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A62397	The discovery of witchcraft proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions : also discovering, how far their power extendeth in killing, tormenting, consuming, or curing the bodies of men, women, children, or animals by charms, philtres, periapts, pentacles, curses, and conjurations : wherein likewise the unchristian practices and inhumane dealings of searchers and witch-tryers upon aged, melancholly, and superstitious people, in extorting confessions by terrors and tortures, and in devising false marks and symptoms, are notably detected ... : in sixteen books / by Reginald Scot ... ; whereunto is added an excellent Discourse of the nature and substance of devils and spirits, in two books : the first by the aforesaid author, the second now added in this third edition ... conducing to the compleating of the whole work, with nine chapters at the beginning of the fifteenth [sic] book of The discovery.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.; Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599. Discourse concerning the nature and substance of devils and spirits.	1665 (1665)	Wing S945A; ESTC R20054	529,066	395

a Glass and thou shalt not see thy self And when thou wilt go invisible put it on thy finger the same finger that they did put it on and every new ☽ renew it again For after the first time thou shalt ever have it and ever begin this work in the new of the ☽ and in the hour of ♃ and the ♋ ♐ ♓ CHAP. XX. An Experiment following of Citrael c. Angeli diei Dominici Michael ☉ Gabriel ☽ Samael ♂ Raphael ☿ Sachiel ♃ Anael ♀ Cassiel ♄ SAy first the Prayers of the Angels every day for the space of seaven dayes O ye glorious Angels written in this square be you my coadjutors and helpers in all questions and demands in all my business and other causes by him which shall come to judge both the quick and the dead and the world by fire O Angeli gloriosi in hac quadra scripti estote coadjutores auxiliatores in omnibus quaestionibus interrogationibus in omnibus negotiis caeterisque causis per eum qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos mundum per ignem Say this Prayer fasting called Regina linguae ✚ Lemae ✚ Solmaac ✚ Elmay ✚ Gezagra ✚ Raamaasin ✚ Ezierego ✚ Mial ✚ Egziephiaz ✚ Iosamin ✚ Sahach ✚ ha ✚ aem ✚ re ✚ he ✚ esapha ✚ Sephar ✚ Ramar ✚ Semoit ✚ Lamajo ✚ Pheralon ✚ Amic ✚ Phin ✚ Gergain ✚ Letos ✚ Amin ✚ Amin ✚ In the Name of the most pitifulliest and mercifulliest God of Israel and of Paradise of Heaven and of Earth of the Seas and of the Infernals by thine Omnipotent help I may perform this work which livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O most strongest and mightiest God without beginning or ending by thy clemency and knowledge I desire that my questions work and labour may be fully and truly accomplished through thy worthyness good Lord which livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O holy patient and merciful great God and to be worshipped the Lord of all wisdom clear and just I most heartily desire thy holiness and clemency to fulfil perform and accomplish this my whole work through thy worthiness and blessed power which livest and reignest ever one God Per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen CHAP. XXI Howw to inclose a Spirit in a Crystal-stone THis operation following is to have a Spirit inclosed into a Crystal-stone or Beryl-glass or into any other like instrument c. First thou in the new of the ☽ being cloathed with all new and fresh and clean aray and shaven and that day to fast with bread and water and being clean confessed say the seven Psalms and the Letany for the space of two days with this Prayer following I desire thee O Lord God my merciful and most loving God the giver of all graces the giver of all Sciences grant that I thy wel-beloved N. although unworthy may know thy grace and power against all the deceits and craftiness of Devils And grant to me thy power good Lord to constrain them by this Art for thou art the true and lively and eternal God which livest and reignest ever one God through all Amen Thou must do this five dayes and the sixt day have in a readiness five bright Swords and in some secret place make one circle with one of the said Swords And then write this name Sitrael which done standing in the circle thrust in thy Sword into that name And write again Malanthon with another sword and Thamaor with another and Falaor with another and Sitrami with another and do as ye did with the first All this done turn thee to Sitrael and kneeling say thus having the Crystal-stone in thine hands O Sitrael Malantha Lhamaor Falaur and Sitrami Written in these circles appointed to this work I do conjure and I do exorcise you by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by him which cast you out of Paradise and by him which spake the word and it was done and by him