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A09118	A guide to grand-iury men diuided into two bookes: in the first, is the authors best aduice to them what to doe, before they bring in a billa vera in cases of witchcraft, with a Christian direction to such as are too much giuen vpon euery crosse to thinke themselues bewitched. In the second, is a treatise touching witches good and bad, how they may be knowne, euicted, condemned, with many particulars tending thereunto. By Rich. Bernard.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 1943; ESTC S101683	81,487	300

speaketh of such a Witch whom he as himselfe saith saw This is an vndoubted marke of a Witch as one Master Edmunds of Cambridge told me who was one that for a time professed to helpe men to goods or money stolne who was once by the heads of the Vniuersitie questioned as he confessed to mee when hee had better learned Christ and giuen ouer his practice that way He told mee two things besides many others in a whole afternoones discourse at Castlehiningham in Essex neuer to bee forgotten 1. That by his Art he could find out him that stole frō another but not for himselfe 2. That the ground of this Art was not so certa ine but that hee might mistake and so peraduenture accuse an honest man in stead of the offender and therefore gaue it ouer albeit he said hee might haue made two hundred pound per annum of his skill IX By paines and like torment comming vpon this good Witch which is vpon the bewitched Conference I had once with a suspected healing Witch a man miserable poore and of an horrid countenance of whom I asking how hee knew a man or beast to be bewitched hee told mee by two things First by his trouble in saying his prayers for the bewitched which then he could hardly remember and much adoe he had to make an end of them which prayers were so many Creeds so many Aue-Maries so many Pater nosters Secondly by the paine which would seaze on himselfe as soone as he began his prayers the very same which was vpon the bewitched This skill hee learned of a woman which taught him a secret but what that ground of this Witchcraft was that could I by no meanes procure him to reueale Some know who are bewitched as before I shewed by their spirit some by some Witchery means of which Bodinus maketh mention and of many vaine people yet put in practice when they suspect a party for which they deserued to be punished if they had their desert X. Lastly by requiring Faith of such as come vnto them Physicians expect it not neither dare any truely fearing God rob thus God of his honour who curseth such as trust in man and yet these VVitches professe that they cannot heale such as doe not beleeue in them This Bodinus sheweth by examples three or foure whereof one Healer came to a Bishop and willed him to trust in him to cure him and this was in the hearing of Bodinus himselfe there in the Chamber and one Doctor Faber a learned Physician Thus may these falsely so named good VVitches be discouered CHAP. IX That none ought to goe to these Wizards Witches blessers healers cunning men or women for helpe THat none ought to resort to these miscreants and cursed caitises there be plenty of reasons 1. The Charge and Cōmandement of God forbidding the same expresly Leuit. 19. 31. 2. It is a spirituall defilement and Whoredome for the Scripture faith they go a whoring Leuit. 20.6 and are defiled by them Leuit. 19.31 3. It is a dealing with the Deuill and seeking of helpe from him as Ahaziah did for you haue heard by the confession of a Witch that such haue a Familiar and some haue beene knowne to inuocate the Deuill to cure another And surely their mumbled and senselesse prayers what are they but watch words betweene the Deuill and them I knew one that hearing a little boy greatly tormented in the next roome where hee was went out into a back-side and staying sometime there returnd in againe but yet in a great sweate the boy that had cryed a whole weeke ceased presently his crying the Wizard prescribed if the child telt paine againe a certaine medicine of diuers hearbes which I had from the man himselfe but ouer the head and before hee beganne to prescribe the medicine these words must bee written as they were taken from his owne mouth Onguint manera Iaiaanquintmanera very senselesse but in these words were hidden the power of the medicine and were the watch-word betweene the Deuill and him to effect the worke Those therefore which goe to these Wizards seeke helpe of the Deuill 4 It is an heathenish practice to seeke to such I●a 19. 3. 