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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 preteÌ„d 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

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 froÌ„ the earth which yet I see no reason for seeing the body also must rest at least froÌ„ 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 coÌ„clude 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 woâ—â€¦ in the likenesse of Samuel to gâ—â€¦ this answere seeing no meere humane vnderstanding â—onld attaine ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ that knowledge And therefore it necessarily followeth that the Witch by vertue of the couenant with Satâ—â€¦ raised him vp He by his power and skill counterfeited Samuel at an ynch by his experience and office waâ— 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

not enough for that man of sinne to strengthen himselfe from the vsurped power of Heauen chalenging the keyes toâ—pen and shut at his pleasure but he must also wrest into himselfe all power on earth disposing of Kingdomes and deposing the mightiest at his pleasure And that hee might appeare to be the true Antichrist in all things opposing the kingdome of Iesus Christ. Behold as all things vnder earth doe bow vnto the Sonne of God the very diuells tremble and are subiect vnto him Euen so doth this Abaddon assume the power of the Dragon and so by Coniuration and Enchantments attaineth to and confirmeth his supreame authoritie And thus Witch-craft became an especiall proppe of Antichrists kingdome And that in diuers respects accordingly as that man of sinne by diuerse meanes aduaunced and confirmed himselfe And these were 1 Opinion of diuine power 2 Presumption of perfect Holinesse and so of merites 3 Maintenance of Idolatrie and 4 Outward greatnes and soueraigntie To the furthering of al which this diuelish Art stood him in great steed As For the first As Antichrist intruded into the seate of the Lord both fitting in the Temple of the Lord and raigning in the consciences of men and so exalting himselfe in voluntary worship aboue all that is called God So was hee much furthered heereunto by this Art of Negrâ—mancie As both heereby through fayned myracles and lying wonders 1 Gaining from the conceit of the deceiued people the Reputation of diuine power 2 And by the power of Satan confounding his enemies attaining to a coÌ„ceit of supreme immediate iustice As 3 Hereby relieuing extraordinarily his fauourites and so arrogating the conceit of diuine mercie And thus also by this Art gayned he an opinion of perfit Holinesse As not onelie hereby being able to bleare the eyes of the world not to discerne or not to dare to discouer his abhominable wickednesse But especially heereby being furthered to performe many glorious outsides of well-doing that hee might be applauded as the mighty power of God Acts 8. And so Withall by this meanes bewitching the hearts of the ignorant to admire the beauty of the strumpet and so to fall downe and worship her And By this Art furthering also that Deuice of canonizing of Saints for their perfect Holinesse by such forged miracles as hereby were made shew of to that end Which as it was an especiall ground and foundation of that Idolatry which beginning of a reuerend estimation and affection to holie men grew at the length not onelie to a worship of their persons being dead but of their Statues and Images also which at the first being onelie erected in memoriall of their well-doings by a thankefull world grew at length to be adored and exalted also aboue all that was called God and that especially by meanes of this diuellish Art For by this meanes these Stockes and Stones beeing made to speake and doe wonderfull things as it confounded the Image-makers who by this practize condemned their Doctrine of Images Teaching that they were but otdayned as meanes to remember the people of those persons whom they did represent and yet by this practize making the people beleeue that they were the Saints themselues so were the ignorant and heartlesse people hereby grossely deceiued and detained in this idolatrie euen by those lying wonders and signes that were wrought at these Images And thus as that man of sin attained to exceeding credit and riches in the world So that he might further exalt himselfe aboue all that is called God behold he aduanceth himselfe aboue the great Kings and Potentates of the earth and is furthered heereto especially by this Art of Coniuration For hereby being acquainted with the secrets of all estates gayned he oportunitie to preuent or confound their determinations By this meanes hee many times casts bones among them that tearing deuouring each other they might both in the end become his prey By this was hee able secretly to remoue the greatest opposite and yet by the secret conueyance thereof to keep the credit of his Holinesse yea to gaine the opinion of diuine power and assistance By this meanes whosoeuer banded openly against him was like to take the foyle And thus heereby nouzeling the world in ignorance and infidelity excluded them by this meanes the protection of the Lord and so they became a prey vnto Antichrist The bondage of Egypt must lie vpon their necks these cruell taske-maisters must encrease their burdens withdraw their means that so at length the oppressed world might grone to the Lord who in his mercy hath in some measure released the yoake of the oppressor in restoring light vnto the world and authoritie to the magistrate And so now it is come to passe that thogh in places of ignorance witchcraft aboundeth because as yet the strong man keepes possession yet where the light of the Gospell hath once taken footing as at the comming of Christ the Oracles ceased so Satan falls downe like lightning at the preaching of the Gospel and the grosenesse of Witchcraft is well cleared and banished only bicause though the Gospel be offred vnto al yet seeing al receiue not the knowlege of the truth Therefore it is iust with God to giue vp men to strong delusions to beleeue lies and so Satan becomes not only a lying spirit in the mouth of the Prophets to deceiue vnstable soules but taking euen seuen spirits worse as the doctrine of the Gospell decayes in it purity and so becomes a Broker to profanenesse so together with corruption of Doctrine Popish delusions crept in againe to beguile and enthrall vnstable soules And among these Delusions Witch-craft not the least hath againe got some life and power where the Gospel hath beene reuealed And that 1 By being defended and iustified by godlesse men as if there were no such thing that it is but a conceit 2 Being detected yet is it not punished thorowly The Blesser escapes and the silly people that run to this white Diuell are let alone Which as it may teach the wise to see the plague and hide himselfe so it may resolue vs concerning the places where Witches haunt vsually either in places of ignorance and there in more grosse and sensible manner or else in Places of knowledge abused where Hypocriâ—ie and carnall wisedome hath thrust out the power of synceritie There Satan returnes with seuen worse spirits Witch-craft is embraced and countenanced of men So much the more dangerously by how much now Witches are become great Professors and followers of the Word haue attained some knowledge and pretend great holinesse and honestie whereby as it appeareth that Satan is now transformed into an Angell of light so are wee informed heereby the rather to arme our selues against such cunning and desperate policies which now especially are plotted to the ensnaring of our soules CHAP. XI Of the diuers kinds of Witches and their effects

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