from earth hence it is that the remission of one onely sinne doth chalenge from you a perpetuall giuing of thankes The least blessing that God bestoweth vpon a man is of more worth then if a mighty King would make a free donation vnto him of all his dominions And what thinke yee Did not God giue you a soule accompanied with the three goodly faculties thereof that you might vse it and them to his glory The sinne that is committed out of frailty is against the Father and is easily pardonable the sin against the Sonne who is the eternall wisedome of his father is out of ignorance and is excusable but the sinne against the holy Ghost who is that euerlasting goodnesse is hardly pardoned some may bee reclaimed that offend this way but very rarely After this Verrine by a most solemne oath confirmed all which is aboue rehearsed and in honour of the fiue wounds he said fiue seuerall times Adoramus te Christe c. and towards the end saying this word Redemisti he subioyned Redemisti that is you and not vs Diuels who are in hell Then hee said Great God I adore thee who art heere couered vnder a little Host cursed be that Christian who reputeth himselfe to bee a Christian and doth not beleeue it hee is farre worse then a Diuell This same day in the morning Belzebub departed out of the body of Magdalene and said vnto her farewell I goe to see thy friend who is in great perplexity and so he went to Marseille to aide the Magician as he said against those that did aduise him from father Michaelis to haue regard vnto his conscience The same day father Iames de Rets came from Aix to S. Baume and brought newes that father Michaelis had consulted at Aix with the Capuchin Fathers touching this particular and that hee had sent diuers vnto Marseille and willed them to bee carefull in a businesse of so rare and high a consequent The Acts of the 21. of December This day in the morning the Dominican father did exorcise and assoone as the Exorcismes began one of the Diuels which was in Louyse asked him saying In the name of God why dost thou exorcise mee who gaue thee authority to doe it the Exorcist answered him God and his Church Then said the Diuell can God compell a Diuell to deliuer truth The exorcist replyed that he could To this Verrine said Beleeue it not for we are all the fathers of lies True said the Exorcist you are the fathers of lies when you speake from your selues and that which is your owne but when you are constrained by Almighty God I affirme that then you may speake truth Verrine replyed vnto him Tell me if there bee any power or authority in the bookes of Exorcismes to force vs to take a true and a binding oath answere mee now to this It is true that we may take a true oath as for example when you interrogate vs in the name of God Almighty and by the authority of the Church tell me if in that case God hath giuen that power vnto you to force vs to take an oath that bindeth to wit according to the purpose of God and the meaning of the Church It is a truth answered the Exorcist that God hath bestowed this power vpon his Church and vs. Verrine replyed I spake this in confutation of those that auerre that Diuels cannot speake truth I tell you that such doe in effect deuise the omnipotencie of God and therefore they may saue a labour in saying their Creed and if they doe say it it is after the Hereticks cut that say their Credo without a Credo for they say it with their mouth and deny it in their heart I therefore auow that since God is omnipotent he may easily constraine the Diuell to execute his will Then did Verrine turne himselfe towards Leuiathan and said Speake Leuiathan if thou hast any thing to say for thy selfe Leuiathan answered I shall loose of mine honour to hold discourse with my slaue I am not disposed to talke Thou art faine to say this said Verrine because thou hast not wherewith all to oppose or thwart that which on Gods behalfe I haue deliuered Leuiathan answered God doth not vse to send diuels abroad to preach That is true said Verrine neither is my errant hither to bee a Preacher Leuiathan answered What need all these words then They are no words of mine said Verrine all my knowledge is nothing auaileable vnto me but he who causeth me to speake is wisedome it selfe and all these things doe proceed from the Almightie Speake now illuminate doctor defend thy selfe O thou doctor of Heretickes I doe heere my dutie and discharge my commission speaking meerely from the strength of that which God commandeth and not out of any fancie I haue thereunto I haue not so much charitie in me as to speake it from my selfe but what I haue deliuered is wrung out of me by maine force and compulsion Speake now vnto this perchance you may get aduantage by that which I haue spoken Then said Leuiathan If I did see here any one whom I might call mine meaning Heretickes I would not make daintie to speake Thinkest thou answered Verrine that God is like vnto men who are curious and choise in their phrases and lay a varnish of eloquence vpon their speeches I tell thee that with one sole motion of his will he reuealeth by an intrinsicke manner of vnderstanding whatsoeuer he pleased shal be accomplished but the truth is thou art pusillanimous and hast nothing to replie Leuiathan answered I neither feare God nor his Angels and why then should I feare thee who art but as it were a lackey It is true said Verrine I am but as thy lackey yet mightest thou answere if thou hast any courage residing in thee But thou art a very illiterate doctor and those that follow thee must needs stumble in the darke so full of obscurenesse and falsehood is all thy doctrine Darest thou sweare that thy doctrine is consonant vnto truth as I wil sweare that whatsoeuer I haue here deliuered proceedeth from the liuing God Leuiathan answered Yes I affirme that it is all true Verrine replied Accursed spirit darest thou sweare as I will Yes that will I said Leuiathan Verrine answered him thou canst not without reseruing some priuate and malitious meaning Leuiathan then said Well let vs breake off this discourse To which Verrine answered If thou mightest be let alone I doe easily conceiue thy inclination to sweare falsely and the reason is cleare for thy doctrine is false and if thou shouldest take thine oath thou wouldest sweare falselie and not according to the intention of God and his Church Not so said Leuiathan I tell thee I wil sweare according to the meaning of the Church Wilt thou sweare according to the meaning of the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romane Church said Verrine Leuiathan replied What neede all these
cautions and restrictions They doe declare said Verrine that thou are vanquished for thy intendment was to haue sworne according to the Church that is called the Reformed Church and is the Church of Caluin Beza Luther Arius and the like Heretikes You may doe well said Leuiathan to beleeue this babler you may perhaps find him to be a great Prophet Verrine said It is true I am of my selfe a miserable Diuell as thou art but after much resistance and long disputation against God I was at last constrained to speake the truth for God is the Prophet of Prophets and hee it was that made Balaams Asse to speake Leuiathan answered What doth God interchange commerce of language and conference with a Diuell Yes that he doth said Verrine but by a secret kind of intelligence and we resist as much as is possible for vs his commandments yet at length we are of necessitie tied vnto obedience Then answered Leuiathan For mine owne part I frequent no companie but the societie of braue and worthie fellowes Accursed spirit as thou art replied Verrine knowest thou not that when God doth worke hee worketh not for the bodies sake but from his regard vnto the soule I tell thee the soule of a pesant that is endowed with the grace of God is as pretious before his Creator as is the soule of a great King or Monarch It cannot bee denied but they are poore yet God is able to inrich them and to store vp much grace within them Speake now Leuiathan It may be thou shalt gaine some one or other vnto Lucifer and shalt not loose all thy labour Leuiathan answered Ha Verrine thou knowest well that I gaine more vpon great personages then vpon pesantly and base people It cannot bee gaine said quoth Verrine but that a man of note and qualitie is more incumbred to cleere himselfe of euill and to applie all his actions vnto good then is a poorer man yet may an honest plaine Countrie man be a cause of much good as a clowne of a wicked disposition may bee apt enough to practise a great deale of mischiefe Poore and rich are indifferently equally in Paradise for there is no distinction in that place betweene them And least any one should mis-understand mee and conceiue that there is an errour in my words I do explane my selfe I do not say that there shall be no diuersitie amongst them in the seuerall degrees of glory for who so in this world is stored with most grace shall in that other world attaine vnto a great portion of glory as appeareth in Magdalene who hauing loued much had much sinne remitted vnto her and therefore she is the second person after the mother of God and so is it also decreed and ordered by the Church in the Letany O Dominicke thou art my mortall enemie and art now dwelling amongst the Thrones and holdest that place which formerly did appertaine vnto me I say not that thou art there as an Angell but as a Saint blessed for euermore for as there fell Angels of euery Order some so God to fill up the seates that were void by the downefall of Angels hath placed the soules in them diuiding vnto euery one that place of glory which he iudged they had deserued Then said Leuiathan What haue I to doe with this preacher Verrine answered I came not to preach and those who vnderstand me cannot say that they haue heard a Sermon but that they haue seene two persons possessed to bee exorcised and that the Diuell in one of them did speake and discourse variouslie Then Verrine spake to the Exorcist and said Why doest thou not command Leuiathan to speake Vpon this the Exorcist said Leuiathan why speakest thou not Verrine answered because hee hath nothing to replie Then said Leuiathan I doe warrant it vnto you that my doctrine is the truth not the doctrine of the Church of Rome True said Verrine according to thy perplexed and cursed intention I tell thee that although the Bishop of Rome should leade an vngodly and a vitious life which yet I affirme not for I touch vpon no man in particular but suppose that it were so yet should not the authoritie and the power that God hath delegated vnto his Church be hereby diminished or impaired for the power is alwaies the same as in the Church the sacrifice is alwaies the same be the Priest good or be he bad that doth sacrifice for the Priest deriueth his power from God not God from the Priest Then he cried hola Lucifer come hither for I will dispute with thee of the Masse of Purgatorie and of Inuocation of Saines my doctrine issueth from a fountaine which is neuer dried vp to wit Iesus Christ who is the light of the world as saith Iohn the Euangelist Leuiathan among the supreame Seraphins thou wert the third after Lucifer What sayest thou now learned doctor Darest thou affirme that in the Sacrament of the Eucharist Christ Iesus is not really and truly there I my selfe am able to tell thee O doctor without knowledge that God being Omnipotent may make his bodie descend vpon an hundred thousand seuerall Altars Doest thou vse thus to baite mens soules with thy faire speeches steeped in all alluring sweetnesse And thou Balbarith who doest make the Gentrie to beleeue that it is a peece of vallour to sweare and blaspheme the name of God without intermission speake if thou wilt Approch thou also Astaroth who art the master of idlenesse And thou Asmodee who doest vndoe and debauch youth by thy continuall allurements And thou Carreau who hardnest mens harts I perceive you haue nothing to say for your selues and yet doe you labour secretly the subuersion of men Vpon this Verrine turned him to the assembly and said Looke you obserue the commandements of God and of his Church which is not subiect vnto errour for Christ Iesus her Spouse is euer with her and guideth her by that cleere light which euer streameth from him Bee attentiue vnto Sunday and Holi-day Masses for those that obserue them not hauing no maine or canonicall impediment to hinder them doe sinne mortally The Church is more solicitous to instruct you then a naturall mother can be ready to succour her child that is in danger There are who goe to heare Masse as a labouring man goeth to his worke without preparation or as if a man would goe to Plaies or Reuels Consider consider these things that are so full of admiration I Verrine as I am a Diuel would rather chuse to suffer the paines of hell 20. 30. 40. 50. yeeres then to tell you one word sutable vnto what I now speake and if this creature here were of force and strength sufficient I would crie so loud in her that men should heare mee halfe a league off Conceiue of me as of one that is nothing else but a fire-brand in hell not worthie to be burned in that fire and in these contemplations thinke
