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A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

and all and so died thrice She had a mighty knack at Miracles all her life long for to save Souls from the pains of Purgatory she loved to throw her self into all the hottest Ovens and burning Fires she could find that she might endure here what they suffered there and to atone for Gluttons she resolv'd to starve her self till finding the pains of a sharp hunger she had Milk came into her Paps so allayed the cravings of her Stomach by sucking her self she expiated for proud Souls by applying her self to the worst way of common begging she could distinguish too between the honesty and dishonesty of those which gave her alms for the Bread that came from good hands tasted like Bread but that which came from wicked hands tasted like Toads-flesh To satisfy for all Sorts of sins contracted by those which used much company keeping she resolv'd to forsake mankind and to come near none but Beasts at last that she might be safe from all contagion of Flesh and Blood she parched her self on the tops of Trees there her thin body being made thinner both by continual fasting and great fervency of Spirit she did at her prayer contract her self into a round form much like that of a Hedg-hog She could climb up the highest Trees like a Squirrel and swim in Rivers like a Fish till her Friends barbarous it seems and not believing all these Miracles put her in Chains as a Mad Woman and there she miserably lacerated her poor body with struggling hard to free her self and this violence in Prison gave occasion to more Miracles for the Milk in her Breasts turned into Oyl wherewith she did anoint her sores and sometimes too she used it as Butter to sweeten her Bread Cardinals and whole Towns can aver these extravagancies and therewith we shall conclude the first kind of Roman Miracles omitting what might be said of S. Brigit S. Julia S. Clara S. Vrsula with hundreds more known and famous in that Church with whose stories their Voluminous Legends do crawl all over In the mean time it will not be amiss for satisfaction of the curious to insert the names of those Authors our Reverend Doctor hath made use of in this Section Alan Rediv. part 2. c. 4. Jul. ●omer in vita Ildeph ap Sur. 23. Jan. Chronick Deipar an 985. Leander in vita Reginald Robert Archid. in vita S. Albert. ap Sur. 7. Apr. Chronic. Deip. an 598. Histor Eccl. Carnot an 1020. Chronic. Deip. an 1152. Ibid. an 1476. Ibid. an 1235. Matth. Paris in vita S. Godric Menol. Cisters 29. Octob. Bov. 14. anal an 1317. n. 2. Flamin in vita S Catharin Henriques Fascicul S. S. Chronic. ord praedict Henriques 3. Jam Chronic. Deip. an 1285. Ibid. an 1235. S. Bonavent in vit S. Fran. Job Garg in vita S. Dominic Tho. Cantapr in vita S. Christinae ap Sur. Jun. an 1160. Jacob de Vitriaco in vita S. Mariae Ocigniar CHAP. VIII A further evidence of the Confederacy of Roman Priests with evil Spirits THE Argument that we are now upon having already taken up too much Paper for one Section I have thought it proper to continue it in the following Chapter lest those who are ignorant of Satans devices and of the Artifices of his Priests should want so convincing a Demonstration of the danger of Communion with them as is laid before them in the subsequent lines I must therefore resume the Discourse as it is continued in the forecited Book of the Reverend Dr. Brevint and having already transcribed the sum of what he speaks upon the first Head namely That the Miracles of the Roman Church are ordinary such trifling and Ludicrous pranks as cannot possibly seem to hold any proportion with those solid and Divine Operations which attested the Truth and Excellency of the Doctrine of the Holy Gospel The Second Evidence that he mentions is the Tendency and Design of the Popish Miracles which look quite another way from those wrought by our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles For whereas those last confirmed the Faith and Doctrine of the first Preachers of the Doctrine of Salvation and those which anciently were wrought at the Sepulchres of the Primitive Martyrs cannot be thought to justify or assert any other Faith or Doctrine than what was Taught Believed and Practised by those Holy Men Aug. de Civit. l. 22. c. 9. says What is it that these Miracles will attest but the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ St. Paul tells us that they taught nothing but what was concluded within the Law and the Prophets and it cannot be supposed that the extraordinary things done by them should confirm any other Doctrine than what they Taught So at this day tho all sorts of Operations were to be seen at the Sepulchre of St. Paul they could not be presumed to confirm the Popes Bulls or the Innovations of the Roman Church but those truths which were contained in his Preachings and his Epistles But as for Roman Miracles they follow their Novel Doctrines which sometimes are contrary to and always quite different from the true Christian Gospel How many Volumes would be required to contain all the revelations and the strange wonders that encourage and excite men in general to the Worship of the Virgin Mary As many more are bestowed upon the doing it by special ways and at her particular Feasts for upon that score great