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A42501	A collection out of the best approved authors containing histories of visions, apparitions, prophesies, spirits, divinations and other wonderful illusions of the devil wrought by magic or otherwise : also of divers astrological predictions shewing as the wickedness of the former, so the vanity of the latter, and the folly of trusting to them.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing G376; ESTC R29920	190,293	260

pestilent Hereticks and their Magick and Astrologie the greatest causes or confirmations of their blasphemous and nefarious Heresies SImon Magus was the Prince of Hereticks and the father of the first Heresies after Christ who besides those so execrable in doctrine and detestable in manners hatched these so abominable as concerning his own person giving out that himselfe was some great one Acts 8.9 and taught that himselfe was he who should appeare to the Iewes as the Sonne and in Samaria should descend as the Father and to the other Nations should come as the Holy Ghost He set himselfe forth for a God at least for the sonne of a Virgin He bewitched the people with his sorceries or magicke to say This man is the great power of God Acts 8.10 And in admiration of his magicall operations they set up a statue with this Inscription To Simon the holy God His Image was made after the figure of Iupiter and the Image of Salena or Helena his harlot whom he affirmed to be the first conception of his mind the mother of all by whom in the beginning he conceived in his mind to make the Angels and the Archangels was made after the figure of Minerva and these they worshipped with Incense victimes offerings and sacrifices Howbeit this magicall sorcerer simulated the Christian faith and was baptized supposing that the Apostles healed by Magick and not by the power of God and suspecting the Holy Ghost to be given by a greater Magicall science he offered money for the gift which being denied him he studied all manner of Magick so much the more so to make himself seem the more glorious in the emulation and to make himself famous in his contestation against the Apostles vented his heresies and vaunted his sorceries so much the more And in stead of the Holy Ghost he got him a devil for his familiar which he said was the Soul of a slain childe although indeed it was a Devil that he had adjured for his assistance in doing whatsoever he commanded His Priests and proselytes likewise were taught to use exorcisms and incantations and Amatories and allurements and had also their Paredrials and Oniropompists Sc. their familiars and studiously exercised all manner of curious superstitions and unlawful Arts. And all was to this intent that his and their praestigious acts might seem to confirm their blasphemous heresies Elymas the Sorcerer or the Magician sought to turn away the Deputy from the faith and would not cease to pervert the right wayes of the Lord Act. 13.8 10. And not onely his actions but his appellations also serve to note his Heresie as well as his Sorcery Jannes and Iambres the Magicians that withstood Moses wherefore are those Hereticks men of corrupt minds reprobate or of no judgement concerning the faith that resist the truth compared to them 2 Tim. 3.8 Doubtlesse there was not onely some resemblance or similitude but some identity or reality in their actions Menander the disciple and successour of Simon Magus a Samaritane also and a Magician was possessed with a devil and being instructed with daemoniacal power was not inferiour to the former in diabolical operation And having attained to the height of magical Science which he said he had from his Euvoja and by her taught and gave it unto others so that many were deluded deceived by this his prodigious art To which he added as upon which he founded these his portentous Heresies or opinions viz. Affirming himself to be the Saviour sent from Olympus to Heaven or from the invisible world for the salvation of men Teaching that the Angels the operators of this world cannot be otherwise bound or compelled or conquered by any unlesse it be by learning the deceptive and proving the experience of the Magical art which he taught and by receiving the Baptism which he himself delivered which whosoever had ever been partakers of they should thereby acquire perpetual immortality and die no more but remain everlastingly with themselves or with him and become thenceforth expert of old age and be made immortal Saturninus or Saturnilus and Basilides were notorious impostors in all Magical arts using Images incantations and invocations and all other superfluous curiosities And among their other Heresies this was one inconsistent altogether not onely with nature and Theologie but with Magick also and Astrology viz. In that they invented 365. Heavens making one another by succession and similitude and the lowest of them begetting the creatures here below And the chiefest or highest of them which they call Abrafax or Abraxas they make to have in it self not onely the number of the 365 but the vertue of them all And yet the Mathematicians then agreed with them in the distribution of the 365 local positions of the Heavens though peradventure not in their mutual and so infinite generation Howbeit in this they and the Magicians were wholly agreed in contending their mysteries to be ineffable and ought to be hidden in silence Carpocrates and his ear-mark'd Disciples practised all manner of Magical arts used Incantations Philters Paredrials or Demoniacal assessours oniropompists or Dream-artists and all other machinations malignations inductions illectations c. Yea they set up Schools of Magick and taught praestigious operation in publique saying heretically that by vertue of these they had gotten the Dominion over the Princes and Fabricators of this world and not onely over them but over all that are made therein Teaching yet more heretically that they who will attain to the perfection of their Mystagogie must dare to do any thing yea must do any filthy thing otherwise they cannot escape the Prince of this world unlesse by such secret operation they pay their debt to all And what was this operation of absolving the debt in the body but a nefarious coition of men and of women and therewithal an abhominable operating of incantations venefices and Idolatries upon every member of the body Marcus with his podalitial Marcosites was most skilful expert in almagical impostures by which he seduced many men and not a few women to turn to and attend him as one most sciential and perfect and one that had gotten great vertue from invisible and unnameable powers places Wheras he onely mixed the ludicrous fopperies of Anaxilaus together with the wicked subtilties of Magicians and so deluded into admiration or astonishment such simple and senseless people as could not discern his ludibrious incantations For faigning himself to give thanks over a cup of white wine by his long invocations and incantations he turned it to red or made it so appeare that it might be thought by that grace from them that are above all he distilled his own blood into the cup through the invention thereof and that they which were present might desire to tast of that cup that so there might distil upon them that grace which the Magician invoked or which the Magician called Grace Understand withal that he had a Devil his Paredrial or assessor

