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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19407	The triall of vvitch-craft shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?	1616 (1616)	STC 5836; ESTC S108830	92,097	138

habet de Magia that is Astrology that is not mixed nor intermeddleth with Magicke Wherby is necessarily concluded that Astrology may be and sometimes is impure and defiled with Magicke and Sorcerie In other places of the same worke he maketh a difference betweene Astrologers simply and such as with Astrologie ioined Magicke And out of Brentius he reciteth these words Non negat Hierimias eam partem Astrologiae quae sequitur manifest as naturae rationes that is the Prophet Ieremy doth not deny or condemne that part of Astrology which is guided by manifest reason or cause in nature Hereby then is vnauoidably concluded that the Prophet of God cōdemneth that part of Astrology which exceedeth causes reason in nature that necessarily must needs be Sorcery and Magicke As it is not obscure that some men vnder the colour of Astrology haue practised Magicke and Sorcery so is it no lesse euident that many others vnder the pretense of aduising and counselling in Physicke of curation or prognostication of diseases haue likewise exercised the same diuelish practice That this hath beene no new vpstart custome the multitude of diseases which ancient times doe register to haue been cured by enchaunted Spels and words and Magicke skill doth plentifully witnesse The most ancient father of all Physicke and Physicions the in comparable worthy founder of Method and Art Hippocrates Dioscorides Theophrastus with other succeeding Ancients do generally all acknowledge the force and power of Magicall curation Galen in his younger time gaue no credit thereto but in the more aged experience of right obseruatiō he doth acknowledge it I will not stuffe this small Treatise with the particular citation of euery Author Later Physicians also of the best and most choyse note doe herein with former ages consent and concurre and experience doth confirme all truth in both Whosoeuer is acquainted with books and reading shal euery where meet a world of the wonders of cures by words by lookes by signes by figures by characters and ceremonious rites As what the practice of former ages hath beene is manifest so what our age and later time doth herein afford is almost no where in this kingdome obscure The neerest vnto that impudence which here in this our time doth produce and set forth is that history of a Germane Witch reported in the Malleus Maleficarum There was as the Author of that worke sayth sometime a Sorceresse in Germany who vsually cured not only all that were bewitched but all kinde of diseased people so farre beyond all power or course of Art and Nature and with such facility that all vse of the Art of Physicke or of Physicions was altogether for a time neglected and forsaken while people from all Countries both neere and remote in such numbers and frequence resorted vnto her that the Gouernour of that Countrey imposing vpon euery man one penny that resorted vnto her thereby raised himselfe a mighty treasure What others among the most ancient Authors that are not Physicians do publish concerning the power of incantations in the curing of diseases is needlesse to write Hee that hath read any few lines of old Homer or of diuers other aged Poets shall finde plentifull record hereof Herodotus is not silent herein But to omit all their needlesse testimonies Physicians of these last times of the most eminent note worth whose pennes are yet scarce drie doe witnesse the truth hereof from their owne knowledge sight and experience Aboue the rest Fernelius de Abditis rerum causis is worthy any mans paines or view Let vs now lastly see what may bee collected out of the booke of God concerning the power of the Diuell in curing diseases from whom all these inferiour Agents Witches and Sorcerers do deriue their power and skill If it bee in his power where God doth permit to induce diseases it must needes be in his power to cease or calme diseases because both causing and curing consist in the vertue and force of the same meanes He therefore that knoweth how and by what cause the disease is induced doth necessarily vnderstand that by the remouall of that cause it is cured and according to that rule can equally as well by the remouall of that cause cure as by the induction of the cause bring sickenesse For this reason it is a maxime in Physicke infallible that hee is the most excellent Physician who knoweth best the causes of diseases and who vpon the knowledge of their true causes doth found the right method of their curation That the Diuell doth both know the causes of diseases and also how by them to procure and produce diseases is manifest by the history of Iob vpon whom hee brought that grieuous generall botch and byle ouer all his body Iob. chap. 2. verse 7. That he did this by the force of causes in nature must needes be euident first because hee is a creature and subiect and limited by nature vnto and within her lists and therefore is not able absolutely and simply without causes and meanes in nature to produce any effects in nature although our ignorance of his power and knowledge because it so farre excelleth our power or nature doth call all his workes iustly supernaturall Secondly for that byles and botches are knowne naturall diseases and therefore had naturall causes although haply vnknowne to any man and beyond the nature of knowledge or skill in man These reasons of the Diuels impossibility to worke those effects without nature are thus yet more briefly and cleerely made infallible Of nothing simply to produce any thing vnto a true being and existence is the sole and proper worke of an infinite Creator and impossible vnto any creature Therefore the Diuell being a creature could not bring those diseases vpon Iob but by created meanes preexisting in created nature in which he is contained and limited And thus much concerning that kinde of Witch and Sorcerer which is enquired at concerning the curing and issue of diseases which we will conclude with this note that all learned men of the best experience haue obserued that in those cures by Witches and Sorcerers the Diuell hath neuer perfectly healed but for a time or els where he hath seemed most perfectly to cure it hath been for a reseruation of the body by him cured vnto a greater and further mischiefe in time to succeede Besides this kind of Witch by meanes vnknown to man or by a supernaturall vertue in knowne means aboue beyond their nature vndertaking to cure the sick or to foretell the euent and issues of diseases there is also another kind which doth vndertake to bee enquired at for extraordinary reuelation of such diseased persons as are bewitched or possessed by the Diuell This kinde is not obscure at this day swarming in this kindom wherof no man can be ignorant who lusteth to obserue the vncontrouled liberty license of open ordinary resort in all places vnto wise-men