Indulgences are promised to her Adorers or else what mean those swarms of Monks that lie hid under her Coats or the Ladders whited with her Milk from which no body that takes that way to Heaven can ever tumble down Or those Quires of supposed Angels heard in the bottom of a deep Well to sing her praises What can be thought of those Images that bleed or speak or fly as light as Feathers unless it be to bring mankind to the Worshipping of Wood or Stone or something more sordid and abominable which seems to give motion to those inanimate Stocks What all those thousands of sad Souls to ramble up and down the World since the time of Pope Gregory but to reveal Purgatory and recommend Masses for the dead What abundance of strange Feats have been done by St. Francis and St. Dominic on purpose to confirm their new orders and ways What can signify those heaps of excommunicated Flies and a poor Raven pining to death under the same Curse for having fled away with a Bishops Ring but to shew the Terrour of the Roman Keys And those multitude of small and great Toads crawling in and out of mens mouths when they do observe well or ill the rules of Auricular Confession but to justify that jugling piece of Priest-Craft Or the many little Children standing upon consecrated Wafers but to maintain the Doctrine of Transubstantiation What can the many pretended Miracles wrought by the five wounds in the body of St. Francis or the Rope about his Loyns signify but to keep up an Opinion of the Sanctity of

comforted himself in the prospect hereof 2 Sam. 23.5 though his house should not grow though severe corrections and rebukes should cause the Beauty of his house to wither yet God would give him the Covenant-salvation it should be well with him in case of such coming though the Text less intend it the Doctrine is both true and useful 3. Sometime the Lord cometh to search and try mens state and conscience is awakened to make enquiry and to discover them to themselves While God stands as at a distance men are secure but when he cometh by his Word and Spirit and commands an admission he sets up that light within the mans soul that discovers what he hath done what he may expect and what he farther must do The word is sharp as a two-edged sword and searcheth the reins Heb. 4.12 And thus the secrets of mens hearts are discovered when God cometh with his word 1 Cor. 14.25 among men When God heweth men by his prophets and maketh his judgments as the light Hos 6.5 then he cometh into the heart and conscience Now certainly the Faithful and Diligent are in a good condition when their hearts do not condemn them when they know God will not condemn them But oh the sad condition of those that dare not look themselves in themselves that are self-condemned and afraid to know what God discovereth at such coming The Kings of Judah who did not obey the Command of the Lord could not endure the Prophets or their word But Josiah who was faithful to God can bear such a searching word 2 Chron. 34.19 27. ver Who desire to be faithful to God they dare abide this coming it doth discover their sincerity and declare them happy In this case though not directly intended by the Text it holdeth true All Gods faithful Servants and Stewards are found in a good and happy state But next which is that coming intended chiefly in the words and Doctrine 4. When Death is the Messenger God sendeth to let us know he is coming to us when he fetcheth us from amidst men and cometh to take account of each of us each man by man thus visited is either more or less happy as he is found more or less faithful and diligent at this coming of the Lord this is that coming of which by concurrent vote of our Interpreters the Text doth speak as also doth its Parallels Matt. 24. ver 42 43. and Mark 13. ver 34 35 36. of which I say the less because it passing with so general consent needs not much proof But Fifthly and lastly The Lord cometh in his Glory and Majesty to raise the dead and to Judg all men They who now do shall not eternally sleep in the dust God will come and call them out of their beds The Lord Jesus will descend with the voice of the Trump and the dead shall hear and rise to the great general and last judgment Thus he cometh to judg the world Psal 96.13 and 98.9 with righteousness and the people with equity Places that speaking of the Kingdom of the Messiah do include this Royal procedure which shall consummate his ministerial Government When he cometh as Rev. 1.7 in view of every eye for every eye shall see him when he thus cometh or as 't is described 1 Cor. 15.23 24 25 At this coming the Faithful diligent Servant is in good state Briefly then Whether our Lord come sooner or later to try the heart by his word or families by his Rod or Nations as he did try the Jews by more publick calamities In these cases the most faithful of his Servants and Stewards are in the most safe and blessed state but when he cometh as the judg of all men to particular judgment calling each man by death and to the general judgment calling all men before him He and he only is in a good and blessed state who is found to have been faithful and diligent in his Stewardship and Service within the House and Family of God giving to each what portion of meat is due to them Which is In the third place now to be proved by the more general Testimony