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A60284	Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently against the saducees and atheists of this present age, that there are devils, spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentick records, attestations of famous witnesses and undoubted verity : to all which is added, that marvellous history of Major Weir, and his sister : with two relations of apparitions at Edinburgh / by Georg Sinclar ...	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3858; ESTC R4971	118,890	288

who heard him pray admire his fluency in Prayer It s falling into the fire with him let others search out the disparity minds me of this Passage In Shetland a few years agoe A Judge having condemned an old Woman and her daughter called Helen Stewart for Witch-craft sent them to be burn'd The Maid was so stupid that she was thought to be possessed When she had hung some little time on the Gibbet a black Pitchy-like ball foamed out of her mouth and after the fire was kindled it grew to the bigness of a Walnut and then flew up like Squibs into the air which the Judge yet living attests It was taken to be a visible sign that the Devil was gone out of her I shall make no application of this as to Major Weirs Staff I know from good hands that if this man repented of any thing in Prison it was for causing a poor maid to be scourged who affirmed She had seen him commit beastiality going to New miles to a solemn meeting This poor Woman lived about two years after his death and heard of his fatal end His incest with his own sister was first when she was a young Maid The place where this abomination was committed was cursed for contrary to nature it remained always bare without Grass A reverend Minister told me I mention this as from my self not from the author of the Letter that Major Weir confessed so much to him and told him that the place layes off the road-way between Kirkaldy and Kinghorn upon a little hill side which he had the curiosity to goe and see and found it so This was done the matter of fifty years agoe Many other things he confessed which Christian ears should not be defiled with Before I come to his Sister take this notable remark from two Persons yet alive dwelling at the foot of the Westbow at the head whereof dwelt Major Weir This Gentlewoman a substantial Merchants wife was very desirous to hear Him pray much being spoken of his utterance and for that end spoke to some of her Neighbours that when he came to their house she might be sent for This was done but could he never be perswaded to open his mouth before her no not to bliss a cup of aile he either remaining mute or up with his staff and away It troubled her then but I suppose both her husband and she smiles at it now Some few dayes before he discovered himself this Gentlewoman coming from the Castle-hill where her husbands Neice was laying in of a Child about midnight perceived about the Bow-head three Women in windows shouting laughing and claping their hands The Gentlewoman went forward till just at Major Weirs door there arose as from the street a Woman above the length of two ordinary femells and stepped forward The Gentlewoman not as yet excessively feared bid her maid step on if by the Lanthorn they could see what she was but hast what they could this long legged Spectre was still before them moving her Body with a vehement Cachinnation a great unmeasurable Laughter At this rate the two strove for place till the Giantiss came to a narrow Lane in the Bow commonly called the Stinking-closs into which she turning and the Gentle-woman looking after her perceived the closs full of flaming torches She could give them no other name and as it had been a great multitude of People Stentoriously laughing and Gapping with Tahies of laughter This sight at so dead a time of the night no people being in the Windows respecting the Closs made her and her servant haste home declaring all which they saw to the rest of the Familie but more passionatly to her husband And though sick with fear yet she went the next morning with her Maid to veiw the noted places of her former nights walk at the Closs inquired who lived there It was answered Major Weir The honest couple now rejoycing that to Weirs devotion they never said Amen I know there are some who precariously assert the unreasonableness of believing such Visions and Apparitions but you have made them sufficiently evident from your Relations foregoing These in all probability have been a presage of his approaching death and of the manner of it Links and Torches signifying an honourable interrment which perhaps has been promised to him There was one Minister in the city that could never be perswaded to speak with him in Prison but no soonner was he dead but he went to the Tolbooth and called for his Sister who had some remorse of whom I shall now speak He told her that her Brother was burnt and how he died though he saw him not execute as I heard from himself She believed nothing of it but after many attestations she asked Where his staff Was for it seems she knew that his strength and life lay therein He told her it was burnt with him Whereupon notwithstanding of her age she nimbly and in a furious rage fell on her knees uttering words horrible to be remembred And in rising up as she was desired her rageing agony closed with these words O Sir I know he is with the Devils for with them he lived She intreated that