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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94031	The strange vvitch at Greenvvich, (ghost, spirit, or hobgoblin) haunting a wench, late servant to a miser, suspected a murtherer of his late vvife: with curious discussions of walking spirits and spectars of dead men departed, for rare and mysticall knowledge and discourse, / by Hieronymus Magomastix. April 24. 1650. Imprimatur. John Dovvname.	Hieronymus Magomastix.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5920; Thomason E600_15; ESTC R206398	23,528	30

out of her Grave did believe as their Creed verily and assuredly Verid. But as a woman being askt by Bonner if shee believed not Christs body and blood to bee in the Sacrament substantially and really Shee told him it was a substantiall lye and a reall lye so I assure you what ever the Pontificians doate or faigne or our Vulgars dreame of the Ghosts or Spirits of this man or that man walking after their deaths in this or that shape is a very lye an assured lye take this from me yea from Scripture Fathers Reason and Experience assuredly Scept But doe you not believe that many strange visions and apparitions have appeared unto men and have revealed divers strange things unto them and future events sometimes visible in bodily shapes and formes are not these the soul●s of the dead Verid. No they are not yet I should give a lye to abundant Histories and to all Antiquities if I should deny all Visions for the Author of the Booke of the Machab●●s tells us of two yong men who appeared to Heliodorus 2 Machab. 3.25.26 of five to Judas Machabeus 2 Machab. 10.23 and Zozomens Ecclesiasticall Historie relates a feare full spectar terryfying Julian the Apostate as hee was consulting with an Oracle lib. 5. cap. 2. and another in forme of a big woman with a horrid noise in the night terrifying the Antiochians lib. 7. cap. 23. and of another appearing to Apelles the Painter whose face hee burned with a hot Iron lib. 6 cap. 28. as St. Dunstan is sayd to take the Divell by the nose with a paire of hot pinchers yea to reflex from Ecclesiasticall on secular History a spectar appeared to Julius Caesar as hee led his Army into France incouraging him by a loud pipe to passe over the River Rubico another to Brutus telling him hee would meete him at Philippos another to Dionysius the Syracusan in forme of a woman as hee sate very solitary in the Porch of his house another to Polizelus the Athenians Generall in the Battle of Marathan where hee was victorious though it struck him blinde another to Athenodorus the Stoick which hee dispossessed out of a house in Athens which it haunted just as the Spirit now doth the house of Meriday and another in the Parish of Mentz who by breaking open doores casting stones pulling down walls and the like reakes that our Greenwich Spirit doth troubled and terrified many and another to Henry the third Emperour in Hungary neare Danubius in the shape of a black and big Aethiopian another also to Maximilian the first Emperour Anno 1503. in the forme of an Abatesse who was dead of all which with many more which I purposely pretermit for further satisfaction consult with Came arius in his Centuries Cent. 1. cap. 70. cap. 72. with Richtherus in his Occonomicall Axioms Reg. 2. 90. Aretius in his Probleams Page 113. Pliny in his seventh booke of Epistles to Sura Wolfius in his memorable Lecticus Tom. 1. Aventine in his Annalls lib. 5. Boiorum Artunus in his first Section of the History of Millaine together with Plutark in his Brutns and Dion Suetonius in his Caesar with others all which instances doe not onely confute and confound the ancient Saduces who denyed that there were either Spirits or Angells Acts 23.8 Math 22.23 yea conceited God himselfe to bee corporeall according to Lorinns in acta cap. 23.8 fol. 869. from Chrysostome and Oecumenius and not a spirit denying also the Holy Ghost according to Hierom in Math. 22. to bee a spirit or to bee any person in the Diety nor doe they onely muzzle the mouth of Atheisticall Politicians who with that Trismegistus in Saint Augustines City of God lib. 3. cap. 23. hold that there be no reall or substantiall Divells but onely the Furies and Erinnis of wicked consciences but also some neotorick and moderne Fantasticks and Scepticks who conceit all to bee meere fantasmes and delusions in this kinde and no more to bee credited then the fictitious Tritons Gerions and Chimeras of the Poets yea of no more credence then the old Wives Tales of King Oberon and Queene of the Fairies Scept To deny all Apparitions of spirits which the Disciples themselves feared when they saw Christ walking on the waters Math. 14.26 Mark 6.46 were to deny plaine Scriptures for they thought hee had beene a spirit for I believe the Relation of Suetonius in the life of Nero that after that Truculent Tyrant had butchered so many noble Senators made Bonefires of so many Christian Martyrs put to death his Master Seneca when hee was 114. yeares of age crucified Peter and Paul and unripped the bowells of his Mother Octavia with other such barbarous cruelties that hee was not onely racked and tortured with his owne guilty conscience and terrified with agonizing feares in his dreames as were Caligula his Successor Herod after his assassinations of the Bethlem Infants and Jewish Synedrim Alexander after tue murther of Clitus Philip after the butchering of his innocent sonne Demetrins and our bloody Boare Richard the third after his murthering of his Brother and N●phewes in the Tower by Tirell whose pannick feares and terrours in the guilt of blood are more largely related by Patritius in his bookes of a Kingdome lib. 5. tit 8. pag 313. and by Strigellius in his Ethicks lib. 1. pag. 6.7.8 and in his Comments on 2 Sam. 3. pag. 9. pag. 15● but I believe also the Relation of the same Authours that hee was so whipped and scourged and scorched in his flesh as with hot brands with a spirit in the shape of his Mother that as Balthazar consulted with his Magitians in the like pannick feares Dan. 5. hee used all the helps hee could by Magick to appease as hee thought her angry Ghost neither have I any reason to contradict the received Relation of that terrible Vision of an ugly man in bulke like a Gyant appearing in the night to Pisistratus the Tyrant thundering to him what hee found true that nemo Improbus non luit poenam no wicked man must escape unpunished yet for all this I perswade my selfe many conceit they see or heare spirits when there is no such matter Verid. That is certaine for in the guilt of conscience Theoderick a cruel King of the Goth●● thought hee saw the bloody head of Symachus which hee had out off to gape with open mouth upon him when onely the head of a great Fish was set on his table by which Guilt of Conscience some have strangely discovered their owne murthers as many notorious Villaines have beene discovered by others of which many instances may bee seene in Gualters Homilies upon Luke cap. 12. pag. 324. as also Bucholcerus his Chronologies pag. 59. chiefely in Melancton in locis Manlii pag. 290. 308. Sometimes withall the senses are mainely deluded as the Moabites thought the waters were dyed with the blood of the Israelites when it was onely the Sunne which shined upon them to a waterish rednesse 2