch die for it But they say that Witches are perswaded and think that they do indeed those mischiefs and have a will to perform that which the Devil committeth and that therefore they are worthy to die By which reason every one should be executed that wisheth evil to his neighbour c. But if the will should be punished by man according to the offence against God we should be driven by thousands at once to the slaughterhouse or butchery For whosoever loatheth correction shall die And who should escape execution if this lothsomness I say should extend to death by the Civil Laws Also the reward of sin is death Howbeit every one that sinneth is not to be put to death by the Magistrate But my Lord it shall be proved in my book and your Lordship shall try it to be true as well here at home in your native countrey as also abroade in your several circuits that besides them that be Veneficae which are plain Poysoners there will be found among our Witches only two sorts the one sort being such by imputation as so thought of by others and these are abused and not abusers the other by acceptation as being willing so to be accounted and these be meer Coseners Calvin treating of these Magicians calleth them Coseners saying That they use their Jugling knacks only to amase or abuse the people or else for Fame but he might rather have said for Gain Erastus himself being a principal writer in the behalf of Witches omnipotency is forced to confess that these Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are most commonly put for illusion false-packing cosenage fraud knavery and deceit and is further driven to say That in ancient time the learned were not so blockish as not to see that the promises of Magicians and Inchanters were false and nothing else but knavery cosenage and old wives fables and yet defendeth he their flying in the air their transferring of Corn or Grass from one field to another c. But as Erastus disagreeth herein with himself and his friends so is there no agreement among any of those Writers but only in cruelties absurdities and impossibilites And these my Lord that fall into so manifest contradictions and into such absurd asseverations are not of the inferiour sort of Writers neither are they all Papists but men of such account as whose names give more credit to their cause then their writings In whose behalf I am sorry and partly for reverence suppress their fondest errors and foulest absurdities dealing specially with them that most contend in cruelty whose feet are swift to shed blood Striving as Jesus the son of Sirach saith and hasting as Solomon the son of David saith to pour out the blood of the Innocent whose heat against these poor wretches cannot be allayed with any other liquor then blood and therefore I fear that under their wings will be found the blood of the souls of the poor at that day when the Lord shall say Depart from me ye blood-thirsty men And because I know your Lordship will take no counsel against innocent blood but rather suppress them that seek to imbrew their hands therein I have made choice to open their case to you and to lay their miserable calamity before your feet following herein the advice of that learned man Brentius who saith Si quis admonuerit Magistratum ne in miseras illas mulierculas saeviat eum ego arbitror divinitus excitatum that is If any admonish the Magistrate not to deal too hardly with these miserable wretches that are called Witches I think him a good instrument raised up for this purpose by God himself But it will perchance be said by Witchmongers to wit by such as attribute to Witches the power which appertaineth to God only That I have made choice of your Lordship to be a Patron to this my Book because I think you favour mine opinions and by that means may the more freely publish any error or conceit of mine own which should rather be warranted by your Lordships authority then by the Word of God or by sufficient argument But I protest the contrary and by these presents I renounce all protection and despise all friendship that might serve to help towards the suppressing or supplanting of Truth knowing also that your Lordship is far from allowing any injury done unto Man much more an enemy to them that go about to dishonour God or to embeazel the title of his immortal glory But because I know you to be perspicuous and able to see down into the depth and bottome of Causes and are not to be carryed away with the vain perswasion or superstition either of Man Custom Time or Multltude but moved with the authority of Truth only I crave your countenance herein even so far forth and no further then the law of God the law of Nature the law of this Land and the rule of Reason shall require Neither do I treat for these poor people any otherwise but so as with one hand you may sustain the good and with the other suppress the evil wherein you shall be thought a Father to Orphans an Advocate to Widows a Guide to the Blind a Stay to the Lame a Comfort and Countenance to the honest a