Minister to assist her and attend her to her death which at her violent importunity be yeelded unto though it was not his course to wait upon condemned Persons What she said in private to himself he says must die with him She avouched that from her being sixteen years of age to her fiftieth her Brother had the incestuous use of her body and then loathed her for her age She was pretty old at this time and he when he died was about seventy He asked her if ever she was with Child to him She declared with great confidence he hindred that by means abominable which she beginning to relate the Preacher stopped her Some bystanders were desirous to hear the rest but saies he Gentlemen the speculation of this iniquity is in it self to be punished In often and returned visits she was interrogat if she had any hand in her Brothers Devilty She declared but in a passive way and gave this for an instance A fiery Chariot or Coatch as she called it coming to his door at broad day a stranger invited him and her to goe visit a friend at Dalkeith a small town some four miles from Edinburgh They both entered and went foreward in their visit at which time says she one came and whispered something in his ear which affected him They both returned after the same manner that they had gone out And Weir going after to make some visits told them he had strong apprehensions that that day the Kings Forces were routed at Worcester which within two or three days was confirmed by the Post. She affirmed that none saw the Coatch but themselves The Devil hath wrought far greater Farelies in his time than this She knew much of the inchanted Staff for by it he was enabled to pray to commit filthinesse

Cartesian Philosophers abroad I refer thee for full satisfaction to Petrus van Mastrick that famous Professor of Theology at Utricht who in his late Book entituled Gangraena Carte sianismi has set them all down and far more than I have mentioned citing Author Book and Page and has notably confuted them For proof of what I have written anent these other Tenets mentioned in the last Page of the Book see Malebranche his Books La Recherche de la Verite De la Nature de la Grace and his Meditations Chrestiens together with Mr. Arnaulds Book de Vraes de Fausses Idees where all these opinions are ridiculed and most rationally confuted THE PREFACE To The READER MY Purpose is only by some few Collections to prove the existence of Devils Spirits Witches and Apparitions The Philosophical Arguments which are brought for this end though very cogent yet many of them are so profound and speculative that they require a greater attention and sagacity than many learned men that are not used to consider will allow Neither can the common and vulgar sort of Readers reach the understanding of such Reasonings Therefore I judge they are best convinced by proofs which come nearest to Sense such as the following Relations are which leave a deeper impression upon minds and more lasting than thousands of subtile Metaphysical Arguments The Essay considered in it self is but mean and of small moment but taking it as it relates to one of the Out-works of Religion which the bold and too much daring Infidelity of some have assaultd it will be thought seasonable especially now while Atheism and Quakerism that Sink of Folly and Madness as one calls it out of which there is no great leap into the other doth now so much obtain And while Parties venting there animosities one against another and men scrambling for Conceits and their own private advantadges do not see how this damnable evill a lesson never believed in Hell Nullus in Inferno Atheus est ante fuit comes on by large Strides and enters the Breach which they have made If this prevail farewell all Religion all Faith all hope of a life to come Let us eat and drink for to morrow we must die Sober and wise men have often said if they did not believe to live again they would not desire to live a Moment The Relations are plain and easy and all of them may be attested by Authentick Records or by famous witnesses There are here no old Wives trattles about the fire but such as may bide the Test and strick trial of any mans examination What belief can be given to any human histories and matters of Fact related by famous Writters as much may be given to these following Relations I have collected some of them from Saducismus Triumphatus that excellent Book composed by Doctor Glanvil and Doctor More and the rest are purchased from Persons of eminent honesty and Faith This Book is not the worse but the better that I have transcribed some of the choisest Relations there and insert them here It is not possible to write a Book of this Nature but the Author must collect since it depends not upon a Man 's own Invention but essentially upon Information from others The advantage lays here that a man may have this Book for a small Price though no other Relations had been in it but what are there Whereas that other Book cannot be sold in the Shops under six or seven shillings There is one Relation here viz the Devil of Glenluce which I have been at great pains to be informed of which Doctor More hath so much valued that he hath taken it word by word from my Hydrostaticks and has thought it worth his while to insert it among his Relations It is now enlarged by many excellent Additions and publishd here again None yet that ever I heard of had the confidence to say that it was but a Trick and an imposture