Lords or Ladies he shall not be condemned with false witness nor taken with Fairies or any manner of Axes nor yet with the Falling-evil Also if a woman be in Travel lay this writing upon her belly she shall have easie deliverance and the child right shape and Christendom and the mother Purification of holy Church and all through vertue of these holy Names of Jesus Christ following ✚ Jesus ✚ Christus ✚ Messias ✚ Soter ✚ Emmanuel ✚ Sabbath ✚ Adonai ✚ Unigenitus ✚ Majestas ✚ Paracletus ✚ Salvatur noster ✚ Agiros iskiros ✚ Agios ✚ Adonatos ✚ Gasper ✚ Melchior ✚ Balthasar ✚ Matthaeus ✚ Marcios ✚ Lucos ✚ Johannes The Epistle of S. Saviour which Pope Leo sent to King Charles saying that whosoever carrieth the same about him or in what day soever he shall read it or shall see it he shall not be killed with any Iron-tool nor be burned with fire nor be drowned with water neither any evil man or other creature may hurt him The Cross of Christ is a wonderful defence ✚ the cross of Christ be alwayes with me ✚ the cross is it which I do alwayes worship ✚ the cross of Christ is true health ✚ the cross of Christ doth lose the bands of death ✚ the cross of Christ is the truth and the way ✚ I take my journey upon the cross of the Lord ✚ the cross of Christ beareth down every evil ✚ the cross of Christ giveth all good things ✚ the cross of Christ taketh away pains everlasting ✚ the cross of Christ save me ✚ O cross of Christ be upon me before me and behind me ✚ because the ancient Enemy cannot abide the sight of thee ✚ the cross of Christ save me keep me govern me and direct me ✚ Thomas bearing this note of thy divine Majesty ✚ Alpha ✚ Omega ✚ first ✚ and last ✚ midst ✚ and end ✚ beginning ✚ first begotten ✚ wisdom ✚ vertue ✚ A Popish Periapt or Charm which must never be said but carried about one against Theeves I Do go and I do come unto you with the love of God with the humility of Christ with the holiness of our blessed Lady with the Faith of Abraham with the Justice of Isaac with the Vertue of David with the Might of Peter with the Constancy of Paul with the Word of God with the Authority of Gregory with the Prayer of Clement with the Flood of Jordan p p p c g e g a q q est p t 1 k a b g l k 2 a x t g t b a m g 2 4 2 1 que p x c g k q a 9 9 p o q q r. Oh only Father ✚ oh only Lord ✚ And Jesus ✚ passing through the midst of them ✚ went In ✚ the Name of the Father ✚ and of the Son ✚ and of the Holy Ghost ✚ Another Amulet JOseph of Arimathea did find this Writing upon the wounds of the side of Jesus Christ written with Gods finger when the Body was taken away from the Cross Whosoever shall carry this writing about him shall not dye any evil death if he believe in Christ and in all perplexities he shall soon be delivered neither let him fear any danger at all Fons Alpha Omega ✚ figa ✚ figalis ✚ Sabbaoth ✚ Emmanuel ✚ Adonai ✚ o ✚ Neray ✚ Ela ✚ Ihe ✚ Rentone ✚ Neger ✚ Sahe ✚ Pangeton ✚ Commen ✚ a ✚ g ✚ l ✚ a ✚ Mattheus ✚ Marcus ✚ Lucas ✚ Johannes ✚ ✚ ✚ titulus triumphalis ✚ Jesus ✚ Nasarenus rex Judaeorum ✚ ecce dominica crucis signum ✚ fugite partes adversae vicit leo de tribu Judae radix David aleluijah Kyrie eleeson Christe eleeson Pater noster Ave Maria ne nos veniat super nos salutare tuum Oremus c. I find in a Primer intituled The Hours of our Lady after the use of the Church of York printed anno 1516. a Charm with this titling in red letters To all them that afore this Image of pity devoutly shall lay five Pater nosters five Avies and one Credo piteously beholding these arms or Christ's passion are granted thirty two thousand seven hundred fifty five years of pardon It is to be thought that this pardon was granted in the time of Pope Boniface the ninth for Platina saith that the Pardons were sold so cheap that the Apostolical Authority grew into contempt A Papistical Charm SIgnum sanctae crucis defendat me a malis praesentibus praeteritis futuris interioribus exterioribus That is The sign of the Cross defend me from evils present past and to come inward and outward A Charm found in the Canon of the Mass ALso this charm is found in the Canon of the Mass Haec sacrosancta commixtio corporis sanguinis domini nostri Jesu Christi fiat mihi omnibusque sumentibus salus mentis corporis ad vitam promerendam capessendam praeparatio salutaris that is Let this holy mixture of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ be unto me and unto all receivers thereof health of mind and body and to the deserving and receiving of life an healthful preparative Other Papistical Charms Aqua benedicta sit mihi salus vita Englished by Abraham Fleming Let holy water he both health and life to me Adque nomen Martini omnis haereticus fugiat pallidus When Martins name is sung or said Let Hereticks flie as men dismaid But the Papists have a harder Charm than that to wit Fire and fagot Fire and fagot A Charm of the Holy-Cross Nulla salus est in domo Nisi cruce munit homo Superliminaria Neque sentit gladium Nec amisit filium Quisquis egit talia No health within the house doth dwell Except a man do Cross him well At every door or frame He never feeleth the Swords point Nor of his Son shall lose a joynt That doth perform the same Furthermore as followeth I sta suos fortiores Semper facit victores Morbos sanat languores Reprimit Daemonia Dat captivis libertatem Vitae confert novitatem Ad antiquam dignitatem Crux reducit omnia O Crux lignum triumphale Mundi vera salus vale Inter ligna nullum tale Fronde flore germine Medicina Christiana Salva sanos aegros sana Quod non valet vis humana Fit in tuo nomine c. Englished by Abraham Fleming It makes her souldiers excellent And crowneth them with victory Restores the lame and impotent And healeth every malady The Devils of Hell it conquereth Releaseth from imprisonment Newness of life it offereth It hath all at commandement O Cross of Wood incomparable To all the world most wholesome No Wood is half so honourable In branch in bud or blossome O medicine which Christ did ordain The sound save every hour The sick and sore make whole again By vertue of thy power And that which mans unablenss Hath never comprehended Grant by thy Name
a great he cometh forth like a Souldier riding on a great Horse he hath a Lyons face very red and with flaming eyes he speaketh with a big voyce he maketh a man wonderful in Astronomy and in all the liberal Sciences he bringeth good familiars and ruleth Thirty six Legions Saleos is a great Earl he appeareth as a gallant Souldier riding on a Crocodile and weareth a Dukes crown peaceable c. Vuall is a great Duke and a strong he is seen as a great and terrible Dromedary but in humane form he soundeth out in a base voyce the Aegyptian tongue This man above all other procureth especial love of Women and knoweth things present past and to come procuring the love of friends and foes he was of the order of Potestates and governeth Thirty seven Legions Haagenti is a great President appearing like a great Bull having the wings of a Griffin but when he taketh humane shape he maketh a man wise in every thing he changeth all metals into gold and changeth Wine and Water the one into the other and commandeth as many Legions as Zagan Phoenix is a great Marquess appearing like the bird Phoenix having a childs voyce but berore he standeth still before the Conjuror he singeth many sweet notes Then the Exorcist with his companions must beware he give no ear to the melody but must by and by bid him put on humane shape then will he speak marvellously of all wonderful Sciences He is an excellent Poet and obedient he hopeth to return to the seventh Throne after a thousand two hundred years and governeth Twenty Legions Stolas is a great Prince appearing in the form of a Night-raven before the Exorcist he taketh the image and shape of a man and teacheth Astronomy absolutely understanding the vertues of herbs and pretious stones there are under him Twenty six legions Note that a Legion is 6666. and now by Multiplication count how many Legions do arise out of every particular ✚ Secretum secretorum The secret of secrets Tu operans sis secretus horum Thou that workest them be secret in them CHAP. XII The hours wherein principal Devils may be bound to wit raised and restrained from doing of hurt AMaymon King of the East Corson King of the South Zimimar King of the North Goap King and Prince of the West may be bound from the third hour till noon and from the ninth hour till evening Marquesses may be bound from the ninth hour till compline and from compline to the end of the day Dukes may be bound from the first hour till noon and clear weather is to be observed Prelates may be bound in any hour of the day Knights from day dawning till Sun rising or from evensong till the Sun set A President may not be bound in any hour of the day except the King whom he obeyeth be invocated nor in the shutting of the evening Counties or Earls may be bound at any hour of the day so it be in the woods or fields where men resort not CHAP. XIII The form of adjuring or citing of the Spirits aforesaid to arise and appear WHen you will have any Spirit you must know his Name and Office you must also fast and be clean from all pollution three or four days before so will the Spirit be the more obedient unto you Then make a Circle and call up the Spirit with great intention and holding a ring in your hand rehearse in your own name and your companions for one must alwayes be with you this Prayer following and so no Spirit shall annoy you and your purpose shall take effect And note how this agreeth with Popish Charmes and Conjurations In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ the ✚ Father ✚ and the Son ✚ and the Holy Ghost ✚ holy Trinity and unspeakable Unity I call upon thee that thou mayst be my salvation and defence and the protection of my body and soul and of all my goods through the virtue of thy holy Cross and through the vertue of thy passion I beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by the merits of thy blessed Mother S. Mary and of all thy Saints That thou give me Grace and Divine power over all the wicked Spirits so as which of them soever I do call by name they may come by and by from every coast and accomplish my will that they neither be hurtful nor fearful unto me but rather obedient and diligent about me And through thy virtue streightly commanding them let them fufil my commandements Amen Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth which wilt come to judge the quick and the dead thou which art Α and Ω first and last King of Kings and Lord of Lords Ioth Aglanabrath El Abiel Anathiel Amazim Sedomel Grayes Heli Messias Tolimi Elias Ischiros Athanatos Imas By these thy holy Names and by all other I do call upon thee and beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by thy Nativity and Baptism by thy Cross and Passion by thine Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost by the bitterness of thy soul when it departed from the body by thy five wounds by the blood and water which went out of thy body by thy virtue by the Sacrament which thou gavest thy Disciples the day before thou sufferedst by the holy Trinity and the inseparable Unity by blessed Mary thy Mother by thine Angels Arch-Angels Prophets Patriarchs and by all thy Saints and by all the Sacraments which are made in thine honour I do worship and beseech thee to accept these prayers Conjurations and words of my mouth which I will use I require thee O Lord Jesus Christ that thou give me thy virtue and power over all thine Angels which were thrown down from heaven to deceive mankind to draw them to me to tie and bind them and also to loose them to gather them together before me and to command them to do all that they can and that by no means they contemn my voyce or the words of my mouth but that they obey me and my sayings and fear me I beseech thee by thine Humanity Mercy and Grace and I require thee Adony Amay Horta Vegedora Mitai Hel Suranat Yston Ysesy and by all thy holy Names and by all thine holy He-Saints and She-Saints by all thine Angels and Archangels Powers Dominions and Virtues and by that name that Solomon did bind the Devils and shut them up Elbrach Evanher Agle Goth Ioth Othie Venoch Nabrat and by all thine holy Names which are written in this book and by the virtue of them all that thou enable me to congregate all thy Spirits thrown down from heaven that they may give me a true answer of all my demands and that they satisfie all my requests without the hurt of my body or soul or any thing else that is mine through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son which liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost one God world without end
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
except thou Spirit N. do come and appear visibly in this Crystal-stone in my presence here immediately as it is aforesaid Let the great curse of God the anger of God the shadow and darkness of death and of eternal condemnation be upon thee Spirit N. for ever and ever because thou hast denyed thy faith thy health and salvation For thy great disobedience thou art worthy to be condemned Therefore let the divine Trinity Thrones Dominions Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and all the souls of Saints both of men and women condemn thee for ever and be a witness against thee at the day of judgment because of thy disobedience And let all creatures of our Lord Jesus Christ say thereunto Fiat Fiat fiat Amen And when he is appeared in the Crystal-stone as is said before bind him with this bond as followeth to wit I conjure thee Spirit N. that art appeared to me in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow I conjure thee by all the royall words aforesaid the which did constrain thee to appear therein and their vertues I charge thee by them all that thou shall not depart out of this Crystal-stone until my will being fulfilled thou be licened to depart I conjure and bind thee Spirit N. by that omnipotent God which commanded the Angel S. Michael to drive Lucifer out of the Heavens with a Sword of vengeance and to fall from joy to pain and for dread of such pain as he is in I charge thee Spirit N. that thou shalt not go out of the Crystal-stone nor yet to alter thy shape at this time except I command thee otherwise but to come unto me at all places and in all hours and minutes when and wheresoever I shall call thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ or by any Conjuration of words that is written in this Book and to shew me and my friends true visions in this Crystal-stone of any thing or things that we would see at any time or times and also to go and fetch me the fairy Sibylia that I may talk with her in all kind of talk as I shall call her by any Conjuration of words contained in this Book I conjure thee Spirit N. by the great wisdom and divinity of his Godhead my will to fulfill as is aforesaid I charge thee upon pain of condemnation both in this world and in the world to come Fiat fiat fiat Amen This done go to the place fast by and in a fair Parlor or Chamber make a ✚ ✚ ✚ Sorthie Sorthia Sorthios circle with chalk as hereafter followeth and make another circle for the fairy Sibylia to appear in four foot from the circle thou art in and make no names therein or cast any holy thing therein but make a circle round with chalk and let the Master and his fellow sit down in this circle the Master having the Book in his hand his fellow having the Crystal-stone in his right hand looking in the Stone when the Fairy doth appear The Master also must have upon his brest this figure here written in Parchment and begin to work in the new of the ☽ and in the hour of ♃ the ☉ and the ☽ to be in one of inhabiters signes as ♋ ♠♓ This bond as followeth is to cause the Spirit in the Crystal-stone to fetch unto thee the fairy Sibylia All things fulfilled begin this bond as followeth and behold for doubtles they will come before thee before the Conjuration be read seven times I conjure thee spirit N. in this Crystal-stone by God the Father by God the Son Jesus Christ and by God the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God and by their vertues I conjure thee spirit that thou do go in peace and also come again to me quickly and to bring with thee into that circle appointed Sibylia Fairie that I may talk with her in those matters that shall be to her honour and glory and so I charge thee declare unto her I conjure thee spirit N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb the which redeemed all the world by the vertue thereof I charge thee thou spirit in the Crystal-stone that thou do declare unto her this message Also I conjure thee spirit N. by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee N. that thou do depart with speed and also to come again with speed and to bring with thee the fairie Sibylia to appear in that circle before I do read the Conjuration in this Book seven times Thus I charge thee my will to be fulfilled upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen Then the figure aforesaid pinned on thy brest rehearse the words therein and say ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ then begin your Conjuration as followeth here and say I conjure thee Sibylia O gentle Virgine of Fairies by the mercy of the Holy Ghost and by the dreadful day of doom and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Sibylia O gentle Virgine of Fairies and by all the Angels of ♃ and their characters and vertues and by all the spirits of ♃ and ♠and their characters and vertues and by all the characters that be in the Firmament and by the King and Queen of Fairies and their vertues and by the faith and obedience that thou bearest unto them I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun in the time of his death and by the rising up of the dead in the time of his Resurrection and by the Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the unspeakable Name of God Letragramaton I conjure thee O Sibylia O blessed and beautiful Virgin by all the royall words aforesaid I conjure thee Sibylia by all their vertues to appear in that circle before me visibly in the form and shape of a beautiful woman in a bright and white vesture adorned and garnished most fair and to appear to me quickly without deceit or tarrying and that thou fail not to fulfil my will and desire effectually For I will choose thee to be my blessed Virgin and will have common copulation with thee Therefore make hast and speed to come unto me and to appear as I have said before To whom be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen The which done and ended if she come not repeat the Conjuration till they do come for doubtless they will come And when she is appeared take your censers and incense her with frankincense then bind her with the bond as followeth I do conjure thee Sibylia by God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Gost three Persons and one God and by the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by all the
