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A14305	The arraignment of slander periury blasphemy, and other malicious sinnes shewing sundry examples of Gods iudgements against the ofenders. As well by the testimony of the Scriptures, and of the fathers of the primatiue church as likewise out of the reportes of Sir Edward Dier, Sir Edward Cooke, and other famous lawiers of this kingdome. Published by Sir William Vaughan knight.; Spirit of detraction, conjured and convicted in seven circles	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24623; ESTC S113946	237,503	398

from the Creature That the harpe soundeth the harper is the cause that it soundeth ●ll the harpe it selfe is the cause In all naturall bodies their owne brittlenesse is the cause of their corruptions Not the agents but the patients worke their ill sauouring That we talke that we walke God is the cause that we talke amisse walke awrie our owne wantonnesse with our weaknesse is the cause Our tongues were made to glorifie our Creator our hearts to meditate before we talke that both consenting and concurring together in a ioyfull embassage towards God the soule may deserue a ioyfull welcome in heauen In regard of which circumstances O mortall men Let your dead bodies be embaulmed your meates perboyled or poudered Let your tongues hearts and steps be directed by the bridle lampe and line of Gods holy word For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation according to that diuine Disticke Non vox sed votum non Musica chordula sed cor Non clamor sed amor cantat in aure Dei Not flattring words but feruent vowes of mind Not Musickes sound but soules by faith refin'd Not outward cries but inward flaming zeale Within Gods eares ring out a pleasing peale LINEAMENT VI. 1 How God predestinated some to be saued 2 Why all men were not elected 3 That mens owne willes by Gods sufferance occasion their reprobation and harme 4 The Authors sentence concerning himselfe whether he be one of the elect 5 That Good and Euill cannot come without Gods consent OVR heauenly Father whose prouidence or foresight is no other then his present sight before the beginning of the world seeing men at that time though vncreated and vnborne all present in his sight as if they were alreadie created and borne readie to receiue doome or iudgement and seeing them at that instant to refuse his grace as liuely as if they had already refused the same obseruing withall the corruption of their nature continued by custome to produce corrupt fruits and effects accordingly elected the purer moulded spirits apart from the rest enabled them with his grace as with a speciall gift or pardon for indeed the very purest had deserued death and damnation and freely of meere fauour gaue them their liues at the mediation of their Redeemer and also their liberty which their first parents haue since wittingly forfeited The rest as reprobates refusing his charter of grace and alreadie in his foresight which is eternall and alwaies present condemned and standing before him in the state of damnation he suffered still to perseuer and to be as he found and saw them Crie for mercy they could not because his instice required equality or satisfaction Beg for liberty they could not by reason that their sinnes had entangled and tongue-tied them And so for want of speaking and suing with remorce of conscience which we call repentance vnto the Sauiour of the world by whom I vnderstand Gods mercy which ●ince was made flesh shined before his Iustice they sustained the punishment that was due vnto them Wherein they were not to blame God but rather themselues that foolishly delayed their suites I heard that of late daies a prisoner well lettered after condemnation hauing gotten the benefit of his Clergy according to the lawes of this land and referred to his triall whether he could reade or no was sodainly so bed azeled and bereaued of his eye sight that for want of reading he lost his life Now who can blame the Iudge in this case Surely no man For he was iustly hanged through his owne default The Iudge did what he could iustifie yea and perhaps was forced to shead teares when he pronounced the iudgement Much more fault are we to finde with those sinners which can reade and beg for remission and yet of set contu●acie like a curst child wholly addicted to frowardnesse will not be perswaded once to say Abba Father To returne vnto my former matter of Election God findes men euill and leaues them so for he is not tied to giue them grace except it please himselfe To confirme this I regard many creatures and doe finde them all diuersly disposed some to good some to euill some to riches some to pouerty I finde this diuersitie in our very grounds Heere is good arable land good pasture there growes neither corne nor pasture but briers brambles tares cockle furres heath or stones Non omnis fert omnia tellus Hic segetes illic crescunt foelicuis vuae All grounds beare not alike all kind of things Here growes grain there the grape more fruitful springs But why all grounds yeeld not the same commodities we must leaue that secrecy to Gods vnsearchable will I like manner I see our earthly kings bestowing titles of honour vpon diuers persons and