to amuze and wonderstricke simple and credulous persons I believe if the Obduredest Atheist among men would seriously and in good earnest consider that Relation and ponder all the Circumstances thereof would presently cry out as a Dr of Physick did hearing a Story less considerable If this be true I have been in the wrong Closs all this time I must begin my Account a new This one Relation is worth all the price that can be given for the Book Some indeed have also said that the Daemon of Tedworth was but an imposture and that Doctor Glanvil confessed so much himself but he hath sufficiently vindicate that Men only speak as they would have it Glad would many be if all such Relations were acknowleged to be but Tricks and Waggeries that they might live as they list Because men are horribly afrayed to believe there should be any Spirit lest there should be a Devil and an account after this life They are impatient of any thing that implyes it that they may with a more full swing and with all security from an after reckoning indulge their lusts living like Brutes and dying so I have insert likewise a notable Story of the Devil that troubled a Protestant Ministers house at Mascon in France to let see that none can plead a protection from his malice The Devil endeavours more to smite the Shepherd than any of the Flock though he be an utter enemy to both Many worthy Ministers of the Gospel have been the Butt of the Devils malice an instance whereof is clear from the twentieth and first Relation But what are the Reasons why there is so much disbelief of Devils Witches and Apparitions There is first an affected humour in many to Droll Scoff ' and Mock at all such Relations and are rather willing to believe a World in the Moon than the truth of such a Narrative And Witchcraft being a large Subject to expatiat upon men find ample occasion to speak of Cheats and Impostors of Jugling Tricks of Melancholious fits of distempered Persons of old Wives Fables which they talk of at an high rate and so conclude by their Frolick and wanton Fancy that whatever is spoken by sober men anent the reality of witches and Spirits are but ridiculous and inconsistent with reason And to this purpose the Drolling Wagge actuating and elevating his Scoffing Vein especially with a Glass of good Claret quibles luckily and by making others laugh they think him and he thinks himself a third Cato fallen from Heaven Whereas he is but a man like his Neighbours And though at first he only intended to play the Wanton yet by such frequent Merriments as a man by lying in sport comes at last by an habit to lye in earnest his reason becomes an obedient slave to his Fancy and concludes in seriousness there are neither Devils nor Witches The half-witted hearers admire him and take every Jest for an Argument and his loud laughs upon an idle tale of a Devil or a Witch for Demonstrations that no such

had fallen to pray and had many gracious words expressing her own vileness and the sense she had of GODS Mercy and with tears in which strain she continued till after supper I came then to see her at which time she was continuing still as before in aggreging her sin and guilt and shewing her hopes of Salvation and her desire to die and all alongs she had such pithy expressions and Scripture so often and plentifully cited that I was put to wonder considering that I had ever found her altogether ignorant of the grounds of Religion both before and after she was put into Prison After I had wondered at it a while without speaking to her considering what she had foretold so confidently before noon I concluded in my own mind that it was a draught between the Devil and her to fenzie Repentance in such an odd way that we might be deceived being made to think that she was not a Witch else she would confess it seing GOD had given her Repentance Whereupon I seriously considering the matter I posed her of guiltinesse she confessed all the particulars of the Processe which did not certainly conclude her to be a Witch but for the rest of the particulars she denyed as also the Crime of Witch-craft it self However she said she knew she would die and desired not to live and she thought we would be free before GOD of her blood because that however she was free yet there were so many things deponed against her that though it was hard for us to think otherwise of her than we did yet she knew well enough her own innocency Thus I have written all these particulars as I found them in the Authentick Record written by the Ministers own hand She was soon after executed and died without any acknowledgement of Witchcraft RELATION XVI Anent the Apparition of Sir George Williers SOme few days before the Duke of Buckingham went to Portsmouth where he was Stabbet by Felton the Ghost of his Father Sir George Williers appeared to one Parker a religious and sober man who had been a servant to the said sir George but now servant to the Duke his Son he appeared to him I say in his Morning-Chamber-Gown and charged him to tell his Son that he should decline that Employment and Design he was going upon or els he would certainly be murdered Parker promised to the Apparition to do it The Duke making preparations for his Expeditions 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 without any further delay 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 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 he had it from his Fathers Ghost Yet said