aduise them thereunto Ioannes Euangelista was the great friend of God and Maryes gardian for her chastitie Stephanus cursed may'st thou be I must trumpet foorth thy charity in praying for those that stoned thee O Pernardus thou art Maries darling and thou Dominicke thou Stanislaus also though few take notice of thee Pâ—ulus thou wert a sinner and persecutor of the Christians but afterwards diddest become a great Preacher of vertues Anthonius of Padua through thy humilitie and for thy other vertues thou art now in Paradise By thy obedience O Abraham thou art the Father of beleeuers Dauid is the glasse of repentance wherein sinners may behold themselues and how they are to returne vnto their God Tu Petrus thou hast denied thy Maister Accursed Peter thou hast cost me deere O Peter by thy example those that haue denied God will learne to be conuerted William the Hermite was a great sinner yet by his repentance he found mercie Some go to heauen through repentance others through innocence Mary is in Paradise for her innocence Magdalene for her repentance Lewes King of Fraunce is the Patron of Kings It is the good pleasure of God that men of all conditions should be saued Hee hath made election of Emperours and also of the basest sort of people of Shooe-makers and of Husband-men Crispinian was a Cobler Athanasius a Labouring-man yet was hee at length chosen to be a Bishop There are of all sorts in Heauen to our confusion be it spoken to the end that none might haue any pretension for excuse God placeth those in Paradise which loue his Commandements and keepe them and doe not quench in themselues his good inspirations Hee sets them at his table He causeth them to eate of his bread and drinke of his wine He doth not as the men of this world doe vse their seruants as if they were slaues Nay there bee diuers that doe a great deale worse who cherish and make much of their dogges but doe euill entreate their seruants Then he said that hee should not be abashed if God would elect Princes and not men of base condition yea we could be contented to haue patience that he should chuse men but that women should bee gadding to Paradise that is it that maddeth vs. Cunigonda was an Empresse and is in Paradise so is Catherine of Alexandria and eleuen thousand Virgines went in one day to Paradise besides men which are not numbred Margaret of Hungary was a Queene shee entred into a Monastery and became so humble that shee would not be called the daughter of a King but of a Citizen Cursed be her humility for which we haue payd so deere To this Belzebub replied Amen Then Verrine continuing on his discourse said Barbara was beheaded by her owne Father and presently the Diuell slew him vpon the place The earth and Paradise are two Countries very distinct and different heere those that are most rich goe formost in Paradise those that are most good most humble and most obedient Marie was a poore Chamber-maid and the Chamber-maid of a Paynim yet is shee now espoused vnto the King of glory and as great as Cunigunda Margaret of Scotland was a married woman and yet shee went to Heauen Codelana also was a married woman whose husband strangled her and afterwards caused her to be throwne into a pit Elizabeth was the Queene Dowager of Hungary and in her great humility betooke her selfe to be the Mistresse of an Hospitall Notwithstanding we could let passe all this with patience but wee cannot chuse but bee enraged at those that haue committed folly and were great sinners as were Pelagia Thais and Magdalene which we speake without any preiudice to them or their glorie it doth rather conduce with the glorie of God and his bounteousnesse that he would vouchsafe to take them into blisse who did a thousand times deserue Hell They that will not beleeue what is here spoken will say that these two here be women and haue had their lesson giuen vnto them by which meanes these discourses will not proue vse-full vnto them which doth put vs in great comfort A Preacher is often wearied in preaching of one Sermon and I haue already made fifteene discourses by the mouth of this woman here meaning Louyse and haue sometimes made two or three in a day of greater extent and length then Preachers in their Aduents Cursed be thy force and cursed be him that hath bestowed it vpon thee Belzebub at this discourse cried out O power Then Verrine said it is the force which God giueth her How strange is it that Diuels should preach the Commandements of God and his Counsels and should teach the religious Clergie men Priests and Seculars and all sorts of people I tell you here are viands for all people to eate Eate he that will There are not a few of vs who are not well pleased with the sauce but would rather chuse the sauce of Hell You shall finde Notaries that for a matter of fiue sous will Register the Acts false and breake their oathes The Diuels are more faithfull vnto their Maister then you men are When the Diuels haue once sworne according to the purpose of God and his Church being thus adiured vnto the truth they want ability to lye Men haue their free-will if they doe ill they doe goe forth-with to hell if good they are straight admitted into heauen But the Diuell is meerely constrained to speake the truth when God would haue it so they haue no free-will to doe that which is good but are enforced accursed Fiends as they are to deliuer a truth Otherwise to what purpose scrueth the authority of the Church if oathes haue no tye or power or to what end are these bookes of Exorcisines published For they that denie this must denie the authoritie of the Church and those that haue composed and allowed the said bookes They must further say that there was neuer any dispossessed after the taking of an oath But they plunge into a gulfe from whence they can neuer issue out and either they must make search and inquisition after the curious persons that are in hell to make explanation of their curiosities or after the Saints in heauen to cause them to say that all their writings are nothing worth And so by a consequence they wil come to deny the Church and so stand defiled with the infectious opinions of the Caluinists How wonderfull is this that Diuels should preach of good intention pure affection puritie of conscience simplicitie humilitie and resignation of the world and teach men not to reserue the least loue of themselues as also to shew the meanes toward the attainment of Paradise and to discourse of chastitie and pouertie The Diuels will be a meanes of the reformation of many Monasteries the Diuels will yeeld more furtherance hereunto then their Bishops Abbots or Prelates are able to their great griefe doe they reueale it This must be the meanes
no reason that shee should goe to Paradise without humbling her selfe vnder the burthen of repentance I tell thee Magdalene thou must bee repentant and must with all lowlinesse and debasement of thy selfe make resignation of whatsoeuer appertaineth vnto thee into the hands of thy God thou art to suffer him to do with thee whatsoeuer shall seeme good vnto him thou art to obey thy superiour as if he were a God on earth for it is said honour the Priests because of their dignity and calling which in regard the Angels themselues cannot paragon or equall it standeth with reason that you should haue them in good esteeme and veneration O Magdalene these are thy Gods on earth honour them and doe all that which they shall command thee agreeable to God his Church and their authority obey Magdalene and humble thy selfe craue pardon of all and beseech euery one to say a Miserere for thee fall downe groueling vpon the ground and bid all come and put their feet vpon thee to the vtter confusion of Belzebub Lucifer and of all hell yea of Verrine himselfe that doth command it After this he began to say take all this as spoken to thy shame and thou shalt reape profit by it it will minister vnto thee occasion of contrition and of satisfaction it will asswage and lessen the paines which thy sinnes haue deserued Then he cried aloud as one beside himselfe It is true Magdalen thou hast been buffitâ—ed thou hast been spit vpon and hast borne a thousand disgraces and disparagements but bee of good cheere Magdalene all shall turne to thy aduantage Hee further made great exclamation saying O great goodnesse of your God! how wretched shall you be if you doe not serue him with all fidelity for a little affliction which you endure in this world you shall bee clothed with robes of honour in Paradise Your God is so gracious that for a little paine which a man here endureth for his sake yea for a glasse of water giuen for his loue or for a little mortification in this world hee will esteeme more of these then of a long and languishing durance of the flames in Purgatorie and turning againe to Magdalene hee said Bee of good cheere Magdalene and be glad and take into thy possession and vse those two wings wherby mens soules doe soare vp to heauen that is loue and feare the one toucheth the earth the other climbeth heauen The two wings that carried Magdalene to S. Pilon were the loue which shee did beare towards her God and that filiall feare which kept her back from offending against him The same day did those that were sent to Marseille with a purpose to giue the letter vnto Lewes returne from thence hauing effected nothing in the businesse For it seemed strange vnto the Capuchin fathers that they should be actors in reclaiming of him and would by no meanes proceed in the same till they had taken aduice and direction from father Michaelis vnto whom they sent certaine fragments of this their brotherly resolution and one of their reasons against this was because at that very time there was in the City of Aix one possessed in the couent of the Capuchins where the Diuell swore crosse and opposite to that vpon which the correction and pretended reformation of Lewes was founded saying that Lewes the Priest was no Magician neither was Magdalene bewitched This being thus related in the presence of Verrine and Belzebub Verrine said that this Dâ—uell was sent from Lucifer to stagger and make doubtfull the truth of these things and that he had taken a falâ—e oath for the Exorcist did not deale with that circumspection