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A62395	Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.; Discoverie of witchcraft	Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.	1651 (1651)	Wing S943; ESTC R19425	465,580	448

sort as is elsewhere expressed already in this 〈◊〉 treatise A figure or type proportionall shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a spirit in crystall is to be accomplished c. CHAP. XIII An experiment of Bealphares THis is proved the noblest carrier that ever did serve any man upon the earth and here beginneth the inclosing of the said spirit and how to have a true answer of him without any craft or harm and he will appeare unto thee in the likenesse of a fair man or fair woman the which spirit will come to thee at all times And if thou wilt command him to tell thee of hidden treasures that be in any place hee will tell it thee or if thou wilt command him to bring to thee gold or silver he will bring it thee or if thou wilt goe from one country to another he will bear thee without any harm of body or soul. Therefore he that will doe this work shall abstaine from leacherousnesse and drunkennesse and from false swearing and doe all the abstinence that he may doe and namely three dayes before he goe to work and in the third day when the night is come and when the starres doe shine and the element faire and clear he shall bath himselfe and his fellows if he have any all together in a quick welspring Then he must be cloathed in cleane white cloathes and he must have another privy place and beare him inke and pen wherewith he shall write this holy name of God Almighty in his right hand ✚ Agla ✚ and in his left hand this name ✚ ♊ ●●● ✚ and he must have a dry thong of a lions or of a h●●e skin and make thereof a girdle write the holy names of God all above and in the end ✚ A Ω ✚ And upon his brest he must have this presen● figure or mark written in virgin parchment as it is here shewed And it must b●sowed upon a peece of new linnen an● so made fast upon thy brest And if tho● wilt have a fellow to worke with thee hee must bee appointed in the same manner You must have also a bright knife that was never occupied and hee must write on the one side of the blade of the knife ✚ Agla ✚ and on the other side of the knifes blade ✚ ♊ ●●● ✚ And with the same knife he must make a circle as hereafter followeth the which is called Salomons circle When that hee is made goe into the circle and close again the place there where th● wentest in with the same knife and say Per crucis ho● signum ✚ su● at procui omne malignum Et per idem signum ✚ salvetur quodque bex●num By the sign of the Crosse ✚ may all evill fly farre away and by the same signe ✚ may all that is good be preserved and make suffur●gations to thy self and to thy fellow or fellows with frankincense m●stike lignum aloes then put it in wine and say with good devotion in the worship of the high God Almighty all together that he may defend you from all evils And when he that is master will close the spirit he shall say towards the east with meeke and devout devotion these psalmes and prayers as followeth here in order The two and twentieth Psalm O My God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint And so forth to the end of the same psalm as it is to bee found in the book This psalm also following being the fifty one psalme must be said three times ever c. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodnesse according to the multitude of thy mercies doe away mine offences And so forth to the end of the same psalm concluding it with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Then say this verse O Lord leave not my soul with the wicked nor my life with the bloud-thirsty Then say a Pater noster an Ave Maria and a Credo ne nos inducas O Lord shew us thy mercy and we shall be saved Lord heare our prayer and let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord God almighty as thou warnedst by thine angell the three kings of Cullen Iasper M●lchior and Balthasar when they came with worshipfull presents toward Bethlehem Iasper brought myrrh Melchior incense Balthasar gold worshipping the high king of all the world Jesus Gods son of heaven the second pe●son in Trinity being born of the holy and clean virgine S. Mary queen of heaven empresse of hell and lady of all the world at that time the holy angell Gabriel warned and had the foresaid three kings that they should take another way for dread of perill that Herod the king by his ordinance would have destroyed