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A65369	The displaying of supposed witchcraft wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy, but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the witch ... is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters / by John Webster ...	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing W1230; ESTC R12517	396,606	368

alledged to be done are not credible 4. He confesseth that they are either false or so unusual that they are not worthy to be believed 5. And when he hath said all he can he concludeth these Transformations if any such were to be but phantastical that is to seem so but not really to be so and what he meaneth by a phantastical appearance is not easie to judge whether it were a delusion of the Phantasie within or of the senses without 6. But in another place he telleth us this Non est credendum humanum corpus Daemonum arte vel potestate in bestialia lineamenta converti posse so that here is St. Austin contradicting himself or else he concludeth nothing 7. But his learned Commentator Ludovicus Vives doth not give credit to those vain and lying Fables but confuteth them by the Authority of Pliny who might have given St. Austin satisfaction if he had read him who tells us roundly Homines in lupos verti rursumque restitui sibi falsum esse confidenter existimare ●lebemus aut credere omnia quae fabulosa tot seculis comperimus And further saith Mirum est quò procedat Graecia credulitas Nullum tam impudens mendacium est ut teste careat 2. For essential Transformations we have examples in the Sacred Scriptures but these not wrought but by a divine Hand and an omnipotent Power And such was that of Lots Wife who looking back contrary to command was turned into a Pillar of Salt fuit in statuam salis as Arias Montanus renders it which accordeth with the Hebrew exactly the vulgar Latine and others say versa est in statuam salis and this by the divine finger was a real transubstantiation especially in respect of her body the substance of which was really changed into an absolute Pillar of Salt without regression or returning back to what it was before but remained so still and was standing in the days of Josephus if credit may be given to what he writeth Another example we have in Moses his Rod which God commanded him to cast upon the ground and he cast it upon the ground and it became a Serpent and Moses fled from before it And the Lord said unto Moses Put forth thine hand and take it by the tail And he put forth his hand and caught it and it became a rod in his hand This Rod afterwards Aaron threw down before Pharaoh and it became a Serpent and swallowed up the rods of the Wise-men and Sorcerers and it afterwards became a rod again and Aaron used it in working some of the rest of the Miracles So that this was so true a transformation that Moses himself was afraid when he saw the Rod a Serpent that he fled from before it and that it was a real change appeared in that it swallowed up the Rods of the Magicians and still afterwards became a Rod again So likewise all the Waters in Egypt were really changed into blood And our Saviour did really change the Water into Wine at the Marriage in Cana of Galilee And all these were true and real transubstantiations which neither Devils nor Witches can perform as appeareth by these unanswerable Arguments 1. All real Transubstantiations are wrought and performed by a divine and omnipotent Power but Devils and Witches have no divine nor omnipotent Power Therefore Devils or Witches cannot work or perform any real Transubstantiations 2. All Beings that work real Transubstantiations must work contrary and different from that order and course that God hath established in Nature but Devils and Witches cannot work contrary and different from that order and course that God hath established in Nature Therefore Devils and Witches cannot work any real transubstantiations at all Let all the Witchmongers in the World answer these Arguments if they be able 3. We find also external Transfiguration as of Christ in the Mountain for the Text saith in St. Matthews Gospel And he was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the Sun and his raiment was white as the light And Mark saith And he was transfigured before them and his raiment became shining exceeding white as snow so as no fuller on earth can white them And St. Luke saith And as he prayed the fashion of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and glittering The word used in those places for the transfiguring or altering of his face by St. Matthew and St. Mark is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 trans and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forma figura the outward form shape figure or lineaments and this word is also used for the change or transforming of the mind will desires and affections For so the Apostle saith And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind And again he saith We behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord with open face and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory But St. Luke instead of this word expresseth it thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tremellius renders it Transformatus est aspectus vultûs ejus And Beza Species vultûs ejus alia which is nearest the Greek So Moses face when he had been with the Lord upon the Mount the skin of it did shine so that he put a veil upon it when he spoke to the people and put it off when he went in to speak unto the Lord. So that these were external alterations of both Christs and Moses face by appearing glorious resplendent and shining like the Sun and this was wrought by a divine hand and power From whence we may note 1. That though Christ was thus gloriously transformed for so the word doth bear yet we are not to imagine that Christ was essentially changed into some other substance or nature no but that he was rather made there most resplendent in glory 2. And where the Apostle wisheth the Romans to be transformed Is it to be essentially transformed into any other substance or natural thing Nay not so but effectively into some other more sacred qualities by the renovation of their inward mind And again where he saith And are transformed into the same image from glory to glory His meaning is not that we are essentially transformed into the very image of God for so should he very shrewdly confirm that foolish opinion of some who hold that men are deified in God and that God also is hominified in men But his purpose is that we by the operation of the holy Spirit should proceed and grow by degrees from glory to glory until we be truly conformed unto the similitude of that same glorious Image of God wherein we were first created and so intendeth no essential transformation at all 3. We are here to note the difference betwixt this Transfiguration and that which may proceed from natural causes as passions affections or diseases and also