as hee should in exacting this oath with those solemnities that are requisite vnto the same that is to say hee was not made to sweare according to the meaning of God of his Church c. Yea Belzebub himselfe contrary to his wont and custome for hee did alwaies stand in opposition against Verrine said in great choller and fury yes that which Verrine tels you is most true for that Diuell was expresly sent from hell to say that Lewes was no Magician and that Magdalene was not bewitched but hee spake not truth in saying so neither did he sweare according to the meaning of God and of his Church and that hee was now grieuously punished for the same All which hee confirmed with a solemne oath vnto the which hee was enforced as Magdalene did afterwards testifie to haue inwardly felt in her selfe The same day I receiued a letter from father Michaelis dated the 16. of December 1610. in this teâ—our Reuerend father Pax Christi vobiscum I was well pleased to heare such good newes from you and to vnderstand that your labour towards those poore soules was not idle and without fruit of the which I doe so well approue that I delegate ouer vnto you all my authority as well of Inquisitour and Priour as of Vicar generall Cudgell these Diuels lustily who are Gods and our sworne enemies The manage of these affaires I wholly leaue vnto your selfe as being well practiâ—ed and dextrous in things of this kind and by Gods assistance hope to see you after Christmas So recommending me vnto the praiers of your reuerend selfe of the father Vicar and of father Gadrij saluting you and desiring you to tell Frier Simon from me that hee bestirre himselfe lustely herein I rest Yours most affectionate in the Lord Fr. Sebastianus Michaelis Vicarius generalis Prior Inquisitor fidei From Aix the 16. of December 1610. The same day after dinner Magdalene seemed to be much changed being full of spirituall ioy and ready to doe and leaue all for the loue of God She said that the day before shee had receiued many blowes and much disgrace without any feare or trembling in her heart although Lucifer endeauoured at the same time to make it appeare otherwise in outward shew and that she had receiued and taken in good part those instructions and disâ—ourses which in S. Baume were proposed vnto her She said that in the said place shee did for the space of 3. or 4. howres sensibly feele a kind of gentle sweetnesse softly distilling and dropping vpon her heart with a quiet internall silence so admirablie pleasing that in all her life she had not knowne nor seene nor heard the like She was also that day shut vp within S. Baume and confessed that the Sabbath and assembly of Witches was kept in S. Baume In the euening they were Exorcised by father Francis and Verrine after his accustomed manner began to say They that make difficulty to beleeue that the Diuell constrained by Exorcismes may auow and sweare a truth are worse then Hereticks because they must deny the vertue of Exorcismes the authority of the Church and the Omnipotency of God I could tell you all the villanies and sins you haue committed but I am tyed vp from doing mischiefe Wee that are Diuels can
belly vpon the earth and would esteeme your selues vnworthy of that deiection God is a glasse and blessed is he that taketh Christ Iesus and the mother of God for his glasse to looke on It is true that whilest shee liued in the earth shee was contemned and held to bee a woman of meane condition but know you not that Gods custome is to abase the proud you that are poore would very faine liue in the desert of this world but you want money to buy drugges or confections of the Apothecaries this want may easily be endured Come and vnderstand what may more neerely import you how you ought to be deuout to the blessed mother of God I tell you those that are deuout vnto her shall neuer die in mortall sinne Mary is the sinners aduocate There is a great inditement betweene God and the soule the blessed mother of God makes the report the Angels and Saints are the Aduocates Mary is the poore sinners refuge and thou Magdalene hast obtained remission of thy sinnes Let the Crosse therefore bee your Grammer your Philosophy and your S. Thomas Then he confirmed all this discourse and diuers other matters by an oath as his maner was Then he spake to Magdalene and said Well Magdalene are you satisfied now Is it not better to obey God then Belzebub Then Magdalene said aloud yes I finde a great deale of difference betwixt them Verrine replied a minute of the ioyes of God is more thon the eternity of all hell and all the delights of the world put together Magdalene thou must change thy selfe thy name shall remaine still Magdalene but touching thy first workes thou shalt bee Magdalene no longer Thou shalt be changed Magdalene and as it were transformed from what thou art into a new forme You know that those who make cheese when they haue failed in making it good they doe vnmould it againe and make it better euen so God when hee seeth a soule disfigured and defeated of shape by sinne hee taketh it vnto him and doth alter and fashion and new frame it and so makes it pliable vnto his will And as the cheese doth still remaine the same cheese so doth the creature remaine still the same creature but he that hath refashioned the same is Omnipotent vnto whom all things owe subiection and whom the Diuels themselues obey when they are constrained to execute his pleasure The creature may for a short space resist but God hauing waited a long time and growing now impatient to stay so long without doores saith these words No no I will enter in I am master of this house and am come to fashion this Image a new whom the Diuell hath so deformed I am the Painter shall not I mend this picture when it seemeth good vnto me Witnesse my Passion when my holy and sacred face was couered ouer with spittle but it was to make my countenance shine the brighter I am content that in this world you should be despised and defaced euen by the Diuels themselues for all creatures are my pictures I am the Painter and haue made them all but the Diuels my mortall enemies doe often come by stealth and disfigure these portraictures and do deface them after such an outragious manner that I my selfe doe tremble to behold them But remembring that they were my handy-worke I take the pencell of holy inspirations with the colours of my graces and come to this picture and giue him the first draught by contrition and another by confession and after that by satisfaction I am content that the linnen cloth should still remaine the same that is the body and the soule of the creature Now God who hath all manner of liuely colours in his hands knowes well to dispense these colours as seemeth best vnto him giuing men the white of Humility the red of Charity the orange of Patience the greene and yellow of Hope that he may one day take comfort in this-his pourtraying and that this excellent peece may come and giue him thankes in that he hath framed him and fashioned him anew when the Diuell in his malice had razed and disfigured him Thus doth God by the soule of Magdalene shee was a portraicture that God himselfe had made but Belzebub Lucifer and all Hell did bandie themselues and were resolued to deface it not once or twice but I dare say a thousand times God being impatient to see them so maliciously bent was desirous to conuert her gaue her to vnderstand that hee had a long time with patience waited for her threatned her with great authority with words so strong with such violent strokes as it were with hammers that she was constrained to open the gate to him who saith Open vnto mee and I will enter in and dwell with thee it is long since that I haue been heere at thy gate Magdalene suffer me to enter in and giue me thy keyes The same morning after the Exorcismes were finished Magdalene performed three acts of humilitie at the first she craued pardon of the whole Assembly at the second she desired to be forgiuen by all those that were absent confessing that she was not worthy so much as of Hell and intreating that they would set their feete and treade vpon her Hereupon Verrine said that this was more pleasing to God then a whole yeares repentance At the third she said to the Assembly that she would lie along at the entry of the Church desiring all that were present to tread vpon her as the most wretched creature of the world which was accordingly performed then Verrine said that such an act of humiliation was neuer before performed by any that euer was possessed and that Belzebub would rather chuse to be tortured in Hell a thousand yeares then to haue endured such an affront and infamy in the body of Magdalene The same day about two a clock in the afternoone there came thither in the company of certaine Gentlemen a Huguenot that would needs dispute with the Deuill When suddenly the Deuill Verrine began to say Shee whom thou seest heere is the daughter of an Hereticke shee is of S. Rhemy her father and mother died Huguenots and Monsieur de Beaucamp is her kinsman who would haue disswaded her from dedicating her selfe to the seruice of God but now by his permission she is bewitched and possessed hauing three deuils in her body Doe not thou conceiue that thou art now to enter into the lists of disputation with a woman no thou shalt not direct thy speech to her it is I that will grapple with thee Come neere and aske what thou wilt To this he answered I aske nothing Then said the Deuill you are quickly satisfied it seemes you are very rich that you haue need to aske nothing And bid the Gentle-man propound what hee had thought to haue said What is it said hee that you would bee resolued of To this the Gentle-man said How prooue you that the
doth dislike and abhorre these abominations yet being an excellent painter he is able when he pleaseth to correct any deformitie in this his portraicture Thou knowest Leuiathan that this is true and that I am here by the appointment of God but am tied and bound from revealing of sinnes Leuiathan said Thou lyest for thou hast divulged them and art now convicted of a manifest vntruth It is true said Verrine but this is done for the good of these sinners neither could the miracle be manifested if the sinnes were not divulged Then turning himselfe to Saint Magdalene hee said these words It is true Magdalene thou wert a sinner neither doth it redound vnto the dishonor of God or lay any disreputation vpon thee that thou wert so nor is there any diminution of thy happinesse because thou diddest formerly offend That is true said Leuiathan but there is a great difference betweene this and that Magdalen she needed no Divels to convert her but was reclaimed by her owne care and industry and therefore it is not probable that God hath sent thee into this body for the conversion of these two soules since there be many other meanes to bring this to passe without thy helpe who art the father of lies and whom no man will scarce beleeve Hold thy peace said Verrine accursed spirit as thou art and give me audience It is true I am in this body God having suted and fitted his pleasure to the desire of this creature I am here expresselie from Almightie God for his glory and particularliâ— for the conversion of these two soules and miserable shall they bee if they bee not converted Thou tellest me that Saint Magdalene was not converted by the Divell it is true but wee live not now in that time when God came downe from heaven and with his Humanitie and Devinitie did labour the conversion of soules but I say withall that he is still the same God and therefore is able to give birth vnto those works whose greatnesse may equall the former It is a truth said Leuiathan that God is not