vpon diuers occasions Some they dubbe knights before the battel and some after the battell Some others they grace of their owne sesecrete iudgement or for some cause vnknowne vnto vs. After the like manner to compare great things with small O eternall Father thou disposest of thy sinfull creatures Some thou callest some thou electest some thou reiectest Of those which thou callest some thou reseruest for one purpose some for another and all for thy glory Neither ought we to maruell or murmure at this that we be not all called chosen considering what was our beginning our fragility our stubborne natures and that we deserued no fauour at all Seeing our first Parents both man and woman tasted the fruite of good and euill it is but discreet seuerity or rather diuine mercy that thy soueraigne Maiestie electeth some as good persons of their seede to honour thee and leauest the rest as euill to their owne appetites in satisfaction of thy iustice To the one thou giuest heauen for the honour of thy mercie to the other hell for the honour of thy iustice And yet dare not I alwaies iustifie the elect in exempting them quite from the thraldome of sinne seeing that they are but brittle flesh and bloud who might commit follies in their youth being subiect to the knowledge of euill and neuerthelesse become reformed in the middest of their age as capable by the diuine bounty of the knowledge of goodnesse Now it remaineth that I touch a little as I saile by the shoare of curiositie wherefore God suffereth the workmanship of his hands to be damned For the solution of this triuiall and idle question it is written that the Potter may ordaine his owne vessels to what vse himselfe pleaseth For no doubt but God is glorified in the damnation of the reprobate as in the Reuelation he is honoured for iudging the whore of Babylon albeit that he be no cause of their wickednesse Commonly he suffereth euill to chance by that meanes as he bringeth goodnesse to passe extolling his owne glory out of their errours and in effect his sufferance of euill is nothing else but his destination

stolne goods heale sicknesses and griefes with charming rimes yea these seducing spirits auerre that they walke euery weeke with the Fayries that they haue secret conference with Familiars But in the end their Familiars fall out to be a packe of knaues of their owne families resembling those vngodly familiars whose dissembling formes the Spanish Inquisition vseth as instrumentall tortures to wrest and wring out the consciences of supposed Heretickes Such cousening spirits haue deluded and daunted many of our worldlings insomuch that their fame and faigned shapes terrified men of resolution and of great renome farre more vehemently then if Goblins or Fayries had in very deede appeared vnto them though in truth they agree mutually together both meeting in one meaning both harping on one string of deceit I knew a valorous young Gentleman and one that sometimes behaued himselfe very resolutely in sold●ourizing both by Sea and land and also would not feare to meete any man in a Monomachy or single combate so terrified with a disguised Spright in the night time that he wanted but little of losing his vnderstanding Brutus that conspired against Iulius Caesar otherwise encouraged himselfe when his bad Angell appeared vnto him the night before he was slaine to dishearten and discourage him from the battell as I suppose Such another familiare Angell wrote on the Duke of Norfolkes Tent the night before he was killed with King Richard the third at Bosworths field Iacke of Norsolke be not ●oo bolde For Dickin thy Master is bought and sold. Many stratagems we finde in Histories to discourage and daunt men like vnto Hannibals Bulles which with fiery fagots tyed to their hornes hee droue out at midnight among his enemies to scatter them and scare them But to returne vnto these Cunning men who cousen our simple neighbours I will exemplifie their miracles At London I heard one constantly affirme that hee would cure any infirmity whatsoeuer with a drie napkin and with imposition of hands Coppinger and Arthington worse then the foolish Galathians bewiched tooke one Hacket for Christ as many in London yet liuing can testifie At Verona in Italy one of this bewiching rout a deceitfull Mountebanke extolled so highly a counterfeite oyntment of his singular as he said against all outward griefes that I could not disswade a friend of mine then present with me from buying some of it when as after in the experiment the said balme became of no more force then Scoggins pouder of an olde rotten poste To these Sorcerers I may adde another reputed one a poore Deuon-shire woman dwelling in my neighbourhood in Walsh called Swynwraig in English a charming woman who about three yeares suhence was brought before me and accused for bewitching an honest mans daughter in such sort that she languished like to die Euident proofes were not wanting that she vndertooke in the behalfe of a young man enamoured of the mayde eyther that she should be his wife or else neuer be her owne woman while she liued After due examination the poore woman confessed that in regard of gaine quod dolosi spes refulserit nummi she gulled the youth and