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A19295	The mystery of witch-craft Discouering, the truth, nature, occasions, growth and power thereof. Together with the detection and punishment of the same. As also, the seuerall stratagems of Sathan, ensnaring the poore soule by this desperate practize of annoying the bodie: with the seuerall vses therof to the Church of Christ. Very necessary for the redeeming of these atheisticall and secure times. By Thomas Cooper.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1617 (1617)	STC 5701; ESTC S108665	124,670	401

farre vnto others as that so many as are ordained to saluation shall giue credit and obedience therevnto And the rather Because these Diuine Dreames are not onely agreeable vnto the blessed Word and so safely to bee beleeued whereas Satanicall Dreames as they are diuerse or contrary to the Word so they labour especially to withdraw from obedience therevnto 4 But especially whereas the end of Satans Enthusiasmes is to set vp Idolatry and nourish all Atheisme and securitie Deu. 13. On the contrarie Diuine Dreames aime onely at the True worship of God and further the doctrine and obedience of the Gospell 5 And heere wee are wisely also to distinguish of the Times For seeing now we haue the Gospell sufficient to reueale the will of God therefore we are not in these daies to build vpon Dreames so that howsoeuer they were ordinary before and vnder the Law yet now if any shall rest herein and expect resolution heereby wee are to conclude that it is rather a Satanicall illusion then any warning from the Lord and therefore at no hand to be heeded of vs. As touching Diuination by Lots heerein also wee had need to bee informed the rather because this Delusion is common and preuailing with the ignorant sort to abuse the same to wicked ends and so therein to offer sacrifice to the deuill And therefore Though there may bee some lawfull vse heereof as in Ciuill Occasions to Diuide Lands discide controuersies in a case of importance and necssity Iosh. 14. 2. Acts 1. 26. c. so the Name of God bee called vpon and his prouidence attended and obeyed in the successe thereof Yet neither are wee allowed to vse Lots in iest in triuiall and vnnecessarie meanes as to set vp Banqrouts to further Plantations c. by raysing summes of money thereby seeing this may bee obtained by other meanes Much lesse in Gaming to sport our selues hereby Especially wee are heere to beware of such Lottery as tends to resolue doubtfull things or fore-know things to come either by opening a Booke casting a Die to declare good or bad successe seeing this both implies a secret beleefe that such a fear can do it and so is a worshipping of the deuill c. seeing by no secret propertie to that meanes such things are effected it must needes follow that it is but Satans colour to hide his familiarity with the wicked Hitherto of Diuination by true creatures And doth not Satan also deceiue by forged meanes Yea certainely as first by answering in the shape of a dead man Example hereof wee haue in that answere vnto Saul where Satan deludes the King with the appearance of Samuels person when indeed it was onely the cunning of Satan resembling and counterfeiting the same As is manifest First Because the Lord had denyed to answere Saul by ordinarie lawfull meanes and therefore would not endure to haue Samuel raysed vp to answere him extraordinarily Luke 16. 2 The Bodies and soules of the Saints departed are in the hands of God resting from their labours and therefore Satan could not haue power to fetch the soule from heauen though he might preuaile to raise the bodie frō the earth which yet I see no reason for seeing the body also must rest at least frō Satans power And would Samuel think you suffer Saul to adore him Surely it is the deuill that seekes honour and homage from men as for the Saints they striue to giue all power and honor vnto God Act. 10. Reu. 22. 8. 9. Adde heerevnto that true Samuel would haue reproued Saul for running to Witches hee would haue exhorted him to repentance 1 And therefore though the Word call him Samuel yet this was according to that which seemed to delude Saul 2 And though Saul might bee told by the Appearance what should befall him yet might this bee done by Satan as being either acquainted by the Lord with his purpose heerein or coniecturing by Sauls case what was like to come to him for his disobedience to God As for that which the Church of Rome doates concerning the walking of dead men howsoeuer the Lord gaue power vnto his Prophets to raise the dead yet neither had this Witch any such power neither was the case necessarie why it should be at this time neither needed Satan to vse this meanes seeing he might doe the feat as well by himselfe counterfeting the shape and person of Samuel Neither may extraordinarie and miraculous working vpon speciall occasion bee traduced to warrant the ordinarie walking of persons after their deaths whose soules the Holy Ghost witnesseth to bee at rest and can their bodies walke without their soules Indeed when the Lord was either to plant or restore a Church out of it ruine and desolation wee finde