in the world as in times past yet hath he bequeathed vnto his Church his Sacraments Preachers and many other remedies which were not practised in those daies But none did euer reade that God made Divels his instruments to convert soules since they are the fathers of lies and stuffed with all kind of malice and falsehood Who without great difficultie would give credite vnto them there is no man but would be readie to object that God hath many other meanes to gaine soules vnto him without taking the service and furtherance of the Divels It may be so said Verrine but tell me Leuiathan are there not oathes whereby a truth may be averred Leuiathan answered Knowest thou not that we never sticke to take a false oath I am sure thou knowest it witnesse the oath that was lately taken amongst the Capuchins you know my meaning To this Verrine said Either make it appeare vnto mee that there is no oath that may bind and stand in full strength or else thou art vanquished For I say that an oath taken according to the meaning of God and his Church with all other due ceremonies and circumstances requisit thereunto doth bind and is in force and whosoever will deny this must deny the omnipotencie of God all the authoritie of the Church and all the bookes of Exorcismes To what purpose doe men exorcise and make interrogatories vnto diuels if their replies be never consonant vnto truth It were an idlenesse to be prodigall of so much time and to wast so many yeeres if this were so It were much better that Exorcists should spend their time otherwise and take vpon them some other course of study To this Leuiathan answered I have affirmed that all oathes are not true because of the sinister and perverse meaning and reservations of the Divels I confesse said Verrine all are not true because when the Exorcists are not heedy and well advised of what they goe about wee are so mischeevous that wee reserve some secret and sinister intention but when we are enforced like gally-slaves by the power of God I tel thee wee must obey his pleasure and therefore Leuiathan thou art consounded For I my selfe not from my owne will but vpon constraint from God haue lessoned and warned the Exorcists to apprehend aright all the intentions and ceremonies whatsoever that are requisite in the making vp of a true oath Then said Leuiathan How darest thou speake thus in my presence knowest thou not that I am mightier then thy selfe I grant it said Verrine thou art mightier then I to do a mischiefe for thou hast more knowledge to doe it thou being of the order of Seraphins and I onely of the order of Throanes I am one of your slaves but let me tell you I doe not now respect any of you meaning the princes that were in the body of Magdalen every one of whom hee braved one after another What said he answere you nothing Are you such gallant doctors and can you make no reply Ha you would answere now if you knew what Come on speake speake Leuiathan replied knowest thou not that when sinners are obstinate they are vncapable of conversion nay God himselfe is not able to winne them vnto him witnesse Iudas whom our Lord could not convert How canst thou then conceive that a Divel should bring this to passe when God himselfe by the practise of all his art and cunning cannot accomplish the same Verrine said I have affirmed that God is omnipotent and may make an alteration in the free will of man and change it from evill to good Knowest thou not that God is a cunning Painter who can fashion and make vp a picture when it seemeth good vnto him and is contented if they doe but leave him the table to worke vpon It is true said Leuiathan if the creature doe not hinder it for God hath created man without his aide but cannot save him vnlesse he co-operate and give assistance vnto it Verrine answered If the body and soule doe remaine together it is all that God desireth who well knowes when to take his pencels to correct and perfect vp this table I affirme further that if he will he is able to make it more beautifull and more goodly then ever it was before which he may easily doe by laying on colours of more freshnesse and luster Knowest thou not that hee is the father of the prodigall child If the fathers of this world be thus loving towards their children and doe cherish them and yet doe sometimes threaten them not to hurt them thereby but to make them wiser and better advised how much more shall hee shake the rodde of his iudgements over them to preserve them from the hands of Iustice. And when the child of God shall acknowledge his fault then shall he returne vnto his father and humble himselfe before him for as the prodigall child did
quickly for Belzebub calleth for thee and forthwith Carreau flew forth from her like lightening She also said that Belzebub was departed from her body all that day and had neuer stayed from her so long And that she saw Belzebub to returne while she was reading a letter that made mention of the mother of God The same day also father d'Ambruc sub Prior of the Couent of S. Maximin came to S. Baume to informe himselfe touching Louyse because many gaue out that she was not possessed And the same day towards euening were the two women exorcised by Father Francis Billet whereupon Verrine began to speake in this manner What Belzebub art thou returned Belzebub answered whence had'st thou notice of my returne Verrine said the seruant knoweth his master and added The head draweth after it the whole body so that if it fall into a pit the body must of necessity follow after The flocke of sheepe goeth after the shepheard witnesse vs accursed spirits who haue beleeued Lucifer as our head and as our shepheard I haue been desirous to gaine thus much vpon the beleefe of Louyse that shee would conceit her selfe not to be possessed and that I am heere by the appointment of Lucifer for this day haue wee compassed her in with these tentations telling her that shee of her selfe gaue life to all these actions and gestures and that a woman might of her selfe deliuer all such discourses as these There are those that say put case that God would conuert a soule or reueale some truth vnto his Church is it probable that hee would make the Diuell his agent in an employment of so high a nature But I auerre that the Church hath receiued the Inuestiture of authority from God whereby it is enabled to command Diuels and to enforce them in the vertue of Exorcismes to deliuer truth and that the Diuell by his oath may giue assurance of the truth if so be hee bee forced thereunto by the power of God communicated vnto his Church and by the vertue of Exorcismes and that all the conditions and ceremonies of a solemne oath be performed yet for all this there is a religious person who faith that I am not able to speake a truth I answere him that as I am a Diuell I cannot speake truth indeed but am herein of his opinion yet as I am sent from God who is able to draw good out of euill I am constrained to deliuer truth and to take an oath for the further ratification thereof He must deny the first Article of his faith and in stead of Credo say Non credo if it be false that the Diuell may be forced to vtter a truth for God hath giuen all his authority to the Church to command Diuels and to constraine them to obey the charge which is laid vpon them But I am not a whit abashed if this woman stand doubtfull whether shee bee possessed or no when the religious persons themselues make question of the same Then he spake to God and said I could endure with more ease the torments of hell 50 yeeres together then to pronounce thy name onely one time yet doest thou force from my mouth speeches of reuerence vnto thy Saints which is much against the nature and custome of Diuels Giue this charge to thy children who looke for a share in thy heritage and expect a recompence for their obedience vnto thee They haue so many famous and notable Preachers and many bookes furnished and fraught with al variety of learnings and wilt thou haue me then to speake to men of all sorts both wise and foolish who waite for no other retribution but the torments of hell It is no wonder if the Diuels seeke to withstand God when his very children who haue a portion in Paradise declare themselues heady and refractary against him Was it euer knowne that Diuels should aduise men to inuocate the Saints yet am I constrained to perswade you to pray vnto them especially vnto S. Dominicke Cursed be thy deuotion Dominicke which thou diddest beare towards the Virgin Mary the mother of God Cursed bee those religious persons that haue entred into thy Order I would rather be tortured in hell then to found forth thy praises and the commendations of Bernard Let me possesse you with this truth that the Saints make intercession for you and that Dominicke is one of the intimate friends to the Virgin as also is Bernard It is thou great God that constrainest me to exalt Dominicke my greatest enemy and wouldest make it cleere vnto all how blessed and good a thing it is to honour and loue thy mother and hast enforced me to make thus much familiar vnto men that they may with the greater feruency of deuotion serue her Dominicke I hate thee as I doe the plague and I should take more contentment in that externall darkenesse of the bottomlesse pit of hell then in these discourses which I lauish thus vpon thy praises Thou wert euer very deuout vnto the Virgin as were also Bernarnardus Stanislaus Anselmus and thou Stephanus who hast contracted great familiarity with her He that will bee beloued by the blessed mother of God must serue Dominicke in feruency of spirit you are first to craue the mediation of the mother and then to make your redresse vnto the Sonne There are many who are deuout to their Creator but few vnto the Virgine yea there are not many amongst women themselues that consecrate their deuotions vnto her and yet hee that will gaine eternall life must make his approch vnto this Mary Mary is the ladder of heauen the Saints are the steps of this ladder so that hee who will enter into the Pallace of the King must first ascend by these staires You are all guilty of high treason and there is not any that can coniecture what will bee the state and issue of your cause but God onely therefore present your selues before Mary with all humble and submissiue behauiour before you approch vnto her Sonne and first take the aduise of Dominicke before you prostrate your selues to the mother of God For it would sauour of intrusion and much presumption to thrust into the conference of a Queene and not to prepare her vnto the same by a Mediatour Bee you therefore regardfull to gaine the good opinion of some one of her familiars and fauourites by meanes of whom you may more confidently get accesse and admittance into her chamber and haue spaedier audience when you are presented vnto her whereby your request shall bee with greater expedition granted vnto you for this is the will of him who is the fountaine of all grace Dominicke though thou be my sworne enemy aboue all that are in heauen yet am I compelled to depainâ— thy praises and haue already made worthy mention of thy Order vpon the day of the conception of the Virgin and it is Gods pleasure that men should now bee more deuout addicted vnto thy