of the Scriptures Where we find all faithful and diligent Servants and Stewards especially pronounced blessed and happy in their attendance to the work of doing good to all as they are able and therein serving their Lord and waiting for his coming So Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord Death is the greatest as well as last Enemy to our life yet if that natural life be spent for the Lord and we dye in him we are blessed for such mens Works do follow them and they rest from their Labours Now certainly lesser troubles and lighter afflictions cannot render him or her unhappy whom Death found and left in a blessed state so that to work those works which we would have to follow us and to dye in the Lord as they prove our Fidelity so they do prove our Felicity and at once prove us good Christians and in good state Again Matth. 25.34 35 Come ye blessed of my father c. These are such who fed cloathed harboured visited and refreshed those in the Lords Family though the least of his Family vers 40 which was as much a Duty to them who could do it as it was useful to others for whom it was done Now they are declared happy ones who had thus according to their opportunity Ministred unto others And much more will they appear blessed who have faithfully directed thirsty Souls to the Fountain of living Waters hungry Souls to the Bread of Life naked Souls to the white Robes wandring Souls to the rest of Souls Again Matth. 7.21 Not he that saith Lord Lord but he that doth the Will of my heavenly Father c. not a fruitless profession but a faithful obedience not an unactive complement but a diligent fulfilling the Will of our Lord is at last a blessing to us he is in a good state indeed whose Lord doth reward his Service with an entrance into and enjoyment of eternal life in Heaven And nothing can alter it to him who altereth not his course of Faithfulness and Diligence Such an one is Jam. 1.22 Blessed in his deed now who is blessed in doing his work can never be in ill-state whilst he is doing it and he is in better state when the work done is rewarded whose work is his happiness cannot but be happy whilst he attends his work and this is the case of all diligent and sincere observers of Gods Commandments The keeping them is a great reward Christians consider it if glory honour immortality and eternal life can be a blessedness to us we are assured of this For every soul that doth good as God requireth whether Jew or Gentile Rom. 2.13 There is a crown of righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 for St. Paul who had fought a good fight c. Yea but if it were limited to his person none could

you if you will remember and imitate those whose life and carriage was much in your eye And let me tell you in the Copy our late faithful Brother set you there are remarkable for your imitation A prudent care to manage soul-concerns a constant unwearied diligence in Labours for their good an undaunted resolution for known duty to God and Man a tender and meek spirit gently dealing with the weak yet willing enquirers after God A ready and full-willing mind to minister on every occasion to the edifying of those he conversed with An even and steddy practice of what he commended as excellent or urged as necessary duty an acquaintedness with the importance of duty and reward A serious mindfulness of Death and Judgment on which he discoursed frequently and lively dying to the World but living to God and still valuing most what was so good God would not and men could not take from him which appear'd in his deportment and frame of spirit when loss of dying Children and uncertain riches raised his esteem and value of the Gospel and his and your hopes set before us in the Gospel a heart full of love and thoughtfulness for your good whence those last desires and requests in order to the promoting of your good which I am informed he left you to consider Prize a Guide that will be faithful to your souls keep the unity of the spirit into which you are called by the Gospel and seek God earnestly for both Now could we prevail with you who heard and with others who read this discourse to endeavour for such a frame of spirit and to act according to it I know there would be more faithfulness diligence and mutual hope among the Servants of the Lord and his Family would be more beautiful in sight of others and more comforted and edified in their own souls Read then and read again and be in your houses which should be little Families or Churches of God in directing and helping them to Heaven what he desired and labour'd to be amongst you all I do think he gave you the Copy of Faithfulness and Diligence or I would not have thus set it before you and I commend it to you as becomes both me and it viz. It is the Copy of one who whilst he was good was still a man but though I could wish you would excel him I will not flatter you with a hope you will do it Oh that you would equal him of whom allow me to say He could do as much as most of best Men Scholars Christians Husbands Fathers Brethren Ministers and his will was ever equal to his ability the Service of his Lord was his life though he lived not on it he would not he could not live without it by a gracious Master sitted for succeeded in carried through much work in a little time and I believe now rewarded with