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A60284	Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently against the saducees and atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentick records, attestations of famous witnesses and undoubted verity : to all which is added, that marvellous history of Major Weir, and his sister : with two relations of apparitions at Edinburgh / by Georg Sinclar ...	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3858; ESTC R4971	118,890	288

her she should not come in intimating that her visit would make division betwixt them After some Parley the Quakers Wife spake unto him in these Words Thou wilt not believe except thou see a sign and thou mavest see some such Within a few nights after Robert Churchman had a violent storm upon the Room where he lay when it was very calm in all other parts of the town and a voice within him as he was in Bed spake to him and bid him Sing Praises sing Praises telling him that he should see the New Jerusalem about which time a Glimmering light appeared all about the Room Toward the morning the Voice commanded him to go out of his Bed naked with his Wife and Children They all standing upon the Floor the Spirit making use of his tongue bid them to lye down and put their mouths in the dust which they did accordingly It like-wise commanded them to go and call his Brother and Sister that they might see the New Jerusalem to whom he went naked about half a Mile When he had delivered his Message that which spake within him charged him to denounce wrath against them and declare that Fire and Brimstone would fall upon them as it did upon Sodom and Gomorrah if they did not obey and so he returned to his own house Where upon the Floor of a low Room he stood naked about three or four hours All that while he was acted in a very unusual manner Sometimes the Spirit within forced him to Sing sometimes to Bark like a Dog When his Brother and Sister who followed him were very importunate with him to resist it it bid him to kill them making use of these words These my enemies which would not that I should reign over them bring and slay them before my face It made him to utter with great readiness many places of Scripture which he had no knowledge of before The drift of what was spoken was to perswade him to comply with the Quakers and it named some who live in the Neighbouring towns About three or four hours being thus spent he came to himself and was able to give a perfect account of what had befallen him Several Nights after the same trouble returned upon him His Wife was tortured with extraordinary pains The Children which lay in the Room complained that their Mouths were stopped with Wool as they were in Bed The disturbance was so great that he had thoughts of leaving his house for a time and made it his desire to be with me at mine I prevailed with him not to be so sudden in his removal but to make some further trial It pleased GOD upon a continuance with him in Prayer every day in the house that he was at last perfectly free from all molestation The Quakers hearing of his condition gave it out that the power of God would come upon him again and that the wound was but skinned over by the Priest which made me the more importunate with him to keep close to the publick service of GOD and have nothing to do with them or their writings Which direction be observed till Novem. 1661 and perusing one of their books a little after on the 10 of that Moneth his troubles returned A voice within him began to speak after the former manner The first sentence it uttered was Cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted The design which he discerned that it did aim at was this to take him off from coming to the Church where he had been that day and from hearing the Word of GOD. It suggested several other Scriptures in order to the perswading him to a complyance with the Quakers and told him That it would strive with him as the Angel did with Jacob. Vpon Wednesday at night he was peremptory in his resisting of it When it began to solicite him he replyed That he saw it was a Spirit of delusion which he would not obey Vpon which the Spirit denounced a curse against him in these words Go ye cursed into everlasting fire and so left him with a very great heat in his body After this he was in his own apprehension in a very comfortable condition and while he was considering what had happened a Voice within him spake to him saying That the Spirit which was before upon him was a Spirit of Delusion but now the true Spirit of GOD was come unto him Now Satan is turned into an Angel of Light It acquainted him that the Doctrine of the Trinity was true and that GOD had an Elect People and that those whom the Father had Elected the Son had Redeemed and whom Christ Redeemeth the Holy Ghost Sanctifieth And told him That the Minister of the Town would further instruct him about the truth of these things Vpon Thursday morning about break of day it set him upon his knees as he was in bed and bid him Farewell The same day it came upon him in the Fields as he was going to and coming from the Mercat and pressed upon him to believe that it was the Good Spirit which he was Acted with which be still doubted of One night that week amongst many Arguments which it used to that purpose it told him if he would not believe without a sign he might have what sign he would Vpon that Robert Churchman desired if it was a Good Spirit that a Wier-Candlestick which stood upon the Cupboard might be turned into Brass which the Spirit said he would do Presently there was a very unsavoury smell in the Room like that of the snuff of a Candle newly put out but nothing else was done towards the fulfiling of the promise Upon the Lords-day following he being at Church it came upon him When the Chapters were named he turned to them in his Bible but was not able to read When the Psalm was sung he could not pronounce a syllable Vpon Munday morning his speach was wholly taken from him When I came to him and asked him how it was with him He moved his head towards me but was not able to speak I waited an hour or two in the Room hoping that his speach might have returned unto him and that I might have gained from him some account of his condition But finding no alteration I desired those who were present to joyn with me in Prayer As we were praying his Body with much Violence was thrown out of the bed and then with great vehemency he called to me to hold my tongue When Prayer was done his tongue was bound as be-before till at last he brake forth into these words Thine is the kingdom thine is the kingdom which he repeated above an hundred times Sometimes he was forced into extream Laughter sometimes into Singing His hands were usually imployed in beating of his breast All of us there present who stood by could discern unusual heavings in his Body This distemper did continue towards the morning of the next day and then

