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A42824	Saducismus triumphatus, or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions in two parts : the first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence / by Joseph Glanvil. With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject and an authentick but wonderful story of certain Swedish witches done into English by Anth. Horneck.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.; More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1681 (1681)	Wing G822; ESTC R25463	271,903	638

into my Mind which hath been assured by a Servant of the Dukes to be a great truth Thus Some few days before the Dukes going to Portsmouth where he was stabbed by Felton the Ghost of his Father Sir George Villiers appeared to one Parker formerly his own Servant but then Servant to the Duke in his Morning Chamber Gown charged Parker to tell his Son that he should decline that Employment and design he was going upon or else he would certainly be murthered Parker promised the Apparition to do it but neglected it The Duke making preparations for his Expedition the Apparition came again to Parker taxing him very severely for his breach of Promise and required him not to delay the acquainting his Son of the danger he was in Then Parker the next day tells the Duke that his Fathers Ghost had twice appeared to him and had commanded him to give him that warning The Duke slighted it and told him he was an old Doting Fool. That night the Apparition came to Parker a third time saying Parker thou hast done well in warning my Son of his danger but though he will not yet believe thee Go to him once more however and tell him from me by such a Token naming a private Token which no body knows but only he and I that if he will not decline this voyage such a Knife as this is pulling a long Knife out from under his Gown will be his death This Message Parker also delivered the next day to the Duke who when he heard the private Token believed that he had it from his Fathers Ghost yet said that his honour was now at stake and he could not go back from what he had undertaken come life come death This passage Parker after the Duke's murther communicated to his fellow Servant one Henry Ceeley who told it to a reverend Divine a Neighbour of mine from whose mouth I have it This Henry Ceeley has not been dead above Twenty years and his habitation for several years before his death was at North-Currey but three Miles from this place My Friend the Divine aforesaid was an intimate acquaintance of this Henry Ceeley's and assures me he was a person of known truth and integrity ADVERTISEMENT This story I heard but another name put for Parker with great assurance and with larger circumstances from a Person of Honour but I shall content my self to note onely what I find in a Letter of Mr. Timothy Locket of Mongton to Mr. Glanvil That this Apparition to Mr. Parker was all three times towards midnight when he was reading in some Book and he mentions that the Dukes Expedition was for the relief of Rochel The rest is muchwhat as Mr. Douch has declared But I will not omit the close of Mr. Lockets Letter I was confirmed in the truth of the premisses saith he by Mr. Henry Ceeley who was then a Servant with this Mr. Parker to the Duke and who told me that he knew Mr. Parker to be a Religious and sober Person and that every particular related was to his knowledge true RELAT. XII Of the appearing of Mr. Watkinson's Ghost to his Daughter Toppam contained in a Letter of Mrs. Taylor of the Ford by St. Neots to Dr. Ezekias Burton SIR MY Service to you and your Lady Now according to your desire I shall write what my Cousin told me Her name was Mary Watkinson her Father did live in Smithfield but she was Married to one Francis Toppam and she did live in York with her Husband being an ill one who did steal her away against her Parents consent so that they could not abide him But she came often to them and when she was last with him upon their parting she expressed that she feared she should never see him more He answered her if he should dye if ever God did permit the dead to see the living he would see her again Now after he had been Buried about half a year on a Night when she was in bed but could not sleep she heard Musick and the Chamber grew lighter and lighter and she being broad awake saw her Father stand at her bedside Who said Mal did not I tell thee that I would see thee once again She called him Father and talked of many things and he bad her be Patient and Dutiful to her Mother And when she told him that she had a Child since he did dye he said that would not trouble her long He bad her speak what she would now to him for he must go and that he should never see her more till they met in the Kingdom of Heaven So the Chamber grew darker and darker and he was gone with Musick And she said that she did never dream of him nor ever did see any Apparition of him after He was a very honest godly Man as far as I can tell ADVERTISEMENT This story G. Rust who was after Bishop of Dromore told me I remember with great assurance some Twenty years ago who was not at all