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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

Ostentatious Pomps of Devilish Rites and Ceremonies And as the offering of Bullocks Lambs Doves and such like were ordained by the Divine Command to be offered in the time of the Ceremonial Law when the Priest entered into the Holy of Holies and that not without Blood as the Apostle of the Gentiles notes So were the Altars of the Ethnic Idols steeped in Blood and that not only of Beasts But they Reek't with Humane Gore So we read that they caused their Children to pass through the fire to that Canibal Moloch and often in the History of these deluded Oriental Nations we read they Sacrificed sometimes a Youth sometimes a young Damsel to pacify their Incensed Deities In the 18. Chapter of the 1. Book of Kings in that mighty defeat of the Priests of Baal when they contended with the Prophet of the Lord in the 28. verse they cut themselves with Knives and Lancers after their manner 'till the Blood Gushed out upon them By which it appears that it was Customary for those Biggotted Wretches to Implore the aid of their detestable Mock-Deities Nor can any one that reads the Modern Histories of Witch-Craft and Sorceries be Ignorant that the Compacts and Confederacies of those deluded ones are confirmed with their Blood either by making their mark with it on certain Cov'nants drawn between them or by permitting their Familiar to draw their Blood at those Bestial Teats which for that purpose the Succubus draws in the parts of their Bodies What were the Pythones or Pythonici so much resorted to of Old But because by the predictions they uttered by the Assistance of the Black Angel they had got the estimation of Prophets and Prophetesses This made King Saul in the 1. Sam. 28. Chap. 7. vers enquire for one that had a Familiar Spirit or a Pythonem as the Latain translation hath it And this was it which caused the King of Moab thrice to send his princes and Servants to the Son of Behor for they had in their hand the reward of Divination Numb 22. vers 7. So that if they had not believed him to have had such a Familiar or Spirit for what reason should they carry that reward with them Besides they apprehended that he had the power of Blessing and Cursing ver 6. As the Biggotted Papists at this day Impute to their Pythonic Priest the Pope tho it be the Command of our great High Priest to his Disciples that they bless and Curse not It is farther Observable that Balak took Balaam to the High places of the Idol Baal from one place to another where they used to offer Sacrifices and Expect the answer of their Diabolical Gods by the mouth of the Priest who used to Divine unto the People They Imputed a great virtue and power to those places where their lying Spirits used to Confer with them therefore when the Prophet could not Curse Israel from one of the High Places the King takes him to another and to a third with a peradventure thou mayst have a power to curse them from thence But the Prophet being Commanded by God was compelled to declare to him in chap. 23. ver 23. Surely there is no Inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel It is evident to any one who hath read the Histories and Classick Authors of former Ages that the great Apollyon and Abaddon hath uttered his Oracles Riddles and sayings not only out of the Bodies part of the Bodies of Humane kind as he spake out of the Demoniac in the Gospel and Mornaeus de veritate Religionis chap. 23. quotes it out of Diodorus that Oracles were Edit a per Pudenda Puellae and there were too your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. ventriloqui or such as were heard to have discourse or words uttered and pronounced in their Bellies But this Spirit hath spoken sometimes out of Trees as in Dodonos Oak out of Statues as that of Memnoe and many others of which more will be said hereafter The Caves of the Earth and Sometimes the open Air have resounded with voices sentences and noises of this Infernal Daemon sometimes assuming the Vehicle of one Shape sometimes of another and at other times not at all exposing himself in any visible form It is almost incredible how Antient Authors abound with Relations of this kind how frequently they mention the feigned Gods and Goddesses of the Field of Woods of Houses of Mountains Rivers Desarts Springs and such like offering themselves to Men and People at some times in one Shape at other times in other forms requiring Worship Ceremonies and Rites after divers manners and fashions now and then accosting People with pleasant and diverting Encounters and sometimes affrighting them with furious Shapes Gestures and Menaces Of these Plato in his Epominede speaks very largely treating of the force and Powers of the defunct Heroes which the Latins named Lemures Houshold Gods also Manes Ghosts and Genij and Demons diversly sorting themselves in the Air Earth and divers Regions of the World distinguished by several offices and affairs to which they sometimes apropriated themselves They had multitudes of other names conferred on them as Fauns Satyrs Nymphs Hamadriades and a great Number of others The Learned Antiquary Mr. Cambden in his Britannia among the Antiquities of the Romans which he records to have been found in this Island makes mention of Divers Altars to the Diis Manibus and other Loci Genij c. And the Apostle Paul mentioneth many Altars Erected by the Athenians to these kind of Deities amongst which he found one Inscribed to the unknown God But those to whom the Gospel of truth hath been Preached have been taught to believe that there is but one only true God and therefore may be well assured that these were evil Spirits and Diabolical delusions and that paying Adoration to their Impious Shrines or teaching others so to do is a Doctrine of Devils And that such have been and are still by many Barbarous Nations acknowledged is evidently confirmed by the universal agreement of all Histories Records and times and that they were manifestly seen known and familiarly discerned by the outward senses cannot by any Rational and Candid Reader be denyed haveing been so fully proved by Testimonies both Divine and Moral In the next place we shall Compare the Idolatries of the Roman Church with those of the Ancients and prove by Natural Consequence that Idol Worship is a Confederacy with Devils and a practice necessarily promoting that detestable sin of Witch-craft 'T is very true that the Catholick Doctors as they call themselves affirm that they do not teach Images to be Worshipped but certainly when we have enquired into the Doctrines as well as practices of their Church we shall find that such like Evasions are but Jesuitical Shams and pious frauds with which they would wipe off the Odium of their gross Superstitions amongst the Ignorant and Credulous For their Jesuites and Fathers generally