whole and holy company of Heaven and by the dreadful day of doom and by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and their vertues and powers I conjure thee and bind thee Sibylia that thou shalt not depart out of the circle wherein thou art appeared nor yet to alter thy shape except I give thee licence to depart I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the vertue hereof I conjure thee Sibylia to come to me and to appear to me at all times visibly as the Conjuration of words leadeth written in this Book I conjure thee Sibylia O blessed Virgin of Fairies by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun at the time of his death and by the rising of the dead in the time of his glorious Resurrection and by the unspeakable Name of God ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ and by King and Queen of Fairies and by their vertues I conjure thee Sibylia to appear before the Conjuration be read over four times and that visibly to appear as the the Conjuration leadeth written in this Book and to give me good counsel at all times and to come by treasures hidden in the earth and all other things that is to do me pleasure and to fulfil my will without any deceit or tarrying nor yet that thou shalt have any power of my body or soul earthly or ghostly nor yet to perish so much of my body as one hair of my head I conjure thee Sibylia by all the royal words aforesaid and by their vertues and powers I charge and bind thee by the vertue thereof to be obedient unto me and to all the words aforesaid and this bond to stand between thee and me upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XVIII A License for Sibylia to go and come by at all times I Conjure thee Sibylia which art come hither before me by the commandement of thy Lord and mine that thou shalt have no power in thy going or coming unto me imagining any evil in any manner of wayes in the earth or under the earth of evil doings to any person or persons I conjure and command thee Sibylia by all the royal words and vertues that be written in this Book that thou shalt not go to the place from whence thou camest but shalt remain peaceably invisibly and look thou be ready to come unto me when thou art called by any conjuration of words that be written in this Book to come I say at my commandement and to answer unto me truly and duly of all things my will quickly to be fulfilled Vade in pace in Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti And the holy ✚ cross ✚ between thee and me or between us and you and the Lion of Juda the root of Jess the kindred of David be between thee and me ✚ Christ cometh ✚ Christ commandeth ✚ Christ giveth power ✚ Christ defend me ✚ and his innocent blood ✚ from all perils of body and soul sleeping and waking Fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XIX To know of Treasure hidden in the Earth WRite in paper these characters following on the Saturday in the hour of ☽ and lay it where thou thinkest Treasure to be if there be any the paper will burn else not And these be the characters This is the way to go invisible by these three Sisters of Fairies IN the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost First go to a fair Parlor or Chamber and an even ground and in no loft and from people nine dayes for it is the better and let all thy cloathing be clean and sweet Then make a Candle of Virgin Wax and light it and make a fair fire of Charcoles in a fair place in the middle of the Parlour or Chamber Then take fair clean water that runneth against the East and set it upon the fire and if thou washest thy self say these words going about the fire three times holding the Candle in thy right hand ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muriton ✚ Bisecognaton ✚ Siston ✚ Diaton ✚ Maton ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ Agla ✚ Agarion ✚ Tegra ✚ Pentessaron ✚ Tendicata ✚ Then rehearse these names ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ Sibylia ✚ In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti Amen I conjure you three sisters of Fairies Milia Achilia Sibylia by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost and by their vertues and powers and by the most merciful and living God that will command his Angel to blow the trump at the day of Judgment and he shall say Come come come to judgment and by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure you thre sisters by the vertue of all the royal words aforesaid I charge you that you do appear before me visibly in form and shape of fair women in white vestures and to bring with you to me the Ring of Invisibility by the which I may go invisible at mine own will and pleasure and that in all hours and minutes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Being appeared say this bond following O blessed Virgins ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ I conjure you in the Name of the Father in the Name of the Son and the Name of the Holy Ghost and by their vertues I charge you to depart from me in peace for a time And Sibylia I conjure thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the vertue of his flesh and precious blood that he took of our blessed Lady the Virgin and by all holy company in Heaven I charge thee Sibylia by all the vertues aforesaid that thou be obedient unto me in the Name of God that when and what time and place I shall call thee by this foresaid Conjuration written in this Book look thou be ready to come unto me at all hours and minutes and to bring unto me the Ring of Invisibility whereby I may go invisible at my will and pleasure and that at all hours and minutes Fiat fiat Amen And if they come not at the first night then do the same the second night and so the third night until they do come for doubtless they will come and lie thou in thy bed in the same Parlor or Chamber And lay thy right hand out of the bed and look thou have a fair silken Kercher bound about thy head and be not afraid they will do thee no harm For there will come before thee three fair women and all in white cloathing and one of them will put a Ring upon thy finger wherewith thou shalt go invisible Then with speed bind them with the bond aforesaid When thou hast this Ring on thy finger look in
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
that is I beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ that thou pull out of every member of this man all infirmities from his head from his hair from his brain from his forehad from his eyes from his nose from his ears from his mouth from his tongue from his teeth from his jaws from his throat from his neck from his back from his brest from his paps from his heart from his stomach from his sides from his flesh from his blood from his bones from his legs from his feet from his fingers from the soles of his feet from his marrow from his sinews from his skin and from every joynt of his members c. Doubtless Jesus Christ could have no starting hole but was hereby every way prevented and pursued so as he was forced to do the cure for it appeareth hereby that it had been insufficient for him to have said Depart our of this man thou unclean spirit and that when he so said he did not perform it I do not think that there will be found among all the Heathens superstitious Fables or among the Witches Conjurers Poets Knaves Coseners Fools c. that ever wrote so impudent and impious a lie or Charm as is read in Barnardine de bustis where to cure a sick man Christs body to wit a Wafer-cake was outwardly applyed to his side and entred into his heart in the sight of all standers by Now if grave Authors report such lies what credit in these cases shall we attribute unto the old wives tales that Sprenger Institor Bodin and others write Even as much as to Moor's Utopia and divers other fansies which have as much truth in them as a blind-man hath sight in his eye A Charm for the Bots in a Horse YOu must both say and do thus upon the diseased Horse three dayes together before the Sun-rising In Nomine Pa ✚ tris fi ✚ lii spiritus ✚ sancti Exorcizo te vermem per Deum Pa ✚ trem fi ✚ lium spiritum ✚ sanctum that is In the Name of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost I conjure thee O Worm by God the Father the Son and the Holy-Ghost that thou neither eat nor drink the flesh blood or bones of this Horse and that thou hereby mayst be made as patient as Job and as good as Saint John Baprist when he baptized Christ in Jordan In Nomine Pa ✚ tris Filii Spirituus ✚ Sancti And then say three Pater-nosters and three Aves in the right ear of the Horse to the glory of the Holy Trinity Do ✚ minus Fili ✚ us Spiri ✚ tus Mari ✚ a. There are also divers Books imprinted as it should appear with the authority of the Church of Rome wherein are contained many medicinal Prayers not only against all diseases of Horses but also for every impediment and fault in a Horse insomuch as if a shoe fall off in the midst of his journey there is a Prayer to warrant your Horses hoof so as it shall not break how far soever he be from the Smiths forge Item The Duke Alba his Horse was consecrated or canonized in the Low-Countries at the solemn Mass wherein the Popes-Bull and also his Charm was published which I will hereafter recite he in the mean time sitting as Vice-roy with his consecrated standart in his hand till Mass was done A Charm against Vinegar THat Wine Wax not Eager write on the vessel Gustate videte quoniam suavis est Dominus CHAP. XV. The Inchanting Serpents and Snakes Objections answered concerning the same fond reasons why Charms take effect therein Mahomets Pigeon Miracles wrought by an Ass at Memphis in Aegypt Popish Charms against Serpents Of Miracle-workers the taming of Snakes Bodin's lye of Snakes Concerning the charming of Serpents and Snakes mine Adversaries as I have said think they have great advantage by the words of David in Psal 58. and by Jer. chap. 8. expounding the one Prophet by Virgil the other by Ovid. For the words of David are these Their poyson is like the poyson of a Serpent and like a deaf Adder that stoppeth his Ear and heareth not the voyce of the Charmer charm he never so cunningly The words of Virgil are these Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis As if he might say David thou liest for the cold-natured Snake is by the Charms of the Inchanters broken all to pieces in the field where he lieth Then cometh Ovid and he taketh his Country mans part saying in the name and person of a Witch Vipereas rumpo verbis carmine fauces I with my words and Charms can break in sunder the Vipers jaws Marry Jeremy on the other side encountreth this Poetical Witch and he not only defendeth but expoundeth his fellow Prophets words and that not in his own Name but in the Name of Almighty God saying I will send Serpents and Cockatrices among you which cannot be charmed Now let any indifferent man Christian or Heathen Judge whether the words and minds of the Prophets do not directly oppugn these Poets words I will not say minds for that I am sure therein they did but jest and trifle according to the common fabling of lying Poets And certainly I can encounter them two with other two Poets namely Propertius and Horace the one merrily deriding the other seriously impugning their fantastical Poetries concerning the power and Omnipotency of Witches For where Virgil Ovid c. write that Witches with their Charms fetch down the Moon and Starrs from heaven c. Propertius mocketh them in these words following At vos deductae quibus est fallacia Lunae Et labor in magicis sacra piare focis En agedum domina mentem convertite nostrae Et facite illa meo palleat ore magis Tunc ego crediderim vobis sidera amnos Posse Circeis ducere carminibus Englished by Abraham Fleming But you that have the subtil slight Of fetching down the Moon from Skies And with inchanting fire bright Attempt to purge your Sacrifice Lo now go too turn if you can Our Madams mind and sturdy heart And make her face more pale and wan Than mine which if by Magick Art You do then will I soon beleeve That by your witching Charms you can From Skies aloft the Stars remeeve And Rivers turn from whence they ran And that you may see more certainly that these Poets did but jest and deride the credulous and timerous sort of people I thought good to shew you what Ovid saith against himself and such as have written so incredibly and ridiculously of Witches Omnipotency Nec mediae magicis finduntur cantibus angues Nec redit in fontes unda supina suos Englished by Abraham Fleming Snakes in the middle are not riven With Charms Witches cunning Nor Waters to their Fountains driven By force of backward running As for Horace his Verses I omit them because I have cited them