a Crown of Life and Righteousness which he knew he did not merit though he knew it should be his wages In brief he was such an one as friends who knew him desire they may be and now is such as they hope they shall be such an one as some enemies already as I am inform'd have wisht they might be and others will once at last wish they had been He had a worth known to himself and others but it did not puff him up Should I say all I could strangers would think I exceed Friends would know a better Orator might justifiably have spoken more Yet once for all If either Readers or Hearers carp at the Character I have given him I have two things to say First it will be easier to quarrel at the praises than to deserve them Next I would defraud none of the Commendation due to them nor do I prefer him above all there are some but too few superior in gifts and graces I hope there are many his equals I am sure the most are lower by head and shoulders who likeliest to misinterpret me shall have a good wish for them or rather a serious Prayer testimony of a hearty love to their persons and unfeigned desire of their own good comfort and welfare and of all these to theirs and the Church of God in this and after ages for them I say I will pray more days fewer troubles and that they may be in other things altogether such as he was FINIS only on particular Men Women and Children but even on whole Towns and Countries many of which have been miserably Afflicted and some even totally destroyed by Tempests Fires Pestilences and other strange Accidents whereof no cause in Nature could appear And this hath been Attested not by one or two private or Ignorant Men but Transmitted from one Generation to another as the Opinion of the most Authentick Historians Physicians and Divines grounded on the best and strictest Enquiries of such who have taken Indefatigable pains to sift and search out the truth of what they have Related Nor have we alone the Authority of such but the consent of whole Courts of Judicature and the most Learned Assemblies of States-Men and Divines who in all Ages by their Publick Solemn Sanctions have declared their belief Detestation of such Cursed Practices Besides the undeniable Testimony of the sacred Scriptures before mentioned to whose Unerring Suffrage we ought to submit our belief and not by our fidelity Contradict the Authority of the Almighty and take upon us to be the Patrons and Champions of those Hellish Practises we seem to disbelieve By Charmers in a strict sense may be understood such as by some spell or form of Words employ their Familiar Spirits to bring at their call such Creatures as they shall demand rendering Venomous Creatures disarmed of their Noxious Quality during their pleasure and the most Ferose and Wild Brutes to become Tractable and Couchant Such were they who could suscitate or call together great numbers of Snakes or Serpents and cause them to go of their own accord into the Fire which was inclosed within a Magical Circle of which Dr. Casaubon of Credulity and Incredulity gives an account at large page 103. some have Charmed Flyes and Grashoppers when the Fields have been Infested with them and the fruits of the Earth in danger And of this sort of Operators the Psalmist seems to speak Ps 58. v. 4. Which will not hearken to the voice of the Charmer Charming never so wisely So Ecclesiastes ch 10.11 v. surely the Serpent will bite without Enchantment and the 8. of the Prophet Jerem. 17. v. I will send Serpents Cockatrices amongst you which will not be Charmed and they shall bite you c. Southsayers were such as by Inspection into the Entrails of Beasts or the flying of Birds were wont to prognosticate of Weather what Tempests or other seasons were like to ensue they gave their Opinions too with relation to other Contingencies as Events of Battle the fatality of Seasons or Attempts This they foretold by some certain Omens

l. 4. c. 9. Od. Gissaeus supra Niceph. Eccl. Hist l. 15. c. 25. Blosius in Monili Menol. Cisterc 22. Dec. Chron. Diep an 1467. Tho. Malvenda Tom. 1. Annal. Ord. Praed an 1221. Much more doth the learned Doctor urge to prove that what the Papists offer to the Shrine of that which they call the Blessed Virgin can be nothing less than giving Divine Honour and Adoration to an unclean Spirit but I fear I have been tedious in transcribing this tho it were to be wished that all professed Christians were truly convinced of the danger and damnableness of this Roman Doctrine For if That which was never commanded by God in his Word ought not to be introduced into his Worship If Whatsoever pretended Saint or Angel claims a Religious Adoration be to be reputed Diabolical and unclean Then what can be concluded of those Worshippers and these Saints in the Roman Church unless it be this that they have not introduced only the Doctrine but the down-right Worshipping of Devils It is not for nothing that the Holy Spirit of God doth in the Sacred Writings by his inspired Pen-men so often warn and call off his People from Idolatry it is not for nothing that the Eternal Fountain of Blessedness expresses such an inflamed Jealousy against the Israelites for departing after strange Gods and that the Divine Vengeance always followed that Impious Abomination with such tremendous and smoaking Judgments For when once the profligated