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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19409	The infallible true and assured vvitch, or, The second edition of the tryall of witch-craft shevving the right and true methode of the discoverie : with a confutation of erroneous waies, carefully reviewed and more fully cleared and augmented / by Iohn Cotta ...	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?; Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1550-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 5838; ESTC S300	112,889	182

of pretence of such abilitie It is iustly hereto answered that this their presumption ought to be seuerely enquired into whether it doe taste of ought that is diabolicall of the Diuell or supernaturall and if nothing so doe yet in this Grand cause of God himselfe the religious iealousie of the prudent Magistrate ought to punish their presumption which dare affect to vndertake the name or note of a sinne so odious and abominable vnto Almightie God Let vs for better impression againe repeate and iterate those things which were collected out of the propounded text First that there is knowledge in Spirits of things hidden and separated from the knowledge of man Secondly that such Spirits as are enquired at and doe reueale such knowledge vnto man are Diuels Thirdly that men which doe practise to be enquired at for such supposed Reuelations ought not onely to be iustly suspected and inquired into but that if they be found therewithall to know and reueale those things which are indeed and really aboue and beyond the knowledge of man and are properly and onely in the power of Spirits that then this doth infallibly prooue their interest power and societie with Diuels which is certaine and assured Sorcery and Witch-craft And thus hath reason drawne a demonstration out of the booke of God of a certaine Witch and manifest Sorcerer Let vs now exercise our selues in the consideration examination and tryall of some particulars herein It is said of Apollonius that he foretold the day the houre of the day the moment of the houre wherein Coccius Nerra the Emperour should die long before the time and being in farre distant places remooued from him It is reported of the same Apollonius that being consulted by one who for that purpose came vnto him how he might grow rich Apollonius appointed him to buy a certaine field or ground and to be carefull in tilling and plowing thereof which after he had done a while he found in the end a great treasure and so became rich It is written of the same Apollonius also He made knowne vnto Titus Vespatian the time and manner of his death enquiring it at his hands These things with many other the like Ianus Iacobus Boissardus relateth in the life of Apollonius Who hath not heard of the name and mention of that famous and renowmed British Wizard Merlin and of his high and great esteeme among Princes for his prophesies Vnto his fore-sight and predictions from many foregoing ages the successes and euents of diuers Princes affaires in their seuerall raignes haue beene vsually by diuers times and histories referred For this cause Master Camden in the description of Caermarden-shire doth terme him the Tages of the Britans Speede in his tractate of the ancient Inhabitants of great Britane as also of the life of Aurelius Ambrosius and of the raigne of King John and of Henry the fourth doth our of Malmesbury and others recite diuers accidents and euents in seuerall succeeding ages vnto his oraculous and miraculous illuminations ascribed to haue beene foreseene foretold and knowne If there be truth in those Oracles and ancient foreseeing Reuelations they doe necessarily inferre the assistance of a power farre superiour vnto all the power of man Therefore whosoeuer doth finde them true must conclude their Author a Witch or Sorcerer Neither hath the generall reception or opinion of Authors beene herefrom different who haue published him the sonne of an Incubus or the sonne of a Witch begotten by the Diuell As it is said of this ancient time-noted and age-viewed Sorcerer so may be testified of many other What shall we iudge of that infamous woman among the French called Ioane of Arc by others Ioane Pucell de Dieu Iohn de Serres the French Historian doth report that she had many miraculous Reuelations whereof the King then Charles the seauenth and all his Armie and men of warre were open wondering witnesses and in those reuelations for the most part there was found no lesse wondrous truth then true wonder as saith Serres although some others haue iudged her an Imposteresse only By her sole incouragement and stout assurance of successe built vpon miraculous reuelations the French prosperously incountred the victorious English in France at seuerall times and against all humane reason recouered their in reason-vnrecouerable and most desperate standing euen neere vnto the pit of vtter downefall with more then vnspeakeable amazement and terrour vnto the sodainely confounded English Notwithstanding at length shee was taken prisoner by the English executed and burnt for her Witch-craft What shall wee say or iudge of other the like Authors and broachers of supernaturall reuelations and predictions in other times The fore-mentioned Historian reporteth that a Wizard foretold Duke Biron of his death and that hee should dye by the backe blow of a Burguignon who afterward prooued his Executioner beeing that Countrey man Melancton our of Carion doeth recite the mention of a woman of the order of the Druides among the Tungri who foretold Dioclesian that hee should bee Emperour of Rome when he had first killed a Boare which prooued afterward one Apor then an Vsurper which in the Latine tongue signifieth a Boare Suctonius writeth of a Diuinour who long before was able to make knowne the death and the manner of the death and murder of Iulius Caesar Philippe de Commines in his 8. booke chap. 19. doeth make mention of one Frier Hierome and of his many admirable reuelations and predictions concerning the affaires of the King of France which as from Friers owne mouth hee himselfe did oft heare so with his owne eyes hee did witnesse and behold their issue true It was disputed whether in these transcendent reuelations the Frier were a man of God or no and it is doubtfully there concluded In these like reuelations and prophecies reason cannot deny but must acknowledge the manifest impression and stampe of more then humane Science or demonstration If wee desire or affect more specially to viewe what our owne Histories at home afford who can deny him a Wizard or Witch who as Master Speede and others testifie in the reigne of Richard the Vsurper foretold that vpon the same stone where hee dash his spurre riding toward Bosworth field hee should dash his head in his returne which prooued accordingly true when being slaine in battell hee was carryed naked out of the field and his head hanging low by the horse side behinde his bearer did smite vpon the same stone in repassage where before in passage hee had strooken his heele and spurre What can be deemed lesse of the Author of that prophecie in Edward the fourth that is that G. should murder King Edwards heires which G. vnderstood of the Duke of Glocester was too true How can he likewise escape the iust suspition of the same foule crime from whom originally or first was deriued that prophecie or prediction in Henry the fift concerning his sonne as yet then vnborne videlicet that