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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43992	A Collection of modern relations of matter of fact concerning witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people to which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God in preserving us from the malice and power of evil angels, written by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale, upon occasion of a tryal of several witches before him.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1693 (1693)	Wing H224; ESTC R23402	48,262	74

Objects we saw in this Dark World I must add this that were but the Eyes of Men opened to see the Kingdom of the Dragon in this World with the multitudes of Evil Angels which are every where tempting and ensnaring Men they would be amused and not dare to be by themselves without good Consciences and a great assurance of the love and favour of God in protecting them by the Ministration of the holy Angels 2. As to the Objects of the outward Smell I must let you know that within the three Weeks space in which these Wonders appeared at several times the Evil Spirits and Angels did raise up such noysom poysonous Smells that both the inward and outward part of those that were exercised with them became much disturbed and offended For through the sympathy betwixt the Body and the Soul the sulphurous hellish Smells much exercised both by Magical Tincturation 3. In reference to the Objects of Tast You must know that sometimes both in the day and night we were exercised with the loathsom hellish tasts of Sulphur Brimstone Soot and Salt mingled together Which were so loathsom to our Natures as that they were ready to cause great Distempers and Nauseousness in our Bodies but the Invisible Power of Jehovah supported us beyond our own Strength 4. In relation to our inward and outward Touch we were much exercised both in Body and Soul As to our Souls we sometimes felt such strange Magical Wounds and Prickings by the fiery Darts of the Devil that none can express but those that have been exercised in some measure as Job was who felt the Poyson of those invenomed Arrows which came upon him by the permission of the Almighty which like the Scorpions in the Revelations sting and pierce those they touch As to our Bodies we found material Impressions from the Powers of Darkness very noxious in themselves to our natural Spirits and Life but cheerfully born by Invisible support and quiet submission unto the Will of God But to conclude By these wonderful and strange Exercises we could not but have strong apprehensions and lively resemblances of the Torments and Miseries of Hell where Sulphur Fire Brimstone poysonous Smells Darkness monstrous horrid Shapes and Sights are the entertainment of the imprisoned Spirits But now I come to the other Internal World which we may term Mundus Luminosus or the Light World which with its various Objects was then likewise opened to the inward Senses First then I shall here set forth the Objects of the inward Eye which were then seen by us There appeared then to our inward Sight multitudes almost innumerable of pure Angelical Spirits in figurative Bodies which were clear as the Morning-Star and transparent as Christal These were Mahanaim or the Lord's Host appearing all in manly Forms sending forth a Tincture like the swift Rays of the hot Beams of the Sun which we powerfully felt to the refreshing of our Souls and enlivening of our Bodies Now beholding the multiplicity variety and beauty of these Spirits with the various Objects and Wonders of this World Cloathed in the purest Tincture of Light and Colour we could not but bless the God of Heaven who by the Eyes of Wisdom and Hand of Power brought forth such Glorious Creatures and now shewed them in their several Beauties to us in a time of Tryal and Temptation Secondly In relation to our inward sense of Hearing there were many musical Sounds and Voices like those which John heard upon Mount Zion then heard by us the sweetness harmony and pleasantness of which cannot be expressed nor that Spiritual Joy and Delight which by them was infused into our Souls uttered by the Tongue being ready to ravish our Spirits into the highest Praises of the Eternal Jehovah Thirdly In relation to the Faculty of Smelling the Tongue can hardly express those Odours of Paradise and heavenly Perfumes which then were smelt piercing into the very Spirit with a cherishing Tincture besides that quickning Virtue which by them was communicated and insinuated into the Spirits of our outward Bodies which like a Cordial had been able to have renewed the strength of our languishing Nature Fourthly Our Sense or Faculty of Tasting was very pleasantly entertained with those invisible Dews which were sweeter than Hony or the Hony-comb and therefore deserve to be called the Dews of Heaven with which instead of Food we were many times wonderfully Refreshed Fifthly In relation to the Sense of spiritual Contaction that was also delighted with its heavenly Objects For none can utter that pleasing Impression which the burning Tincture of this Light World afforded us coming like a hot Cordial into the centre of our Spirit being sensibly felt in the inward Parts so as to cause much joy and heavenly Pleasure which penetrated through our Souls giving us occasion to bless praise and magnifie the Lord. Thus for the space of three Weeks or a Month were we exercised inwardly and outwardly through that great Conflict which was betwixt those two Worlds and their Inhabitants The Dark World sometimes afflicting us with dreadful Shapes abominable Smells loathsom Tasts with other Operations of the Evil Angels The Light World at other times opening and relieving us with odoriferous Perfumes most sweet Dews glorious Visions and Angelical Harmony which the Lord favoured us with to shew his extraordinary Love in this Succouring us in extraordinary Exercises and Tryals Thus much for those two internal Worlds spread throughout the visible World in which the Evil and good Angels are more immediately than in this visible Air to which they cannot be commensurate by reason of their spiritual Natures each of them abiding in their distinct Principle the the one sort being in Joy the other being in Torment the one in Light the other in Darkness according to the Scripture Besides these two Worlds we had an opening of the Eternal World called in Scripture the World to come or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 2. 5. from the futurity of its full and clear manifestation and a precursory entrance into the most Holy Place by a Divine Transportation into the Glory of the Majesty agreeable to that of St. John 17. 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me c. Here were seen heard and felt unutterable Mysteries of that Kingdom which are not yet to be divulged in regard of the Pride Ignorance Prejudice and Envy of many in the World being reserved for those humble gracious Spirits which are waiting in Silence for the second coming of the Son of Man But now it is time to come to the third Particular which was the effects and Impressions left upon our Spirits by these wonderful Exercises and Manifestations After this we began more clearly to see that Strait and Narrow Way which leads to Life Eternal which we call the Virgin Life or the Life of Purity and Righteousness