Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	fire_n	part_n	4,883	5	5.0576	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04243	Daemonologie in forme of a dialogue, diuided into three bookes.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1597 (1597)	STC 14364; ESTC S107574	43,300	184

time vsed that either can raise any infernall spirit or yet limitat him perforce within or without these circles For it is he onelie the father of all lyes who hauing first of all prescribed that forme of doing feining himselfe to be commanded restreined thereby wil be loath to passe the boundes of these injunctiones aswell thereby to make them glory in the impiring ouer him as I saide before As likewise to make himselfe so to be trusted in these little thinges that he may haue the better commoditie thereafter to deceiue them in the end with a tricke once for all I meane the euerlasting perdition of their soul body Then laying this ground as I haue said these conjurationes must haue few or mo in number of the persones conjurers alwaies passing the singuler number according to the qualitie of the circle and forme of apparition Two principall thinges cannot well in that errand be wanted holie-water whereby the Deuill mockes the Papistes and some present of a liuing thing vnto him There ar likewise certaine seasons dayes and houres that they obserue in this purpose These things being all readie and prepared circles are made triangular quadrangular round double or single according to the forme of apparition that they craue But to speake of the diuerse formes of the circles of the innumerable characters and crosses that are within and without and out through the same of the diuers formes of apparitiones that that craftie spirit illudes them with and of all such particulars in that action I remit it to ouer-manie that haue busied their heades in describing of the same as being but curious and altogether vnprofitable And this farre onelie I touch that when the conjured Spirit appeares which will not be while after manie circumstances long praiers and much muttring and murmuring of the conjurers like a Papist priest dispatching a hunting Masse how sone I say he appeares if they haue missed one iote of all their rites or if any of their feete once slyd ouer the circle through terror of his feareful apparition he payes himselfe at that time in his owne hande of that due debt which they ought him and other-wise would haue delayed longer to haue payed him I meane hee carries them with him bodie and soule If this be not now a just cause to make them wearie of these formes of conjuration I leaue it to you to judge vpon considering the long-somenesse of the labour the precise keeping of dayes and houres as I haue said The terriblenesse of apparition and the present perrell that they stande in in missing the least circumstance or freite that they ought to obserue And on the other parte the Deuil is glad to mooue them to a plaine and square dealing with him as I said before CHAP. VI ARGV The Deuilles contract with the Magicians The diuision thereof in two partes What is the difference betuixt Gods miracles and the Deuils PHILOMATHES INdeede there is cause inough but rather to leaue him at all then to runne more plainlie to him if they were wise he delt with But goe forwarde now I pray you to these turnes fra they become once deacons in this craft EPI From time that they once plainelie begin to contract with him The effect of their contract consistes in two thinges in formes and effectes as I began to tell alreadie were it not yee interrupted me for although the contract be mutuall I speake first of that part wherein the Deuill oblishes himselfe to them by formes I meane in what shape or fashion he shall come vnto them when they call vpon him And by effectes I vnderstand in what special sorts of seruices he bindes himselfe to be subject vnto them The qualitie of these formes and effectes is lesse or greater according to the skil and art of the Magician For as to the formes to some of the baser sorte of them he oblishes him selfe to appeare at their calling vpon him by such a proper name which he shewes vnto them either in likenes of a dog a Catte an Ape or such-like other beast or else to answere by a voyce onlie The effects are to answere to such demands as concernes curing of disseases their own particular menagery or such other base things as they require of him But to the most curious sorte in the formes he will oblish him selfe to enter in a dead bodie and there out of to giue such answers of the euent of battels of maters concerning the estate of commonwelths and such like other great questions yea to some he will be a continuall attender in forme of a Page He will permit himselfe to be conjured for the space of so many yeres ether in a tablet or a ring or such like thing which they may easely carrie about with them He giues them power to sel such wares to others whereof some will bee dearer and some better cheape according to the lying or true speaking of the Spirit that is conjured therein Not but that in verie deede all Devils must be lyars but so they abuse the simplicitie of these wretches that becomes their schollers that they make them beleeue that at the fall of Lucifer some Spirites fell in the aire some in the fire some in the water some in the lande In which Elementes they still remaine Whereupon they build that such as fell in the fire or in the aire are truer then they who fell in the water or in the land which is al but meare trattles forged be the author of al deceit For they fel not be weight as a solide substance to stick in any one parte But the principall part of their fal consisting in qualitie by the falling from the grace of God wherein they were created they continued still thereafter and shal do while the latter daie in wandring through the worlde as Gods hang-men to execute such turnes as he employes them in And when anie of them are not occupyed in that returne they must to their prison in hel as it is plaine in the miracle that CHRIST wrought at Gennezareth therein at the latter daie to be all enclosed for euer and as they deceiue their schollers in this so do they in imprinting in them the opinion that there are so manie Princes Dukes and Kinges amongst them euerie one commanding fewer or mo Legions and impyring in diuers artes and quarters of the earth For though that I will not denie that there be a forme of ordour amongst the Angels in Heauen and consequentlie was amongst them before their fall yet either that they bruike the same sensine or that God will permit vs to know by damned Deuils such heauenlie mysteries of his which he would not reueale to vs neither by Scripture nor Prophets I thinke no Christiane will once thinke it But by the contrarie of all such mysteries as he hath closed vp with his seale of secrecie it becommeth vs to be contented with an humble ignorance they being thinges not necessarie