be buried Otherwise in the dominion of Mars two Images must be prepared one of wax the other of the earth of a dead man each Image must have in his hand a Sword wherewith a man hath been slain and he that must be slain may have his head thrust through with a Foin In both must be written certain peculiar Characters and then must they be hid in a certain place Otherwise to obtain a Womans Love an Image must be made in the hour of Venus of Virgin-wax in the name of the beloved whereupon a Character is written and is warmed at a fire and in doing thereof the name of some Angel must be mentioned To be utterly rid of the Witch and to hang her up by the hair you must prepare an Image of the earth of a dead man to be baptized in another mans name whereon the name with a Character must be written then must it be perfumed with a rotten bone and then these Psalms read backward Domine Dominus noster Dominus illuminatio mea Domine exaudi orationem meam Deus laudem meam ne tacueris and then bury it first in one place and afterwards in another Howbeit it is written in the one and twentieth Article of the Determination of Paris that to affirm that Images of Brass Lead Gold of white or red Wax or of any other Stuff conjured baptized consecrated or rather execrated through these Magical Arts at certain dayes have wonderful vertues or such as are avowed in their Books or Assertions is error in faith Natural Philosophy and true Astronomy yea it is concluded in the twenty second Article of that Council that it is as great an Error to believe those things as to do them But concerning these Images it is certain that they are much feared among the people and much used among cousening Witches as partly appeareth in this discourse of mine elsewhere and as partly you may see by the Contents of this Story following Not long sithence a young Maiden dwelling at New Romny here in Kent being the Daughter of one M. L. Stuppeny late Jurat of the same Town but dead before the Execution hereof and afterward the Wife of Thom. Eps who is at this instant Maior of Romny was visited with sickness whose Mother and Fatherinlaw being abused with credulity concerning Witches supernatural Power repaired to a famous Witch called Mother Baker dwelling not far from thence at a place called Stonestreet who according to Witches cousening Custom asked whether they mistrusted not some bad Neighbour to whom they answered that indeed they doubted a Woman near unto them and yet the same was of the honester and wiser sort of her Neighbours reputed a good Creature Nevertheless the Witch told them that there was great cause of their suspition for the same said she is the very party that wrought the Maidens destruction by making a heart of wax and pricking the same with pins and needles affirming also that the same Neighbour of hers had bestowed the same in some secret corner of the House This being believed the House was searched by credible Persons but nothing could be found The Witch or Wise woman being certified hereof continued her Assertion and would needs go to the House where she her self as she affirmed would certainly find it When she came thither she used her Cunning as it chanced to her own confusion or at leastwise to her detection for herein she did as some of the wiser sort mistrusted that she would do laying down privily such an Image as she had before described in a corner which by others had been most diligently searched and looked into and by that means her Cousenage was notably bewrayed And I would wish that all Witchmongers might pay for their lewd repair to Inchanters and consultation with Witches and such as have familiar Spirits as some of these did and that by the Order of the High Commissioners which partly for respect of Neigbourhood and partly for other Considerations I leave unspoken of CHAP. XVII Sundry sorts of Charms tending to divers Purposes and first certain Charms to make Taciturnity in Tortures IMparibus meritis tria Pendent Corpora ramis Dismas Gestas In medio est Divina Potestas Dismas damnatur Gestas ad astra levatur Englished by Abraham Fleming Three Bodies on a bough do hang For merits of Inequality Dismas and Gestas in the midst The Power of the Divinity Dismas is damnd But Gestas lifted up above the Stars on high Also this Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum veritatem nunquam dicam Regi Otherwise As the milk of our Lady was luscious to our Lord Jesus Christ so let this torture or rope be pleasant to mine arms and members Otherwise Jesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat Otherwise You shall not break a bone of him Counter-charms against these and all other Witchcrafts in the saying also whereof Witches are vexed c. ERuctavit cor meum verbuus bonum dicam cuncta opera mea regi Otherwise Domine labia mea aperies os meum annuntiabit veritatem Otherwise Contere brachia inqui rei lingua maligna sulvertatur A Charm for the chin Cough TAke three sips of a Chalice when the Priest hath said Mass and swallow it down with good Devotion c. For corporal or spiritual Rest In nomine Patris up and down Et Filii Spiritus sancti upon my Crown Crux Christi upon my Breast Sweet Lady send me eternal Rest Charms to find out a Thief THe means how to find out a Thief is thus Turn your face to the East and make a Cross upon Chrystal with Oil Olive and under the Cross write these two words Saint Helen Then a Child that is innocent and a chaste Virgin born in true Wedlock and not base begotten of the age of ten years must take the Chrystal in his hand and behind his back kneeling on thy knees thou must devoutly and reverently say over this Prayer thrice I beseech thee my Lady S. Helen Mother of King Constantine which didst find the Cross whereupon Christ died by that holy devotion and invention of the Cross and by the same Cross and by the joy which thou conceivedst at the finding thereof and by the love which thou bearest to thy Son Constantine and by the great goodness which thou dost alwayes use that thou shew me in this Chrystal whatsoever I ask or desire to know Amen And when the Child seeth the Angel in the Chrystal demand what you will and the Angel will make answer thereunto Memorandum that this be done just at the Sun-rising when the weather is fair and clear Cardanus derideth these and such like Fables and setteth down his judgement therein accordingly in the sixteenth Book De rerum var. These Conjurers and Coseners forsooth will shew you in a Glass the Thief that hath stoln any thing from you and this is their order They take a
Glass-vial full of holy Water and set it upon a linnen cloth which hath been purified not only by washing but by sacrifice c. On the mouth of the Vial or Urinal two Olive-leaves must be laid across with a little Conjuration said over it by a child to wit thus Angele bone Angele candide per tuam sanctitatem meamque virginitatem ostende mihi furem with three Pater nosters three Aves and betwixt either of them a Cross made with the nail of the Thumb upon the mouth of the Vial and then shall be seen Angels ascending and descending as it were Motes in the Sun-beams The Thief all this while shall suffer great torments and his Face shall be seen plainly even as plainly I believe as the Man in the Moon For in truth there are toyes artificially conveyed into glass which will make the water bubble and devices to make Images appear in the bubbles as also there be Artificial Glasses which will shew unto you that shall look thereinto many Images of divers Forms and some so small and curious as they shall in favour resemble whomsoever you think upon Look in John Bap. Neap. for the confection of such glasses The subtilties hereof are so detected and the mysteries of the glasses so common now and their cosenage so well known c. that I need not stand upon the particular confutation hereof Cardanus in the place before cited reporteth how he tried with children these and divers circumstances the whole illusion and found it to be plain knavery and cosenage Another way to find out a Thief that hath stoln any thing from you GO to the Sea-side and gather as many pebles as you suspect persons for that matter carry them home and throw them into the fire and bury them under the threshold where the parties are like to come over There let them lie three days and then before sun-rising take them away Then set a Porrenger full of water in a circle wherein must be made crosses every way as many as can stand in it upon the which must be written Christ overcometh Christ reigneth Christ commandeth The Porrenger also must be signed with a Cross and a form of Conjuration must be pronounced Then each stone must be thrown into the water in the name of the suspected And when you put in the stone of him that is guilty the stone will make the water boil as though glowing iron were put thereinto Which is a meer knack of legierdemain and to be accomplished divers wayes To put out the Thiefs eye REad the seven Psalms with the Letany and then must be said a horrible prayer to Christ and God the Father with a curse against the Thief Then in the midst of the step of your foot on the ground where you stand make a circle like an eye and write thereabout certain barbarous names and drive with a Coopers Hammer or Addes into the midst thereof a brazen nail consecrated saying Justus es Domine justa judicia tua Then the Thief shall be bewrayed by his crying out Another way to find out a Thief STick a pair of Sheers in the rind of a Sieve and let two persons set the top of each of their Forefingers upon the upper part of the Sheers holding it with the Sieve up from the ground steadily and ask Peter and Paul whether A. B. or C. hath stoln the thing lost and at the nomination of the guilty person the Sieve will turn round This is a great practice in all Countries and indeed a very bable For with the beating of the pulse some cause of that motion ariseth some other cause by the slight of the fingers some other by the wind gathered in the Sieve to be staid c. at the pleasure of the holders Some cause may be the imagination which upon the conceit at the naming of the party altereth the common course of the pulse as may well be conceived by a Ring held steadily by a thred betwixt the finger and the thumb over or rather in a goblet or glass which within short space will strike against the side thereof so many strokes as the holder thinketh it a clock and then will stay the which who so proveth shall find true A Charm to find out or spoil a Thief OF this matter concerning the apprehension of Thieves by words I will cite one Charm called S. Adelberts curse being both for length of words sufficient to weary the Reader and for substantial stuff comprehending all that appertaineth unto blasphemous speech or cursing allowed in the Church of Rome as an Excommunication and Inchantment Saint Adelberts Curse or Charm against Thieves BY the Authority of the Omnipotent Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and by the holy Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Angels and Archangels and S. Michael and S. John Baptist and in the behalf of S. Peter the Apostle and the residue of the Apostles and of S. Stephen and of all the Martyrs of S. Sylvester and of S. Adelbert and all the Confessors nd S. Alegand and all the holy Virgins and of all the Saints in Heaven and Earth unto whom there is given power to bind and loose we do excommunicate damn curse and bind with the knots and bands of Excommunication and we do segregate from the bounds and lists of our holy Mother the Church all those Thieves Sacrilegious persons ravenous Catchers Doers Counsellers Coadjutors male or female that have committed this theft or mischief or have usurped any part thereof to their own use Let their share be with Dathan and Abiran whom the Earth swallowed up for their sins and pride and let them have part with Judas that betrayed Christ Amen and with Pontius Pilat and with them that said to the Lord Depart from us we will not understand thy wayes let their Children be made Orphans Cursed be they in the Field in the Grove in the Woods in their Houses Barns Chambers and Beds and cursed be they in the Court in the Way in the Town in the Castle in the Water in the Church in the Churchyard in the Tribunal-place in Battel in their Abode in the Market-place in their Talk in Silence in Eating in Watching in Sleeping in Drinking in Feeling in Sitting in Kneeling in Standing in Lying in Idleness in all their Work in their Body and Soul in their five Wits and in every Place Cursed be the fruit of their Wombs and cursed be the fruit of their Lands and cursed be all that they have Cursed be their Heads their Mouths their Nostrils their Noses their Lips their Jaws their Teeth their Eyes and Eye-lids their Brains the roof of their Mouths their Tongues their Throats their Breast their Hearts Bellies their Livers all their Bowels and their Stomach Cursed be their Navels their Spleens their Bladder Cursed be their Thighs their Legs their Feet their Toes their Necks their Shoulders Cursed be their Backs cursed be their Arms
cometh in as before Advenient quae lustret anus lectumque locumque Deferat tremula sulphur ova manu Englished by Abraham Fleming Let some old Women hither come And purge both bed and place And bring in trembling hand new eggs And sulphur in like case And Virgil also harpeth upon the like string baccare frontem Cingite ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro Englished by Abraham Fleming Of berry-bearing baccar bowze Awreath or Garland knit And round about his head and browze See decently it sit That of an ill talking tongue Our future Poet be not stung Furthermore was it not in times of Tempests the Papists use or superstition to ring their Bells against Devils trusting rather to the conging of their Bells than to their own cry unto God with Fasting and Prayer assigned by him in all adversities and dangers according to the order of the Thracian Priests which would roar and cry with all the noise they could make in those tempests Olaus Gothus saith that his Countrymen would shoot in the Air to assist their Gods whom they thought to be then together by the ears with others and had consecrated Arrows called Sagittae Joviales even as our Papists had Also in stead of Bells they had great Hammers called Mallei Joviales to make a noise in time of thunder In some Countries they run out of the doors in time of Tempest blessing themselves with a Cheese whereupon there was a Cross made with a Ropes end upon Ascension day Also three Hailstones to be thrown into the fire in a Tempest and thereupon to be said three Pater Nosters and three Aves S. Johns Gospel and In fine fugiat Tempestas is a present Remedy Item to hang an egg laid on Ascension day in the roof of the House preserveth the same from all hurts Item I conjure you hail and wind by the five wounds of Christ by the three nails which pierced his hands and his feet and by the four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John that thou come down dissolved into water Item it hath been an usual matter to carry out in tempests the Sacraments and Reliques c. Item against storms and many dumb Creatures the Popish Church useth Excommunication as a principal Charm And now to be delivered from Witches themselves they hang in their Entries an herb called Pentaphyllon Cinquefoil also an Olive-branch also Frankincense Myrrh Valerian Verven Palm Antirchmon c. also Haythorn otherwise White-thorn gathered on Mayday also the smoak of a Lappoints feathers driveth Spirits away There be innumerable Popish Exorcisms and Conjurations for Herbs and other things to be thereby made wholesom both for the bodies and souls of Men and Beasts and also contagion of Weather Memorandum that at the gathering of these Magical herbs the Credo is necessary to be said as Vairus affirmeth and also the Pater noster for that is not superstitious Also Sprenger saith that to throw up a black Chicken in the Air will make all tempests to cease so it be done with the hand of a Witch If a soul wander in the likeness of a man or woman by night molesting men with bewailing their torments in Purgatory by reason of Tithes forgotten c. and neither Masses nor Conjurations can help the Exorcist in his Ceremonial Apparel must go to the Tomb of that body and spurn thereat with his foot saying Vade ad Gehennam Get thee packing to Hell and by and by the soul goeth thither and there remaineth for ever Otherwise if there be no Masses of purpose for this matter to unbewitch the bewitched Otherwise You must spet in the Piss-pot where you have made water Otherwise Spet into the shoe of your right foot before you put it on and that Vairus saith is good and wholsom to do before you go into any dangerous place Otherwise that neither Hunters nor their Dogs may be bewitched they cleave an oaken branch and both they and their Dogs pass over it Otherwise S. Augustine saith that to pacifie the God Liber whereby Women might have fruit of the seeds they sow and that their Gardens and Fields should not be bewitched some chief grave Matron used to put a Crown upon his genital Member and that must be publiquely done To spoil a Thief a Witch or any other Enemy and to be delivered from the evil UPon the Sabbath day before Sun-rising cut a Hazel-wand saying I cut thee O bough of this Summers growth in the name of him whom I mean to beat or maim Then cover the Table and say ✚ In nomine Patris ✚ Filii ✚ Spiritus sancti ✚ ter And striking thereon say as followeth english he that can Drech myroch esenaroth ✚ betu ✚ baroch ✚ ass ✚ maaroth ✚ and then say Holy Trinity punish him that hath wrought this mischeif and take it away by thy great justice Eson ✚ elion ✚ emaris ales age and strike the carpet with your wand A notable Charm or Medicine to pull out an Arrow-head or any such thing that sticketh in the flesh or bones and cannot otherwise be had out SAy three several times kneeling Oremus praeceptis salutaribus moniti Pater noster Ave Maria. Then make a Cross saying The Hebrew Knight strake our Lord Jesu Christ and I beseech thee O Lord Jesu Christ ✚ by the same iron spear blood and water to pull out this iron In nomine Patris ✚ Filii ✚ Spiritus sancti ✚ Charms against a quotidian Ague CUt an Apple in three pieces and write upon the one The Father is uncreated upon the other The Father is incomprehensible upon the third The Father is eternal Otherwise Write upon a Mass-cake cut in three pieces O Ague to be worshipped on the second O sickness to be ascribed to health and joyes on the third Pax ✚ max ✚ fax ✚ and let it be eaten fasting Otherwise Paint upon three like pieces of a Mass-cake Pater pax ✚ Adonai ✚ Filius vita ✚ Sabbaoth ✚ Spiritus sanctus ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ and eat it as is aforesaid For all manner of Agues intermittent JOyn two little sticks together in the midst being of one length and hang it about your neck in the form of a Cross Otherwise For this Disease the Turks put within their Doublet a ball of wood with another piece of wood and strike the same speaking many frivolous words Otherwise Certain Monks hanged scrolls about the necks of such as were sick willing them to say certain Prayers at each fit and at the third fit to hope well and made them believe that thereby they should receive cure Periapts Characters c. for Agues and to cure all Diseases and to deliver from all evil THe first Chapter of St. Johns Gospel in small letters consecrated at a Mass and hanged about ones neck is an incomparable Amulet or Tablet which delivereth from all Witchcrafts and devilish Practices But me thinks if