credulous in these things And it was so as Mrs. Taylor relates to Dr. Burton The next Relation shall be of a Daughter appearing to her Father RELAT. XIII The appearing of the Ghost of the Daughter of Dr. Farrar to him after her death according to a brief Narrative sent from Mr. Edward Fowler to Dr. H. More Anno 1678. May 11. THis week Mr. Pearson who is a worthy good Minister of this City of London told me That his Wife's Grandfather a Man of great Piety and Physician to this present King his name Farrar nearly related I think Brother to the famous Mr. Farrar of little Giddon I say this Gentleman and his Daughter Mrs. Pearsons Mother a very pious soul made a compact at his intreaty that the first of them that dyed if happy should after death appear to the surviver if it were possible the Daughter with some difficulty consenting thereto Some time after the Daughter who lived at Gillingham Lodge two Miles from Salisbury fell in labour and by a mistake being given a noxious potion instead of another prepared for her suddainly dyed Her Father lived in London and that very Night she dyed she opened his Curtains and looked upon him He had before heard nothing of her ilness but upon this Apparition confidently told his Maid that his Daughter was dead and two days after received the news Her Grandmother told Mrs. Pearson this as also an Uncle of hers and the abovesaid Maid and this Mrs. Pearson I know and she is a very prudent and good Woman RELAT. XIV The appearing of the Ghost of one Mr. Bower of Guilford to an Highway-man in Prison as it is set down in a Letter of Dr. Ezekias Burton to Dr. H. More ABout Ten years ago one Mr. Bower an antient Man living at Guilford in Surrey was upon the Highway not far from that place found newly Murdered very barbarously having one great Cut cross his Throat and another down his Breast Two Men were seized

part Children or people very weak who are easily imposed upon and are apt to receive strong impressions from nothing whereas were there any such thing really 't is not likely but that the more cunning and subtil desperado's who might the more successfully carry on the mischievous designs of the dark Kingdom should be oftner engaged in those black confederacies and also one would expect effects of the hellish combination upon others than the innocent and ignorant TO which Objection it might perhaps be enough to return as hath been above suggested that nothing can be concluded by this and such like arguings but that the policy and menages of the Instruments of darkness are to us altogether unknown and as much in the dark as their natures Mankind being no more acquainted with the reasons and methods of action in the other world than poor Cottagers and Mechanicks are with the Intrigues of Government and Reasons of State Yea peradventure 2 't is one of the great designs as 't is certainly the interest of those wicked Agents and Machinators industriously to hide from us their influences and ways of acting and to work as near as is possible incognito upon which supposal 't is easie to conceive a reason why they most commonly work by and upon the weak and the ignorant who can make no cunning observations or tell credible tales to detect their artifice Besides 3 't is likely a strong imagination that cannot be weaken'd or disturb'd by a busie and subtile ratiocination is a necessary requisite to those wicked persormances and without doubt an heightned and obstinate fancy hath a great influence upon impressible spirits yea and as I have conjectur'd before on the more passive and susceptible bodies And I am very apt to believe that there are as real communications and intercourses between our Spirits as there are between material Agents which secret influences though they are unknown in their nature and ways of acting yet they are sufficiently felt in their effects for experience attests that some by the very majesty and greatness of their Spirits discovered by nothing but a certain noble air that accompanies them will bear down others less great and generous and make them sneak before them and some by I know not what stupifying vertue will tie up the tongue and consine the spirits of those who are otherwise brisk and voluble Which thing supposed the influences of a Spirit possess'd of an active and enormous imagination may be malign and fatal where they cannot be resisted especially when they are accompanied by those poysonous reaks that the evil spirit breathes into the Sorceress which likely are shot out and applied by a fancy heightned and prepared by melancholy and discontent And thus we may conceive why the melanchclick and envious are used upon such occasions and for the same reason the ignorant since knowledge checks and controuls imagination and those that abound much in the imaginative faculties do not usually exceed in the rational And perhaps 4 the Daemon himself useth the imagination of the Witch so qualified for his purpose even in those actions of mischief which are more properly his for it is most probable that Spirits act not upon bodies immediately and by their naked essence but by means proportionate and sutable instruments that they