which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire that all you five infernal Masters and Princes do come unto me to accomplish and to fulfil all my desire and request which I shall command you Also I conjure you Devils and command you I bid you and appoint you by the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the most highest God and by the blessed and glorious Virgin Mary and by all the Saints both of men and women of God and by all the Angels Archangels Patriarchs and Prophets Apostles Evangelists Martyrs and Confessors Virgins and Widows and all the elect of God Also I conjure you and every of you ye infernal Kings by the Heaven by the Starrs by the ☉ and by thee ☽ and all the Planets by the Earth Fire Air and Water and by the terrestrial Paradise and by all things in them contained and by your Hell and by all the Devils in it and dwelling about it and by your vertue and power and by all whatsoever and with whatsoever it be which may constrain and bind you Therefore by all the aforesaid vertues and powers I do bind you and constrain you into my will and power that you being thus bound may come unto me in great humility and to appear in your circles before me visibly in fair form and shape of mankind Kings and to obey unto me all things whatsoever I shall desire and that you may not depart from me without my licence And if you do against my precepts I will promise unto you that you shall descend into the profound deepness of the Sea except that you do obey unto me in the part of the living Son of God which liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost by all world of worlds Amen Say this true Conjuration five courses and then shalt thou see come out of the North-part five Kings with a marvellous company which when they are come to the circle they will alight down off from their Horses and will kneel down before thee saying Master command us what thou wilt and we will out of hand be obedient unto thee Unto whom thou shalt say See that ye depart not from me without my licence anll that which I will command you to do let it be done truly surely faithfully and essentially And then they all will swear unto thee to do all thy will and after they have sworn say the Conjuration immediately following I conjure charge and command you and every of you Sitrael Malanthan Lhamaar Falaur and Sitrami you Infernal Kings to put into this Crystal-stone one spirit learned and expert in all Arts and Sciences by the vertue of this Name of God Tetragrammaton and by the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the blood of the innocent Lamb which redeemed all the world and by all their vertues and power I charge you ye noble Kings that the said spirit may

teach shew and declare unto me and to my friends at all hours and minutes both night and day the truth of all things both bodily and ghostly in this world whatsoever I shall request or desire declaring also unto me my very name And this I command in your part to do and to obey thereunto as unto your own Lord and Master That done they will call a certain spirit whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round Crystal Then put the Crystal between the two circles and thou shalt see the Crystal made black Then command them to command the spirit in the Crystal not to depart out of the Stone till thou give him licence and to fulfill thy will for ever That done thou shalt see them go upon the Crystal both to answer your requests and to tarry your licence That done the spirits will crave licence and say Go ye to your place appointed of Almighty God in the Name of the Father c. And then take up thy Crystal and look therein asking what thou wilt and it will shew it unto thee Let all your Circles be nine foot every way and made as followeth Work this work in ♋ ♏ or ♓ in the hour of the ☽ or ♃ And when the spirit is inclosed if thou fear him bind him with some bond in such sort as is elsewhere expressed already in this our Treatise A Figure or Type proportional shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the Figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a Spirit in Crystal is to be accomplished c. 2 alanta ● 3 Thamaor 1 itrael 4 Ifalaur 5 itrami North South Est West Agla el ya Panthon ✚ dextera dm̄i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dm̄i fecit unt●le ✚ dextera dm̄i exalfa●tine ✚ dextera d̄mi fect virtute ✚ Messias Emanuel Alpha et ω CHAP. XXII An Experiment of Bealphares ✚ ✚ ✚ Homo sacarus museo lomeas cherubozca ✚ The two and twentieth Psalm O My God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farr from my health and from the words of my complaint And so forth to the end of the same Psalm as it is to be found in the Book This Psalm also following being the fifty one Psalm must be said three times over c. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences And so forth to the end of the same Psalm concluding it with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Then say this verse O Lord leave not my soul with the wicked nor my life with the blood-thirsty Then say a Pater noster an Ave Maria and a Credo Ne nos inducas O Lord shew us thy mercy and we shall be saved Lord hear our prayer and let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord God Almighty as thou warnedst by thine Angel the three Kings of Cullen Jasper Melchior and Balthasar when they came with worshipful presents toward Bethelem Jasper brought myrrh Melchior incense Balthasar gold worshipping the high King of all the world Jesus Gods Son of Heaven the second Person in Trinity being born of the holy and clean Virgin S. Mary Queen of Heaven Empress of Hell and Lady of all the world at that time the holy Angel Gabriel warned and bad the foresaid three Kings that they should take another way for dread of peril that Herod the King by his Ordinance would have destroyed these three Noble Kings that meekly sought out our Lord and Saviour As wittily and truly as these three Kings turned for dread and took another way so wisely and so truly O Lord God of thy mightiful mercy bless us now at this time for thy blessed passion save us and keep us all together from all evil and thy holy Angel defend us Let us pray O Lord King of all Kings which containest the Throne of Heavens and beholdest all deeps weighest the hills and shuttest up with thy hand the earth hear us most meek God and grant unto us being unworthy according to thy great mercy to have the verity and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasure by this Spirit invocated through thy help O Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all honour and glory from worlds to worlds everlastingly Amen Then say these names ✚ Helie ✚ Helion ✚ essejere ✚ Deus eternus ✚ Eloy ✚ clemens ✚ Heloye ✚ Deus sanctus ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Deus exercituum Adonay ✚ Deus mirabilis ✚ jao ✚ berax ✚ anepheneton ✚ Deun ineffabilis ✚ Sodoy ✚ Dominatoz Dominus ✚ on fortissimus ✚ Deus ✚ qui the which wouldest be prayed unto of sinners receive we besiech thee these sacrifices of praise and our meek Prayers which we unworthy do offer unto thy Divine Majesty Deliver us and have mercy upon us and prevent with thy Holy Spirit this work and with thy blessed help to follow after that this our work begun of thee maybe ended by thy mighty power Amen Then say this anon after ✚ Homo ✚ sacarus ✚ Musceolameus ✚ cherubozca ✚ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid the Girdle about thee the circle made bless the Circle with holy Water and sit down in the midst and read this Conjuration as followeth sitting back to back at the first time I exercise and conjure Baalphares the practiser and preceptor of this Art by the maker of Heavens and of Earth and by his vertue and by his unspeakable Name Tetragrammaton and by all the holy Sacraments and by the holy Majesty and Deity of the living God I conjure and exorcise thee Bealphares by the vertue of all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the most truest and speciallest Name of your Master that you do come unto us in fair form of man or woman-kinde here visibly before this circle and not terrible by any manner of wayes This circle being our tuition and protection by the merciful goodness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and that you do make answer truly without craft or deceit unto all my demands and questions by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen CHAP. XXIII To bind the Spirit Bealphares and to loose him again NOw when he is appeared bind him with these words which follow * I conjure thee Bealphares by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost and by all the holy company in Heaven and by their vertues and powers I charge thee Bealphares that thou shalt not depart out of my sight nor yet to alter thy bodily shape that thou art appeared in nor any power shalt thou have of our bodies or souls earthly or ghostly but be obedient unto me and to the words of my

minutes and to talk in my mother tongue plainly that I may hear it and understand it declaring the truth unto me of all things according to thine oath and promise else to be condemned for ever Fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou spirit of N. be thou bound and cast into the pit of everlasting condemnation for thy great disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words of God Almighty by me pronounced Fiat Amen Also I conjure constrain command and by the spirit of N. by the two-edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the mouth of God Almighty except thou be obedient as is aforesaid the Sword cut thee in pieces and condemn thee into the pit of everlasting pains where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not Fiat fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the Throne of the Godhead