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 night lord ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ night lord ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ night lord ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ night lord ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ night lord ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ night lord ♂ ☉ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♂ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽ ♀ ☿ night lord ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ CHAP. XVI The Characters of the Angels of the seven dayes with their names of Figures Seales and Periapts These Figures are called the Seals of Earth without the which no Spirit will appear except thou have them with thee Michael Gabriel Samael Yaphael Sachiel Anael Calliel vel gaphriel ✚ Emanuel Sabaoth Adonay ✚ panthou ufyon ✚ Messyas ✚ Sother ✚ ✚ Dut tha gen ✚ Lap tenop ✚ Tyâ—ithaoth ✚ otheos yon mala iij la Aries Leo ✚ mala iij Alpha et ω on ely eloy Who so beareth this sign about him all Spirits shall do him homage Who so beareth this sign about him let him fear no fo but fear GOD. CHAP. XVII An Experiment of the Dead FIrst fast pray three dayes and abstain thee from all filthiness go to one that iâ— now buried such a one as killed himself or destroyed himself wilfully or else get the promise of one that shall be hanged and let him swear an Oath to thee after his body is dead that his Spirit shall come to thee and do thee true service at thy commandements in all days hours and minutes And let no persons see thy doings but thy fellow And about eleven a clock at night go to the place where he was buried and say with a bold faith and hearty desâ—re to have the spirit come that thou dost call for thy fellow having a Candle in his left hand and in his right hand a Crystal-stone and say these words following the Master having a Hazel-wand in his right hand and these names of God written thereupon Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonai ✚ Agla ✚ Craton ✚ Then strike three strokes on the ground and say Arise N. Arise N. Arise N. I'conjure thee Spirit N. by the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that thou do obey my words and come unto me this night verily and truly as thou believest to be saved at the day of Judgment And I will swear to thee an Oath by the peril of my soul that if thou wilt come to me and appear to me this night and shew me true visions in this Crystal-stone and fetch me the fairie Sibylia that I may talk with her visibly and she may come before me as the Conjuration leadeth and in so doing I will give thee an alms-deed and pray for thee N. to my Lord God whereby thou mayest be restored to thy Salvation at the Resurrection day to be received as one of the Elect of God to the everlasting glory Amen The Master standing at the head of the grave his fellow having in his hands the Candle and the Stone must begin the conjuration as followeth and the Spirit will appear to you in the Crystal-stone in a fair form of a child of twelve years of age And when he is in feel the stone and it will be hot and fear nothing for he or she will shew many delusions to drive you from your work Fear God but fear him not This is to constrain him as followeth I conjure thee Spirit N. by the living God the true God and by the holy God and by their vertues and powers which have created both thee and me and all the world I conjure thee N. by these holy Names of God Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ Algramay ✚ Saday ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Planaboth ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Neupmaton ✚ Deus ✚ Homo ✚ Omnipotens ✚ Sempiternus ✚ Ysus ✚ Lerra ✚ Vnigentius ✚ Salbator ✚ Via ✚ Vita ✚ Manus ✚ Fons ✚ Origo ✚ Filius ✚ And by their vertues and powers and by all their names by the which God gave power to man both to speak or think so by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spirit N. that now immediately thou do appear in this Crystal-stone visibly to me and to my fellow without any tarrying or deceit I conjure thee N. by the excellent Name of Jesus Christ Α and Ω the first and the last For this holy Name of Jesus is above all Names for in this Name of Jesus every knee doth bow and obey both of heavenly things earthly things and infernal And every tongue doth confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of the Father neither is there any other Name given to man whereby he must be saved Therefore in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth and by his Nativity Resurrection and Ascension and by all that appertaineth unto his passion and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. that thou do appear visibly in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow without any dissimulation I conjure thee N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb Jesus Christ which was shed for us upon the cross for all those that do believe in the vertue of his blood shall be saved I conjure thee N. by the vertues and powers of all the royal names and words of the living God of me pronounced that thou be obedient unto me and to my words rehearsed If thou refuse this to do I by the Holy Trinity and by their vertues and powers do condemn thee thou Spirit N. into the place where there is no hope of remedy or rest but everlasting horror of pain there dwelling and a place where there is pain upon pain dayly horribly and lamentably thy pain to be there augmented as the Starrs in the Heaven and as the gravel or Sand in the Sea except thou Spirit N. do appear to me and to my fellow visibly immediately in this Crystal Stone and in a fair form and shape of a child of twelve years of age and that thou alter not thy shape I change thee upon pain of everlasting condemnation I conjure thee Spirit N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou Spirit N. be thou bound into the perpetual pains of Hell fire for thy disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words and his precepts I conjure N. by the two edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the month of the Almighty and so thou Spirit N. be torn and cut in pieces with that Sword and to be condemned into everlasting pain where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not I conjure thee N. by the Heavens and by the celestial City of Jerusalem and by the Earth and the Sea and by all things contained in them and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. by the obedience that thou dost owe unto the principal Prince And
a Glass and thou shalt not see thy self And when thou wilt go invisible put it on thy finger the same finger that they did put it on and every new ☽ renew it again For after the first time thou shalt ever have it and ever begin this work in the new of the ☽ and in the hour of ♃ and the ♋ ♠♓ CHAP. XX. An Experiment following of Citrael c. Angeli diei Dominici Michael ☉ Gabriel ☽ Samael ♂ Raphael ☿ Sachiel ♃ Anael ♀ Cassiel ♄ SAy first the Prayers of the Angels every day for the space of seaven dayes O ye glorious Angels written in this square be you my coadjutors and helpers in all questions and demands in all my business and other causes by him which shall come to judge both the quick and the dead and the world by fire O Angeli gloriosi in hac quadra scripti estote coadjutores auxiliatores in omnibus quaestionibus interrogationibus in omnibus negotiis caeterisque causis per eum qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos mundum per ignem Say this Prayer fasting called Regina linguae ✚ Lemae ✚ Solmaac ✚ Elmay ✚ Gezagra ✚ Raamaasin ✚ Ezierego ✚ Mial ✚ Egziephiaz ✚ Iosamin ✚ Sahach ✚ ha ✚ aem ✚ re ✚ he ✚ esapha ✚ Sephar ✚ Ramar ✚ Semoit ✚ Lamajo ✚ Pheralon ✚ Amic ✚ Phin ✚ Gergain ✚ Letos ✚ Amin ✚ Amin ✚ In the Name of the most pitifulliest and mercifulliest God of Israel and of Paradise of Heaven and of Earth of the Seas and of the Infernals by thine Omnipotent help I may perform this work which livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O most strongest and mightiest God without beginning or ending by thy clemency and knowledge I desire that my questions work and labour may be fully and truly accomplished through thy worthyness good Lord which livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O holy patient and merciful great God and to be worshipped the Lord of all wisdom clear and just I most heartily desire thy holiness and clemency to fulfil perform and accomplish this my whole work through thy worthiness and blessed power which livest and reignest ever one God Per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen CHAP. XXI Howw to inclose a Spirit in a Crystal-stone THis operation following is to have a Spirit inclosed into a Crystal-stone or Beryl-glass or into any other like instrument c. First thou in the new of the ☽ being cloathed with all new and fresh and clean aray and shaven and that day to fast with bread and water and being clean confessed say the seven Psalms and the Letany for the space of two days with this Prayer following I desire thee O Lord God my merciful and most loving God the giver of all graces the giver of all Sciences grant that I thy wel-beloved N. although unworthy may know thy grace and power against all the deceits and craftiness of Devils And grant to me thy power good Lord to constrain them by this Art for thou art the true and lively and eternal God which livest and reignest ever one God through all Amen Thou must do this five dayes and the sixt day have in a readiness five bright Swords and in some secret place make one circle with one of the said Swords And then write this name Sitrael which done standing in the circle thrust in thy Sword into that name And write again Malanthon with another sword and Thamaor with another and Falaor with another and Sitrami with another and do as ye did with the first All this done turn thee to Sitrael and kneeling say thus having the Crystal-stone in thine hands O Sitrael Malantha Lhamaor Falaur and Sitrami Written in these circles appointed to this work I do conjure and I do exorcise you by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by him which cast you out of Paradise and by him which spake the word and it was done and by him which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire that all you five infernal Masters and Princes do come unto me to accomplish and to fulfil all my desire and request which I shall command you Also I conjure you Devils and command you I bid you and appoint you by the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the most highest God and by the blessed and glorious Virgin Mary and by all the Saints both of men and women of God and by all the Angels Archangels Patriarchs and Prophets Apostles Evangelists Martyrs and Confessors Virgins and Widows and all the elect of God Also I conjure you and every of you ye infernal Kings by the Heaven by the Starrs by the ☉ and by thee ☽ and all the Planets by the Earth Fire Air and Water and by the terrestrial Paradise and by all things in them contained and by your Hell and by all the Devils in it and dwelling about it and by your vertue and power and by all whatsoever and with whatsoever it be which may constrain and bind you Therefore by all the aforesaid vertues and powers I do bind you and constrain you into my will and power that you being thus bound may come unto me in great humility and to appear in your circles before me visibly in fair form and shape of mankind Kings and to obey unto me all things whatsoever I shall desire and that you may not depart from me without my licence And if you do against my precepts I will promise unto you that you shall descend into the profound deepness of the Sea except that you do obey unto me in the part of the living Son of God which liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost by all world of worlds Amen Say this true Conjuration five courses and then shalt thou see come out of the North-part five Kings with a marvellous company which when they are come to the circle they will alight down off from their Horses and will kneel down before thee saying Master command us what thou wilt and we will out of hand be obedient unto thee Unto whom thou shalt say See that ye depart not from me without my licence anll that which I will command you to do let it be done truly surely faithfully and essentially And then they all will swear unto thee to do all thy will and after they have sworn say the Conjuration immediately following I conjure charge and command you and every of you Sitrael Malanthan Lhamaar Falaur and Sitrami you Infernal Kings to put into this Crystal-stone one spirit learned and expert in all Arts and Sciences by the vertue of this Name of God Tetragrammaton and by the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the blood of the innocent Lamb which redeemed all the world and by all their vertues and power I charge you ye noble Kings that the said spirit may
teach shew and declare unto me and to my friends at all hours and minutes both night and day the truth of all things both bodily and ghostly in this world whatsoever I shall request or desire declaring also unto me my very name And this I command in your part to do and to obey thereunto as unto your own Lord and Master That done they will call a certain spirit whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round Crystal Then put the Crystal between the two circles and thou shalt see the Crystal made black Then command them to command the spirit in the Crystal not to depart out of the Stone till thou give him licence and to fulfill thy will for ever That done thou shalt see them go upon the Crystal both to answer your requests and to tarry your licence That done the spirits will crave licence and say Go ye to your place appointed of Almighty God in the Name of the Father c. And then take up thy Crystal and look therein asking what thou wilt and it will shew it unto thee Let all your Circles be nine foot every way and made as followeth Work this work in ♋ â™ or ♓ in the hour of the ☽ or ♃ And when the spirit is inclosed if thou fear him bind him with some bond in such sort as is elsewhere expressed already in this our Treatise A Figure or Type proportional shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the Figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a Spirit in Crystal is to be accomplished c. 2 alanta â— 3 Thamaor 1 itrael 4 Ifalaur 5 itrami North South Est West Agla el ya Panthon ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dmÌ„i fecit untâ—le ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exalfaâ—tine ✚ dextera dÌ„mi fect virtute ✚ Messias Emanuel Alpha et ω CHAP. XXII An Experiment of Bealphares ✚ ✚ ✚ Homo sacarus museo lomeas cherubozca ✚ The two and twentieth Psalm O My God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farr from my health and from the words of my complaint And so forth to the end of the same Psalm as it is to be found in the Book This Psalm also following being the fifty one Psalm must be said three times over c. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences And so forth to the end of the same Psalm concluding it with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Then say this verse O Lord leave not my soul with the wicked nor my life with the blood-thirsty Then say a Pater noster an Ave Maria and a Credo Ne nos inducas O Lord shew us thy mercy and we shall be saved Lord hear our prayer and let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord God Almighty as thou warnedst by thine Angel the three Kings of Cullen Jasper Melchior and Balthasar when they came with worshipful presents toward Bethelem Jasper brought myrrh Melchior incense Balthasar gold worshipping the high King of all the world Jesus Gods Son of Heaven the second Person in Trinity being born of the holy and clean Virgin S. Mary Queen of Heaven Empress of Hell and Lady of all the world at that time the holy Angel Gabriel warned and bad the foresaid three Kings that they should take another way for dread of peril that Herod the King by his Ordinance would have destroyed these three Noble Kings that meekly sought out our Lord and Saviour As wittily and truly as these three Kings turned for dread and took another way so wisely and so truly O Lord God of thy mightiful mercy bless us now at this time for thy blessed passion save us and keep us all together from all evil and thy holy Angel defend us Let us pray O Lord King of all Kings which containest the Throne of Heavens and beholdest all deeps weighest the hills and shuttest up with thy hand the earth hear us most meek God and grant unto us being unworthy according to thy great mercy to have the verity and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasure by this Spirit invocated through thy help O Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all honour and glory from worlds to worlds everlastingly Amen Then say these names ✚ Helie ✚ Helion ✚ essejere ✚ Deus eternus ✚ Eloy ✚ clemens ✚ Heloye ✚ Deus sanctus ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Deus exercituum Adonay ✚ Deus mirabilis ✚ jao ✚ berax ✚ anepheneton ✚ Deun ineffabilis ✚ Sodoy ✚ Dominatoz Dominus ✚ on fortissimus ✚ Deus ✚ qui the which wouldest be prayed unto of sinners receive we besiech thee these sacrifices of praise and our meek Prayers which we unworthy do offer unto thy Divine Majesty Deliver us and have mercy upon us and prevent with thy Holy Spirit this work and with thy blessed help to follow after that this our work begun of thee maybe ended by thy mighty power Amen Then say this anon after ✚ Homo ✚ sacarus ✚ Musceolameus ✚ cherubozca ✚ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid the Girdle about thee the circle made bless the Circle with holy Water and sit down in the midst and read this Conjuration as followeth sitting back to back at the first time I exercise and conjure Baalphares the practiser and preceptor of this Art by the maker of Heavens and of Earth and by his vertue and by his unspeakable Name Tetragrammaton and by all the holy Sacraments and by the holy Majesty and Deity of the living God I conjure and exorcise thee Bealphares by the vertue of all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the most truest and speciallest Name of your Master that you do come unto us in fair form of man or woman-kinde here visibly before this circle and not terrible by any manner of wayes This circle being our tuition and protection by the merciful goodness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and that you do make answer truly without craft or deceit unto all my demands and questions by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen CHAP. XXIII To bind the Spirit Bealphares and to loose him again NOw when he is appeared bind him with these words which follow * I conjure thee Bealphares by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost and by all the holy company in Heaven and by their vertues and powers I charge thee Bealphares that thou shalt not depart out of my sight nor yet to alter thy bodily shape that thou art appeared in nor any power shalt thou have of our bodies or souls earthly or ghostly but be obedient unto me and to the words of my
Conjuration that be written in this Book I conjure thee Bealphares by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure and charge bind and constrain thee Bealphares by all the royal words aforesaid and by their vertues that thou be obedient unto me and to come and appear visibly unto me and that in all days hours and minutes wheresoever I be being called by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ the which words are written in this Book Look ready thou be to appear unto me and to give me good counsel how to come by treasures hidden in the earth or in the water and how to come to dignity and knowledge of all things that is to say of the Magick Art and of Grammar Dialectike Rhetorike Arithmetick Musick Geometry and of Astronomy and in all other things my will quickly to be fulfilled I charge upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen When he is thus bound ask him what thing thou wilt and he will tell thee and give thee all things that thou wilt request of him without any Sacrifice doing to him and without forsaking thy God that is thy Maker And when the Spirit hath fulfilled thy will and intent give him license to depart as followeth A License for the Spirit to depart GO unto the place predestinated and appointed for thee where thy Lord God hath appointed thee until I shall call thee again Be thou ready unto me and to my call as often as I shall call thee upon pain of everlasting damnation And if thou wilt thou mayst recite two or three times the last Conjuration until thou do come to this term In throno if he will not depart and then say In throno That thou depart from this place without hurt or damage of any body or of any deed to be done that all creatures may know that our Lord is of all power most mightiest and that there is none other God but he which is three and one living for ever and ever And the malediction of God the Father Omnipotent the Son and the Holy Ghost descend upon thee and dwell alwayes with thee except thou do depart without damage of us or of any creature or any other evil deed to be done and thou to go to the predestinated And by our Lord Jesus Christ I do else send thee to the great pit of Hell except I say that thou depart to the place whereas thy Lord God hath appointed thee And see thou be ready to me and to my call at all times and places at mine own will and pleasure day or night without damage or hurt of me or of any creature upon pain of everlasting damnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen Amenl The peace of Jesus Christ be between us and you In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Per crucis hoc ✚ signum c. Say In principio erat Verbum Verbum erat apud Deum In thee beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word and so forward as followeth in the first Chapter of Saint John's Gospel staying at these words Full of grace and truth to whom be all honour and glory world without end Amen The fashion or form of the Conjuring knife with the Names thereon to be graven or written AGLA And on the other side this name A Type or Figure of the Circle for the Master and his Fellows to sit in shewing how and after what fashion it should be made Agla eL ya panthon dextera dmÌ„i fecit virtutem ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dmÌ„i fecit virtutem ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ mellyas emanuel alpha et ω Tetragrammaton Iesus nazarenus Adonay Elfelbey Magister THis is the Circle for the Master to sit in and his fellow or fellows at the first calling sit back to back when he calleth the Spirit and for the Fairies make this circle with chalk on the ground as is said before This Spirit Bealphares being once called and found shall never have power to hurt thee Call him in the hour of ♃ or ♀ the ☽ increasing CHAP. XXIV The making of Holy Water EXorciso te creaturam salis per Deum vivum ✚ per Deum ✚ verum ✚ per Deum sanctum ✚ per Deum quite per Elizaeum Prophetâ—m in aquam miti jussit ut sanaretur sterilitas aquae ut efficiaris sal exorcisatus in salutem credentium ut sis omnibus te sumentibus sanitas animae corporis effugiat a que discedat ab eo loco qui aspersus fuerit omnis phantasia nequitia vel versutia Diabolicae fraudis omnisque spiritus adjuratus per cum qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos saeculum per igném Amen Oremus Immensam clementiam tuam Onmipotens aeterne Deus humiliter imploramus ut hanc creaturam salis quam in usum generis humani tribuisti bene ✚ dicere sancti ✚ ficare tua pietate digneris ut sit omnibus sumentibus salus mentis corporis ut quicquid ex eo tactum fuerit vel respersum careat omni immunditia omnique impugnatione spiritualis nequitiae per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate spiritus sancti Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen To the Water say as followeth EXorciso te creaturam aquae in nemine ✚ Patris ✚ Jesu Christi Filii ejus Domini nostri in virtute Spiritus ✚ Sancti ✚ ut fiat aqua exorcisata ad effugandani omnen potestatem inimici ipsum inimicum eradicare explantare valeas cum angelis suis Apostatis per virtutem ejusdem Domini nostri Jesu Christi qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos seculum per ignem Amen Oremus Deus qui ad salutem humani generis maxima quaeque sacramenta in aquarum substantia condidisti adesto propitius invocationibus nostris elemento huic multimodis purificationibus praeparato virtutem tuea bene ✚ dictionis infunde ut creatura tua mysteriis tuis serviens ad abigendos Daemones morbosque pellendos divinae gratiae sumat effectum ut quicquid in domibus vel in locis fidelium haec unda resperserit careat omni immunditia liberetur à noxa non illic resideat spiritus pestilens non aura corrumpens discedant omnes insidiae latentis inimici si quid est quod aut incolumitati habitantium invidet aut quieti aspersione hujus aquae effugiat us salubritas per invocationem sancti tui nominis expetita ab omnibus fit impugnationibus defensa per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate spiritus sancti Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen Then take the Salt in thy
hand and say putting it it into the Water making in the manner of a Cross COmmixtio salis aquae pariter fiat In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Dominus vobiscum Et cum spiritu tuo Oremus Deus invicte virtutis Author insuperabilis Imperii Rex ac semper magnificus triumphator qui adversae dominationis vires reprimis qui inimici rugientis saevitiam superas qui hostiles nequitias potens expugnas te Domine trementes supplices deprecamur ac petimus ut hanc creaturam salis aquae aspicias benignus illustres pietatis tuae rore sancti ✚ fices ubicunque fuerit aspersa per invocationem sancti tui nominis omnis infestatio immundi spiritus abjiciatur terrorque venenosi serpentis procul pellatur praesentia sancti spiritus nobis misericordiam tuam poscentibus ubique adesse dignetur per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus per omnia sacula saeculorum Amen Then sprinkle upon any thing and say as followeth ASperges me Domine hyssopo mundabor lavabis me supra nivem dealbabor Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam supra nivem dealbabor Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui sancto Sicut erat in principio nunc semper in saecula saeculorum Amen Et supra nivem dealbabor asperges me c. Ostende nobis domine misericordiam tuam salutare tuum da nobis exaudi nos Domine Sancte Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus mittere dignare sanctums Angelum tuum de Coelis qui custodiat foveat visitet defendat omnes habitantes in hoc habitaculo per Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Amen CHAP. XXV To make a Spirit to appear in a Crystal I Do conjure thee N. by the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost the which is the beginning and the ending the first and the last and by the latter day of judgment that thou N. do appear in this Crystal-stone or any other instrument at my pleasure to me and my fellow gently and beautifully in fair form of a Boy of twelve years of age without hurt or damage of any of our bodies or souls and certainly to inform and shew me without any guil or craft all that we do desire or demand of thee to know by the vertue of him which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World by fire Amen Also I conjure and exorcise thee N. by the Sacrament of the Altar and by the substance thereof by the wisdom of Christ by the Sea and by his vertue by the earth and by all things that are above the Earth and by their vertues by the ☉ and the ☽ by ♄ ♃ ♂ and ♀ and by their vertues by the Apostles Martyrs Confessors and the Virgins and Widow and the chast and by all Saints of mens or of women and innocents and by their vertues by all the Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the holy Names of God Tetragrammaton El Ousion Agla and by all the other holy Names of God and by their vertues by the Circumcision Passion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ by the heaviness of our Lady the Virgin and by the joy which she had when she saw her Son rise from death to life that thou N. do appear in this Crystal-stone or any other instrument at my pleasure to me and to my fellow gently and beautifully and visibly in fair form of a child of twelve years of age without hurt or damage of any of our bodies or souls and truly to inform and shew unto me and to my fellow without fraud or guil all things according to thine oath and promise to me whatsoever I shall demand or desire of thee without any hindrance or tarrying and this Conjuration be read of me three times upon pain of eternal condemnation at the last day of Judgment Fiat fiat fiat Amen And when he is appeared bind him with the bond of the dead above written then say as followeth ✚ I charge thee N. by the Father to shew me true Visions in this Crystal-stone if there be any treasure hidden in such a place N. and wherein it lieth and how many foot from this piece of Earth East West North or South CHAP. XXVI An Experiment of the Dead FIrst go and get of some person that shall be put to death a promise and swear an oath unto him that if he will come to thee after his death his Spirit to be with thee and to remain with thee all the days of thy life and will do thee true service as it is contained in the oath and promise following Then lay thy hand on thy Book and swear this oath unto him I N. do swear and promise to thee N. to give for thee an alms every month and also to pray for thee once in every week to say the Lords Prayer for thee and so to continue all the days of my life as God me help and holy doom and by the contents of this Book Amen Then let him make his oath to thee as followeth and let him say after thee laying his hand upon the Book ✚ I N. do swear this oath to thee N. by God the Father Omnipotent by God the Son Jesus Christ and by his pretious blood which hath redeemed all the world by the which blood I do trust to be saved at the general day of judgment and by the vertues thereof I N. do swear this oath to thee N. that my spirit that is within my body now shall not ascend nor descend nor go to any place of rest but shall come to thee N. and be very well pleased to remain with thee N. all the days of thy life and so to be bound to thee N. and to appear to thee N. in any Crystal-stone Glass or other mirror and so to take it for my resting-place And that so soon as my spirit is departed out of my body straight-way to be at your commandements and that in and at all days nights hours and minutes to be obedient unto thee N. being called of thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesu Christ and out of hand to have common talk with thee at all times and in all hours and minutes to open and declare to thee N. the truth of all things present past and to come and how to work the Magick Art and all other noble Sciences under the Throne of God If I do not perform this oath and promise to thee N. but do fly from any part thereof then to be condemned for ever and ever Amen Also I N. do swear to thee by God the Holy Ghost and by the great wisdom that is in the divine Godhead and by their vertues and by all the holy
