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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

a great honour upon Religion and commends it to others And Christ doth therefore expect we should thus adorn our Profession and he encourageth us to it by such a declaration of the blessedness of those who attend this duty A wise faithful and diligent Physitian credits his Profession and convinceth men that it is very useful and profitable to mankind A Christian of such a temper in Christianity and so exercising himself to do this comprehensive good in his place doth as much convince the world that Christianity is of all Professions most useful to mankind who are by it helped forward in the arduous and important affairs of eternity 4. Thus we are awakened to greater watchfulness over our selves and others and minded of observing laying hold on and improving opportunities which though we are so engaged not to let slip yet we too too often let fall quite out of our own hands and that becometh for ever impossible to us which once might have been easily effected by us Time is not easily redeemed but opportunities are more difficultly recovered and for most part once slipt and for ever lost Well then might such Emphasis be laid on this Duty of giving a portion in season that all might be awakened to heed what opportunities are in their hand Oh consider it I beseech you Parents for your Children Husbands for your Wives Masters for your Servants elder ones for the younger and Ministers for their People you cannot always live they must dye and neither can give or receive helps when death swallows up your opportunities You 'l never hear him catechising preaching praying and exhorting who now rests in his grave and you are not sure you shall ever have such another How heedful should we be then to receive our portion when offered and to offer it to others while we may and be so found prepared for the reward which is promised to these good Servants but is reserved until the coming of our Lord The reason of which delay or adjourning of our happiness is the sixth General branch of our discourse and now cometh to be considered And so 1. The seasons and manner of our Lords coming before Death and Judgment are notable discoveries of the unhappiness of sinners and therefore do by a necessary consequence manifest the happiness of the servants of God Though light is always pleasant yet it was most pleasant in Goshen when Egypt lay in darkness Heaven is always desirable but when the misery threatned involves the contemners of it they will appear blessed indeed who sought it and obtain'd it The various coming of our Lord doth shew the world the evil state in which the unbelieving and rebellious sinners are found and so cannot but shew the good state in which the faithful are found to be at his coming 2. There is somewhat of Royal prerogative in it God will have his last coming to be the season because it seems good to him that it should be so And this were reason enough though there were no other he hath reserved times and seasons in his own hand and he who gives the reward freely may surely choose the time wherein he will give it That ever he will give it is grace that he will give it at last is his pleasure of which none ever complain'd when they received the blessing 3. There is much of Decorum and due order herein it would not be so seasonable at any other time their Service is for the Lord their Master and he is the fittest to view their Service and to assign their recompence they did not expect their happiness before his coming and yet they professed they should receive it at his coming and now when times and seasons suit their expectations and declared hopes there appears a just order and harmony between times and things Now the promise and their hopes are consonant to each other 4. There is somewhat of that we call necessary in the case their happiness is reserved to that time because it could not be sooner For 1. All the greatest good Gods Servants can receive before this coming of their Lord is too little and mean to be their blessedness besides that most of external advantages are the rewards of such as shall never have better and are given to hypocrites Now 't is necessary that faithful Servants should stay till they may receive a better reward than hypocrites have 2. It is necessary all their work be done before they receive their full blessedness now their work ends not till they dye then their works follow them and they are blessed It is not more necessary a Labourer do his work ere he receive his wages or a Soldier conquer ere he triumph than that the faithful Servants of the Lord do all their work ere they are blessed and fully recompenced for it 3. Full blessedness of Gods Servants must be in a place and state where all not one excepted may meet and be joynt-heirs of the same inheritance Now this cannot be in any place or state but that to which at the Lords coming they shall be carried Now we come into the world live a few days and in small numbers together and cannot live all together nor long together your tears witness it but we must be all gathered together ere all tears shall be wiped from all faces and this cannot be but where our Lord will be with us for ever which will not cannot be till his coming 4. Vntil death be conquered and we raised immortal which cannot be till the last coming of our Lord we are not able to bear that glory which must be our final and full blessedness none can see God while they live mortal flesh is too weak for immortal Glory this is too weighty a Crown for heads that must lye down in dust We must dye that we may be raised immortal and so be made capable of our final happiness Vlt. lastly in a word The eternal Presence of God with us in the immediate fruits of it is our objective happiness and necessary to our reward and this cannot be hoped or enjoyed whilst we are on this side eternity and are measur'd by time But when the last coming of our Lord shall determine the periods of time and fix our eternity which shall commence at the expiration of time Then he will never more be absent from us or hide his presence or abate it to us This being necessary to our happiness it is necessary we stay until his last coming wherein you will I hope and wherein I pray that you may meet the faithful and diligent Servants of God his Stewards wherein I perswade my self you will meet this faithful servant of Christ whom you now lament but shall then ever rejoyce with him Sirs I believe you will scarce doubt the truth I have preached I am sure you cannot with reason contradict it I hope you will not through slothful hearts lose the proposed blessedness which is last that it may be best