Creatures are The other reason why Folk disbelieve Witches and Spirits is Atheism For if a man take good notice he will find there is of it lurking at the root of the Saducean Principle 'T is probable that the Saducees in Christs time were as great Patrons and Advocates of Witches as either Scot the Inglishman the Father of the Witch Patrons whom King Iames mentions in his Demonology or Webster Wagstaff or the Author of the Namle Pamphlet Printed Anno 1659. A third Reason is Because it is commonly believed that many innocent Persons have suffered as Witches especially such as have b●en Tortur'd to a Confession Let it be so but will it follow that all suffer after that manner And though many of their Confessions seem ridiculous as their Transformation into Catts and Hares and their Transportation into far Countreys which is evident enough Yet such things as their renouncing their Baptism and giving up themselves from Top to Toe to the Devils service and receiving his Mark they willing to take it and injunctions to do all manner of evil cannot be thought ridiculous If we can believe that the Devil can speak with an audible voice and come under a visible shape as is very probable he appeared to our Savior why should it be thought incredible that he may not do the like to Men and Women Satan offered to make a fair bargan with Christ if thou wilt fall down says he and worship me I will give thee all these Kingdoms Why much more may he not make compacts with men and Women If Witchcraft were but a new Trade which had never been heard of before and but a few in a countrey-side that profest their skill in it and told such foolish stories of themselves that man might be esteemed singular that would believe them But since this employment hath been verified by Millions in all ages in all places and hath obtained the general approbation of all sober judicious men but especially so well verified from holy Scripture why should any man as Webster and Wagstaff judge all Witchcraft but delusions Samuel said to Saul that Rebellion was like the sin of Witchcraft that is the one is as great a sin as the other Would ever the Spirit of God compare Rebellion especially against himself to a non-ens to a thing that is not or to Jugling Tricks or Legerdemain such as the Hocus Pocusses play Were Jannes and Jambres the Egyptain Magicians who withstood Moses only two Juglers or couzening Rogues that cast down before Pharoah carved and painted Serpents instead of real ones They have been very artificially done that the true Serpents mistook them for real ones It was a Victory to brag of indeed that Moses obtained over Pharoahs Magicians if they were but arrant Cheats who had no more to do with evil Spirits or evil Spirits with them then evil Spirits have to do with other Sinners There is that well known place Exod. 22.18 Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live which would be a Law of extream severity or rather cruelty against a poor Jugler for his tricks of Legerdemain Why is Witchcraft call'd a Work of the Flesh and reckoned up among the rest of these damnable sins Gal. 5. The Greek word is Pharmakeia veneficium Sorcery or the Art of poysoning whereof they have great skill from the old Drugist their Master Not that they mischieve people ordinarly by natural poyson as Arsenick or the like but rather by some hellish malignancy infused into things by the art and malice of the Devil It is such a poyson that no Alexipharmacon or Orvieton can be an Antidote against Men and Women have been wronged by the touch of a Witches hand by the breath and kiss of their mouth as is well known of late By their looks which is called Fascinatio physica a Forelook or Ill-eyes The Greek word is Bascania from Bascaino to bewitch or envy quasi phasei kaino oculis interficio as when a Witch sendeth forth from her heart thorow her eyes venemous and poysonful Spirits as Rayes which lighting upon a man will kill him The Basilisk killeth this way But the Devil and the Basilisk are both Serpents What was Simon Magus But especially that notable Magician Apollonius Thianeus one beyond most that ever the World knew And that Damsel possessed with a Spirit of Divination in the Greek a Spirit of Python by which name Apollo the Devil was called by the Heathens The Witch of Endor is so notable and evident an instance of Confederacy with the Devil that the Witch Patrons to find an evasion have set theit wits upon the Rack But it is such a Choak-pear to them as that they shall never be able to Chew or Swallow Doctor Glanvile maintains it was the true Samuel that appeared to Saul But it is far more probable that it was the Devil in Samuels lickness For it is most incredible that GOD who had just now refused to answer Saul by the means which himself had appointed would answer him or suffer Samuel to answer him by the use of those means which GOD detested Secondly if it had been the true Samuel or some Good Spirit he would not have received that worship from Saul which Good Spirits would not suffer Rev. 19.10 and 22.8 9. Thirdly Among the other sins for which he condemneth Saul he omitteth this of asking counsel of one that had a Familiar Spirit to enquire of it for which transgression with others he is expresly said to have died 1 Chron. 10.13 Which the true Samuel who was so zealous for GODS honour and so faithful a reprover of sin would never have neglected especially now when he took Saul in the very fact Lastly he pretends himself to be disquieted and brought up by Sauls instigation and the Witches Art which is most false impious and absurd to imagine concerning those blessed souls who are returned to their God Eccl. 12.7 Isa. 57.2 Luke 16.22 Rev. 13.14 Many in all Ages have written of Devilry and Witchcraft Men of eminent Knowledge and Parts as we may see by one instance of King Iames his Demonology a piece as far beyond all other mens writtings on that subject as himself was beyond all Princes in his time I cannot omit to mention the opinion of His Majesties present Advocat Sir George Mackenzie a Gentleman of great knowledge and experience in all such Matters in his 16. Pleading for Mevia accused of Witchcraft I am not of their Opinion sayes he who deny that there are Witches though I think them not numerous and though I believe that some are suffered by Providence to the end that the beeing of Spirits may not be denyed c. And in his Criminals he acteth the part both of a Divine a Lawyer and a good Philosopher in order to Witchcraft But what can be the reason of so much Atheism in the World There are many but I shall only touch at two First there are a monstruous rable of men who