adiured in the Name of Almighty God hee gaue his Church authority ouer Diuels to bee able to constraine thē by the vertue of Exorcismes I affirme therefore that the oathes of Diuels are in force whē they are discreetly ministred vnto thē And the oath now inquestion is taken with as great solemnitie as possiblie may be in such a case I hauing sworne vpon the honoured and blessed Sacrament in the Name of the Father Almighty in the name of the Eternall Wisedome which is the Sonne and in the name of that infinite goodnes which is the holy Ghost It is also taken according to the intention of the whole Church militant and triumphant against the meaning of Hell and any sinister or reserued purpose whatsoeuer whereof the Diuels many times make their aduantage if the Exorcist doe not looke about him with great warinesse And after hee had taken this oath hee called for the wrath of God of the blessed Trinitie and of the whole Church militant and triumphant to fall vpon him The like imprecation he made against all Hell and that in the presence of the whole Assembly You may heere behold the list of those that were present and heard that which is aboue spoken and who signed their names vnto the same Frier Peter Dambruc Francis Billet Priest of the Christian Doctrine the Exorcist Romillon Priest vnworthy Godam Doctor in Diuinity Frier Peter Foruer Vicar of S. Baume A. Porchieres Lange Carret Baltazar Charuaz A. Lymory Priest Honorat Boeuf Iohn Flotte Priest Denis Guillemini Priour of Romoules Frier William Cadry Then in confirmation of whatsoeuer he had spoken Verrin was constrained to worship the holy and blessed Sacrament and to say three times Adoramus te Christe quia per Sanctam Crucem tuam redemisti hos non autem nos After the said oath hee said as hee did the day before three times Aue Maria and then he said other three times Oraproillis Sancta Mater Dei and againe other three times Ora pro illis sancta Magdalena and other three times Ora pro illis sancta Martha and other three times Ora pro illis sancte Lazare But in the Salutation of the Virgin he refused to say Mater Dei because said hee it is a name of the greatest excellency and perfection amongst all the attributes of her praises After dinner in the presence of the Sub-Prior afore named while he was speaking to Magdalene Belzebub returned entred into the body of the said Magdalene bad Leuiathan come forth who presently performed the same he said the like to Asmodee who came foorth like a flame of fire mingled with sulphure hee further said to Astaroth come thou foorth likewise and he flue out of her with extreame stinke of rosen sulphure Afterward as Verrine did dictate the disputation that happened betweene him and the Sub-prior afore said Belzebub came and demaunded to haue the two Diuels that were with Verrine to wit Gresill and Sonneillon Verrine told him they will doe you no good for thou seest that the Princes who are with thee are able to stand thee in no stead Belzebub said vnto him come thou also along with me Verrine told him I cannot yet leaue my master let it suffice thee that I bestow my seruants vpon thee and immediatly Gresill and Sonneillon came out of the body of Louyse and shee sensibly felt that they came from her in the manner of winde Yet did not Belzebub leaue intreating of Verrine to goe with him Verrine answered Why doest thou thus intreat mee I cannot goe and if I should goe my presence would preiudice your dessignement Belzebub said speake not thus for we are companions Not altogether so said Verrine the Diuell hath seduced her and the Diuell shall bring her home to the confusion of all Hell Then said Verrine wel I must goe then but it shal be to conuert the Magician and bid the Exorcist to take the booke of Exorcismes and to command him in the name of God to goe thether which the Exorcist did and presently Verrine came foorth saying I goe against Belzebub Then did Louyse feele his departure from her like vnto a winde But as he was comming foorth hee said I doe not leaue thee altogether Being departed from her Louyse remained in her ordinary temper resenting onely the paines that proceeded from the witchcraft The same day in the euening were these two women exorcised by father Francis Priest of the Doctrine and Verrine began to speake as followeth Souldiers follow their Captaine and when Belzebub departed wee went after him God would winne vnto him the soules of such as are growne stony in their obstinacy his desire is that you would shunn that which is naught and apply your selues vnto that which is good Wee haue been at Marseille and haue diuerse times knocked at his gate and Belzebub obserue how slender thy forces are when thou doest demand for help of my seruants Belzebub thy affaires runne in a low ebbe and this is the reason why thou art now so sad and dumpish Belzebub thou art at thy wits end what to follow Then he spake to Magdalene and said Magdalene let not thy courage be abated for those few torments which thou now endurest for the paines of Hell are farre more grieuous After this hee spake vnto the Diuels and said come all yee Diuels of the aire all yee Diuels of the earth and all the Diuels of hell come all to helpe and succour Belzebub but your comming wil be to no purpose and your assistance not worth your comming for all of you are in comparison but as leaues of trees Then turning to Belzebub he said be of good cheere Belzebub knowest thou not that where thou loosest one thou shalt gaine tenne ha cursed spirit oughtest thou not to consider that these soules were not created by thee Doest thou not see that God will take them vnto himselfe Thou hast inueagled thousands from him and thinkest thou that hee will euer dissemble this If it were possible that leaues of trees could weepe they would shed forth teares of blood for this wretched sinner so vast are his offences before God Then Verrine turned his discourse to God and said great God! how good how bountifull and how sweet art thou I am tortured and tormented and haue not the patience to behold thy great goodnesse towards the grossest sinners especially towards this man whom I am forbidden to name O all powerfull God why doest thou not vntie and let out those heapes of water or hurle downe thy lightning from heauen to destroy this wretch and to bring him to vtter perdition who sendeth soules to hell more in number then the haile that falleth vpon the earth I tell you God can dissemble this no longer neither will he any more indure his execrable villanies but his pleasure is that he be either conuerted or punished The impatiencie which God taketh at the losse of these and other
zelousnesse and deuotion desiring Christ Iesus to take compassion on Lewes And hee pronounced this prayer so passionately and with such affection that he made many mens hearts to throb and melt with compassion yet some others did breake off this prayer said that it was not fit to suffer Verrine to make such praiers Notwithstanding after these interruptions were blowne ouer Verrine propounded certaine interrogatories vnto Lewes saying Primo Whether God bee omnipotent or no to which Lewes answered That hee was omnipotent Secundò he demanded of him Whither the Church hath power and authority to command Diuels Lewes answered that the Church had such power Tertiò hee asked him Whither Diuels may be inforced to vtter a truth Lewes answered that they might Quartò he demanded Whither the oathes which are taken by the Diuel with all the conditious and solemnities requisite vnto the same be of validity or no To which Lewes answered that they were of validity Then said Verrine to the fathers that were present Marke well with me what he hath heere granted And so he bade Lewes to exorcise him which accordingly hee did But not being able to read and being altogether vnacquainted with matters of Exorcismes at euery word he asked of father Michaelis must I say thus and thus to which the said father answered yes and bad him to proceed Here is to be obserued that the fathers Michaelis and the rest questioning with him of the truth of the fact whither he were indeed a Magician or no with other interrogatories vpon that point in steed of inuocating the name of God he bad all the Diuels of hell to fetch him if it were true which he oft repeated to all the questions that were propounded vnto him and made shew as though he wept yet as experience taught vs and as Belzebub himselfe did aduertise vs he did not shed a teare About the end of this exorcisme Verrine exhorted Lewes to renounce all Magick and to turne vnto his God and to this purpose laid before him many pregnant motiues and inducements It befell as the said Lewes was exorcising Magdalene Belzebub and Verrine beganne both together to laugh a loud saying Who would euer haue thought that Lewes would haue exorcised Magdalene Louyse At the Exorcismes that were said by Lewes and also when they were ended Magdalene shut her eies because shee would not see him hauing him in detestation because he was a seducer a Magician and a man so execrable as indeed he prooued When Verrine had once layd him open who hee was to wit that he was a Magician that he had seduced Magdalene that he was the Prince of them all and many other particulars touching the art of Magick and the charmes which he gaue as well to the house of S. Vrsula as to many other persons and places he tooke his oath vpon the blessed Sacrament that all these things were most true Also Magdalene confirmed the same by a double oath and that vpon the blessed Sacrament also After al this Verrine said that they might do wel to shut vp Lewes in the place of penance and that it might bee locked fast vpon him with a lock of iron and that two Priests should lye and watch with him in the said place of penance and two should remaine without that he might be safely kept from making an escape The acts of the first of Ianuary being the feast of Circumcision 1611. THis day in the morning father Michaelis together with the two Capuchin fathers father d' Ambruc Sub-Priour of the couēt of preaching Friers at S. Maximin and two other Priests M. Gaubert and M. de Rets held a counsell at the Kings chamber where it was concluded that father Romillon father Francis Billet and father Francis Domptius the Dominican who had assisted these two possessed women since the beginning of Aduent should bee excluded from the counsell because the said father Michaelis ment to proceed legally and to that purpose had sequestred and examined seuerally the said women that the verity of this fact might be sifted and sound out and that nothing but the pure truth might be published The same day father Michaelis did minister the Communion to Louyse and Verrine against the commandement that was imposed vpon him not to speake began to discourse and say that God by reuelation bad him make declaration of those admirable discourses which hee must vtter to those that were come purposely to heare him The Dominican father who was the Exorcist demanded leaue and licence of father Michaelis his superiour to goe home to his country but not with that modesty which is wont to be vsed to one of his ranke yet did he prostrate himselfe to the feete of the said father after the fashion of his Order in the presence of the Capuchin fathers not without some appearance of spleene and anger His resolution was to get him home because father Michaelis gaue order that he should not bee present at the consultations nor heare or examine that which had been declared by Verrine for his purpose was to examine and looke into these particulars himselfe together with the aboue mentioned fathers And this was done by good aduice and reason for the said father was a party and wrote all that Verrine had said during the whole time of Aduent so that it stood not with conueniency that he should be present at these examinations that it might bee the more fairely carryed and not obnoxious to any partiality or passion The same day in the presence of the said father Michaelis the Capuchin fathers and the others aboue named Magdalens desposition was heard who in perfect sense memory and in the presence of Lewes Gaufridy desposed many things against him touching her possession seducement and the like described at large in the acts that were gathered by father Michaelis from the eleuenth of Ianuary vntill almost the last of Aprill Furthermore she shewed the marke which shee had in her feete which to outward appearance seemed to haue lost all sense as experience made it cleare when they made proofe thereof by putting pinnes into them Notwithstanding this deposition Lewes would by no meanes make acknowledgement of his fault but in a menacing sort he said that in time hee doubted not but to haue reason against those that had accused him and that he would neuer desire to stirre aliue from S. Baume if he were not found innocent This euening father Michaelis did exorcise the two women that were possessed whereupon Lewes by the aduice of some of his friends renounced the art of Magick and at euery renunciation Verrine answered Anen and in disclayming all the scheduls Verrine likewise answered Amen and said vnto him Lewes prepare thy soule and God will giue thee the light of his grace As father Michaelis in the exorcismes was saying these words Qui inferni triumphator fuit Verrine replyed he shal