65.4 2. King 17.17 Now wee should not be like the abominable heathen in any euill much lesse in these abominations 5. They which seeke vnto them are commonly wicked and euill people haunted themselues by an euill spirit who suggesteth this course into them as hee did into Saul 1. Sam. 28. yea such as esteeme of these and thinke they worke in Gods name and by his power are bewitched in so thinking Act 8.9 11. 6. It is found true by dayly experience that those which most vse them most neede them for these VVitches either breede or nourish diuelish and vncharitable conceits in those that seeke v●to them as that they dwell by ill neighbours that when any ill happeneth vnto them to theirs or to their Cartell that they are blasted taken with an ill planet strucken that some ill thing went ouer them that they are ouer-looked forspoken and bewitched by some one or other and therefore they must seeke for helpe and this must be of them or of such as be like them Wizards and VVitches By which speeches and wicked counsell they are continually kept on worke in daily seeking to them when any the vry least crosse happeneth vnto them because they are euer imagining VVitchcraft and that the onely remedy for helpe is to seeke vnto these 7. Learned men of all sorts generally condemne this running to these Wizards Saint Augustine Saint Busili and Saint Chrysostome Hippocrates an heathen calleth those Nebulones which by Satannicall meanes professe to cure diseases and saith marke an Heathens words That God which purgeth the most desperate euils is our deliuerance Some Schoolmen hold it to bee an Apostasie to seeke and vse helpe of Witches Aquinas Bonanen Albertus Durand cited by Bodin Master Roberts citeth the Lawes of Emperours and the decrees against such All the godly and learned Diuines in our dayes doe condemne the same the dead by writing the liuing vina voce in their Sermons 8. They often lose their labour for sometimes the healer is but a Counterfeit Witch worthy seuere punishment for deluding people And though a Witch yet can hee or shee doe nothing but by the Deuils helpe and he himselfe hath confessed to the VVitch that hee cannot cure that sometimes which at the bad Witches instigation hee hath inflicted Againe Satan though hee hath his healers yet must they liue one by another therefore he healeth for one VVitch one or two diseases for another more not for one all and this as it happeneth by their conditions in the bargaine-making with the Deuill when they enter into league with the Deuill Sometime this white VVitch cannot cure the bewitched without the consent of the bad VVitch which caused it or which is fearefull to thinke vpon till

out of all these his or her fraud may be disco●ered as vndoubtedly it may in conuenient time though not on a suddaine not in the concourse of an ignorant wondring talking and amazed multitude necessarily to bee remoued in trying a cunning Counterfei●e II. Hauing thus considered the first thing for the discouerie the next is to know what he goeth about to counterfeite not professedly as Stage-Players doe the actions manners conditions places and states of men but one of these two either the naturall but violent diseases or supernaturall workes of the Deuill If he or she counterfeite naturall diseases as the Apoplexie the Epilepsie the Convulsion the Frensie Histerica passio the Suffocation of the Matrix or the Mother the motion of Trembling and Pan●ing the Crampe and Stifnesse or the diseases mingled of these the learned iudicious and experienced Physicians must discouer him or her so counterfeiting But in absence of these for the present if any be otherwise learned and haue bookes let him or them I. Consider the nature of any disease and the accidents thereof which is to haue their times of beginning of increasing of full force and so of declination Now this being so the nature of naturall diseases and ●ccidents thereof as Physici●ns doe teach enquiry must be made whether they began by little and and little increasing in time to full force or that at the first when they seemed to take beginning they at once then mounted to the vtmost extr●mitie and doe likewise cease all in a moment then the disease and accidents thereof are either counterfeit or supernaturall ●s were the Boyles on the Egyptians and blaynes suddenly breaking out as did the sore boyles on Iobs body and were not naturall II. Consider the fits and to what speciall disease those fits may be resembled and if any haue such bookes as doe describe the nature of such dis●eases let them looke thereinto and compare them together to see the ●ddes and differences betweene them III. Consider how that naturall diseases and motions thereof especially violent which these vndertake to counterfeite leaue the