believed by many to Germinate and procreate one another so likewise are the infernal Spirits capable of multiplication in their power and essence according to their Orders Ranks and Thrones by means of the strong imagination in a Witch or malevolous person earnestly desiring their assistance 4. Not that the Spirits or Devils so begotten do any whit add or contribute to the number in general for as they are capable of increasing into distinct and separated substances so are they likewise again contracted and as it were annihilated when the force of that Imagination is gone which was the cause of their production The nature of a spirit whither heavenly or hellish being to dilate or contract themselves into as narrow compass as they please so that in a moment they can be as big in circumference as an hundred worlds and on a sodain reduce themselves to the compass of an atome 5. Neither are they so much limited as Tradition would have them for they are not at all shut up in any separated place but can remove millions of miles in the twinkling of an eye yet are they still where they were at first for out of their own element or quality they can never come go whither they will they are in darkness and the cause is within them not without them as one whose mind is troubled here in England can remove his Carcase from the place where it was before but should he go to the utmost bounds of the Earth he cannot leave his perplexed and tormented minde behind him 6. As for the shapes and various likenesses of Devils It is generally believed that according to their various capacities in wickedness so their shapes are answerable after a Magical manner resembling spiritually some horrid and ugly monsters as their conspiracies against the power of God were high and monstrous when they fell from Heaven for the condition of some of them is nothing but continual horrour and despair others triumph in firie might and pomp attempting to pluck God from out of his Throne but the quality of Heaven is shut from them that they can never find it which doth greatly add to their torment and misery 7. But that they are materially vexed and scorched in flames of fire is inferiour to any to give credit to who is throughly verst in their nature and existence for their substance is spiritual yea their power is greater then to be detain'd or tormented with any thing without them doubtless their misery is sufficiently great but not through outward flames for their Bodies are able to pierce through Wood and Iron Stone and all Terrestrial things Neither is all the fire or fewel of this World able to torment them for in a moment they can pierce it through and through But the infinite source of their misery is in themselves and is continually before them so that they can never enjoy any rest being absent from the presence of God which torment is greater to them then all the tortures of this world combin'd together 8. The wicked souls that are departed this life are also capable of appearing again and answering the Conjurations of Witches and Magicians for a time according to Nagar the Indian and the Pythagoreans And it cannot be easily conceived that their torment is much different stom the rest of the Devils for the Scripture saith every one is rewarded according to their works And that which a man sows that he shall reap Now as the damned Spirits when they lived on earth did heap up vanity and load their souls with iniquity as a treasure to carry with them into that Kingdom which sin doth naturally lead into so when they are there the same abominations which here they committed do they ruminate and feed upon and the greater they have been the greater is the torment that ariseth before them every moment 9. And although these Infernal Spirits are open Enemies to the very means which God hath appointed for mans salvation yet such is the degenerate and corrupted mind of mankind that there is in the same an itching after them for converse and familiarity to procure their assistance in any thing that their vain imagination suggesteth them with to effect which they inform themselves in every Tradition of Conjuration and Exorcism as also in the names natures and powers of Devils in general and are ever restless till their souls be totally devoted to that accursed and detestable nature which is at enmity with God and goodness 10. Now to proceed in the description of these Infernal Spirits and separated Daemons or Astral Beings as also of those in the Angelical Kingdom they that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven are either Angels which are divided into their degrees and orders or else the righteous souls departed who are entred into rest And it cannot be but that the life of Angels and Souls departed is the same in Heaven as also the food that nourisheth them and the fruits that spring before them Nor is it possible for any how expert so ever in Magical Arts to compel either of them of what degree soever they be to present themselves or appear before them Although many have written large Discourses and Forms of Convocation to compel the Angels unto communication with them by Magical Rites and Ceremonies 11. It may indeed be believed that seeing there are infinite numbers of Angels they are also imployed for the glory of God and protection of mankind but not subject to Conjurations And that they accompany many righteous men Invisibly and protect Cities and Countries from Plagues War and infestings of wicked Spirits against which Principalities and Powers of Darkness it is their place to contend and war to the confusion of the Kingdom of Darkness 12. But such Spirits as belong to this outward World and are of the Elemental quality subject to a beginning and ending and to degrees of continuance These may be solicited by Conjurations and can also inform Magicians in all the secrets of Nature yet so darkly because they want the outward organ that it is hardly possible for any that hath fellowship with them to learn any manual operation perfectly and distinctly from them 13. Many have insisted upon the Natures of these Astral Spirits some alledging That they are part of the faln Angels and consequently subject to the torments of Hell at the last Judgment Others That they are the departed souls of men and women confined to these outward Elements until the Consummation Lastly others As Del rio Nagar the Indian Magician and the Platonists affirm That their nature is middle between Heaven and Hell and that they reign in a third Kingdom from both having no other judgment or doom to expect for ever 14. But to speak more nearly unto their natures they are of the source of the Stars and have their degrees of continuance where of some live hundreds some thousands of years Their