are no fables Which relation would receiue strength and accession of authority if wee will allow that Iesus the sonne of Sirac did make that discourse which doth at large mention all these things and is attributed vnto him in the Hebrew booke We also finde the word Lilith in the Scripture and particularly in the foure and thirtieth of Esay which Saint Ierome translateth and thinketh to be a Sorceresse Ibi cubauit Lamia whereby is meant such women as vse to goe in the night Againe in the Lamentations of Ieremy he interpreteth this word Lilith to be a Sorceresse saying Sed Lamiae Lamia saith Duris was a woman who was iealous that her husband had begotten a child vpon another woman and thereupon in a great surie she gaue secret order to haue the child strangled and did the like by all those whom shee could get into her hands and from her are such kinde of women by the Latines called Lamiae whose custome was as Ieremy hath it to shew and offer their breasts vnto little children thereby to still them and to allure them to come vnto them that so they might strangle them with greater secresie Therefore when God threatneth Babylon or Ierusalem that witches should frequent thither and shew their teates it is but to shew that such places should be left desolate and vtterly ouerthrowne because desolate places are altogether frequented by witches who come there to make their assemblies and are carried for the most part thither by the Diuell that in such remote corners they might the more freely exercise the mysteries of their abominations like as theeues and murtherers haunt such kinde of sollitude Pliny lib. 25. hist. cap. 11. saith that women doe farre exceed men in this trade and Quintilian in declamat saith Latrâ—cinium in vâ—ro facilius veneficium in foemina The other kinde of Witches is not so execrable because there is no expresse bargaine with Satan but onely a tacite agreement And against them S. Chrysostome homil 13. in 1. ad Timotheum teacheth vs to proceed in another fashion Si quis inquit ligatur as inanes aut aliud quippiam eiusmodisciens prudens sequitur praecepto atque imperio tantum arcendus est sin vero ignarus in ea inciderit docendus est That is to say We are to informe the ignorant and to shew vnto them how foule the offence is where men leaue God to adhere vnto superstitions CHAP. VIII An answere vnto those that demand what danger there is in crauing the assistance and aide of the Diuel IT is a general obseruation which is made of those that forget God to fall if they doe not returne vnto him speedily into blindnesse of vnderstanding and into an obduratnesse of heart like vnto that of Diuels and the soules of the damned For as there is a sympathy and participation of good men with those that are in Paradise so that it may bee said that liuing in this world they haue their conuersation in heauen so are there others who differ very litle from the damned insomuch saith Theodoret as a man may truely say that there are Diuels in hel better then they because they exceed the Diuels themselues in mischiefe and malice The Diuels doe at the least beleeue and tremble Damones credunt contremiscunt but these doe neither beleeue nor feare the iudgements to come Whereupon the wiseman saith that when a wicked man is come vnto the depth and bottome of sinne hee scoffeth and maketh a ieast of all admonitions And to digresse no further the truth hereof is seene by the experience of those who haue giuen their poore captiue soules vnto the Diuell and did thinke that these things were meerely fabulous which did any way remember them of eternall damnation And what danger is there say they to command the Diuell did not Christ Iesus himselfe the same doth not God sometimes vse them and did not the Apostles also serue their turnes with them by commanding them as they thought good Vnto these wee may propose the question which Saint Athanasius once did to Arrius Si quis Sathanam adoret rectene an malé fecerit Vnto which Arrius replyed although his vnderstanding was darke and blind Impius sine Deo est neque communem sensum habet nec meretur hominis appellationem So that by the very confession of a limme of the Diuell wee haue foure markes of him that adoreth the Diuell First he is full of all impiety and wickednesse secondly hee is a true Atheist thirdly he is deuoyd of common sense and lastly he is not worthy the appellation of a man In this Arrius spake wonderously well being forced vnto this confession by the truth which ouercommeth all things For if our first parents fell into such labirynths and are euer since stiled hereticks blinde senselesse brute beastes although their simplicity and ignorance was much abused because they neuer heard talke of the cunning and malice of Satan how much more ought they to be called by such infamous appellations who at first dash giue themselues ouer vnto Satan and all his workes although they are admonished by many passages of the holy Scripture yea and warned by the mouth of Christ Iesus his Apostles and all the Church to auoyd and resist Satan and to make continuall intercession to God that they yeeld not vnto his temptations because hee is euer wakefull and is fierce like a roaring and famished Lyon in the wildernesse But wee liue in so wretched an age that although it were formerly said happy is he that hath not drunke of the doctrine of Arrius yet wee are forced to wish the blinded men of our times a conscience of that vprightnesse and sensiblenesse as the conscience of that accursed Arrius was For let vs see how deceitfull and how full of lyes their sophistry is How vntrue is it that a man is to imitate God and his Sonne Christ Iesus in all things It is a good note which a certaine ancient father hath In diuinis rebus quaedam sunt credenda quaedam admiranda quaedam verò imitanda as for example When we find that Christ Iesus did of bread make his body by his owne might and authority it is a worke to be apprehended by beleefe not to be expressed by imitation when he raised men from the dead this myracle is proposed vnto vs onely that wee might admire his diuine power so that if any one should labour to expresse so much hee is to bee accounted an vsurper vpon the glory of God which is the very scope whereunto the Diuell doth by his collusions leade poore blindfolded soules By this meanes he wrought our first parents destruction perswading them as himselfe had already practised to make themselues as God well knowing that this was the true cause of his expulsion out of Paradise to make themselues as God well knowing that this was the true cause of his expulsion out of Paradise for hee
confesseth himselfe 127 Abyron Dathan swallowed vp by the earth for their impieties 213 Accusation of Sorcerers 8 The acts of Adoration of Verrine 3.143.185 An Act of humility in Magdalene 149 Adoration of Verrine 3.143.185 Adiuration of Verrine 103.123 Adam driuen out of Paradise for his disobedience 133 Adams Repentance 115 Adam and what he did 44.217.246.106 Adoration of the Eucharist 26.33 Adoration of the Goat in the synagogue 302 Adoration of God by a Diuell in a miracle 89 An aduertizement vnto Monkes and Priests 133.144 An aduice to write that which the Diuell deliuered 30 An aduice giuen to Priests 104. and vnto religious persons 172. and generally vnto all men 192.238.274 The Age wherein we are to doe penance 237 Agnus dei is a lambe for true Christians but a roaring Lion for Diuels 24 Against such as addresse themselves to Witches 253 Allusion made by the Diuell touching the constraint which be suffereth in exorcismes 204 Saint Andrewes day appointed by the Diuels to carry away Magdalene 1.2 Angels of heauen and their force 36 Angels which are our guardians ought to bee worshipped and why 199 Angels and Saints are our aduocates 147 Angels are not able to sing at full the praises of God 136 Angels that were goodly creatures condemned to hell for their pride 181 Angels are waiters at the table of God 184 Answers of the diuels which were in the body of Louyse 2.3 Antichrist borne 260.268.269.299.305 Antichrist will cause himselfe to bee adored and the Kings of the earth shall serue him 267 Apostrophe vnto S. Magdalene 298 Apostrophe to the laity 145.274 Arriuall of Lewes to S. Baume 287 Arriuall of S. Magdalenes mother to S. Baume 13 Arriuall of Father Michaelis to S. Baume 283 Arriuall of Magdalene to S. Baumie 1 The Attributes giuen to diuine persons 46 Audience giuen to Magdalene 290 An Auie said for our enemies waighes more then a Pater for our friends 257 Authority of the Church 171 Authority of Priests 190 B Balberith is he that tempteth meÌ„ to blaspheme God 252 S. Baume ought to be reuerenced 226.281 Baptisme not regarded 123 Barbarous nations liue in darkenesse 123 The Bee ought to be proposed to our imitation 229 Beatitude not essentiall but accidentall may bee augmented 96 Belzebub tosseth Magdaleue from one side to another 21 Belzebub belloweth like a bull and casteth Magdalenes shooes at Louyse head 6 Belzebub maketh an out cry when he heard these words Ecce Ancilla domini 24 Belzebub sweareth that Louyse is possessed 294 Belzebub in speaking to another Diuell doth imitate the Exorcist 66 Belzebub humbled and troden vnder feete 86.124 Belzebub complaineth to God of his too great mercy 62.63.73.74 S. Bernard a great familiar of the Virgins 194 Beauty of Paradise 38.281 Beades without workes are of none auaile 80.81 Birds of the aire blesse God 250 Blindnesse of men 188 He is Blind who neither hath vnderstanding nor will to do good 141 Booke of life and death in Gods keeping 271 The Booko of the Crucifix 145.275 The Booke with two leaues 173 Bread taken for the species and forme of bread 151 C CAluenists beleeue not the Church of Rome 39 Capuchins goe to Marseille 299 Carreau one of the Diuels 243.116 Catherine of France gardian vnto Magdalene 6 Caroches enter into hell but men goe to Paradise on foote 21.124 A Change in the life of Magdalene 132 The Charity of Saints 37 The Charity of Christ Iesus 77 Charity the daughter of God 44 Christians that serue not God are miserable 17 The Church shall examine all these things 116 Out of the Church there is no saluation and it is but one 209 Single Combats prohibited by God 135.242 Confession of Magdalene 8 The holy Communion the table of the King of Kings 183 Confession without due preparation is not good 126 Confessours and Exorcists are excluded from the consultations 289 Consultations touching the verification of the acts 289 Considerations to bee thought vpon when wee sit at table 228.229 Consultation touching