to allude to that of Saint John Nothing shall ever be able to hinder them from this which though exceeding great is yet followed with another part necessary to their happiness which is 8thly A publick solemn and full declaration of their absolution from the charge which men or Devils in their accusation of them would load them with nay the charge wherewith the Law would burthen them shall be fully and solemnly taken off when they shall be justified before men and Angels from all that from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13.38 which shall be when our Lord shall proceed in Judgment towards all when according to the order of the Resurrection those that are Christs shall be first called judged and absolved when according to the order of the Parable Matt. 25.34 Those shall be adjuged to glory first who fed the hungry cloathed the naked took into their houses those that were strangers c. This I doubt not you 'l confess is a great happiness indeed well when our Lord cometh thus happy shall all his faithful and diligent Servants be who in life laid out themselves in labour for the Lord who in death rest from their labours and whose labours follow them into Judgment to be examined pardoned and rewarded according to the riches of Grace 9thly Our Lord when he cometh will add another thing to their happiness They shall then with him as assessors and approvers of his righteous proceeding with the rest of the world sit Judges of the world of this we are assured Jude 14 The Lord cometh with or in midst of ten thousand of his Saints to Judg c. Of this the Apostle speaks more clearly 1 Cor. 6.2 The Saints shall judg the world Nay more we shall judg Angels saith the Apostle This honour have all his Saints and in this they are blessed and this is enough to make every condition good to them until the glorious coming of their Lord until they are thus advanced In a word Christ seems to promise to his who are more than the ordinary Servants in his Family a more than ordinary degree of this Honour Luk. 22. ver 28 29 30. with Matt. 19.28 I will not enquire how far faithful Stewards and Ministers are herein next to the Apostles concerned It is well for them their faithfulness to souls shall then be manifested and honoured 10thly and lastly Christ our Lord when he cometh in the Glory of his Father Judg of all will when the solemnity of Judgment is finished and the wicked world is cast into Hell thrown into the place of Torment where their worm dieth not where the fire is not quenched Then Christ will take all his faithful ones and pass with them into the inconceivable and eternal Glory of his Kingdom brought to the fullest degree of greatness and Majesty that is foretold to us When they shall ever be with the Lord and behold his Glory when they shall be like to him whom they see and be filled with that Glory that shineth on them when all the Saints of God and none others shall be amassed into one great and general assembly and all orderly ranged before the throne of God and the Lamb ministring in sinless praises love and adoration for ever Now certainly could you and I lift up our eyes towards this illustrious assembly could we view them there we should ever be satisfied That diligence in and faithfulness to the service of our Lord according to our capacity now is and will at the coming of our Lord appear to be as much our comfort and happiness as it is our Duty and ought to be our care Oh then let us consider What it is to be acquitted from guilt What to be approved and rewarded What 't is to be bettered by all providences What to die in safety at last Is not this to be blessed Is not this to die the death of the righteous Why Christians your faithfulness and diligence shall so be found and so end if you continue it Do we believe a glory succeeds our death a resurrection our burial a publick absolution our being judged shall we sit assessors approvers and witnesses to the Great Judg and pass with him into glory everlasting And shall not our unwearied diligence and faithfulness exercised in his Service prove we believe the truth and expect this benefit hereof I hope now you will be less moved with present difficulties and more fixed for future diligence in serving the Lord and doing good to his Family expressed here by giving the Portion of meat in season in which appears the wisdom and fidelity of Servants and Stewards and to which blessedness is annexed and appropriated in the Text. The Reason whereof is the fifth general head of discourse and which we shall now briefly touch upon 1. Wisdom and faithfulness in Servants and Stewards are the best qualifications and comprise all that a Lord and Master requireth or need require in them for wisdom makes them meet for such a trust and faithfulness encourageth their Lord to trust them And both these appear in their observing what is sit for each person and season and applying to both accordingly So when Fathers know what is fit for Children and Masters know what is fit for Servants and Ministers for their people and accordingly instruct reprove warn encourage or comfort them Here is both the widom and fidelity requisite to a good Servant and the Lord who intends in the Text to oblige us to all that good Servants and Stewards should do hath thus closely couched all our Duty in this comprehensive phrase So the blessedness is appropriated not to a single Duty but to the universal diligent discharge of all our Duty which is summed up in this giving to each other our Portion of meat in season 2. Thus we are seasonably minded of that great and necessary duty which the last and worst age of the world doth neglect we are minded of giving mutual help and furtherance to each other in the way of Holiness and Obedience Our disputing quarrelling censuring and condemning age is ready to turn one another out of the way to dispute each other out of the truth and to quarrel each other for doing their duty instead of helping each other to do it But this little becomes Servants and Stewards in the same Family this is no part of their wisdom or fidelity Christ knew we should unto his coming need each others help and hath therefore so commended it as our wisdom and fidelity and so encouraged the discharge of it by this large reward Let us then have so much reason to see the excellency of the duty and temper and so much Religion before God and love to our selves as to get this temper that we may do the duty and receive the reward and be at last blessed with those we helpt towards Heaven 3. This giving the portion of meat in season This charitable benificence puts