and by all the Heavens under him and by the celestial City new Jerusalem and by the Earth by the Sea and by all things created and contained therein and by their vertues and powers and by all the infernals and by their vertues and powers and by all things contained therein and by their vertues and powers I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. than now immediately thou be obedient unto me at all times hereafter and to those words of me pronounced according to thine oath and promise else let the great curse of God the anger of God the shadow and darkness of everlasting condemnation be upon thee thou spirit of N. for ever and ever because thou hast denyed thine health thy faith and salvation for the great disobedience thou art worthy to be condemned Therefore let the divine Trinity Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Chrumbim and Seraphim and all the souls of the Saints that shall stand on the right hand of our Lord Jesus Christ at the general Day of Judgment condemn the spirit of N. for ever and ever and be a witness against thee because of thy great disobedience in and against thy promises Fiat fiat Amen Being thus bound he must needs be obedient unto thee whether he will or no prove this And here followeth a bond to call him to your N. and to shew you true visions at all times as in the hour of ♄ to bind or inchant any thing and in the hour of ♃ for peace and concord in the hour of ♂ to marre to destroy and to make sick in the hour of the ☉ to bind tongues and other bonds of men in the hour of ♀ to increase love joy and good will in the hour of ☿ to put away enimity or hatred to know of theft in the hour of the ☽ for love good will and concord ♄ lead ♃ tin ♂ iron ☉ gold ♀ copper ☿ quick-silver ☽ silver c. CHAP. XXVIII This Bond as followeth is to call him into your Crystal-stone or Glass c. ALso I do conjure thee spirit N. by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost Α and Ω the first and the last and by the latter day of Judgement of them which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee spirit N. to come to him that holdeth the Crystal-stone in his hand and to appear visibly as hereafter followeth Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by these holy Names of God ✚ Letragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ El ✚ Ousion ✚ Agla ✚ Iesus ✚ of Nazareth ✚ and by the vertues thereof and by his nativity death burial resurrection and ascension and by all other things appertaining unto his passion and by the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by all the joy which she had when she saw her Son rise from death to life and by the vertues and powers thereof I constrain thee Spirit N. to come into the Crystal-stone and to appear visibly as hereafter shall be declared Also I conjure thee N. thou Spirit by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by the ☉ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ and by the twelve signes and by their vertues and powers and by all things created and confirmed in the Firmament and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee Spirit N. to appear visibly in that Crystal-stone in fair form and shape of a white Angel a green Angel a black Angel a Man a Woman a Boy a maiden Virgin a white Greyhound a Devil with great horns without any hurt or danger of our bodies or souls and truly to inform and shew unto us true visions of all things in that Crystal-stone according to thine Oath and Promise and that without any hinderance or tarrying to appear visibly by this Bond of words read over by me three times upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat Amen Then being appeared say these words following I Conjure thee Spirit by God the Father that thou shew true visions in that Crystal-stone where there be any N. in such a place or no upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by God the Son Jesus Christ that thou do shew true visions unto us whether it be gold or silver or any other metals or whether there were any or no upon pain of condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by God the Holy Ghost the which doth sanctifie all faithful souls and spirits and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee Spirit N. to speak open and to declare the true way how we may come by these treasures hidden in N. and how to have it in our custody and who are the keepers thereof and how many there be and what be their names and by whom it was laid there and to shew me true visions of what sort and similitude they be and how long they have kept it and to know in what dayes and hours we shall call such a Spirit N. to bring unto us these treasures into such a place N. upon pain of everlasting condemnation ✚ Also I constrain thee Spirit N. by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim that you do shew a true vision in this Crystal-stone who did convey or steal away such a N. and where it is and who hath it and how far off and what is his or her name and how and when to come unto it upon pain of eternal condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by the ☉ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ and by all the Characters in the Firmament that thou do shew unto me a true vision in this Crystal-stone where such N. and in what state he is and how long he hath been there and