the businesse of the Magician 185 Conuersion of Magicians 261. It is a miracle 305 Constraint of Verrine 18.20.57.58.64.106 Constraint of Belzebub to renounce the actions of the Magicians 241 Constraint of the Diuels to speake truth 42.43.91 and to humble themselues 63.92.93.160.186 Contradiction when the miracles of God are wrought 205 Contradiction of Leuiathan 152 Cooperation of the creature with God 229 Fiue Counsels or instructions giuen to Louyse 40. and to Magdalene 40 The Contrition of Magdalene 10 Another Consultation how to proceed in case that the Magician would not confesse 106 The Contempt of Diuels towards our Lady 5.182 The Contempt which some haue of Priests is not to bee regarded by Priests 135 The Crosse a glasse in which we are all to looke 145 Christ Iesus is the same also 146 The Cruelty of the Magician Lewes 298 All Creatures obey God 60 Damnable Curiosity touching the blessed Sacrament 90 The Curious fall into a pit out of which they cannot get when they will 116.90.133 The Custome of the DominicaÌ„s in saying of their Rosary 3 D DAmnation the recompence of Diuels 60.61 Dathan and Abyron swallowed vp for their impieties 213 Death and the sundry sorts thereof 170 The Deformity of Diuels and the damned 38.61 The Diuell begins to speake at the first exorcismes but by constraint 2.3.157 The Diuell boweth himselfe to worship God 3 The Diuell that is inferiour dareth not speake before his superiour 6 Diuels make dainty to tell their names for feare of being exorcised commanded and punished 66 The Diuell seene by Magdalene 14 The Diuels beaten 24.25 The Diuels are constrained to speake at S. Baume 30 The Diuels would ouerthrow the coÌ„pany of S. Vrsula 34.89 The principall Diuels that were in Magdalene 39 The Diuels condemned for one onely sinne and why 93.64 Diuels are theeues 90 Diuels are vncapable of conuersion 90 The Diuel commandeth not neither are we to obey him 94 The Diuell doth falsely affirme that Lewes was no Magician and that Magdalene was not bewitched 131 The Diuell imployed by God and why 236 The Diuels that tempted our first parents 266 The Diuell exprobateth Lewes with his villaines 289 The Diuels are bound 300 304 The Diuell resisteth and disputeth against God 24.143 The Diuell is proud and is vexed that God would chuse a woman to be the instrument of so important a business 85.54 The Diuell issueth forth like a blast from the body of Louyse 210.211 The Diuels keepe Magdalene bound in all her body to make her to despaire 84 Diuels who are forced by God or his Church to sweare a truth cannot lie 29.88.91.92.95.153.154 Diuels doe laugh at those who are curious 51 The Diuels and their number which was in the body of Louyse 3 A Dialogue of the soule and the body 217 A Dialogue betweene Verrine and Leuiathan 161.187 A Dialogue betweene Verrine and Belzebub 62 A Dialogue betweene Verrine and the Exorcist 186 A Dialogâ—e between Leuiathan one of
both in themselues and in their fellowes especially in the Order of Dominick and whosoeuer shall remaine vnconformable to this reformation shall be in great and imminent danger Some will say I haue nothing to doe with the reformation another will obiect I am of a tender and delicate constitution another will excuse himselfe with Father I am too yong and this is too hard for me to vnder-goe Neuerthelesse many shall take vpon them the Order of Dominick because his Rule cannot tollerate any mortall sinne and because of the Reformation of his Order And they will make choice of this Order when they shall vnderstand what great immunities and priuiledges Dominick hath obteined for it at the hands of the sacred Mother of God vnto whom he was euer exceedingly deuoted and is beloued againe by the Virgin for his continency and puritie Many also shall enter into this Habit when they shall heare of the perfection of this Order and what a sweete sauour it rendreth vp vnto the Almightie In like manner shall the Congregations of the Christian Doctrines and of Vrsula floorish and spread their branches yet without any preiudice vnto other Orders and the Reformed shall liue in puritie as the Angels of God At the end of the Exorcismes it was held fit that Verrine should solemnly sweare vpon the blessed Sacrament for confirmation of that which he had aboue spoken And first they asked him in what manner he had spoken of the Conception of the Virgin to which hee answered in these words Those who are heere present are of different opinions The Exorcist commanded him to expresse himselfe distinctly and cleerly if it were the will of God that he should vtter the truth herein and if God had reuealed any thing vnto him concerning this point Then he plainly told them that she was immaculate from the beginning Then did the Exorcist command him againe that hee should more amply discourse of this point before them all whereupon he beganne to speake in this manner I affirme that the Eternall Father when hee was resolued to send his Word vpon the earth to repaire the breach of mankinde and that the Word was ready to doe the will of his Father then did he determine to create a creature particularly for that purpose to be the blessed Mother to his Sonne who being also that King of power was able so to fit all things that his Mother should co-operate together with those blessings and guifts which he would endow her with all which was iust and agreeable vnto reason I say that when hee saw and knew for hee is the wisedome of his Father that his blessed Mother would not oppose against that which hee had decreed to doe in a matter of such consequence and importance as was the Coniunction of the Diuine nature vnto the nature of man he iudged it fit and expedient that shee should be for euer exempted from the vassalage of sinne whether it were originall actuall mortall or veniall hence it commeth that she neuer did trespasse against God her Father And if Iohn Baptist and Ieremie were sanctified from their mothers wombe how much more should the sacred Mother of God out-shine them in puritie when amongst al the creatures that were euer fashioned by the hands of the Almighty shee is the most eminent and perfect next vnto the humanitie of her Sonne And as in God there is no time either past or to come but all is present with him and being besides a cleere and spotlesse cristall that is neuer misted ouer or made dimme by darknesse he fore-saw in this Idea or glasse that his blessed Mother should in the whole race of her life gently submit her selfe to his good pleasure and obey the Angell when hee came vnto her For if Eue had her creation exempted from sinne it standeth with reason that the second Eue should haue a greater dowry of integritie then euer the first had And as the first Adam being the type and figure of Iesus Christ was created without sinne and from a mould of earth that neuer was mingled with vncleannesse how much more shall this second Adam surmount the first in the excellency of his humanitie And as God tooke from the first Adam when hee was a sleepe one of his ribbes and thereof created Eve so God the Father while the second Adam that was to come slept in his bosome tooke one of his ribbes and framed another Eve from the same that is the blessed Mother of God The Father contributed thereunto his power the Sonne his wisedome and was content that shee should haue a greater portion of wisedome then the Seraphins or any other creature whatsoeuer next to his humanity that was to come and manifest it selfe vnto the world And the ribbe which Almightie God tooke from Adam when hee slept did prefigure and fore-shew what I haue aboue declared In like manner the holy Ghost did communicate his goodnesse vnto her not that essentiall goodnes which is co-eternall with him but a goodnes of that proportion and magnificense as could possibly be bestowed vpon a pure and immaculate creature After this discourse Verrine did dictate the forme that was to be held to giue testification that all this was spoken and vnderstood in this manner Wee whose names are vnder-signed haue heard and seene all that which hath beene spoken by the mouth of Louyse Cappeau who is possessed by three Diuels by some witch-craft that together with them was giuen vnto her and further we haue heard one of the Diuels named Verrine after much resistance and renitency against God and the Exorcismes yet being at the length forced by God vnto the same to deliuer all that is heere written touching the blessed Mother of God and the Eternall Word to their glory and the saluation of Soules He further confessed in a great agony and chase that there was no saluation out of the Church of Rome that there was but one God and one holy Baptisme and therefore by a consequent but one Church Afterward he said that al these acts were to confirme that which he had formerly touched concerning the Order of Dominick and to show how agreeable his rule was to God and his blessed Mother and that this Miracle was wrought in fauour of that Order Obserue heere that this was spoken after that Verrine had said that this Miracle was wrought for the glory of God and for the honour of his blessed Mother Magdalene and Dominick Then to confirme whatsoeuer he had aboue spoken he tooke an oath the strongest and most binding that a Diuel possibly could take and if euer an oath had power to tye it was this oath And added that there were some of opinion that no oath was of validitie before God yet when hee said vnto his Apostles that they should cast out Diuels and foresaw that these Diuels being full of all iniquity would not by their good will obey the commands of the Church vnlesse they were
Being commanded to shew the adoration vsed by Thrones hee cast himselfe with incredible swiftnes flat vpon the ground and stretched out his armes as wide as possibly he could The Acts of the 23. of Aprill being Saturday VPon this day the Masses which were celebrated thorow the whole citie of Aix for the conuersion of the Magician were ended for Monsieur Pelicot Prouost and Vicar generall aforesaid had commanded thorow all the Parish Churches Priories and other like places of Religion in the citie of Aix that vpon the Thursday all the Priests should sing the Holy Ghost vpon the Friday halfe the Priests should sing the Conuersion of S. Paul and the other halfe the Conuersion of S. Magdalene vpon the Saturday all should sing the Hymne of our Ladie by the power and efficacie of all which and through Gods assistance Lewes Gaufridy the Magician was found in better case touching his conuersion The Monday following being the 25. of Aprill father Michaelis departed from Aix with the rest of his companions hauing receiued directions from the most reuerend the Generall of his Order to be present at the publike Synod held at Paris the feast of Pentecost then next ensuing Whither being come hee receiued aduertisement that the said prisoner was burned at Aix the last day of Aprill by vertue of the Arrest which was pronounced against him The tenour whereof heere ensueth THE ARREST OF THE COVRT OF PARLIAment of Prouence giuing sentence of death against Master Lewes Gaufridy IT hath pleased the Court to examine and search into the criminall processe and other proceedings made by the authoritie of the said Court at the instance and procurement of the Kings Attorney Generall Complainant in the case crime of Rape Seducement Blasphemie Magick Witchcraft and the like abominations against Master Leweâ— Gaufridy originally descended from Beau vezer lez Colmats Priest and beneficed in the Church of Acoules in the Citie of Marseille defendant and prisoner in the prison that belongeth vnto the Palace The verball processe of the proofes and arguments is that Magdalene of Demandoulz otherwise