minutes and to talk in my mother tongue plainly that I may hear it and understand it declaring the truth unto me of all things according to thine oath and promise else to be condemned for ever Fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou spirit of N. be thou bound and cast into the pit of everlasting condemnation for thy great disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words of God Almighty by me pronounced Fiat Amen Also I conjure constrain command and by the spirit of N. by the two-edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the mouth of God Almighty except thou be obedient as is aforesaid the Sword cut thee in pieces and condemn thee into the pit of everlasting pains where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not Fiat fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the Throne of the Godhead and by all the Heavens under him and by the celestial City new Jerusalem and by the Earth by the Sea and by all things created and contained therein and by their vertues and powers and by all the infernals and by their vertues and powers and by all things contained therein and by their vertues and powers I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. than now immediately thou be obedient unto me at all times hereafter and to those words of me pronounced according to thine oath and promise else let the great curse of God the anger of God the shadow and darkness of everlasting condemnation be upon thee thou spirit of N. for ever and ever because thou hast denyed thine health thy faith and salvation for the great disobedience thou art worthy to be condemned Therefore let the divine Trinity Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Chrumbim and Seraphim and all the souls of the Saints that shall stand on the right hand of our Lord Jesus Christ at the general Day of Judgment condemn the spirit of N. for ever and ever and be a witness against thee because of thy great disobedience in and against thy promises Fiat fiat Amen Being thus bound he must needs be obedient unto thee whether he will or no prove this And here followeth a bond to call him to your N. and to shew you true visions at all times as in the hour of ♄ to bind or inchant any thing and in the hour of ♃ for peace and concord in the hour of ♂ to marre to destroy and to make sick in the hour of the ☉ to bind tongues and other bonds of men in the hour of ♀ to increase love joy and good will in the hour of ☿ to put away enimity or hatred to know of theft in the hour of the ☽ for love good will and concord ♄ lead ♃ tin ♂ iron ☉ gold ♀ copper ☿ quick-silver ☽ silver c. CHAP. XXVIII This Bond as followeth is to call him into your Crystal-stone or Glass c. ALso I do conjure thee spirit N. by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost Α and Ω the first and the last and by the latter day of Judgement of them which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee spirit N. to come to him that holdeth the Crystal-stone in his hand and to appear visibly as hereafter followeth Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by these holy Names of God ✚ Letragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ El ✚ Ousion ✚ Agla ✚ Iesus ✚ of Nazareth ✚ and by the vertues thereof and by his nativity death burial resurrection and ascension and by all other things appertaining unto his passion and by the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by all the joy which she had when she saw her Son rise from death to life and by the vertues and powers thereof I constrain thee Spirit N. to come into the Crystal-stone and to appear visibly as hereafter shall be declared Also I conjure thee N. thou Spirit by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by the ☉ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ and by the twelve signes and by their vertues and powers and by all things created and confirmed in the Firmament and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee Spirit N. to appear visibly in that Crystal-stone in fair form and shape of a white Angel a green Angel a black Angel a Man a Woman a Boy a maiden Virgin a white Greyhound a Devil with great horns without any hurt or danger of our bodies or souls and truly to inform and shew unto us true visions of all things in that Crystal-stone according to thine Oath and Promise and that without any hinderance or tarrying to appear visibly by this Bond of words read over by me three times upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat Amen Then being appeared say these words following I Conjure thee Spirit by God the Father that thou shew true visions in that Crystal-stone where there be any N. in such a place or no upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by God the Son Jesus Christ that thou do shew true visions unto us whether it be gold or silver or any other metals or whether there were any or no upon pain of condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by God the Holy Ghost the which doth sanctifie all faithful souls and spirits and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee Spirit N. to speak open and to declare the true way how we may come by these treasures hidden in N. and how to have it in our custody and who are the keepers thereof and how many there be and what be their names and by whom it was laid there and to shew me true visions of what sort and similitude they be and how long they have kept it and to know in what dayes and hours we shall call such a Spirit N. to bring unto us these treasures into such a place N. upon pain of everlasting condemnation ✚ Also I constrain thee Spirit N. by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim that you do shew a true vision in this Crystal-stone who did convey or steal away such a N. and where it is and who hath it and how far off and what is his or her name and how and when to come unto it upon pain of eternal condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by the ☉ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ and by all the Characters in the Firmament that thou do shew unto me a true vision in this Crystal-stone where such N. and in what state he is and how long he hath been there and
what time he will be in such a place what day and hour and this and all other things to declare plainly on pain of Hell fire Fiat Amen A Licence to Depart DEpart out of the sight of this Crystal-stone in peace for a time and ready to appear therein again at any time or times I shall call thee by vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the bonds of words which are written in this Book and to appear visibly as the words be rehearsed I constrain thee Spirit N. by the divinity of the Godhead to be obedient unto these words rehearsed upon pain of everlasting condemnation both in this world and in the world to come Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XXIX When to talk with Spirits and to have true answers to find out a Theif THe days and hours of ♄ ♂ ☿ and the ☽ is best to do all crafts of Necromancy and for to speak with Spirits and for to find theft and to have true answer thereof or of any other such like And in the days and hours of ☉ ♃ ♀ is best to do all experiments of love and to purchase grace and for to be invisible and to do any operation whatsoever it be for any thing the ☽ being in a convenient sign * As when thou labourest for theft see the Moon be in an earthy sign as ♉ ♠♑ or of the air as ♊ ♎ ♒ * And if it be for love favour or grace let the ☽ be in a sign of the fire as ♈ ♌ ♠and for hatred in a sign of the water as ♋ ♠♓ For any other experiment let the ☽ be in ♈ * And if thou findest the ☉ and the ☽ in one sign that is called in even number then thou mayst write consecrate conjure and make ready all manner of things that thou wilt do c. To speak with Spirits CAll these names Orimoth Beltmoth Lymock and say thus I conjure you up by the names of the Angels Satur and Azimor that you intend to me in this hour and send unto me a Spirit caded Sagrigrit that he do fulfill my commandement and desire and that also can understand my words for one or two years or as long as I will CHAP. XXX A Confutation of Conjuration especially of the raising binding and dimissing of the Divel of going invisible and other lewd practices THus far have we waded in shewing at large the vanity of Necromancers Conjurors and such as pretend to have real conference consultation with Spirits and Divels wherein I trust you see what notorious blasphemy is committed besides other blind superstitious Ceremonies a disordered heap which are so far from building up the endeavors of these Black Art practitiers that they do altogether ruinate and overthrow them making them in their follies and falsehoods as bare and naked as an Anatomy As for these ridiculous Conjurations last rehearsed being of no small reputation among the ignorant they are for the most part made by T.R. for so much of his name he bewrayeth and John Cockars invented and devised for the augmentation and maintenance of their living for the edifying of the poor and for the propagating and inlarging of Gods glory as in the beginning of their Book of Conjurations they protest which in this place for the further manifestation of their impiety and of the Witchmongers folly and credulity I thought good to insert whereby the residue of their proceeding may be judged or rather detected For if we seriously behold the matter of Conjuration and the drift of Conjurors we shall find them in mine opinion more faulty then such as take upon them to be Witches as manifest offenders against the Majesty of God and his holy Law as apparent violators of the laws and quietness of this Realm although indeed they bring no such thing to pass as is surmised and urged by credulous persons coseners lyars and Witchmongers For these are alwayes learned and rather abusers of others than they themselves by others abused But let us see what appearance of truth or possibility is wrapped within these mysteries and let us unfold the deceit They have made choice of certain words whereby they say they can work miracles c. And first of all that they call Divels and souls out of Hell though we find in the Scripture manifest proofs that all passages are stopped concerning the egress out of Hell so as they may go thither but they shall never get out for Ab inferno nulla est redemptio out of hell there is no redemption Well when they have gotten them up they shut them in a circle made with Chalk which is so strongly beset and invironed with crosses and names that they cannot for their lives get out which is a very probable matter Then can they bind them and loose them at their pleasures and make them that have been lyers from the beginning to tell the truth yea they can compel them to do any thing And the Devils are forced to be obedient unto them and yet cannot be brought to due obedience unto God their Creator This done I say they can work all manner of miracles saving blew miracles and this is to believed of many to be ttue Tam credula mens hominis arrectae fabulis aures Englished by Abraham Fleming So light of belief is the mind of man And attentive to tales his ears now and than But if Christ only for a time left the power of working miracles among his Apostles and Disciples for the confirmation of his Gospel and the faith of his elect yet I deny altogether that he left that power with these Knaves which hide their cosening purposes under those lewd and foolish words according to that which Peter saith With faigned words they make merchandize of you And therefore the counsel is good that Paul giveth us when he biddeth us Take heed that no man deceive us with vain words For it is the Lord only that worketh great wonders and bringeth mighty things to pass It is also written that Gods Word and not the words of Conjurors or the Charms of Witches healeth all things maketh tempests and stilleth them But put case the Devil could be fetched up and fettered and loosed again at their pleasure c. I marvel yet that any can be so bewitched as to be made to believe that by vertue of their words any earthly creature can be made invisible We think it a lye to say that white is black and black white but it is a more shameless assertion to affirm that white is not or black is not at all and yet more impudency to hold that a Man is a Horse but most apparent impudency to say that a Man is no Man or to be extenuated into such a quantity as thereby he may be invisible and yet remain in life and health and that in the clear light of the day even in the presence of them that are
not blind But surely he that cannot make one hair white or black whereof on the other side not one falleth from the head without Gods special Providence can never bring to pass that the visible creature of God shall become nothing or lose the vertue and grace poured therein by God the Creator of all things If they say that the Devil covereth them with a cloud or veil as M. Mal Bodin and many other do affirm yet me thinks we should either see the cover or the thing covered And though perchance they say in their hearts Tush the Lord seeth not who indeed hath blinded them so as seeing they see not yet they shall never be able to perswade the wise but that both God and man doth see both them and their knavery in this behalf I have heard of a fool who was made believe that he should go invisible and naked while he was well whipped by them who as he thought could not see him Into which fools Paradise they say he was brought that enterprised to kill the Prince of Orenge CHAP. XXXI A Comparison between Popish Exorcists and other Conjurors a Popish Conjuration published by a great Doctor of the Romish Church his rules and cautions I See no difference between these and Popish Conjurations for they agree in order words and matter differing in no circumstance but that the Papists do it without shame openly the other do it in hugger mugger secretly The Papists I say have Officers in this behalf which are called Exorcists or Conjurors and they look narrowly to other cosenours as having gotten the upper hand over them And because the Papists shall be without excuse in this behalf and that the world may see their cosenage impiety and folly to be as great as the others I will cite one Conjuration of which sort I might cite a hundred published by Jacobus de Chusa a great Doctor of the Romish Church which serveth to find out the cause of noise and spiritual rumbling in Houses Churches or Chappels and to conjure walking Spirits which evermore is knavery and cosenage in the highest degree Mark the cosening device hereof and confer the impiety with the others First forsooth he saith it is expedient to fast three days and to celebrate a certain number of Masses and to repeat the seven Penitential Psalms then four or five Priests must be called to the place where the haunt or noise is then a Candle hallowed on Candlemas day must be lighted and in the lighting thereof also must the seven Psalms be said and the Gospel of St. John Then there must be a Cross and a Censer with Frankinsense and therewithal the place must be censed or perfumed holy Water must be sprinkled and a holy Stoal must be used and after divers other Ceremonies a Prayer to God must be made in manner and form following O Lord Jesus Christ the knower of all secrets which alwayes revealest all wholesome and profitable things to thy faithful children and which sufferest a Spirit to shew himself in this place we beseech thee for thy bitter Passion c vouchsafe to command this spirit to reveal and signifie unto us thy servants without our terrour or hurt what he is to thine honour and to his comfort In Nomine Patris c. And then proceed in these words We beseech thee for Christs sake O thou spirit that if there be any of us or among us whom thou wouldst answer name him or else manifest him by some sign Is it Fryer P. or Doctor D. or Doctor Burc or sir Feats or sir John or sir Robert Et sic de caeteris circumstantibus For it is well tryed saith the gloss he will not answer every one If the Spirit make any sound of voyce or knocking at the naming of any one he is the Cosenour the Conjuror I would say that must have the charge of this Conjuration or Examination And these forsooth must be the interrogatories to wit Whose Soul art thou Wherefore camest thou What wouldst thou have Wantest thou any Suffrages Masses or Alms How many Masses will serve thy turn three six ten twenty thirty c By what Priest Must he be religious or secular Wilt thou have any Fasts What How many How great And by what persons Among Hospitals Lepers or Beggars What shall be the sign of thy perfect deliverance Wherefore liest thou in Purgatory and such like This must be done in the night If there appear no sign at this hour it must be deferred until another hour Holy water must be left in the place There is no fear they say that such a Spirit will hurt the Conjuror for he can sin no more as being in the mean state between good and evil and as yet in the state of satisfaction If the Spirit do hurt then it is a damned soul and not an elect Every man may not be present hereat specially such as be weak of complexion They appear in divers manners not alwayes in body or bodily shape as it is read in the life of S. Martine that the Devil did but sometimes invisible as only by sound voyce or noise Thus far Jacobus de Chusa But because you shall see that these be not empty words nor slanders but that in truth such things are commonly put in practice in the Romish Church I will here set down an instance lately and truly though lewdly performed and the same in effect as followeth CHAP. XXXII A late Experiment or cosening Conjuration practised at Orleance by the Franciscan Friers how it was detected and the Judgement against the Authors of that Comedy IN the year of our Lord 1534. at Orleance in France the Maiors wife dyed willing and desiring to be buried without any pomp or noise c. Her husband who reverenced the memorial of her did even as she had willed him And because she was buryed in the Church of the Franciscans besides her Father and Grandfather and gave them in reward only six Crowns whereas they hoped for a greater prey shortly after it chanced that as he felled certain Woods and sold them they desired to give them some part thereof freely without money which he flatly denyed This they took very grievously And whereas before they misliked him now they conceived such displeasure as they devised this means to be revenged to wit that his Wife was damned for ever The chief workmen and framers of this tragedy were Colimannus and Stephanus Aterbatensis both Doctors of Divinity this Colimannus was a great Conjuror and had all his implements in a readiness which he was wont to use in such business And thus they handle the matter They place over the Arches of the Church a young novice who about midnight when they came to mumble their Prayers as they were wont to do maketh a great rumbling and noise Out of hand the Monks began to conjure and to charm but he answered nothing Then being requireed to