hand and say putting it it into the Water making in the manner of a Cross COmmixtio salis aquae pariter fiat In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Dominus vobiscum Et cum spiritu tuo Oremus Deus invicte virtutis Author insuperabilis Imperii Rex ac semper magnificus triumphator qui adversae dominationis vires reprimis qui inimici rugientis saevitiam superas qui hostiles nequitias potens expugnas te Domine trementes supplices deprecamur ac petimus ut hanc creaturam salis aquae aspicias benignus illustres pietatis tuae rore sancti ✚ fices ubicunque fuerit aspersa per invocationem sancti tui nominis omnis infestatio immundi spiritus abjiciatur terrorque venenosi serpentis procul pellatur praesentia sancti spiritus nobis misericordiam tuam poscentibus ubique adesse dignetur per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus per omnia sacula saeculorum Amen Then sprinkle upon any thing and say as followeth ASperges me Domine hyssopo mundabor lavabis me supra nivem dealbabor Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam supra nivem dealbabor Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui sancto Sicut erat in principio nunc semper in saecula saeculorum Amen Et supra nivem dealbabor asperges me c. Ostende nobis domine misericordiam tuam salutare tuum da nobis exaudi nos Domine Sancte Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus mittere dignare sanctums Angelum tuum de Coelis qui custodiat foveat visitet defendat omnes habitantes in hoc habitaculo per Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Amen CHAP. XXV To make a Spirit to appear in a Crystal I Do conjure thee N. by the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost the which is the beginning and the ending the first and the last and by the latter day of judgment that thou N. do appear in this Crystal-stone or any other instrument at my pleasure to me and my fellow gently and beautifully in fair form of a Boy of twelve years of age without hurt or damage of any of our bodies or souls and certainly to inform and shew me without any guil or craft all that we do desire or demand of thee to know by the vertue of him which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the World by fire Amen Also I conjure and exorcise thee N. by the Sacrament of the Altar and by the substance thereof by the wisdom of Christ by the Sea and by his vertue by the earth and by all things that are above the Earth and by their vertues by the ☉ and the ☽ by ♄ ♃ ♂ and ♀ and by their vertues by the Apostles Martyrs Confessors and the Virgins and Widow and the chast and by all Saints of mens or of women and innocents and by their vertues by all the Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the holy Names of God Tetragrammaton El Ousion Agla and by all the other holy Names of God and by their vertues by the Circumcision Passion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ by the heaviness of our Lady the Virgin and by the joy which she had when she saw her Son rise from death to life that thou N. do appear in this Crystal-stone or any other instrument at my pleasure to me and to my fellow gently and beautifully and visibly in fair form of a child of twelve years of age without hurt or damage of any of our bodies or souls and truly to inform and shew unto me and to my fellow without fraud or guil all things according to thine oath and promise to me whatsoever I shall demand or desire of thee without any hindrance or tarrying and this Conjuration be read of me three times upon pain of eternal condemnation at the last day of Judgment Fiat fiat fiat Amen And when he is appeared bind him with the bond of the dead above written then say as followeth ✚ I charge thee N. by the Father to shew me true Visions in this Crystal-stone if there be any treasure hidden in such a place N. and wherein it lieth and how many foot from this piece of Earth East West North or South CHAP. XXVI An Experiment of the Dead FIrst go and get of some person that shall be put to death a promise and swear an oath unto him that if he will come to thee after his death his Spirit to be with thee and to remain with thee all the days of thy life and will do thee true service as it is contained in the oath and promise following Then lay thy hand on thy Book and swear this oath unto him I N. do swear and promise to thee N. to give for thee an alms every month and also to pray for thee once in every week to say the Lords Prayer for thee and so to