the charge or the shame of it would thus restrain if not reform it Augustus gathered up here and there all the fatidicall books he could and those that were spread abroad under none or no apt authors he caused them to be all burnt to the number of two thousand and onely retained the Sibylline books and them too with choice commanding that even they should not be lookt into by any others but the Quindecemvirs onely In the too long protraction of the second Punick warre their religion became so distracted by the turbulencies of the times that all sexes ages and degrees of people turned sacrificers and vaticinators Complaint hereof was brought to the Senate and they laid the blame on the inferior Magistrates for not inhibiting them At length the businesse was committed by the Senate to M. Aemilius the Vrbane Praetor who made proclamation that whosoever had any books of vaticination or written Orisons or arts of sacrificing letters c. that they should bring them all to him within such a day And thus he freed them from such confusions as were crept into their religion As they were plowing in the field of L. Petilius the Scribe certain books of Numa were there found in a chest of stone Which Q. Petilius the Vrbane Praetor hearing of sent for them and reading onely the summe or contents of them and observing that they tended to the utter dissolving of religion told L. Petilius that he intended to burn them The Scribe appealed to the Tribunes of the people they referred it to the Senate where it was decreed that the Pretor should keep his vow or resolution and so they were burned by the victimaries or sacrificers themselves in the sight of all the people It being related to the Fathers by Quintilian a Tribune of the people concerning a book of the Sybils which Caninius Gallus a Quindecemvir would have received among the rest of the prophecies Tiberius hereupon sent letters to the Senate severely checking at Caninius who being versed in the ceremonies would admit of an ode or a charm whose authour was uncertain which the masters had not read nor the Colledge approved putting the Fathers in mind of Augustus his edict to carry all such to the Vrbane Praetor and that the Sibylline verses belonged to the care of the Priests to discern which were true and which false And that they should especially acquaint the Quindecemvirs therewith and not transact any thing rashly in a cause of religion Under Valentinian one Hilarius a Car-man was brought before Apronius the praefect of the City because he had committed his sonne to a venefick necromancer or sorcerer to be brought up or traded in such arts as were interdicted by the laws and was therefore condemned Amantius an aruspick was solicited by Hymetius to sacrifice for depraved and maleficall intents which being proved by papers found in his house the consulter was banished and the practitioner condemned Lollianus a very young magician being accused that he had written a book of pernicious arts for feare that Maximinus would banish him appealed to Valentinian who more grievously punished him Palladius a veneficke and Heliodorus a genethliacke or one that interpreted fate by genitures were therefore accused before Modestus the praetorian praefect Palladius impeached Fidustius Praesidatis Irenaeus and Pergamius for their abhominable charms Fidustius confesses his vaticinating malefice and joyns with him Hilarius and Patricius Pergamius accuses many thousands as conscious of the same arts Hilarius and Patricius confesse the sortilegious fact with all the circumstances Wherefore all these and many other Philosophers are punished with fire and sword as Pasiphilus Diogenes Alypius Simonides and others And last of all that no mention might be found of these unlawfull arts innumerable books and volumes are all heaped together and burnt in the Judges sight Under Manuel Commenus one Araon was accused in that there was found in his house the image of a Tortoise and with in it the picture of a man chained and pierced through the breast and that he carried about him the old conjuring book that was called Solomons which while he read it legions of divels would appeare and ask him wherefore he called them and would quickly execute his commands Of which being convicted he had his eyes put out the usual punishment of those times Sicidites about the same time was impeached for casting prestigious mists before mens eyes and for sending out his devils to terrifie and torment men The same man sitting by the water side with some of his companions askt them what they would give him and he would make the Boatman that then passed by with a load of earthen vessels to break all his own wares with his own Oare Something they promised him and he muttered a few words and it came to passe accordingly The man being askt after that why he was so mad as to break his wares answered he thought he saw before him an ugly great Serpent ready to devoure him which still crept neerer to him the more he struck at it and when all his pots were broken in pieces then it vanished For this and other ridiculous pernicious tricks he was served as Araon was sc had his eyes put out an apt punishment for all peepers and Star-gazers In vain was all the Pagan reformation of Magick and Astrologie For they put the Artists or practitioner away with one hand and pull'd them to them with another witnesse the edicts of Augustus Tiberius Nero Vitellius Domitian c. and their own repealing acts and especially the Senate that banished Martha the Syrian prophetesse and yet a little after retained and imbraced Batabacus a predicting diviner The Historian therefore said wel and truly on both parts This kind of men treacherous to Potentates and delusive to all consulters and confiders are alwaies inhibited our City and yet alwaies retained in it I say no more of Imperiall edicts nor of those after the Emperours became Christian nor of provinciall Lawes nor of municipall Statutes nor of generall Councels nor of Ecclesiasticall Canons nor of Fathers sentences c. All these are sufficiently collected against them I onely conclude with an animadversion to our own Countreymen PLiny writing of Magick saith that in his daies the Art thereof was highly honoured by the Britaines and the people of that Nation so deeply devoted thereunto and the practises of it performed with such complements of all ceremonies that a man would think the Persians had learned all their magick skill from them And in truth our own histories report that the first Rulers of this Land were Magicians Astrologers Diviners such as were Samothes Magus Sarron Druis Bardus and that under a colour to teach men the knowledge of the Stars they brought men to the worship of the Stars Yea that they thus begat here their sects of Samotheans Magicians In so much as the Persians have been thought to have borrowed their word magi from hence Sarronides Druides Barditaes or