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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19408	The infallible true and assured vvitch: or, The second edition, of The tryall of witch-craft Shewing the right and true methode of the discouerie: with a confutation of erroneous vvayes, carefully reuiewed and more fully cleared and augmented. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.; Triall of witch-craft	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?	1624 (1624)	STC 5837; ESTC S108833	113,969	176

and necessitie of the distinction thereof for the more perfect separating and setting a part of Witch craft by it selfe wee will likewise briefly make manifest The Impostor is he who pretendeth truth but intendeth falshood For this cause sometimes vnder an holy pretense he maketh God the Author of his vnholy prestigiation and slandereth God vnto his face sometimes to be reputed an Angell of light he maketh himselfe a license to counterfeit the Diuell He proposeth it his trade to seduce and liueth by lying Sometimes in shew and pollicitation he is a Witch but in the performance of the greater sinne hee is lesse iust and in the personate resemblance solely a Iugler For as the Witch performeth that which in true and infallible reason is transcendent and aboue nature so the Impostor performeth that which in false and fallible reason and opinion onely seemeth parallel Hence as Witches doe strange and supernaturall workes and truely vnto reason worthy of wonder so the Impostor doth things voide of accomptable reason in shadow shew and seeming onely supernaturall wondred and admired And hence it commeth to passe that with vndiscerning mindes they are sometimes mistaken and confounded on for another From hence it is also necessarily concluded that as Witch-craft is discouered by a supernaturall worke aboue reason whereto the Witches consent is accessary so an Impostor is detected by a worke voide of accomptable reason but in a deceiuing false Visar or shew wherewith the purpose and intention of the Deceiuer or Impostor doth concurre As therefore the suspected Witch is tyed to answere vnto any iust doubt which may bee directly vrged against his or her manifest voluntary action that is prooued supernaturall so is a truely doubted Impostor bound to giue satisfaction for such his ambiguous actions as doe in likely reason appeare fraudulent vaine prestigious iuggling couzening or deceiuing And thus shall each appeare in his owne true shape apart Of diuers kinds of Witchcraft I haue before produced examples I may here likewise very pertinently for further illustration propose some examples of Imposture in generall that the odiousnesse of this foule sinne may appeare more foule and the ougly face thereof may be more fully discouered Among multitude of examples I will recite onely some few whereof some consist in lewd and guilefull contriuement of action other in the bewitching power of false prophecies reuelations predictions and prognostications Concerning the first who can be ignorant of the impious and infamous Impostures of Mahomet who by guilefull counterfeit miracles and pretended angelicall illuminated workes first magnified and set vp that heathenish Empire and Religion of the blasphemous Turkes The History of Sebastian the pretended Portugall King as it is set forth by Iohn de Serres according to Master Grimstones translation thereof if he were a true Impostor indeede and were not iniuriously traduced and blurred with vndeserued reproch is an incomparable example aboue and beyond many other I will referre my Reader to the Author himselfe If we desire more neere or domesticall examples herein behold in the raigne of Henry the seuenth a boy of meane parentage through imposturous machinations opposed set vp and crowned King in Ireland against that famous and renowned Prince Henry the seuenth putting him in great danger of his life and crowne of England In the late raigne of Queene Mary there arose an Impostor stiling himselfe Edward the sixth The danger of the progresse of that Impostor if it had preuailed who knoweth not The manifest wrongs iniuries and impeachments also from counterfeit prophecies reuelations and predictions issuing not only vnto priuate men and families but vnto Kingdomes Empires and Common-weales are infinite Iulian an Emperour of Rome though otherwise a mightie and learned Prince and valiant souldier by a prophecie of an Impostresse or seeming Pythonisse promising his conquest and triumph ouer the Kingdome of Persia was thither hastened vnto his deserued death and the vengeance of God vpon his infamous Apostasie It is reported by Iohn de Serres the French Cronicler that the power and force of some pretended reuelations and visions of a young Shepheard in the raigne of Charles the seuenth King of France was so preualent that it perswaded Pothon that great and famous French Captaine with the Marshall of France to arme and incounter the then victorious English in the bowels of that Kingdome by which vnaduised attempt the French were supprised and taken by the English It is recorded by the same Author that one Martha Brosier counterfeiting the fits and passions of such as were possessed in short time became so powerfull in illusion that she ministred much matter of wonder and amazement not onely vnto priuate men but vnto the Kings Counsell to Preachers in pulpits yea vnto the whole Parliament vntill the counterfeit Diuell induring some punishment and restraint forsooke his pretended possession If wee require examples in our owne countrey behold in the raigne of Edward the fourth his brother George Duke of Clarence was hastened vnto his vntimely death euen by the allowance of his brother King vpon the feare of a vaine and flying prophecie that G. of King Edwards heires should be the murtherer In the time of Henry the eight the holy Maide of Kent by her seeming miraculous reuelations deceiuing not onely the common sort but euen diuers learned and some men of the best ranke and prime note stirred vp in the King great iealousie and feare of his Crowne and safety as by the records of her attaindour doeth appeare wherein doeth stand prooued and sentenced her treason-some imposture of most dangerous consequent if it had obtained equall issue In the same kings raigne the bewitching esteeme credit and hope of force vertue in counterfeit predictions and pretended reuelations whet the ambitious heart of Edward Lord Stafford Duke of Buckingham first into high Treason and to reach at the Crowne and after from thence thrust him headlong or headlesse into his graue In the raigne of Edward the sixt there was a prophecie divulged from the mouth of some pretended Wizard by which the coniuration of Kett and those Norfolke Rebels was hartned and encouraged to proceede in their rebellion and outrage vnto the great danger and damage of the Kingdome and in the end vnto their owne destruction That blind pretended prophecie in the insidiation of vaine and credulous mindes was somewhat like vnto that ambiguous Oracle in the Poet. Aio te Aeacida Romanos vincere posse I say the sonne of Aeacus the Romane power shall quell This Oracle may on either side indifferently either actiuely or passiuely bee vnderstood Like vnto it was that prestigious prophecie which the rebellious Norfolcians with their Kett trusted Hob Dic and Hic with clubbes and clouted shoone Shall fill vp Dussin-dale with slaughtered bodies soone The Rebels vnderstanding this blinde reuelation or prediction concerning the victory wherein they themselues