continue all the days of my life as God me help and holy doom and by the contents of this Book Amen Then let him make his oath to thee as followeth and let him say after thee laying his hand upon the Book ✚ I N. do swear this oath to thee N. by God the Father Omnipotent by God the Son Jesus Christ and by his pretious blood which hath redeemed all the world by the which blood I do trust to be saved at the general day of judgment and by the vertues thereof I N. do swear this oath to thee N. that my spirit that is within my body now shall not ascend nor descend nor go to any place of rest but shall come to thee N. and be very well pleased to remain with thee N. all the days of thy life and so to be bound to thee N. and to appear to thee N. in any Crystal-stone Glass or other mirror and so to take it for my resting-place And that so soon as my spirit is departed out of my body straight-way to be at your commandements and that in and at all days nights hours and minutes to be obedient unto thee N. being called of thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesu Christ and out of hand to have common talk with thee at all times and in all hours and minutes to open and declare to thee N. the truth of all things present past and to come and how to work the Magick Art and all other noble Sciences under the Throne of God If I do not perform this oath and promise to thee N. but do fly from any part thereof then to be condemned for ever and ever Amen Also I N. do swear to thee by God the Holy Ghost and by the great wisdom that is in the divine Godhead and by their vertues and by all the holy

therefore may and is called the Spirit of spirits This Spirit withdrawing it self from the hearts of men for that it will not inhabit and dwell where sin hath dominion giveth place unto the spirit of errour and blindness to the spirit of servitude and compunction which biteth gnaweth and whetteth their hearts with a deadly hate of the Gospel in so much as it grieveth their minds and irketh their ears either to hear or understand the truth of which disease properly the Pharisees of old were and the Papists even now are sick Yea the want of this good Spirit is the cause that many fall into the spirit of perverseness and frowardness into the spirit of giddiness lying drowsiness and dulness according as the Prophet Isaiah saith For the Lord hath covered you with a spirit of slumber and hath shut up your eyes and again elsewhere Dominus miscuit in medio c. The Lord hath mingled among them the spirit of giddiness and hath made Egypt to err as a drunken man erreth in his vomit And as it is said by Paul And their foolish heart was blinded and God gave them over unto their own hearts lusts Which punishment Moses threatneth unto the Jews The Lord shall smite thee with madness with blindness and amazedness of mind and thou shalt grope at high noon as a blind man useth to grope c. In some this word Spirit doth signifie a secret force and power wherewith our minds are moved and directed if unto holy things then it is the motion of the holy Spirit of the Spirit of Christ and of God if unto evil things then is it the suggestion of the wicked spirit of the Devil and of Satan Whereupon I inferr by the way of a question with what spirit we are to suppose such to be moved as either practice any of the vanities treated upon in this Book or through credulity addict themselves thereunto as unto divine oracles or the voyce of Angels breaking through the clouds We cannot impute this motion unto the good Spirit for then they should be able to discern between the nature of spirits and not swerve in judgment it followeth therefore that the spirit of blindness and error doth seduce them so that it is no marvel if in the alienation of their minds they take falsehood for truth shadows for substances fancies for verities c for it is likely that the good Spirit of God hath forsaken them or at leastwise absented it self from them else would they detest these devillish devices of men which consist of nothing but delusions and vain practices whereof I suppose this my Book to be a sufficient discovery It will be said That I ought not to judge for he that judgeth shall be judged Whereto I answer That judgment is not to be understood of three kind of actions in their proper nature whereof the first are secret and the judgment of them shall appertain to God who in time will disclose whatsoever is done in covert and that by his just judgment The second are mixed actions taking part of hidden and part of open so that by reason of their uncertainty and doubtfulness they are discussable and to be tryed these after due examination are to have their competent judgment and are incident to the Magistrate The third are manifest and evident and such as do no less apparently shew themselves than an inflammation of blood in the body and of these actions every private man giveth judgment because they be of such