bodies wea●●●●● the vsage pa●e the breath panting the pulse changed the spirits infeebled with such other effects as violent diseases from naturall causes doe produce and leaue as true testimonies of the truth thereof If therefore after the violent fits the parties be strong can walke about talke with merry company tosse the pot whiffe the Tobacco pipe and such like the disease if it be not supernaturall it is counterfeite for it is not naturall But before I leaue this one thing more may be noted that euen a Counterfeite may haue some naturall disease vpon him or her and make aduantage thereof adding their owne iuggling tricks therto As Mahomet the Turkish false prophet made benefit of the falling sicknesse with which disease hee was afflicted So some with mealancholy affected may become pale and meager and being subtile in their inuention will thereof make vse to play their prankes Many before named had the Hysterica passio and added thereto counterfeit trances Care therefore must be had to difference the counterfeiting from that which is naturall wich requireth iudgement And therefore albeit I haue set downe these ●s some helpes where the Physician cannot be had to informe the Gentlemen of the Iewry yet if it be possible let them vse the learned mens helpe and aduice in these things And thus much for the discouering of a counterfeit in naturall diseases But now if he or shee counterfeit Diabolicall practices of persons bewitched and possessed then are the Gentlemen to acquaint themselues with the true signes of such as bee poss●ssed so to discouer the dissembler and according as I finde in holy Scripture they be these I. An extraordinary strength accompanyed with exceeding fiercenesse to be able to pull chaines in sunder and to breake fetters in pieces to cut themselues with stones to teare off their cloathes to go naked to runne into solitary and hideous places and not to be tamed Here is a Deuil Mar. 5.4.5 Luk. 8.29 II. When one is suddenly taken vp and throwne with violence among and in the 〈◊〉 of a c●mp●ny and not be ●ur Luk. 4.35 III. When one is Lunaticke taken often and cast into the fire or water to be d●stroyed Math. 17.15 M●r 9 22. IV. When one walloweth foameth gnasheth with his teeth is rent and throwne to and fro and withall pineth away in body as in Mar. 9.18 20. and that for a very long time to be so tormented V. When sight hearing and speech is taken from one strangely as in Math. 12.22 Mar. 9.25 VI. When one is violently tormented the spirit bruising the partie making him or her with tearings to foame againe and suddenly to crie out Luk. 9.39 VII When one speaketh in his or her fits in an extraordinary manner not after their owne naturall or ordinary course of vnderstanding as did Saul 1. Sam. 18.10 speaking such truths as possible they by no naturall apprehension or by instruction could attaine vnto as did diuers possessed concerning Christ who they said was the holy one of God Mar. 1.24 The Son of God Mar. 3.11 The Sonne of the most high God Mar. 5.7 and as the Pythonysse said of Paul and Sylas These are the seruants of the euer liuing God and teach vnto you the way of Saluation Act. 16. This knowledge they had not by naturall reason for flesh blood reuealed it not Mat. 16 Neither did they learne it of men for the Iewish Teachers opposed these truths Math. 27.43 26.64 It was then the Deuill in them that knew him who made them so speake Mar. 1.34 We may reade in learned relations of such as in their fits would speake strange languages Fernelius an vndoubted testimony mentioneth how he saw an ignorant and franticke boy and heard him in his madnesse to speake Greeke Melanchton saith that hee saw a Damoniacke woman in Saxony who could neither write nor reade and yet spake both Greeke and Latine VIII When one diuineth as the Pythonisse did Act. 16. foretelleth 〈◊〉 such as come to demand questions of things to come or doeth reueale hidden things As Sleiden in his Commentary telleth of Anabaptisticall Maides when some hid their monies they would ●ell where they hid the same IX When holy means is vsed as Christ did by his Word and power thē the party to cry with a lowd voice to be sore torne 〈◊〉 spirits departing to be 〈◊〉 or d●ad in the iudgement of the beholders Mar. 1.26 9.26 Luk. 4 34 15.42 Thus it tell out w●●h t●e p●ssessed recorded in holy Scriptures Let the pract●ces of Counterfeits be tryed hereby and also by the signes of those that are bewitched Of which in the next booke and 12. Chapter hereafter CHAP. IV. That the Diuell and euill spirits through Gods permission may doe much euill vnto the godly for their tryall and vnto the wicked for their punishment