these three noble kings that meekly sought out our Lord and Saviour As wittily and truly as these three Kings turned for dread and took another way so wisely and so truly O Lord God of thy mightifull mercy blesse u● now at this time for thy blessed passion save us and keep us all together from all evill and thy holy angell defend us Let us pray O Lord King of all Kings which containest the throne of heavens and beholdest all deeps weighest the hils and shuttest up with thy hand the earth hear us most meeke●t God and grant unto us being unworthy according to thy great mercy to have the verity and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasure by this spirit invōcated through thy help O Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all honour and glory from worlds to worlds everlastingly Amen Then say these names ✚ Helic ✚ ●ely● ✚ essejero ✚ D●us ●●ternus ✚ cloy ✚ clemen● ✚ ●eloye ✚ Deus sanctus ✚ sab●oti ✚ Deus exerc●●●●donay ✚ Deus mirabilis ✚ jao ✚ verax ✚ aneph●neton ✚ Deus ineffabilis ✚ sodoy ✚ dominator dominus ✚ on sortissimus ✚ Deus ✚ qui the which wouldest be prayed unto of sinners receive we beseech thee these sacrifices of praise and our meek prayers which we unworthy doe offer unto thy divine majesty Deliver us and have mercy upon us and prevent with thy holy spirit this work and with thy blessed help to follow after that this our work begun of thee may be ended by thy mighty power Amen Then say this anon after ✚ homo ✚ sacarus ✚ Museolameus ✚ ●heruborca ✚ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid the girdle about thee the circle made blesse the circle with holy water and sit down in the midst and read this conjuration as followeth sitting back to back at the first time I exorcise and conjure Bealphares the practiser and preceptor of this art by the maker of heavens and of earth and by his vertue

Parisiensis Hemingius Heraclides Hermes Trismegistus Hieronymus Hilarius Hippocrates Homerus Horatius Hostiensis Hovinus Hypertus Jacobus de Chusa Ca●thusianus Jamblichus Jaso Pratensis Innocentius 8 papa Johannes Anglicus Johannes Baptista Neapolitanus Johannes Cassianus Johannes Montiregrus Johannes Rivius Josephus ben Gorion Josias Simlerus Isidorus Isigonus Juba Julius Maternus Justinus Martyr Lactantius Lavaterus Laurentius Ananias Laurentius a villavicentio Leo II. Pontifex Lex Salicarum Lex 12. Tabulaum Legenda aurea Legenda longa Coloniae Leonardus Vairus Livius Lucanus Lucretius Ludovicus Caelius Lutherus Macrobius Magna Charta Malleus Maleficarum Manlius Marbacchius Marbodeus Gallus Marsilius Ficinus Martinus de Arles Mattheolus Melancthonus Memphradorus Michael Andraeas Musculus Nauclerus Nicephorus Nicholaus 5. Papa Nider Olaus Gothus Origenes Ovidius Panormitanus Paulus Aegineta Paulus Marsus Persius Petrus de Appona Petrus Lombardus Petrus Martyr Pe●ce● Philarchus Philastrius Brixicu●u Philodorus Philo Judaeus P●kma●rus Plariu● Plato Plinius Plotinus Plu●archus Polydorus Virgilius Pomoetium sermonum quadragesimalium Pompanatius Pontificale Ponzivibi●● Por● hyrius Proclus Propertius Psellus Ptolomeus Pythagoras Quintilianus Rabbi Abraham Rabbi ben Ezra Rabbi David K●●hi Rabbi Josuah ben Levi. Rabbi Isaac Natar Rabbi Levi. Rabbi Moles Rabbi Sedaias Haias Robertus Carocullus Rupertu● Sabinus Sadoletus Savano●ola Scotus Seneca Septuaginta interpreres Serapio Socrates Solinus Speculum exemplorum Strabo Sulpitius Severus Syneffus Tatianus Te●tullianus Thomas Aquinas Themiltius Theodore●u● Theodorus Bizantius Theophrastus Thucidydes Tibullus Tremelius Valerius Maximus Varro Vegetius Vincentius Virgilius Vi●ellius Wie●us Xanrus historiographus These English BArnaby Googe Beehive of the Romish church Edward Deering Geffrey Chaucer Giles Alley Guimelf Maharba Henry Haward J●hn Bale John Fox John Malborn John Record P●ime● after Yorke use Richard Gallis Roger Bacon Testament printed at Rhemes T. E. a nameles Author 467. Thomas Hilles Thomas Lupron Thomas Moore Knight Thomas Phaer T. R. a nameles Author 393. William Lambard W. W. a namelesse Author 542. The discovery of Witchcraft The first Book CHAP. I. An impeachment of Witches power in meteors and elementary bodies tending to the rebuke of such as attribute too much unto them THe Fables of Witch-craft have taken so fast hold and deep root in the heart of man that few or none can now adaies with patience indure the hand and correction of God For if any adversity greefe sicknesse losse of children corn cattell or liberty happen unto them by and by they exclaime upon witches As though there