certainty as that of them a man may as well conclude as to gather that because the Sun is risen in the East Ergo it is morning he is come about and is full South Ergo it is high noon he is declining and closing up in the West Ergo it is evening So that the objection is answered Howbeit letting this pass and spiritually to speak of this Spirit which whiles many have wanted it hath come to pass that they have proved altogether carnal and not savouring heavenly divinity have tumbled into worse than Philosophical barbarism and these be such as of Writers are called Pneumatomachi a Sect so injurious to the holy Spirit of God that contemning the sentence of Christ wherein he foretelleth That the sin against the Holy Spirit is never to be pardoned neither in this world nor in the world to come they do not only deny him to be God but also pull from him all being and with the Sadduces maintain there is none such but that under and by the name of holy Spirit is meant a certain divine force wherewith our minds are moved and the grace and favour of God whereby we are his beloved Against these shameless Enemies of the Holy Spirit I will not use material weapons but syllogistical charms And first I will set down some of their paralogisms or false arguments and upon the neck of them infer fit confutations grounded upon sound reason and certain truth Their first Argument is knit up in this manner The Holy Spirit is nowhere expresly called God in the Scriptures Ergo he is not God or at leastwise he is not to be called God The Antecedent of this Argument is false because the Holy Spirit hath the title or name of God in the fift of the Acts. Again the consequent is false For although he were not expresly called God yet should it not thereupon be concluded that he is not very God because unto him are attributed all the properties of God which unto this do equally belong And as we deny not that the Father is the true light although it be not directly written of the Father but of the Son He was the true light giving light to every man that cometh into this world so likewise it is not to be denyed that the Spirit is God although the Scripture doth not expresly and simply note it sithence it ascribeth equal things thereunto as the properties of God the works of God the service due to God that it doth interchangeably take the names of Spirit and of God oftentimes They therefore that see these things attributed unto the Holy Spirit and yet will not suffer him to be called by the name of God do as it were refuse to grant unto Eve the name of Homo whom notwithstanding they confess to be a creature reasonable and mortal The second reason is this Hilarie in all his twelve Books of the Trinity doth nowhere write that the Holy Spirit is to be worshipped he never giveth thereunto the name of God neither dares he otherwise pronounce thereof than that it is the Spirit of God Besides this There are usual Prayers of the Church commonly called the Collects whereof some are made to the Father some to the Son but none to the Holy Spirit and yet in them all mention is made of the three persons Hereunto I answer that although Hilarie doth not openly call the Holy Spirit God yet

have in the faculties of the humane Life as to the indowments of the Soul considered in the just and in the wicked for to be good pure and holy is really present as a quality in potentia with the depraved soul although at that instant the Soul be cloathed with Abominations so that the eye which should behold God or Goodness is put out Yet if the soul would but come out of it self and enter into another source or principle in the center it might come to see the Kingdome of Heaven within it self according to the Scripture and Moses The word is nigh thee in thy Heart and in thy Mouth 5. True it is that the Devils and damned Souls cannot sometimes manifest themselvs in this Astral World because the nature of some of them is more near unto the external quality then of others so that although properly the very innermost and outermost darkness be their proximate abode yet they do frequently flourish live move and germinate in the Aery Region being some of them finite and determinate Creatures 6. But according to their fiery nature it is very difficult for them to appear in this outward world because there is a whole principle or gulph betwixt them to wit they are shut up in another quality or existence so that they can with greater difficulty finde out the being of this World or come with their presence into the same then we can remove into the Kingdome of Heaven or Hell with our intellectual man for if it were otherwise and that the Divels had power to appear unto Mortals as they list how many Towns Cities c. should be destroyed and burnt to the ground how many Infants should be kild by their malicious power yea few or none might then escape in Lives or Possessions and sound minds whereas now all these enjoyments