he that his honour was now at the Stake and he could not go back from what he had undertaken come Life come Death This passage Parker after the Dukes Murder communicated to his fellow Servant Henry Celey who told it to a Reverend Divine a Neighbour of mine saith my Author from whose Mouth I have it This Henry Celey has not been dead above twentie years and his habitation for several years before his death was at North-Currie but three miles from this place My friend the Divine aforesaid was an intimate Acquaintance of this Henry Celey's and assures me he was a Person of known Truth and Integritie RELATION XVII Anent Hattaraik an old Warlock THis mans name was Sandie Hunter who called himself Sandie Hamilton and it seems was called Hattaraik by the Devil and so by others as a Nick-name He was first a Neat-herd in East-Lothian to a Gentle-man there He was much given to Charming and cureing of Men and Beasts by Words and Spels His Charms sometimes succeeded sometimes not On a day herding his kine upon a Hill side in the Summer time the Devil came to him in form of a Mediciner and said Sandie you have too long followed my trade and never acknowledged me for your Master You must now take on with me and be my servant and I will make you more perfect in your Calling Whereupon the man gave up himself to the Devil and received his Mark with this new name After this he grew very famous throw the Countrey for his Charming and cureing of diseases in Men and Beasts and turned a vagrant fellow like a Iockie gaining Meal Flesh and Money by his Charms such was the ignorance of many at that time Whatever House he came to none durst refuse Hattaraik an alms rather for his ill than his good One day he came to the Yait of Samuelstoun wh●n some Friends after Dinner were going to Horse A young Gentleman brother to the Lady seing him switcht him about the ears saying You Warlok Cairle what have you to do here Whereupon the Fellow goes away grumbling and was overheard say you shall dear buy this ere it be long This was Damnum Minatum The young Gentle-man conveyed his Friends a far way off and come home that way again where he supt After supper taking his horse and crosing Tine-Water to go home he rides throw a shadowy piece of a Haugh commonly called the Allers and the evening being some-what dark he met with some Persons there that begat a dreadful consternation in him which for the most part he would never reveal This was malum secutum When he came home the Servants observed terror and fear in his Countenance The next day he became distracted and was bound for several days His Sister the Lady Samuelstown hearing of it was heard say suerly that knave Hattaraik is the cause of his Trouble Call for him in all haste When he had come to her Sandie says she what is this you have done to my Brother William I told him says he I should make him repent his stricking of me at the yait lately She giving the Rogue fair words and promising him his Pock full of Meal with Beaf and Cheese perswaded the Fellow to cure him again He undertook the business but I must first says he have one of his Sarks which was soon gotten What Pranks he plaid with it cannot be known But within a short while the Gentleman recovered his Health When Hattaraik came to receive his wadges he

try his Black Art but it would not do with him For whilst he had wearied himself in observing his Spells Charms and Incantations and what the furthest that Hellish skill and power could do to satisfie the Company he was at last enforced to that Confession before them all which he spake with great wrath and anger That there was one in the Company that hindred his work by Reason of whom he could get nothing done at that time I may add to this a strange Providence of GOD. Master John Craig that was a Minister to King James here in Scotland being when he was a Young Man apprehended at Room for venting Heresie as they called it was shut up in Prison In the mean time Paul the fourth dies The Banditi that night broke up all the Prison doors and set at Liberty all the Prisoners Mr. John Craig escapes with an intention to go to Bononia But fearing hurt there he set his mind towards Millain When he had travell'd some days declining the High-wayes out of Fear he came into a Forrest a wild and desert place and being sore wearied lay down among some Bushes at the side of a little river to refresh himself He lay there pensive and full of thought For neither knew he in what place he was nor had he any means to carry him out the way In the mean time there came a Dog fawning upon him with a purse in his teeth with Money and layes it down before him He strucken with fear rises up but construing the same to proceed from GODS favourable Providence he accepted of it and held on his way till he came to Vienna in Austria RELATION XXIII Anent a great Doctor of Divinity that raise out of the Bier and spoke to all that were present IT is written in the life of one Bruno that a Doctor of great note for Learning and Godliness being dead and being brought to the Church to be buried while they were in their Popish Devotions and came to these words Responde mihi the Corps arose in the Bier and with a terrible voice cryed out Justo DEI judicio accusatus sum I am accused at the just Judgement of GOD. At which voice the people ran all out afrighted On the morrow when they came again to perform the Obsequies to the like words as before the Corps rose again and cried