in the Word this power of raysing from the dead to haue bene exercised profitably and therefore seeing now there was no such cause for this miraculous worke it followeth to bee the delusion of Satan and not the finger of God But here me thinkes I heere some reply that if this were but a collusion of Satan blinding and deceiuing Saul why might he not also deeceiue the Witch as pretending to bee raysed vp by her that she had power of him when it might bee but some iugling trick to bleare her eyes she raised vp no deuill in Samuels likenesse but rather was meerely deluded with a conceit heereof Surely howsoeuer the Patrones of Witch-craft would gladly thus cōclude to condemnethe truth of the Word that there are Witches which worke by Familiar spirits yet doth the circumstance of the Historie plainely confound them Howsoeuer they also imply further that the Witch might suborne some man or wo●… in the likenesse of Samuel to g●… this answere seeing no meere humane vnderstanding ●onld attaine 〈◊〉 that knowledge And therefore it necessarily followeth that the Witch by vertue of the couenant with Sat●… raised him vp He by his power and skill counterfeited Samuel at an ynch by his experience and office wa● able to acquaint him with Gods wil and so as an instrument of Diuine vengeance to hasten him to his destruction And as Satan thus foretells things by meanes eyther true or counterfeit so doth hee also Diuine without meanes either possessing those that are his oracles Acts the sixteene chapter and sixteene verse or inspiring them by outward obsession with his will and councells whereby they become counterfeit prophets and reuealers of things to come such as were the Sybills c. Of all which wee are to make this vse 1 As to iudge wisely of the power and manifold cunning of Sathan 2 So to consider of the preciousnesse of the soule for which Satan takes such paines becomes such a drudge c. and to preuent the Diuell by our care and diligence not so much for the bodie and the meate that perisheth but for the poore soule that it may be saued

darknesse which especially preuailes by these deuillish charmes And that not onely in the Ignorant multitude and wilfully seduced Papist But euen in the Carnall Protestant and Grosse Hypocrite though they haue receiued the knowledge of the Truth For do wee not generally detaine the truth of God in vnrighteousnesse making a shew of Religion and yet denying the power thereof making our belly our God and the wedge of Gold our hope turning the graces of God vnto wantonnesse and so giuing vp our members as weapons to the seruice of sin do thereby plainely discouer whose seruants wee are euen the bondslaues of Satan who ruleth in the children of disobedience And doth not the Lord very wonderfully discouer our shifts and confound our painted shewes euen by these euill Angels which hee sends amongst vs Doth not our Atheisme on the one side convince our heartlesse and deceitfull worship while wee Plead for Satan and maintaine his Kingdome concluding his preuailings to bee but Counter●…tings his Contracts with Witches to bee but Delusions ascribing his power in afflicting to Naturall Diseases And yet doth not the Lord on the other side reiect our confiden●● that so our owne tongues and waies may fall vpon vs For doe wee yet feare those Withes whom wee conclude to bee harmelesse hurting rather by our infidelitie then any power of satan or in themselues Do wee not close with them desperately releeuing them with our Almes and so binding them by our charitie and euen Tying them by the Teeth that they may not hurt vs Nay though wee make profession to seeke to GOD alone in our troubles yet when it comes to the Pinch doe wee not runne vnto the Deuill Hath not the Blesser more Proselites and Patients then the Physition yea then the conscionable Preacher The Lord giue vs vnderstanding in these things Where is our Faith in God Is there not a God in Israel that wee must runne to Beelzebub the Prince of darkenesse for helpe Nay where are our Wits and common sence do wee say that Witches haue no power to hurt by Satan And yet doe wee runne to those for helpe Which seeing they haue no calling from God nor vse any such meanes as are Warrantable by the Word it must needs follow that they proceed from the Father of Lies who then hurts most dangerously when hee pretends to helpe And must needes hurt desperately when hee is exalted and adored aboue all that is called God requiring that homage which is onely due vnto God Thus though light bee come into the world though it bee entertained for a season yet men loue darknesse more then the light because their workes are euill and so are iustly giuen vp for their disobedience to this Strong Delusion euen to worship Satan and so to become two-fold more the children of hell then they were before And doth not their example harden the Papist in their Idolatry And yet surely the Iustice of God doth still gloriously appeare in these Children of wilfull ignorance that still stoppe their eaires against the voyce of the charmer charme hee neuer so wiselie That seeing they will not bee conuerted by that milde voyce from Heauen they may