promised largely to bring his desire to passe Being further demaunded how she cured with incantations her neighbours cattell another surmise by her accusers she aunswered that she healed them not by any indirect meanes but by drenches and medicinable hearbes Likewife to get her a name and money to supply her necessity she confessed that shee ledde some ignorant persons into fooles Paradises by taking vpon her matters of wonder About May last as I heard by credible report a certaine Gentleman of our Countrey hauing missed by ●●urse of iustice to finde out the theefe that had stolne some goods of his repayred to one of these Wizards earnestly requesting him to extend his cunning for the discrying of the said theefe and goods But all the comsort which he could obtaine for his fee was that he had lent his booke of knowledge vnto a friend of his so that he could not at that instant accomplish his desire though in time after restitution of his book he doubted not but he would coniure out the theefe Whereby we may note the scarcity of true Witches that in very deed indent with the Di●ell really And Sathan is so heedfull that we can hardly finde out his assured adopted children Another of this forlorne crew a runnagate Empiricke within thefe few dayes arriued in this Countrey vndertooke the cure of a diseased Gentleman which he could as well performe as reueale stolne goods which likewise he faigned to the simple Gentlewomen of the house yet notwithstanding he led many specially the weaker sort into the Paradise of fooles and to esteeme him for a rare Prophet whereas in truth he was no other then a Conicatcher for he disclosed no stolne goods at all sauing those which himselfe hidde of set purpose to get him a name Heretofore in time of Popery masters of families inuented that the Fayries haunted Butteries and Cellers onely to make young people affraid of sitting vp late in the night Againe seruants themselues sometimes would counterfeit that those Fayries vsed to suppe in their Masters houses vnder which colour they couered their own wanton thefts Herehence rose that prouerbe in France Ou sont filettes bon vin Cest la où hante le lut in Where faire maydes are and store of wine The Goblins there to haunt combine Let a man conferre with olde women for this sexe is much addicted to nouelties and lightnesse of beleefe and he shall heare many straunge fables of such Fayrie folkes A Comicke Poet introduceth such another knauish prancke practised by a seruant towards his Master This seruant the better to conceale and couer the loose and lauish life of the sonne from his fathers knowledge and to colour the sale of a certaine house which they had made in his absence inuented and told the olde man at his returne from his farme in the Countrey that both his sonne and he were forced to sell the said house by reason that Sprights in the nights vsed there to haunt and to molest them Let this suffice for the discouery of our common witchcraft and sorceries Now I must shew the validity of our ordinary coniurations exercised onely by learned men which iump with the vnlearned in the main namely in deceit Two substantiall Yeomen about twenty yeares since hauing lost plate other moueables and desirous to be acquainted with the theese resorted to a Colledg in Oxford where meeting at the gate with a needy scholer they enquired of him for such a mans chamber whom foolish fame had canonized in their credulous eares for a notable Coniurer The Scholer in outward appearance somewhat graue after a few questions circumstances and verball complements tolde them that he was the man But for satisfaction of their requests he tooke them priuily aside declared vnto them the danger of the law if it were knowne and

Summers attendance after many a frozen Winters watching expecting my conuersion to knocke againe most patiently at the doore of my soule and thus to call vnto her while shee slept so carelesly Open vnto me my sister my loue my doue for my head is full of d●●r and my lockes with the drops of the night Againe and againe it pleased thee to inuite mee after this manner Returne O thou rebellious childe and I will heale thy rebellions for euen as a woman hath rebelled against her husband so hast thou rebelled against mee How dease is he that heares not such a voyce A voyce more vehement then the sound of many waters How deepely sleepes he that is not wakened vvith such a morning vvatch vvith such a melodie A melodie more musicall then euer Tuball Amphion or Arion could possibly conceiue When all thy creatures combined against me in reuenge of my disloyaltie towards thy sacred soueraigntie thou didst temper their fiery fury thou didst moderate their biting bitternesse The foure Elements which thou madest for my conseruation conspired all to roote my being out of the Land of the liuing The Ayre threatned to taint my breathing with contagious smels with Stigian stinckes The Fire assayed to burne my bruitish body The Water stroue vvith might and maine to ouerwhelme me vtterly The Earth endeuoured before her time to abridge my luxurious life And all because I had offended their great Creator But thou more mercifull then thy creatures for the loue of thy Name and for the loue of thy