c. And it is worthy my labour to shew you how Papists define Superstition and how they expound the difinition thereof Superstition say they is a Religion observed beyond measure a Religion practised with evill and unperfect circumstances Also whatsoever usurpeth the name of Religion through humane tradition without the Popes authority is Superstitious as to add or joyn any Hymnes to the Mass to interrupt any Diriges to abridge any part of the Creed in the singing thereof or to sing when the Organs go and not when the Quire singeth not to have one to help the Priest to Mass and such like c. These Popish Exorcists do many times forget their own Rules For they should not directly in their Conjurations call upon the Devil as they do with intreaty but with authority and commandement Neither should they have in their Charms and Conjurations any unknown names Neither should there be as alwayes there is any falshood contained in the matter of the Charm of Conjuration as say they old Women have in theirs when they say the blessed Virgin passed over Jordan and then S. Steven met her and asked her c. Neither should they have any other vain Characters but the Cross for those are the words and many other such cautions have they which they observe not for they have made it lawful elsewhere But Thomas their chief pillar proveth their Conjuring and Charms lawful by S. Mark who saith Signa eos qui crediderunt and In nomine meo damonia ejicient c. whereby he also proveth that they may conjure Serpents And there he taketh pains to prove that the words of God are of as great holiness as the reliques of Saints whereas in such respect as they mean they are both alike and indeed nothing worth And I can tell them further that so they may be carryed as either of them may do a man much harm either in body or soul But they prove this by S. Augustine saying Non est minus verbum Dei quam corpus Christi whereupon they conclude thus By all mens opinions it is lawful to carry about reverently the reliques of Saints Ergo it is lawful against evill Spirits to invocate the name of God every way by the Pater Noster the Ave the Nativity the Passion the five Wounds the title Triumphant by the seven words spoken on the Cross by the nails c. and there may be hope reposed in them Yea they say it is lawful to conjure all things because the Devil may have power in all things And first alwayes the person or thing wherein the Devil is must be exorcised and then the Devil must be conjured Also they affirm that it is as expedient to consecrate and conjure Pottage and Meat as Water and Salt or such like things The right order of Exorcism in Rebaptism of a person possessed or bewitched requireth that Exsufflation and Abrenunciation be done toward the West Item there must be erection of Hands Confession Profession Oration Benediction Imposition of hands Denudation and Unction with holy Oyl after Baptism Communion and Induition of the Surplis But they say that this needeth not where the bewitched is exorcised but that the bewitched be first confessed and then to hold a Candle in his hand and in stead of a Surplis to tye about his bare body a holy Candle of the length of Christ or of the Cross whereupon he dyed which for mony may be had at Rome Ergo saith M. Mal. this may be said I conjure thee Peter or Barbara being sick but regenerate in the holy water of Baptism by the living God by the true God by the holy God by the God which redeemed thee with his pretious blood that thou mayst be made a conjured man that every fantasie and wickedness of Diabolical deceipt do avoid and depart from thee and that every unclean Spirit be conjured through him that shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World by fire Amen Oremus c. And this Conjuration with Oremus and a Prayer must be thrice repeated and at the end alwayes must be said Ergo maledicte diabole recognosce sententiam tuam c. Therefore cursed Divell know thy sentence c. And this order must alwayes be followed and finally there must be diligent search made in every corner and under every coverlet and pallet and under every threshold of the doors for instruments of Witchcraft and if any be found they must straightway be thrown into the fire Also they must change all their bedding their cloathing and their habitation and if nothing be found the party that is to be exorcised or conjured must come to the Church rath in the morning and the holier the day is the better specially our Lady day And the Priest if he be shriven himself and in perfect state shall do the better therein And let him that is exorcised hold a holy candle in his hand c. Alwayes provided that the holy water be thrown upon him and a stoal put about his neck with Deus in adjutorium and the Letany with invocation of Saints and this order may continue twice a week so as say they through multiplication of Intercessors or rather intercessions grace may be obtained and favour procured There is also some question in the Romish Church Whether the Sacrament of the Altar is to be received before or after the Exorcism Item in shrift the Confessor must learn whether the Party be not Excommunicate and so for want of Absolution endureth this vexation Thomas sheweth the difference between Holy-water and Conjuration saying That Holy-water driveth the Devil away from the external and outward parts but Conjurations from the internal and inward parts and therefore unto the bewitched party both are to be applyed CHAP. XXXIV The seven Reasons why some are not rid of the Devil with all their Popish Conjurations why there were no Conjurors in the Primitive Church and why the Devil is not so soon cast out of the bewitched as of the possessed THe reason why some are not remedied for all their Conjurations the Papists say is for seven causes First For that the faith of the standers by is naught Secondly For that theirs that present the party is no better Thirdly Because of the sins of the bewitched Fourthly For the neglecting of meet remedies Fifthly For the reverence of virtues going out into others Sixthly For the Purgation Seventhly For the merit of the party bewitched And lo the first four are proved by Matthew the 7. and Mark the 4. when one presented his Son and the multitude wanted faith and the Father said Lord help my incredulity or unbelief Whereupon was said Oh faithless and perverse generation how long shall I be with you and where these words were written And Jesus rebuked him c. that is to say say they the possessed or bewitched for his sins For by the neglect of due
Behold I am he that made the Thunder and created the Spirit and shewed unto men their Christ this word created is not so to be taken as that it is to be concluded thereby that the same was not before For God hath not so created the Spirit fithence by the same he hath shewed and declared his Christ unto al men Neither was it a thing of late beginning under the Son but it was before all beginning and was then sent when the Apostles were gathered together When a sound like Thunder came from Heaven as it had been the coming of a mighty wind this word created being used for sent down for appointed ordained c. and the word Thunder signifying in another kind of manner the Preaching of the Gospel The like saying is that of the Psalmist A clean heart create in me O God wherein he prayed not as one having no heart but as one that had such a heart as needed purifying as needed perfecting and this phrase also of the scripture that he might create two in one new man that is that he might joyn couple or gather together c. Furthermore the Pneumatomachi by these testimonies insuing endeavour to prove the Holy Spirit to be a creature Out of John the 1. ch By this word were all things made and without it nothing was made Out of 1 Cor. 8. We have one God the Father even he from whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things and we by him Out of Col. 1 By him were all things made things in heaven and things in earth visible and invisible c. Now if all things were made by the Son it followeth that by him the Holy Spirit was also made Whereto I answer that when all things are said to be made by the Son that same universal proposition is restrained by John himself to a certain kind of things Without him saith the Evangelist was nothing made that was made Therefore it is first to be shewed that the Holy Spirit was made and then will we conclude out of John that if he were made he was made of the Son The Scripture doth no where say that the Holy Spirit was made of the Father or of the Son but to proceed to come and to be sent from them both Now if these universal propositions are to suffer no restraint it shall follow that the Father was made of the Son than the which what is more absurd and wicked Again they object out of Mat. 11. None knoweth the Son but the Father and none the Father but the Son to wit of and by himself for otherwise both the angels and to whomsoever else it shall please the Son to reveal the Father these do know both the Father and the Son Now if so be the Spirit be not equal with the Father and the Son in knowledge he is not only unequal and lesser than they but also no God for ignorance is not incident unto God Whereto I answer that where in holy Scripture we do meet with universal propositions negative or exclusive they are not to be expounded of one person so as the rest are excluded but creatures or false gods are to be excluded and whatsoever else is without or beside the essence and being of God Reasons to prove and confirme this interpretation I could bring very many whereof I will adde some for example In the seventh of John it is said When Christ shall come none shall know from whence he is notwithstanding which words the Jews thought that neither God nor his Angels should be ignorant from whence Christ should be In the fourth to the Galatians A mans Covenant or testament confirmed with authority no body doth abrogate or adde any thing thereunto No just man doth so but tyrants and truce-breakers care not for covenants In John eight Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst And yet it is not to be supposed that a multitude of people was not present and the Disciples of Christ likewise but the word Solus alone is referred to the womans accusers who withdrew themselves away every one and departed In the sixt of Mark When it was evening the ship was in the midst of the sea and he alone upon land he was not alone upon land or shore for the same was not utterly void of dwellers but he had not any of his Disciples with him nor any body to carry him a shipboard unto his Disciples Many phrases or forms of speeches like unto these are to be found in the sacred scriptures and in authors both Greek and Latin whereby we understand that neither universal negative nor exclusive particles are strictly to be urged but to be explained in such sort as the matter in hand will bear When as therefore the Son alone is said to know the Father and it is demanded whether the holy Spirit is debarred from knowing the Father out of other places of Scripture judgment is to be given in this case In some places the Holy Spirit is counted and reckoned with the Father and the Son jointly wherefore he is not to be separated Elsewhere also it is attributed to the holy spirit that he alone doth know the things which be of God and searcheth the deep secrets of God wherfore from him the knowing of God is not to be excluded They do yet further object that it is not convenient or fit for God after the manner of suters to humble and cast down himself but the holy Spirit doth so praying and intreating for us with unspeakable groans Rom. 8. Ergo the holy Spirit is not God Whereunto I answer that the Holy Spirit doth pray and intreat insomuch as he provoketh us to pray and maketh us to groan and sigh Oftentimes also in the Scriptures is that action or deed attributed unto God which we being stirred up and moved by him doe bring to passe So it is said of God unto Abraham Now I know that thou fearest God and yet before he would have sacrificed Isaac God knew the very heart of Abraham and therefore this word Cognovi I know is as much as Cognoscere feci I have made or caused to know And that the Spirit to pray and intreat is the same with that to make to pray and intreat the apostle teacheth even there writing that we have received the spirit of adoption in whom we cry Abba Father Where it is manifest that it is we which cry the Holy-ghost provoking and forcing us thereunto Howbeit they goe further and frame this reason Whosoever is sent the same is inferior and lesser than he of whom he is sent and furthermore he is of a comprehensible substance because he passeth by local motion from place to place but the Holy Spirit is sent of the Father and the Son John 14 15. 16. It is poured forth and shed upon men Acts 10. Ergo the Holy
otherwise called Belelah LVridan is a Familiar Domestick Spirit of the North who is now become servant to Balkin Lord and King of the Northern Mountains he calls himself the Astral Genius of Pomonia an Island amongst the Orcades beyond Scotland But he is not particularly resident there for in the dayes of Solomon and David he was in Jerusalem or Salem being then under the name of Belilah after that he came over with Julius Caesar and remained some hundred of years in Cambria or Wales instructing their Prophetical Poets in British Rhimes being then surnamed Urthin-Wadd Elgin from thence he betook himself unto this Island Anno 1500. and continued there for 50 years after which he resigned his Dominion to Balkin and hath continued ever since an attendant unto this Prince He is a Spirit of the Air in the order of Glauron and is said to procreate as mortals do He is often sent by his Master upon errands to Lapland Finland and Strik-finia as also to the most Northern parts of Russia bordering on the Northern frozen Ocean His office being called by Magicians is to demolish strong holds of Enemies destroying every night what they build the day before to extinguish fires and make their Gunshot that it hath no power to be enkindled for his nature is to be at enmity with fire and under his Master with many Legions he wageth continual warrs with the fiery Spirits that inhabit the Mountain Hecla in Ise-land where they endeavour to extinguish these fiery flames and the inhabiting Spirits defend the flames from his Master and his Legions In this contest they do often totally extirpate and destroy one another killing and crushing when they meet in mighty and violent Troops in the Air upon the Sea and at such a time many of the fiery Spirits are destroyed when the Enemy hath brought them off the Mountain to fight upon the water on the contrary when the battle is on the Mountain it self the Spirits of the Air are often worsted and then great mournings and doleful noises are heard both in Iseland and Russia and Norway for many days after O ye Powers of the East Athanaton of the West Orgon of the South Boralim of the North Glauron I charge and command you by the dreadful Names here mentioned and the Consecration of this terrible Mountain to present your selves one of every sort before this Circle by the power of Immanuel and his holy Name After this hath with fervency been thrice repeated the Exorcist will hear great noises of Swords and fighting Horses neighing and Trumpets sounding and at last there will appear four little Dwarfs or Pigmies naked before the Circle their speech will be antient Irish which afterwards being confined to a Triangle they will interpret the substance thereof will be from whence they came last and what wonderful things they can do Then the Magician must ask them if they know one Luridan a familiar they will answer Hamah ni trulloh Balkin he is Secretary or servant unto Balkin and after the Exorcist hath charged them to bring the said Luridan unto him they will immediately bring him like a little