bee confounded by this fearefull voyce from hell That they may now discerne their true estate to bee no better then the Deuils slaues led captiue by him at his will by these Good and Bad Witches these hurters and helpers As Trusting to these for helpe for the body and so renouncing the soueraigne and safe remedie of the light of the Gospell for the saluation of soules As fearing the other more then the liuing God and his Vicegerent the Magistrate and so by this slauish feare as with a strong cord being faster bound vnder the power of darkenesse binding hereby iniquitie as with Cart-ropes while they adde drunkennesse vnto thirst confirming Ignorance and Infidelitie by this palpable Idolatry in seeking helpe of Satan And so being confounded in their vaine confidence of will-worship vnto God As now being iustly convinced to offer sacrifice to the deuill might either by this shame bee brought to repentance or else being made vtterly inexcusable might so bee giuen ouer to the fearefull expectation of the vengeance to come Certainely if these accursed people yet seeke for signes and shadowes to confirme them in their superstition or reforme them to the Truth Haue they not a signe from heauen euen the signe of the Sonne of Man Daily crucified vnto them in the powerfull Preaching of the Gospell And yet behold their fearefull obstinacie Doe they not still dote after stockes and stones Doe they not runne from the liuing to the dead Doe not they renue their Idolatrous Crosses to encrease their stony hearts Do they not say vnto the stockes thou art my Sauiour and to the stone thou hast redeemed mee Oh Adulterous and faithlesse Generation how long will they prouoke the Lord Shall not his iealousie burne like fire to consume them and all their stubble with vnquenchable torments And seeing they boast that they haue made a Couenant with hell and are at an agreement with death as pretending that by their Keyes they haue the power to open and shut hell at their pleasure and yet intending and discouering plainely heerein their horrible Athiesme that they haue made Falsehood their Refuge and are Hid vnder Vanitie making the Pleasures of sinne their chiefe God and happines and resting in their Visible Monarchie as their Soueraigne and supreme Kingdome Hath not the Lord mightily reiected their confidence by giuing them another Signe euen from the bowels of the earth By letting Satan loose to torment and delude them to vexe their bodies and yet also to deceiue their soules Surely the Iustice of GOD is admirable heerein to bee laid to heart of all those that doe hate the Where and desire her desolation that so they may lift vp their heads because their saluation draweth neere in that they may discerne in this glasse of his prouidence the confusion of Anti-christs approachings And so may take the oportunity to hasten the same in their seuerall places and meanes which yet the Lord in mercy affoords vnto them And blessed bee God that giues some measure of wisedome to redeeme the time and declare the wonders of the Lord to the Generation to come Shall not this make for the confirmation of our faith that the Lord will tread Satan vtterly ynder our feete CHAP. II. First prooueth that there are Witches and that 1 By testimonie from the Word 2 By testimony from all antiquitie 3 By sound Reason and that drawne First from the Power Iustice and Wisedome of the Lord. Secondly from the Pride and Policie of Satan Thirdly from the damnable estate and desperate condition and corruption of man Secondly it reprooueth 1 Those that impute this to melancholy 2 The Atheist that denies Witchcraft 3 That would haue all to be but Illusion 4 That iustifie bad Witches 5 And so answereth to all obiections that

protect vs nor our owne houses can shield vs but Sathan wil be closing to rob God of his glorie and vs of the comfort of any publique duety shall not this send vs to the searching of the heart shall it not teach vs to worship God in spirit that so Sathan may not bee acquainted with what we are about and so may not interrupt vs or if hee guesse at our purposes may be yet confounded in that our hearts are best knowne to the Lord It is our comfort vnspeakable before our God that hereby wee desire to worship him in truth because as our hearts witnesse with the truth of our endeuours so doe they also witnesse for God against vs the imperfection of them that the Lord may be iustified when he iudgeth Psal. 51. 4. 5. That Sathan may be preuented and confounded by this iudging of our selues that heereby wee may be daily prouoked to perfection by labouring to be found in Christ not hauing our owne righteousnesse and so may grow vppe in him to perfect holinesse Philip. 3. 