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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20918	A true narrative of the sufferings and relief of a young girle; strangely molested, by evil spirits and their instruments, in the west collected from authentick testimonies there-anent. With a preface and post-script containing reflections on what is most material or curious; either in the history, or trial of the seven witches who were condemn'd to be execute in that countrey.	Cullen, Francis Grant, Lord, 1658-1726.; MacGilchrist, John.	1698 (1698)	Wing C7475B; ESTC R213564	83,138	72

A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE Sufferings and Relief OF A YOUNG GIRLE Strangely Molested By Evil SPIRITS and their INSTRUMENTS in the WEST COLLECTED From Authentick Testimonies there-anent WITH A PREFACE and POST-SCRIPT Containing Reflections on what is most Material or Curious either in the History or Trial of the SEVEN WITCHES who were Condemn'd to be Execute in that Countrey JOB 2.6 And the Lord said unto Satan behold he is in thine hand but save his life MATH 15.22 Have mercy upon me O Lord thou Son of David my Daughter is grievously vexed with a Devil ROM 16.20 And the God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your Feet shortly EDINBURGH Printed by JAMES WATSON in Craig's Closs on the North-side of the Cross M.DC.XCVIII PREFACE WISE Men do justly suspect and are hardly brought to credit the Accounts of extraordinary Stories especially anent Witchcraft Because the frequent impostures which the Romanists have obtruded on the World in their Miracles and Legends the many Relations of odd things as done by Daemons or Wizards which yet were either false or the product of simple natural causes the ignorance of several Judges and Juries who have condemned silly Creatures ●eerly upon their ridiculous Confessions or other slender proof and the difficulty of conceiving the Manner or Philosophy of some Operations and Appearances tho undoub●●dly true in Fact are good prejudices against a Sudd●n belief and precautions for an exact Inquiry But they are Men of weak Souls destitute of distinct thoughts who deny all because they have discovered Error in some or condemn as false all facts which they are ignorant how they came to exist By the same rule of reasoning that there are no Enthusiasts because the best Men have been some times mistaken for these nor are there any Criminals in respect severals have suffered who were not truely such considering that many Historys are fabulous therefore none is to be trusted And all the Phaenomena's in Nature whose invisible causes they cannot comprehend are meer Delusions The following narrative as to the truth of Fact is the best attested peice of History of this kind that has occurred in many Ages the most of the matters therein represented having gained the assent of privat Scepticks and been proven before publick Judges So that it 's more surprising than the strange things of Witchcraft that any should seriously deny the Beeing thereof and from thence discredit such useful Providences at a distance when Notoriety has dispelled all Objections in the places where they did exist Many Authors have proven at large that there are Witches and witchcraft from Reason Scripture Antiquity and Experience or all Nations and Ages in the World And they have solved the difficultys which might obstruct the belief of this positive proof by possible Hypotheses of Philosophy Where it 's to be observed that tho any such explications of the natural manner of Phenomena's are subject to cavil yet the existence of a thing which has so certain positive Evidence cannot be denyed in sound Reasoning because Angels and Men not being made for civill converse together in this World and all communion with Devils being interdicted us the Scripture needed to unfold little of their way of acting and still the next Age may discover what this could not reach As this has already unveiled what was thought unextricable in the Last Unless Impossibility were presently demonstrate Herefore such a short hint as may somewhat Illustrat the Events in the subsequent discourse may suffice in the present Case Especially since Providence does by eminent occurrences rather design our practical instruction then a Subject of national Speculations The Devil can assume a corporeal Shape and bespeak Man out of it As he did to Eve with our SAVIOUR and in some Heat●●● Oracles So that there is Capacity for their entring into Contract Satan is willing thus to ensure mortalls of being enemies to Heaven Earth and their own Salvation by his indefatigable malice against all the three As Curiosity in Witts Reve●ge and Disclosure of Secrets in the great covetousness in the Wordling or ●o●r and ●●●ures in all whom he thinks n●●●full they being impregnable otherways and is permitted by GOD to att●que in this manner does sufficiently blind them to be Susceptible of his Proposals thereanent We see dayly how Criminals ●●sts inflamed by Satan divert their Horrour no● only of ●ternal but also of temporal i●●mmene●t Torments Perverting these instincts of Nature which might fright them from su●●ender But further he does commonly facilitate his conquest on Witches by decoying them Piece-ma●e to his Lure through the mediation of Others from amonge Mankind that are already embarqued till they be prepared he get an opportunity of making with them an explicit Transaction That accordingly he has defacto prevailed in making Sorcerers and Witches appears from the Testimony of the Wisest and ●est in all States and Times The Heathens by Nature and Practice discovering this truth made Laws against Male●●●● and Mathematic●'s these last tho they assumed the name of an art much ●●couraged by the Legislators yet were known under the Cloak thereof to consult the Devil anent the fates of Men and States which the Roman Senate and People did ex●cut● And even the P●rsians in some good Reigns did the like Under the Old Test●ment the Magīcia●s of Egypt and Babylon who were baffled by Moses and D●niell Balaam and the VVitch of ●●d●● with the success of both yea Jesabel Manasseth and the ten Tribes their just Judgement for their Sorceties and VVitchcrafts amongst other Crimes and the Laws made ●●ainst such as distin●●●om other Guilts Under the New Te●ament S●mon Magus who bewitched the People of Samaria Elima● the Sorcerer that was struck blind at Paul's R●buke the Pyth●nisse who seems to have been possest of consent because she was not Tormented but g●t profit thereby and such as confessed shewed their Deeds and burnt their Books in Ephesus Are undeniable instances hereof Finally there are prophesies of False-Christs with sigu● and wonders able to deceive if posible the very Elect General Councils have made Canons against these VVretches And the experimental-K●owledge of injured Mortalls with the publick Sentences which did vindicate the same in subsequent Ages are delivered down to us by the VVriters thereof Hence Gulielmus Linensis a Popish Doctor was justly put to Death even tho' he dyed penitent he having confessed VVitchcraft whereof the written Covenant was found in his pocket and that his share of the Devils Service was to perswade and preach that VVitches were only silly deluded Melancholians whereby their Confessions were no proof His success was such in this work of Darkness that the People and Judges did Slack and VVitches were va●●ly multiplyed in few Years vid. Pet Mamorius de Lamiis who gives an account of the Process from authentick Records Through these periods it is observed that Satan has oft shifted the Scene and turned himself to many Shapes as he found it most