are free amongst mortals which proves that it is exceeding hard for evill Spirits to appear in the third principle of this world as for a man to live under water and fishes on the Land Yet must we grant that when the imaginations and earnest desires of some particular Wizards and envious Creatures have stirr'd up the center of Hell within themselvs that then the Devil hath sometimes access to this world in their desires and continues here to vex and torment so long as the strength of that desire remains which was the first attractive Cause 7. For the very cause of the paucity of appearances in these dayes is the fulness of time and the brightness of Christianity dispelling such mists as the sun doth cause the clouds to vanish not by any violence or compulsion but from a natural cause even so the Kingdome of Light as it grows over mans soul in power and dominion doth naturally close up the Center of darkness and scatter the influences of the Devil so that his tricks lye in the dust and his will at length becomes wholly passive as to man 8. In the time of the Law when the wrath and jealousie of the Father had the dominion in the Kingdom of Nature all Infernal Spirits had more easie access unto mankind then now they have for before the Incarnation of Christ the anger of God had more dominion over the soul of Man and was more near in nature unto the same so that the Devils could with more facility spring up in the element of Wrath to manifest themselves in this outward principle because the very Basis and Foundation of Hell beneath is built and composed of the Wrath of God which is the channel to convey the Devil into this sublunary World 9. But when Christ began to be manifest unto the World the multiplicity of Appearances and possessed with Devils began insensibly to decay and vanish And if any should object That betwixt the space of his Incarnation and his Suffering such accidents were rather more frequent than in the times before To this I answer That the Devil knowing well that his time was but short and also knowing that till the great Sacrifice was offered up he had leave to range and rove abroad the Kingdom of this World therefore he imployed all his forces and endeavours to torment those miserable souls and captives to whom Christ came to Preach Deliverance 10. But after the Partition wall was broken down and the vail of Moses and of the anger of God from off the soul in the death of Christ there was a sensible and visible decay of the Devils prancks amongst mortals and that little remnant of Lunaticks and Possessed which continued after Christ did the Apostles relieve and set at liberty through the influence and virtue of the promise of the Son of God to wit the Holy Ghost or the Comforter which could not come until he went away And on the day of Pentecost whilst they waited in humility for the fulfilling of his promise the very effect of Christs birth and sufferings did first manifest it self when the Holy Ghost sprung up amongst them to the destruction of Sin and Satan 11. And so long as the purity of Christianity continued in the Primitive Church there were very few that the Devil could personally or actually lay hold of in the Astral Man for the space of two hundred years after the death of Christ until that from Meekness and Abstinence the Christians began to exalt themselves in Loftiness and Worldly Honours then the Devil began to exalt his head amongst the Lip-Christians bewitching them into every Lust and captivating their inward and outward faculties at his pleasure As all along in Popery is clearly seen 12. Yet notwithstanding the coming of Christ hath prevented the Devils force in general Such Nations as have never embraced the Christian Faith are still deluded and bewitched by him because the center hath never been actually awakened in any of them so that the Devils power prevails over them mightily to seduce them to worship things visible and not the true God For where the most darkness is in Religion and Worship or in natural understanding there his power is most predominant As in Tartary China and the East-Indies also in Lapland Finland and the Northern Islands 13. In the West-Indies or America his access is very facil and freequent to the Inhabitants so that by custom and continuance they were at the first discovery thereof become so much substitute and obsequious to his power that though they knew him to be a power of Darkness yet they adored him lest he should destroy them and their Children And unto such a height were they come at the Landing of Cortes Drake and Vandernort that they could familiarly convert themselves into Wolves Bears and other furious Beasts in which Metamorphosis their Enthusiasms and Divinations were suggested and such were held in greatest esteem 14. Till upon the Invasion of the Spaniards the greater evil drove out the less and the cruel Murthers of that Antichristian tradition did both depopulate