13. Shall not this teach vs to trie our publike worship by this touch-stone of the heart and not the place Shall it not weane vs from the loue of this world seeing no place so holy no meanes so sacred but by Sathans policie they may be abused Shall it not prouoke vs to hunger after our dissolution that so we may freely and continually glorifie our GOD in his blessed kingdome Doeth not this condemne that pompous and carnall decking of the house of God rather to please the eie then affect the heart rather as a Pallace for the god of this world to reuel in and prey vpon new-fangled and silly soules then a place of spirituall worship for the great GOD of Heauen and Earth Certainely when I obserue some occupying the place of Gods worshippe and thence deliuering vnto Gods people Chaffe in stead of Wheat nay sometimes poyson in lieu of wholesome foode making merchandise of the word of God c. may I not conclude that these are the diuells factors bartering their owne and their peoples soules vnto him for alitle vaine credite and for a few shekells of siluer and morsels of bread heerein farre worse then the diuell himselfe that whereas he meanes plaine dealing to drawe them to damnation these notwithstanding pretend to shew them a nearer way to Heauen promising libertie when themselues are slaues to corruption and so nouzling in securitie and excluding repentance do thereby cary their people in a dreame vnto hell 2. Pet. 2. 19. 20. And when I consider on the other side that faithfull teachers who labour by enforcing the Lawe to bring the people to a sight of their sinnes and so to a denyall of themselues that they may hunger after Christ Iesus being loaden with the burthen of their sinnes That such I say are not withstanding traduced as Preachers of domnation no better then Satans harbengers to driue silly soules through despaire into the very snare and pitte of destruction Me thinks I obserue heere a farre more dangerous practise of Sathan then this with these Nouices to renownce their Baptisme euen to cause the people of God vtterly to reiect the true means of their saluation namely Christ Iesus In that he will not suffer them to see what neede they haue of him by humbling them with the Law that so they might bee forced out of themselues to relie wholie on his sacrifice for the pardon of their sinnes Is there not more hope of the saluation euen of these Witches that are thus kept sensible of their wofull estate either by the smart of their priuie match or by such continuall tampering with them sometimes by vgly apparitions to terrifie them eftsoones to keepe them watchfull by continuall employments Is there not I say more hope euen of the recouerie of such then of many thousands in the world who are lulled asleepe in securitie and fatted vp without all sense of danger euen to vtter destruction Oh that we were wise to vnderstand these things to Trie the spirites and choose the good and perfect way Is not the Prophet a snare vpon Mispath and profound to deceiue Is it not iust with God that because wee haue not receiued the trueth therefore to giue vs vp to strong delusions to beleeue lies 2. Thess. 2. 11. 12. Well this we may learne by this impudencie of Sathan in abusing the place of Gods worship and drawing his Proselites hither for their further confirmation in their subiection vnto him And are we not yet further taught hereby to make a profession to our God of our subiection to him and that publikely when wee shall be called hereunto furtherby the magistrate to giue an account of our hope or by the Minister to approue ourprofiting by the word or by our Christian brother to confirme him therein nay ought we not to stop the mouthes of the wicked by acknowledging our soueraigne Lord the great God of heauen and earth seeing the wicked are not ashamed to honour their master the diuel glorying in this that they are the damned crue c. shall not euen these silly deceiued soules rise vp in iudgement against such monsters that are drawne to that through feare or ignorance or hope of present release seeing these wittingly and malitiously as it were defie God with an high hand blaspheme and treade vnder foot the blood of the couenant acknowledging willingly and with great applause their subiection to Satan Nay shall not our Politike and State-christians bee condemned by these poore and base creatures who vpon necessitie and through faire promises onely are brought to this subiection Surely when I obserue the wisedome of the flesh in many great migh tie of the world that eyther come to the house of God only to receiue honor to maintaine credit and outward esteem or else to hedge in some profit and suck some aduantage hereby or else rather to honour the word by their presence for this is vsually the best end then to be humbled and reformed thereby rather I say to controule the ordinaunces of the mightie God then to be brought in subiection vnder the power thereof may I not conclude that heerein they rather publish their homage unto Sathan then testifie any obedience vnto the Lord Are not these the very stratagems of Satan to ensnare vnstable soules by causing them thus to abase the word thus to peruert the holie ends therof are not the wicked hereby iustly giuen vp to the illusions of Satan for the profaning of Gods ordinance do they not by these abuses testifie their obeisance vnto the Diuell while they pretēd the honor of god doe they not in seeking their owne honor abase that which belongs to the Lord approue themselues to be imps of that king of Feare who in all things seeketh to robbe God of his glorie And what else may wee deeme of that