with a hideous voice Justo DEI judicio condemnatus sum I am Judged at the Righteous Judgement of GOD. Whereupon the People run away amazed The third day almost all the City came together and when they came to the same words as before the Corps rose again and cried with a more doleful noise than before Justo DEI judicio condemnatus sum I am condemned at the just Judgement of GOD. The consideration whereof that a man reputed so upright should yet by his own confession be damned caused Bruno and the rest of his Companions to enter into that strick Order of Carthusians The Author and Relator makes this use of it If the voice of the dead man could afright them into Superstition should not the warning of GOD afright us into True Doctrine RELATION XXIV Touching some Drunkards destroyed by the Devil THIS hath been published in a Sermon by a Godly Minister But I must insert it here in its own proper place On the 8 of February saith my Author in the year 1578 a company of Drunkards whose names are recorded as followeth Adam Gibbons George Keepel John Keysel Peter Horsdroff John Warner Simon Heamkers Jacob Hermons and Hermon Frow These eight Drunkards in contempt of the blessed Sabbath agreed to go to the Tavern on the Lords day to be merry and coming to the house of one Antony Hodge an honest Godly Man they called for Burnt-Wine Sack Clarat and what not The Good-man refusing to give them any advised them to go to Church to hear the Word of GOD but they all save Adam Gibbons refused saying they loathed that Exercise Whereupon the Host departed who being gone to Church they began to curse and ban wishing he might brake his neck ere he returned and wishing the Devil might brake their own necks if they went from hence till they had some Wine Whereupon the Devil in the likeness of a Young-Man appeared unto them bringing in his hand a Flagon of Wine and so drank unto them saying Good Fellows be merry you shall have Wine enough you seem to be lusty Lads and I hope you will pay me well who answering said They would either pay him or engage their Neck for it Yea rather than fail their Bodies and Souls Thus these men continued drinking and swilling so long till they could hardly see one another At last the Devil their Host told them that now they must pay for all at which their hearts waxed cold But the Devil bid them be of good chear for now they must drink Fire and Brimstone with him in the Pit of Hell for ever At which the Devil breake their Necks assunder and destroyed them And thus ended these drunkards their miserable dayes This by the way may serve for a Document for all Drunkards for ever and to perswade folk that the Lord has the Devil for his Executioner when he pleases to execute his vengeance upon Notorious Sinners RELATION XXV Touching one William Barton a Warlock ABout thirty years ago more or less there was one William Barton apprehended for Witch-Craft His confession was first that if he had twenty Sons he would advise them to shun the lust of uncleanness For said he I never saw a beautiful Woman Maid nor Wife but I did covet them which was the only cause that brought me to be the Devils Vassal One day says he going from my own house in Kirkliston to the Queens Ferry I overtook in Dalmeny Muire a young Gentlewoman as to appearance beautifull and comely I drew near to her but she shunned my company and when I insisted she became angry and very nyce Said I since we are both going one way be pleased to accept of a convey At last after much entreaty she grew better natured and at length we came to that Familiarity that she suffered me to embrace her and to do that which Christian ears ought not to hear of At this time I parted with her very joyful The next night she appeared to him in that same very place and after that which should not be named he became sensible that it was the Devil Here he renounced his Baptism and gave up himself to her service and she called him her beloved and gave him this new name of Iohn Baptist and received the Mark. She likewise bestowed fifteen pound scots upon him in name of Tocher-good and so parted After he had gone a little way off she calls him back and gave him a Merk-piece in good and sufficient money which She bad him spend at the Ferry and desired him to keep entire and whole the 15. pound which he declared was real

not to be named yea even to reconcile Neighbours Man and Wife when at varienoe She oft hid it from him and because without it he could do nothing he would threaten and vow to discover her incest fearing which she would deliver it again Being asked the cause of her much spinning which she was famous for She denyed any assistance from the Devil but found she had an extraordinary faculty therein far above ordinary Spinsters Yet owned that when she came home after her being abroad she found there was more yarn on her wheel than she left And that her Weaver could not make cloath thereof the yearn breaking or falling from the Loom Once there came a stranger to her while she was at her Wheel and proposed a way to her to make her rich for they both lived almost upon Alms. The way was this Stand up and say all Crosses and Cares go out of this house She answered GOD forbid I say that but let them be welcome when GOD sends them After two or three visits more she asked this stranger where she dwelt She replyed in the Potter-raw a street in the Suburbs of that City but finding neither such a house nor such a woman I judged said