Dwarf with a crooked nose and present him before the Magician in the triangle then the Magician shall bind and tye him with the bond of obligation and with his own blood without any contract of conditions to be performed that he will attend him constantly at his thrice repeating Luridan Luridan Luridan And be ever ready to go whether he will to the Turks or to the uttermost parts of the Earth which he can do in an hour and destroy all their Magazines After the Magician hath so bound him he shall receive from the Spirit a scrole written in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Indenture to serve him for a year and a day and then the Magician shall dismiss him for that time in the form of dismission CHAP. IX How to Conjure the Spirit Balkin the Master of Luridan AS in the former Chapter the Exorcist is instructed to draw the form of the Mountain Hecla within the circle so in this form of Conjuration he must do the same adding these names to be written round the Mountain Mathiel Rahuniel Seraphiel Hyniel Rayel Fraciel These are the names of Olympick Angels governing the North and ruling over every airy Spirit that belongs unto the Northern Climate so that the authority of these names must be used in the calling up of this Spirit because he is a great Lord and very lofty neither will he appear without strong and powerful Invocations Therefore the Magician must make upon Virgin Parchment the two Seals of the Earth and provide unto himself a Girdle made of a Bears skin with a rough side next his body and these names wrote round about in the outerside ✚ Alpha ✚ Coronzon Yah Laniah Adonay ✚ Soncas ✚ Damael ✚ Angeli fortes ✚ pur pur ✚ Elibra Elohim ✚ Omega ✚ per flammam ignis ✚ per vitam Coronzon ✚ Amen ✚ Also he must provide a black Priestly Robe to reach to his ankles and a new Sword with Agla on the one side and On upon the other having likewise been very continent and chast for three days before the execution of his design and when the appointed night approacheth he must take with him an earthen pan with fire therein and a little Viol with some of his own blood as also some of the Gum or Rozin that comes from the Firr-tree And coming to the appointed place in some solitary Valley the circle must be drawn with chalk as the former one circle within another and these powerful names in the circumference Otheos on Panthon ✚ Breshit Hashamaim Vaharetz Vahayah ✚ Lohu ✚ va Bohu ★ ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ magnus es tu ben Elohim qui super alas ventorum equitaris ✚ This Circumscription is accounted amongst Magicians of all the most powerful and prevalent After this the Circle Mountain Fire Turpentine Girdle Garments Sword and Blood must be consecrated according to the foregoing forms of Consecration adding also this to the end of the consecration Mighty art thou O Adonay Elohim Ya Ya Aie Aie Acimoy who hast created the light of the day and the darkness of the night unto whom every knee bows in Heaven and on Earth who hast created the Lohu and the Bohu that is stupor or numbness in a thing to be admired and mighty are thy magnificient Angels Damael and Guael whose influence can make the winds to bow and every airy Spirit stoop Let thy right hand sanctifie these consecrated utensils exterminating every noxious thing from their bodies and the circumference of this Circle Amen Calerna Shalom Shalom Agla on Sassur Lafrac Angeli fortes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Amen Amen After that he shall sweep the circle gently with a Foxes tayl and sprinkle the same round with his blood dipping also the Sword or anointing
it with the same and brandishing the same in his right hand he shall begin to conjure the Spirit on this following manner I Exorcize and Conjure thee thou great and powerful Balkin Lord of Glauron Lord of Luridan and of fifteen hundred Legions Lord of the Northern Mountains and of every Beast that dwells thereon by the holy and wonderful Names of the Almighty Iehovah Athanato ✚ Aionos ✚ Dominus sempiternus ✚ Aletheios ✚ Saday ✚ Iehovah Kedesh El gabor ✚ Deus fortissimus ✚ Anaphexaton Amorule Ameron ✚ ✚ ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muridon ✚ Iah Iehovah Elohim pentasseron ✚ ✚ trinus et unus ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ I Exorcize and Conjure I Invocate and Command thee thou aforesaid Spirit by the powers of Angels and Archangels Cherubim and Seraphim by the mighty Prince Coronzon by the blood of Abel by the righteousness of Seth and the Prayers of Noah by the voyces of Thunder and dreadful day of Judgment by all these powerful and royal words abovesaid that without delay or malitious intent thou do come before me here at the circumference of this consecrated Circle to answer my proposals and desires without any manner of terrible form either of thy self or attendants but only obediently fairly and with good intent to present thy self before me this Circle being my defence through his power who is Almighty and hath sanctified the same In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen After the Magician hath thrice repeated this Conjuration Let him immediately set the fire before him and put the Rozin thereon to fumigate at the appearance of the conjured Spirits and at the instant of their appearance he shall hold the Censer of fire in his left hand and the Sword in his right still turning round as the Spirits do For in a little space after the Invocation is repeated he shall hear the noise of Thunders and perceive before him in the Valley a mighty storm of Lightning and Rain after a while the same will cease and an innumerable company of Dwarfs or Pigmies will appear mounted upon Chamelions to march towards the Circle surrounding the same Next comes Balkin with his Attendants he will appear like the god Bacchus upon a little Goat and the rest that follow will march after him afoot Assoon as they come near the Circle they will breath out of their mouths a mist or fog which will even obscure the light of the Moon and darken the Magician that he cannot behold them nor himself yet let him not be discomfited or afraid for that fog will be quickly over and the Spirits will run round the Circle after Balkin their Lord who rides upon a Goat they will continue to surround the Circle till the Magician begin the form of obligation or binding their Leader or King in this form with the Sword in his right hand the Fire and Rozin burning before him I conjure and bind thee Balkin who art appeared before me by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by all the holy Consecrations I have made by the powerful Names of Heaven and of Earth and of Hell that I have used and uttered in calling upon thee by the Seals which thou here beholdest and the Sword which I present unto thee by this sanctified Girdle and all the sanctified and potent things aforesaid That here thou remain peaceably and of thy present shape before the Northern quarter of this Circle without injury to me in body soul or fortune but on the contrary to answer faithfully unto my demands and not hence to remove till I have licenced thee to depart In the Name of the Father Son and holy Spirit Amen When he is thus obliged he will alight from his Goat and cause his Attendants to remove further into the Valley then will he stand peaceably before the Circle to answer the Magician After this the Magician shall begin to demand into his own possession a Familiar to build or pull down any Castle or strong hold in a night and that this Familiar bring with him the Girdle of Conquest or Victory that the Magician being girded with the same may overcome all enemies whatsoever And further the Spirit is able to inform him of all questions concerning Thunder and Lightning the Motions of the Heavens the Comets and Apparitions in the air Pestilence and Famine noxious and malevolent blasts as also of the Inhabitants of the Northern Pole and the wonders undiscovered throughout the world Likewise if the Exorcist inquire concerning the habitations of starry Spirits he will readily answer him describing their orders food life and past-time truly and exactly After the Magician hath satisfied himself with inquiries and curious questions unto the Spirit there will come from amongst the company a little Spirit of a span long like a little Ethiop which the great King Balkin will deliver unto the Exorcist to continue as a Familiar with him as long as his life shall last This familiar the possessor may name at it pleaseth him The three last who had this Spirit into possession were three Northern Magicians the first Honduros a Norwegian who called it Philenar and commanded it at his pleasure with a little Bell. After him Benno his eldest Son injoy'd the same under the same name And Swarkzar a Polonian Priest was the last who enjoy'd it under the Name of Muncula all which names were imposed upon it according to the pleasure of the Masters and therefore the naming of this familiar is left to the discretion of the Exorcist Now when the Master hath taken this familiar into his custody and service the Spirit Balkin will desire to depart being wearied if the action continue longer then an hour Therefore the Magician must be careful to dismiss him in this following form Because thou hast diligently answered my demands and been ready to come at my first call I do here licence thee to depart unto thy proper place without injury or danger to man or Beast depart I say and be ever ready at my call being duly exorcized and conjured by sacred Rites of Magick I charge thee to withdraw with quiet and peace and peace be continued betwixt me and thee In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then the Spirits company will begin to march about their Prince and in a formal Troop will march along the Valley whilest the Magician repeateth Pater Noster c. until the Spirits be quite out of sight and vanished This is a compleat form of conjuring the aforesaid Spirit according to the Rules of Vaganostus the Norwegian CHAP. X. The exposition of Iidoni and where it is found whereby the whole Art of Conjuration is deciphered THis word Iidoni is derived of Iada which properly signifieth to know it is sometimes translated Divinus which is a Diviner or Soothsayer as in Deut. 18. Levit. 20. sometimes Ariolus which is one that also taketh upon him to foretel things to come and is found Levit. 19.
remedies it appeareth that there were not with Christ good and perfect men For the pillars of the faith to wit Peter James and John were absent Neither was there fasting and praying without the which that kind of Devils could not be cast out For the fourth point to wit the fault of the Exorcist in faith may appear for that afterwards the Disciples asked the cause of their impotency therein And Jesus answered it was for their incredulity saying Thut if they had as much faith as a grain of mustard seed they should move mountains c. The fift is proved by Vitas Patrum the lives of the Fathers where it appeareth that S. Anthony could not do that cure when his Scholar Paul could do it and did it For the proof of the sixth excuse it is said that though the fault be taken away thereby yet it followeth not that alwayes the punishment is released Last of all it is said That it is possible that the Devil was not conjured out of the party before Baptism by the Exorcist or the midwife hath not baptized him well but omitted some part of the Sacrament If any object There was no Exorcist in the primitive Church It is answered That the Church cannot now erre And S. Gregory would never have instituted it in vain And it is a general rule that who or whatsoever is newly exorcised must be rebaptized as also such as walk or talk in their sleep for say they call them by their names and presently they wake or fall if they climb whereby it is gathered that they are not truly name in Baptism Item they say It is somewhat more difficult to conjure the Devil out of one bewitched then out of one possessed because in the bewitched he is double in the other single They have a hundred such beggerly foolish and frivolous notes in this behalf CHAP. XXXV Other gross absurdities of Witchmongers in this matter of Conjurations SUrely I cannot see what difference or distinction the Witchmongers do put between the knowledge and power of God and the Devil but that they think if they pray or rather talk to God till their hearts ake he never heareth them but that the Devil doth know every thought and imagination of their minds and both can and also will do any thing for them For if any that meaneth good faith with the Devil read certain conjurations he cometh up they say at a trice Marry if another that hath no intent to raise him read or pronounce the words he will not stirr And yet J. Bodin confesseth That he is afraid to read such Conjurations as John Wierus reciteth lest belike the Devil would come up and scratch him with his foul long nails In which sort I wonder that the Devil dealeth with none other then Witches and Conjurors I for my part have read a number of their Conjurations but never could see any Devils of theirs except it were in a Play But the Devil belike knoweth my mind to wit that I would be loth to come within the compass of his claws But lo what reason such people have Bodin Bartholomeus Spineus Sprenger and Institor c. do constantly affirm that Witches are to be punished with more extremity than Conjurors and sometimes with death when the other are to be pardoned doing the same offence because say they the Witches make a league with the Devil and so do not Conjurors Now if Conjurors make no league by their own confession and Devils indeed know not our cogitations as I have sufficiently proved then would I weet of our Witchmongers the reason if I read the Conjuration and performe the Ceremony why the Devil will not come at my call But oh absurd credulity Even in this point many wise and learned men have been and are abused whereas if they would make experience or duly expend the cause they might be soon resolved specially when the whole Art and Circumstance is so contrary to Gods Word as it must be false if the other be true So as you may understand that the Papists do not only by their doctrin in Books and Sermons teach and publish Conjurations and the order thereof whereby they may induce men to bestow or rather cast away their money upon Masses and Suffrages for their souls but they make it also a parcel of their Sacrament of orders of the which number a Conjuror is one and insert many forms of Conjurations into their Divine Service and not only into their Pontificals but into their Masse-books yea into the very Canon of the Masse CHAP. XXXVI Certain Conjurations taken out of the Pontifical and out of the Missal BUt see yet a little more of Popish Conjurations and confer them with the other In the Pontifical you shall find this Conjuration which the other Conjurours use as solemnly as they I conjure thee thou creature of Water in the Name of the Fa ✚ ther of the So ✚ n and of the Holy ✚ Ghost that thou drive away the Devil from the bounds of the just that he remain not in the dark corners of this Church and Altar ✚ You shall find in the same title these words following to be used at the hollowing of Churches There must a cross of ashes be made upon the pavement from one end of the Church to the other one handful broad and one of the Priests must write on the one side thereof the Greek Alphabet and on the other side the Latin Alphabet Durandus yieldeth this reason thereof to wit It representeth the union in faith of the Jews and Gentiles And yet well agreeing to himself he saith even there That the Cross reaching from the one end to the other signifieth that the people which were in the head shall be made the tail A Conjuration written in the Masse-book Fol. 1. I Conjure thee O creature of Salt by God by the God ✚ that liveth by the true ✚ God by the holy ✚ God which by Elizacus the Prophet commanded that thou shouldest be thrown into the Water that it thereby might be made whole and sound that thou Salt here let the Priest look upon the Salt mayst be conjured for the health of all believers and that thou be to all that take thee health both of body and soul and let all phantasies and wickedness or Diabolical craft or deceipt depart from the place whereon it is sprinkled as also every unclean Spirit being conjured by him that judgeth both the quick and the dead by fire Resp Amen Then followeth a Prayer to be said without Dominus vobiscum but yet with Oremus as followeth Oremus ALmighty and everlasting God we humbly desire thy clemency here let the Priest look upon the Salt that thou wouldest vouchsafe through thy piety to bl ✚ ess and sanc ✚ tifie this creature of Salt which thou hast given for the use of mankind that it may be to all that receive it health of mind and body so as