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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