Spirits can obtain for Deities in their Temples and Altars it is not to be expected that the true and Eternal God should have any place in the heart of such a People Therefore the Scripture calls Idolatry a departing from the Holy One a going a Whoring from him The Samaritans had that Opinion of the works which Simon the Sorcerer performed by Witchcraft and a Diabolical Confederacy that they called him the mighty power of God in the 8 th Chap. of the Acts. But by the verse preceding it appears that he had fascinated their minds and laid his Charms on their understandings that they were in such a condition as Paul terms the Galatians they were bewitched that they should not Obey the Truth And it cannot be supposed that any thing short of some forcible Enchantment could prevail with those of the Roman Communion to give faith to those lying Wonders and Divine Worship to those eluding Spirits which upon that account have the Shrines erected amongst them By what hath been said it is evident that those Ghosts or Spirits which require Temples and Worship are no other then some of the Tainted Expulsed Legions and that the strange Miracles performed by the Images or at the Shrines of these Deities are the old delusions continued whereby they drew the Antient Pagans after their Oracles Groves and Pythons c. and the Papists now a days into an Adoration of Images Altars and Relicks Still the old Confederacy is kept up tho under new Forms and Notions And perhaps it is none of the smallest Policies of the Agents of that Communion to impose upon their Credulous Ones the belief that there is no such thing as a Witch that so their performances of that kind may the better pass under the notion of a Miracle But by the following discourse any one that will not wilfully blind himself may discern the strange and vast power that the Deceiver of the Nations still maintains amongst the degenerate race of men And so I have put an end to the first Part. THE SECOND PART OF Pandaemonium Giving an Account of divers most Remarkable Witchcrafts Also a further Account of Daemons and Spectres never before Published BY what hath been said in the foregoing pages it is evident that the Prince of Darkness hath a very large Dominion among the Sons of Men That he hath his Temples Altars and Sacrifices and though under new and different names still draws off poor biggotted wretches to pay unto his Implous Shrines that Honour Homage and Adoration which is only due to the most High There are besides these another sort of the Infernal Disciples who give themselves up immediately to the Conduct and disposal of the Apostate Angel by entring into League and Covenant with him and giving themselves up to those Black and Interdicted Mysteries which justly are punished with death both by the Divine and Human Law These have their Familiars of the dark Region that assist them in the Execution of their Hellish purposes by this means they attain to performances vastly transcending the capacity of Human Agents as much as can be supposed that Spiritual and Angelical Beings exceed in Subtilty Agility and Power whatsoever can be pretended to by meer Mortals It would swell this Volume to too large a bulk should I speak of the divers ways and manners by which they enter themselves Scholars to the School of Darkness besides divers learned and famous Authors have taken great pains herein I shall therefore no longer detain the Reader from an account of divers very Remarkable Relations never yet Printed the Truth of which will be averred from Persons of unquestionable Reputation now alive the things themselves having been done within the compass of these very few years And if some sober and ingenious Persons would undertake but to commend to the publick the Occurrences of this nature in every County It would doubtless be a work very acceptable to all good men and of great use for the conviction of others The first Relation An Account of the Troubles that happened in the house of Peter Pain a Shoe-maker living in Mary Poel Street in the City of Bristol extracted out of a Letter sent me from Mr. J. R. a Gentleman of good Ingenuity and Reputation an Inhabitant of the City aforesaid Dated June 25. 1683. Sir ACcording to your desire in a Letter I received from you on Saturday last I have here sent you the true and real Account of the passages you desired That which was related by our late Dean was thus That about 45 years since the house of Peter Pain then a Shoe-maker in St. Mary Poel Street in this City was extreamly disturbed with most surprizing and unaccountable noises for some time and one night above the rest about 12 of the Clock the usual noise was accompanied with so great a light through the whole House as if every Room had been full of burning Tapers or Torches These repeated scenes of Horrour so amused the whole Family that they applied themselves to Mr. Toogood the then Minister of St. Nicholas who was easily prevailed withal to visit the House which he had no sooner entred but he became an Ear-witness of the most dreadful and accustomed noises so together with the whole Family he repaired into a Chamber at one end of a Gallery at the other end of which was a large bulky Trunk full of old lumber and so heavy that four or five men were not able to lift it Having shut the door to them the Minister