of Pallud one of the Sisters of the Companie of S Vrsula was possessed and held to be really possessed by wicked spirits that were knowne and obserued to haue remained within her at S. Baume from the first of Ianuary last past till the fifth of February by Frier Sebastian Michaelis Doctor of Diuinitie Vicar generall of the reformed Congregation of preaching Friers and Prior of the Couent Royal at S Maximin which attestation was formallie and dulie confirmed by diuers other Fathers bearing date the 20. of the said moneth The decree of the Court containing the granting out of a Commission to Master Anthony Seguiran Counsellor in the said Court to take informations which might concerne the fact of the said Accusation and to attach the said Gaufridy and commit him to the prison of the Palace vpon the 19. of the said moneth The Informations and Inqâ—isitions taken by the said Commissarie and the verball Processe of the apprehension and commitment of the said Gaufridy Another decree of the said Court which containeth a Commission granted foorth vnto Master Anthonie Thoron a Counsellor likewise in the said Court to heare the said Magdalene of Pallud and to take particular information of the proofes and principall allegations giuen in by the Atturney generall and himselfe together with Monsieur Garandeau Vicar vnto the Archbishop of Aix to indite the said Gaufridy vpon the 28. of the said moneth The hearing deposition and confessions of the said Magdalene touching the said rape seducement and subornation of her to practise those impieties which belong to Magicke as also touching the contract and promises made vnto the wicked Spirits besides many other abominations mentioned in the verball Inditement of the 21 of the said moneth Another Libell of Informations taken by the said Commissarie the 23. of the said moneth The attestation of Master Anthonie Merindol Doctor of Physicke and the Kings Professor in the Vniuersitie of the citie of Aix touching the strange and extraordinarie gestures and passages that happened vnto the person of the said Magdalene of Pallud during the time that he had her in cure and before the manifestation of her possession vpon the 24. of the said moneth The report made by the appointment of the said Commissaries and giuen into the Court bâ— Masteâ— Iames Fonteine Lewes Grassy and the said Merindol Doctors and proâ—essoâ—s of Pâ—ysicke and Peter Bontemps Surgeon and profest Anatomist in the said Vniuersitie touching the qualitie and nature of those extraordinary motions which at set times and pauses did affect the head and braine of the said Magdalene of Pallud and what might be the cause of them as also touching the nature causes and reasons of those markes in her bodie which made the place deuoid of the sense of feeling where they were and which were also shewed by her as also touching her virginitie and her being defloured vpon the 26. and 27. of the said moueth and the 5. of March last past The Interrogatories and Answers of the said Gaufridy vpon the 26. of February and the 4. of March last Another decree of the said Court that the said Master Anthony Thoron who was formerly deputed to be Commissarie should take the full view and information of the said Inditement vpon the 4. of March The verball Processe of the confronting and personall contestation betweene the said Magdalene of Pallud and Gaufridy aboue named vpon the 5. of the said moneth The report of the markes found vpon the body of the said Gaufridy following the instructions and directions of the said Magdalene vpon the 8 of the said moneth of March. The publication of the said report with the confronting of him with the said Physitians and Surgeons deputed and commanded thereunto by the said Commissioners There re-examination and confronting of other witnesses vpon the 8. of March Another Libell of Informations taken in the citie of Marseille vpon the fifth sixth and seuenth of Aprill last past The hearing of Mistris Victoire de Courbier said and pretended to haue been bewitched by the said Gaufridy by reason of the crasinesse and indisposition of her vnderstanding as also because of her disordinate and scandalous affection to the said Gaufridy vpon the sixth of Aprill The second Interrogatories made vnto the said Gaufridy touching the truth of the said Information which contained his confession that hee had bewitched the said Victoire by breathing vpon her the twelfth and sixteenth of the said moneth of Aprill The verball Processe of the voluntarie confessions made by the said Gaufridy touching other facts and crimes laid vnto his charge the 14. and 15. of the said moneth The retractations of the said Gaufridy the fifteenth day of Aprill aforesaid in the afternoone The letters of the Bishop of Marseille to Master Ioseph Pellicot Prouost of the Metropolitane Church of the citie of Aix and also Vicar vnto the Arch-bishop of Aix
that in his name authoritie and place he should proceed iudicially against the said Gaufridy belonging vnto his Diocesse in such ample and full manner as the Bishop himselfe might doe if hee were there present in his owne person vpon the 17. of the said moneth The deputation of a Proctor made by the said Gaufridy before the said Prouost who by vertue of the foresaid letter was his Ordinary that so prosecution might bee made for the restitution of those Schedules which are aboue mentioned in the informations there contained The order of the said Counsellor and Commissarie and of the said Master Pellicot as well by vertue of his place of being Vicar to the said Bishop of Marseille as also by reason of his being Vicar vnto the Arch-bishop of Aix that the said Magdalene of Pallud should be re-examined concerning her allegations and depositions and should bee againe confronted with the said Gaufridy Diuers other new confessions made and respectiuely repeated by him the 22. and 23. of Aprill conformable vnto the former Another report of the foresaid Doctors of Physicke and Surgeons touching the abolishment and taking away of the markes of the said Magdalene of Pallud with the re-establishment and confirmation of the manner of them laid open in the former report of the 23. of March The verball processe of the interruptions and extraordinarie accidents which happened vnto the said Magdalene during the time of her confession the tortures and torments which she suffered and the words which proceeded from her Besides the matters contained in the Interrogatories and answeres the proofe and witnesse of the abolâ—shment of the markes the re-establishment and confirmation of the same on Easter day and the Feasts following during the celebration of the blessed Masse The iudgement of these obiects and the conclusions of the Kings Atturney generall thereupon the day of hearing of the said Gaufridy in the Chamber and the report of the Commissarie deputed for the same Whereupon it was published That the Court hath and doth declare the said Lewes Gaufridy attainted guiltie and conuicted of the cases and crimes aforesaid where with-all he hath been burthened and to make some amends and reparation for the same the said Court hath and doth condemne him to be deliuered vp into the hands of the Executioner for matters capitall and to bee led thorow all the vsuall streetes and quarters of the citie of Aix and before the great gate of the Metropolitane Church of S. Sauiour to performe this penance that is to goe thither bare-headed and bare-footed with a linke burning in his hand and a rope about his necke and vpon his knees to aske forgiuenes of God the King and Iustice. Which being performed he is to be brought to the place of Preaching in the said towne and there to be burnt aliue in a pile of wood which shall be prepared for that purpose vntill his bodie and bones be consumed and turned to ashes which are also afterward to be scattered and cast into the winde and all his goods and euery parcell thereof to be seazed vpon and confiscated to the King And before he be executed hee shall be tortured and put vpon the racke both after the ordinarie and extraordinarie manner to force from his mouth the true detection of his complices Neuerthelesse before he haue the said execution of death performed vpon him hee shall be giuen vp into the hands of the Bishop of Marseille his Diocesan or in his absence into the hands of any other Prelate of qualitie besitting the same to be degraded from his Orders according to the accustomed manner in such cases prouided Giuen in the Parliament of Prouence residing at Aix and published at the barre of Iustice and to the said Gaufridy in the Palace-prison who at the same time was put to the racke both after the vsuall and extraordinarie manner the Commissaries that were deputed vnto the same being there present And about fiue of the clocke in the afternoone he was put to death being first degraded by the L. Bishop of Marseille his Diocesan in the Church of preaching Friers at Aix in the presence of the said Commissaries following the forme and tenour of this present Arrest the last of Aprill 1611. Signed MALIVERNY IN the moneth of Iuly father Michaelis was aduertised by letters from father Romillon and father Francis Billet who had beene both Exorcists vnto Magdalen as also from the Gardian of the couent of Capuchin fathers at Aix and of another of the Capuchins wherein they declared diuerse admirable occurrences which by the permission of God did befall Louyse and Magdalene since his departure from them And also that the very same day vpon which the Magician was burnt sister Margaret Burle a very honest woman and of the company of S. Vrsula was deliuered from three Diuels and from the charmes which she had in her body After certaine dayes there was another woman and after her there was also another freed from the like slauery who had been formerly possessed by the force of charmes and witch-craft Moreouer that two Diuels to wit Gresil and Sonneillon had quite left the body of Louyse so that there remained none behind but Verrine who said that the end of the History was not yet come Also that Magdalene had beene for many dayes together depriued of her sight and hearing and could not eate neuerthelesse by reason of the good hap which againe befell vnto her on that blessed feast of Whitsuntide shee hath recouered all againe and is moreouer deliuered of the Diuell Asmodeus and two other Diuels and that afterward she was no more troubled with those Incubi that were wont to haunt her that Belzebub did still possesse her and had strangely forced her tongue downe into her throat tormenting her more and more with his accustomed raâ—kings and tortures that by reason of the letters which were written shee was now deliuered from all her torments and that shee held Belzebub bound and chained vp in her body by the permission of God and that when he would intreate her to giue him licence to goe forth of her body but for a quarter of an houre onely that he might set some stay touching his Sabbaths and meetings she would by no meanes allow him so to doe It was further aduertised in these letters that Magdalene had a vision of the state of Lewes Gaufridy how he was continually tormented in hell with more extremitie then euer was Indas And that this vision was the cause that shee became an vnfeined penitentiary for shee would goe along to the wood with the poore women of Carpentras whether she was fled bare-footed and would gather bundels of sticks and would sell them in the market place and would giue the money that did arise from hence vnto the poore besides that which shee daily sent to bee giuen at the porch of the great Church Moreouer that shee made great reckoning of any act of humility and patience and waâ—