of doors they at first took no notice of her but she persisting therein they went out with her to see if they could understand her meaning She led them into a House adjacent a Tenant of this distressed Gentleman s and having entred the House she gave signs to them to open a Chest there whereupon they desired the Woman of the House to open the Chest that they might satisfy their Curiosity in so far humouring her The Woman conscious of her own Guilt refused whereupon they beginning to suspect there was more then ordinary in it that made her so averse from it broke it open which when they had done they found therein an Image of Wax which they took out and found a great many Pins stuck in the same side of it as the Gentlemans Pain held him in his They took out the Pins and afterwards returning to the House they asked the Gentleman how he found himself who answered that he was altogether eased of his pain and in a very good condition Then they took the Pins and stuck in the other side of the Image when immediately the Gentleman cryed out of a pain that had seized him on his other side as vehement as the former was They took them out again and he was eased as formerly The Witch was had before a Justice but I never heard that she was further troubled whether for that that was not sufficient proof in Law to take away her life or for some other reason I know not The pretended dumb Woman was afterwards seized and imprisoned at Glasgow where she pretended to recover the use of her Tongue and spoke whereas before she seemed to be dumb Several strange things were reported of her there which being variously reported I would not trouble the Reader with a Relation thereof mentioning nothing herein but what I know to be of undoubted truth and what was acknowledged by all After she had been kept there for two or three weeks she was transported to Edinburgh and put in the Cannon-gate Prison where she remained above half a year She was several times had before the Council and examined A great many Persons out of Curiosity visited her some of whom had better kept away for if they were guilty of Love Intrigues she used sufficiently to expose them sparing neither Quality nor Sex When any questioned how she came by that Knowledge and charged her with having correspondence with the Devil she made answer in the words of our Saviour If Satan cast out Satan how can his Kingdom stand Denying that she had any Compact with the Devil but affirming that it was a gift she had from her Birth She was set at liberty after having been a considerable time in Prison But the Gentleman after her seizure was taken with the same distemper and died thereof The fourteenth Relation An Account of a Person that by carrying of a Girdle from one Witch to another was reduced to Madness NEar the River of Tweed in Scotland a Woman suspected to be a Witch had a Child very sick and seeing she could not help it by lawful means she had her address to her Diabolical Art this way she could not free her Child unless she laid either the same Disease or a worse upon another Person otherwise she must have thwarted the interest of her Infernal Master which was not in her Power if it had been her inclination as undoubtedly it was not to effect She hearing that a Scrivener was going two or three miles to a place where she had an Acquaintance who served the same Master with her self to wit the Prince of Darkness went to him and desired him to carry a Girdle to her Her design in sending it by him was that her Child might be cured of its Distemper and the same or a worse laid on this innocent Person Whether she had any Malice against him I could not be informed but I rather incline to think that it was only in Obedience to her Masters Command He took the Girdle from her and when he came to the place went and delivered it to the Party The Woman at the delivery of it having never had any prejudice against the Bearer was really troubled that he should have been imployed therein knowing how much it would tend to his hurt and asked him if her Friend could find no other Person to impose this trouble upon but him to carry it not daring to tell him the danger he had thereby involved himself in lest she should bring her self into a greater by being discovered only pretending that her Friend was very uncivil in troubling a Person of his Quality with any such thing He answered her that there was no indiscretion in it adding withal that it was his utmost desire to be serviceable to any Person without respect to their Quality to the utmost of his Power The Woman entertained him with several Discourses and seemed very Courteous to him and at parting she desired him to have a special care that he did not sleep till he got home telling him that he would be strongly inclined to sleep and withal certifying him that if he slept any where by the way he would have cause to repent it while he lived He promised to take care to prevent it beginning then to be somewhat afraid recalling to mind that the Person he had the Girdle from was under the Bruit of a Witch As he was going homewards he found himself mightily assailed by sleep and he strove as much against it as was possible but when he was come within less then a quarter of a Mile of his own House it so prevailed upon him that he could go no further but laid himself down upon the Grass to sleep When he awaked again he was raging Mad and continued so for a long time after without respite and during his life he was Mad in the three hot Months in Summer and at the Full of the Moon His Son also who was born a considerable time after this was Heir to the same Distemper and for ought I know is still alive and hath the same Fits at the usual times as also a Daughter of the Sons This Story I have from sure hands who have heard the Father relate it when he was in his right Wits as he used to be for the most part save at the times above mentioned The Son I have spoke with several times and have seen him run up and down in his mad Fits The fifteenth Relation A strange Apparition which was seen by a Man as he was going home two Miles in a Winter night near Kinneel by the River of Forth in Scotland A Certain Man whom I know a little before Christmas several years ago went in the morning from his dwelling House to a Sea-Port Town about two Miles distant And having several urgent businesses there he took up the whole day in dispatching them and was necessitated to stay still near eight of the Clock at night At which time