she it was the Devil one of my brothers acquaintance for I know he had familiarity with the Devil His poverty minds me of a Wizzard accused and execute in Shetland before named for Witchcraft several years ago called Luggie to a nick-name who being a Fisher had a trick at any time when hungry at Sea to cast out his line and would out of Neptuns lowest Kitching bring cliverly up fish well boiled and roasted And his Comerades by a Natural Courage would make a merry meal thereof not questioning who was Cook He had another piece of Art at any time in the year or in great storms to go up to an high hill near his own house whereupon there was a deep pit out of which with his lines he drew up Codlings or Keeling for his provision which never man could do but himself This story is true being yet to be seen in the Criminal books of that Countrey She was asked anent her Parents She was perswaded her mother was a Witch for the secretest thing that either I my self or any of the family could do when once a mark appeared on her brow she could tell it them though done at a distance Being demanded what sort of mark it was She answered I have some such like mark my self when I please on my forehead Whereupon she offered to uncover her head for visible satisfaction The Minister refusing to behold it and forbidding any discovery was earnestly requiested by some Spectators to allow the freedom He yeelding she put back her head-dress and seeming to frown there was seen an exact Horse-shoe shaped for nails in her wrinckles Terrible enough I assure you to the stoutest beholder In the morning before her execution she told the Minister she resolved to die with all the shame she could to expiate under Mercy her shameful-shameful-life This he understood to be an ingenuous confession of her sins in opposition to her brothers despair and desperate silence to which he did encourage her At her parting with him she gave him hearty thanks for his pains and shaking his hands offering to kiss them she repeated the same words which he bade her perform Ascending up the ladder she spake somewhat confusedly of her sins of her brother and his inchanting-staff and with a ghaistly countenance beholding a multitude of Spectators all wondering and some weeping She spake aloud There are many here this day wondering and greeting for me but alace few mourns for a broken At which words many seemed angry Some called to her to mind higher Concerns And I have heard it said that the Preacher declared he had much ado to keep a composed countenance The Executioner falling about his duty she prepares to die stark naked then and not before were her words relating to shame understood The Hangman strugled with her to keep on her cloaths and she strugled with him to have them off At last he was forced to throw her over open-fac'd which afterwards he covered with a cloath So much from the Gentleman that gave me this Information to which I shall add that this is not published with a design to reflect upon men of this or that Perswasion Far be it The Devil can counterfeit what Religion he pleases and ordinarly a good one True Religion can never suffer any prejudice from a Hypocrite his wearing a cloak of it more than the good Angels can suffer a stain from Satans transforming himself into an Angel of Light The Devil hath his Laikies and Pages with CHRISTS Livery upon them Was not Judas who was but one of the twelve a vile Hypocrite It is a wonder where there are a thousand professing CHRIST in a Congregation that a hundred of them are not as bad His glistering cloak of Religion dazled all Mens eyes This was needful foul faults must have a fair Cloak to cover them The Apostle Jude speaks of some that go after Sarkos heteras which may be understood not only of that sin mentioned Rom. 1.27 but of another sort of flesh not to be named He was a demonstration proving evidently that there is a GOD viz. by the terrours terrours of his Conscience It is evident also there is a Devil that hurries men on into sin He had this expression to two Ministers that came to see him in prison There was no temptation which the Devil could propose to him but he was capable to accept of it It is evident also there is either an Explicite or Implicite Compact between some men and the Devil Horrible sins covered with Religion bring utter despair at the last Desperation is Hell in fieri Some men as well as Devils are tormented before the time Let us not count the less of Religion that it s made a cloak for covering sin Let us beware that such a mans fall prove not a neck break to us Let us idolize no man for his Profession or that he is of this or that Perswasion or of such a Party Let no man rest in a bare Profession of Religion Men in compact with the Devil may be assisted both to Preach and Pray The Devils servants are well rewarded at the last Profession and Practise must go together A Clinking Profession with an unbridled tongue is a vain Religion Pure Religion and undefiled before GOD and the Father is to visit the Fatherles and the Widows in their affliction and for a man to keep himself unspotted from the World Major Weir was burnt between Edinburgh and Leith at a place called the Gallow-lie on Thursday 14. of April 1670. An Apparition seen in a Dwelling house in Mary Kings Closs in Edinburgh Sir Within these few years there was one T. C by profession an Agent about the Session-house who about flitting-time was removing his furniture from a