Sonne didst controule all their practises and confound the deuises of the Diuel himselfe How happy am I that thou prolongst my dayes how kinde art thou that sparest to spill the bloud of thy very foes O kindenesse without desert O courtesie without comparison Behold behold yee mortals all how the Lord hath deliuered me from the danger nay from the dungeon of death from sodaine death The God of glory hath defended mee from Thunder and Lightning from vvater and fire O what oblation can the poore Samaritan● sacrifice vnto his sacred Maiestie for these his wonderous workes Ille magis gratae laetatur mentis odore Quam consecrato sanguine mille boum Nam prece non alio gaudet honore Deus God better loues a thankfull minde then many Oxens bloud For poore mens prayers he preferres before the rich and proud Seeing thankfulnesse is such a sweet smelling odour in his sacred no strils let me proclaime his glorious Name Alleluiah Osanna in the Highest Blessed be the name of his heauenly Highnesse blessed in heauen blessed on earth and blessed throughout all ages The Lord be blessed for euermore vvhich hath enlightned mee in the darksome shadow of errours vvhich hath enlarged mee from a vvorld of perils vvhich hath recalled me failing vvhich hath raised me falling vvhich hath recouered mee running almost out of breath from falling and fainting Let all Nations performe their duties let them praise the Lord for it is hee that commandeth the waters It is the glorious God that maketh the Thunder It is the Lord that ruleth the sea The voyce of the Lord is a glorious voyce the voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedar trees yea the voyce of his thunder was heard round about the lightning shone upon the ground The Earth was moued and shooke withall his way is in the sea and his paths in the great waters Applaud him O my soule applaud his magnificent Maiesty Let his laud be euer in thy thoughts Let all thy faculties all thy attributes and operations spread themselues as blooming Vines round about my heart my braine my tongue that the same may become as the pen of a ready writer to sound out and resound his most puissant power Others according to the altitude of his iudgements he cutteth off by vntimely death but me he spares aliue as a monument of his liuing mercy O what had become of me if thou haddest cited mee likewise at that horrible houre before thy tribunall throne of Iustice O my Sauiour I thanke thee for thy peerlesse patience I praise thee though basely and barely in respect of thy benefits I adore thee I honour thee I humble my selfe before thee all the dayes of my life I returne I repaire vnto thee not haltingly not hollowly but holily I vvould I could say vvholy all the dayes of my life O giue me grace help my weaknesse heale mine vnbeliefe LINEAMENT XVI 1 The Conclusion of this present Circle consecrated by the Authour to his Wiues memory 2 The Application of her memorable death 3 The Authours Apologie against the Spirit of Detraction on the be●a●se of this present Circle where his Wiues memory is saluted with a Christian Farewell INgenuous Reader hitherto after the example of Antimachus who composed a Booke in the commendations of his wife Lydia haue I labored to eternize my deere wiues memory to the end entent that when the Spirit of ' Detraction as the Sorcerers rod was swallowed vp by Aarons rod is consumed to nothing and vvhen his lying mates doe dye and lie ingloriously in rotten earth the vvorld shall finde that shee liues for euer among the liuing inuita inuidia in despite of enuie that shee flourisheth like a Palme tree which the more it is suppressed the more returneth vpwards consonant to that of the Wise-man The memoriall of the iust shall be blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Her memorable end anatomized and embalmed in this my bookish coffin shall yeeld odoriferous perfumes of her milde meeke and modest life to the sence-pleasing comfort of the elected innocent And that I may record the memory of her end Allegorically with the Poet Etumulo vi●lae fortunat àque fauillâ Nascentur cippusque leuis sua cont●get ossa Out of her graue fine Violets shall bloome And a light stone shall her sweet bones entombe Thus out of my miseries as out of the ashes of a burnt Phoenix is built a beacon of liuing miracles vvhich I humbly pray his heauenly Highnesse among other suppliants of his that they may effect in me what a more radiant light effected in Saint Paul namely the illumination of a darke conscience For vvhen my body like a bowle was carryed about vvith the bias of concupiscence my soule rockt a sleep in the cradle of worldly securitie by Sathans inchanting lullabies then my Lord that saw me so misse-led like vnto Salomons foole laughing when indeed I had more cause to weepe then my louing Lord I say tooke compassion on my foolish fals and gaue me a sound pinch or prick in the flesh that started and stirred vp all my reasonable faculties to consider more iudiciously in what a case I stood both body and soule What better vse of this temptation can I produce then that thy death deere wife like Elishaes bones which reuiued a dead corse hath vvrought a double miracle the one in thy translation the other in my