use upon which account likely 't is so strictly required that the Sorceress should believe that so her imagination might be more at the devotion of the mischievous Agent And sor the same reason also Ceremonies are used in Inchantments viz. for the begetting this diabolical faith and heightning the fancy to a degree of strength and vigour sufficient to make it a fit instrument for the design'd performance Those I think are reasons of likelihood and probability why the hellish Confederates are mostly the ignorant and the melancholick To pass then to another prejudice SECT IX VIII VIII THE frequent impostures that are met with in this kind beget in some a belief that all such Relations are Forgeries and Tales and if we urge the evidence of a story for the belief of Witches or Apparitions they will produce two as seemingly strong and plausible which shall conclude in mistake or design inferring thence that all others are of the same quality and credit But such arguers may please to consider 1 THAT a single relation for an Assirmative sufficiently confirmed and at tested is worth a thousand tales of forgery and imposture from whence an universal Negative cannot be concluded So that though all the Objectors stories be true and an hundred times as many more such deceptions yet one relation wherein no fallacy or fraud could be suspected for our Assirmative would spoil any Conclusion could be erected on them And 2 It seems to me a belief sufficiently bold and precarious that all these relations of forgery and mistake should be certain and not one among all those which attest the Assirmative reality with circumstances as good as could be expected or wish'd should be true but all fabulous and vain And they have no reason to object credulity to the assertors of Sorcery and Witchcraft that can swallow so large a morsel And I desire such Objectors to consider 3 Whether it be fair to infer that because there are some Cheats and Impostures that therefore there are no Realities Indeed frequency of deceit and fallacy will warrant a greater care and caution in examining and scrupulosity and shiness of assent to things wherein fraud hath been practised or may in the least degree be suspected But to conclude because that an old woman's fancy abused her or some knavish fellows put tricks upon the ignorant and timorous that theresore whole Assises have been a thousand times deceived in judgements upon matters of fact and numbers of sober persons have been forsivorn in things wherein perjury could not advantage them I say such inferences are as void of reason as they are of charity and good manners SECT X. IX BUT IX it may be suggested further That it cannot be imagin'd what design the Devil should have in making those solemn compacts since persons of such debauch'd and irreclaimable dispositions as those with whom he is supposed to confderate are pretty securely his antecedently to the bargain and cannot be more so by it since they cannot put their Souls out of possibility of the Divine Grace but by the Sin that is unpardonable or if they could so dispose and give away themselves it will to some seem very unlikely that a great and mighty Spirit should oblige himself to such observances and keep such ado to secure the Soul of a filly Body which 't were odds but it would be His though He put himself to no further trouble than that of his ordinary temptations TO which suggestions 't were enough to say that 't is sufficient if the thing be well prov'd though the design be not known And to argue negatively à fine is very unconclusive in such matters The Laws and

priviledged from WITCHCRAFT and Diabolical Compacts more than they were from Possessions which we know were then more frequent for ought appears to the contrary than ever they were before or since But besides this There are intimations plain enough in the Apostles Writings of the being of Sorcery and WITCHCRAFT St. Paul reckons Witchcraft next Idolatry in his Catalogue of the works of the flesh Gal. V. 20. and the Sorcerers are again joyn'd with Idolaters in that sad Denunciation Rev. XXI 8. and a little after Rev. XXII 15. they are reckoned again among Idolaiers Murderers and those others that are without And methinks the story of Simon Magus and his diabolical Oppositions of the Gospel in its beginnings should af●…ord clear conviction To all which I add this more general consideration 3 That though the New Testament had mention'd nothing of this matter yet its silence in such cases is not argumentative Our Saviour spake as he had occasion and the thousandth part of what he did and said is not recorded as one of his Historians intimates He said nothing of those large unknown Tracts of America nor gave he any intimations of as much as the Existence of that numerous people much less did he leave instructions about their conversion He gives no account of the affairs and state of the other world but onely that general one of the happiness of some and the misery of others He made no discovery of the Magnalia of Art or Nature no not of those whereby the propagation of the Gospel might have been much advanced viz. the Mystery of Printing and the Magnet and yet no one useth his silence in these instances as an argument against the being of things which are evident objects of sense I confess the omission of some of these particulars is pretty strange and unaccountable and concludes our ignorance of the reasons and menages of Providence but I suppose nothing else I thought I needed here to have said no more but I consider in consequence of this Objection it is pretended That as CHRIST JESUS drive the Devil from his Temples and his Altars as is clear in the Cessation of Oracles which dwindled away and at last grew silent shortly upon his appearance so in like manner 't is said that he banisht Him from his lesser holds in Sorcerers and Witches which argument is peccant both in what it affirms and in what it would infer For 1 The coming of the H. JESUS did not expel the Devil from all the greater places of his residence and worship for a considerable part of barbarous Mankind do him publick solemn homage to this day So that the very foundation of the pretence fails and the Consequence without any more ado comes to nothing And yet besides 2 If there be any credit to be given to Ecclesiastick History there were persons possessed with Devils some Ages after Christ whom the Disciples cast out by Prayer and the invocation of his Name So that Sathan was not driven from his lesser habitations assoon as he was forced from his more famous abodes And I see no reason 3 Why Though Divine Providence would not allow him publiquely to abuse the Nations whom he had designed in a short time after for Subjects of his Son's Kingdom and to stand up in the face of Religion in an open affront to the Divinity that planted it to the great hindrance of the progress of the Gospel and discouragement of Christian hopes I say Though Providence would not allow this height of insolent opposition yet I see not why we may not grant that God however permitted the Devil to sneak into some private skulking holes and to trade with the particular more devoted vassals of his wicked Empire As we know that when our Saviour had chased him from the man that was possessed he permitted his retreat into the herd of Swine And I might add 4 That 't is but a bad way of arguing to set up phancied congruities against plain experience as is evidently done by those arguers who because they think that Christ chased the Devil from all his high places of worship when he came that 't is therefore fit he should have forced him from all his other less notorious Haunts and upon the imagination of a decency which they frame conclude a fact contrary to the greatest evidence of which the thing is capable And once more 5 The consequence of this imagined Decorum if it be pursued would be this that Sathan should now be deprived of all the ways and tricks of Cozenage whereby he abuseth us and mankind since the coming of Christ should have been secure from all his Temptations for there is a greater congruity in believing that when he was sorced from his haunts in Temples and publick places he should be put also from those nearer ones about us and within us in his daily temptations of universal Mankind than that upon relinquishing those he should be made to leave all profest communication and correspondence with those profligate persons whose vileness had fitted them for such company So that these Reasoners are very Fair for the denial of all internal Diabolical Temptations And because I durst not trust them I 'le crave your leave here to add some things concerning those In order to which that I may obtain the favour of those wary persons who are so coy and shy of their assent I grant That men frequently out of a desire to excuse themselves lay their own guilt upon the Devil and charge him with things of which in earnest he is not guilty For I doubt not but every wicked man hath Devil enough in his own nature to prompt him to Evil and needs not another Tempter to incite him But yet that Sathan endeavours to further our wickedness and our ruine by his inticements and goes up and down seeking whom he may devour is too evident in the holy Oracles to need my endeavours particularly to make it good Only those diffident men cannot perhaps apprehend the manner of the operation and from thence are tempted to believe that there is really no such thing Therefore I judge it requisite to explain this and 't is not unsutable to my general subject In order to it I consider That sense is primarily caused by motion in the Organs which by continuity is conveyed to the brain where sensation is immediately performed and it is nothing else but a notice excited in the Soul by the impulse of an external object Thus it is in simple outward sense But imagination though caused immediately by material motion also yet it differs from the external senses in this That 't is not from an impress directly from without but the prime and original motion is from within our selves Thus the Soul it self sometimes strikes upon those strings whose motion begets such and such phantasms otherwhile the loose Spirits wandring up and down in the brain casually hit upon such filments and strings whose motion excites a conception