were no God in Israel that ordereth all things according to his will punishing both just unjust and with greefes plagues and afflictions in manner and forme as he thinketh good but that certain old women here on earth called witches must needs be the contrivers of all mens calamities and as though they themselves were innocents and had deserved no such punishments Insomuch as they stick not to ride and go to such as either are injuriously tearmed witches or else are willing so to be accounted seeking at their hands comfort and remedy in time of their tribulation contrary to Gods will and commandement in that behalfe who bids us resort to him in all our necessities Such faithlesse people I say are also perswaded that neither haile nor snow thunder nor lightning rain nor tempestuous winds come from the heavens at the commandement of God but are raised by the cunning and power of witches and conjurers insomuch as a clap of thunder or a gale of winde is no sooner heard but either they runne to ring bels or cry out to burne witches or else burne consecrated things hoping by the smoak thereof to drive the devill out of the aire as though spirits could be fraid away with such externall toies howbeit these are right inchantments as Brentius affirmeth But certainly it is neither a witch nor devil but a glorious God that maketh the thunder I have read in the Scriptures that God maketh the blustering tempests and whirle-winds and I find that it is the Lord that altogether dealeth with them and that they blowe according to his will But let me see any of them all rebuke and still the sea in time of tempest as Christ did or raise the stormy wind as God did with his word and I will beleeve in them Hath any witch or conjurer or any creature entred into the treasures of the snowe or seen the secret places of the haile which GOD hath prepared against the day of trouble battell and warre I for my part also thinke with Jesus Sirach that at Gods onely commandement the snow falleth and that the wind bloweth according to his wil who onely maketh all stormes to cease and who if we keep his ordinances will send us rain in due season and make the land to bring forth her increase and the trees of the field to give their fruit But little think our witch-mongers that the Lord commandeth the clouds above or openeth the doors of heaven as David affirmeth or that the Lord goeth forth in the tempests and stormes as the Prophet Nahum reporteth but rather that witches and conjurers are then about their businesse The Marcionists acknowledged one God the author of good things and another the ordainer of evill but these make the devill a whole God to create things of nothing to know mens cogitations and to do that which God never did as to transubstatiate men into beasts c. Which thing if devils could do yet followeth it not that witches have such power But if all the devils in hell were dead and all the witches in England burned or hanged I warrant you we should not fail to have rain haile and tempests as now we have according to the appointment will of God according to the constitution of the elements and the course of the planets wherein God hath set a perfect and perpetuall order I am also well assured that if all the old women in the world were witches and all the priests conjurers we should not have a drop of rain nor a blast of wind the more or the lesse for them For the Lord hath bound the waters in the clouds and hath set bounds about the waters untill the day and night come to an end yea it is God that raiseth the winds and stilleth them and he saith to the rain and snowe Be upon the earth and it falleth The wind of the Lord and not the wind of witches shall destroy the treasures of their pleasant vessels and dry up the fountaines saith Oseas Let us also learn and confesse with the Prophet David that we our selves are the causes of our afflictions and not exclaim upon witches when we should call upon God for mercy The Imperiall law saith Brentius condemneth them to death that trouble and infect the aire but I affirme saith he that it is neither in the power of witch nor devill so to do but in God only Though

other I doe call upon thee ●● beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by thy nativity and baptisme thy crosse and passion by thine ascension and by the comming of the 〈◊〉 ghost by the bitternes of thy soule when it departed from the body thy five wounds by the bloud and water which went out of thy body thy vertue by the sacrament which thou gavest thy disciples the day before thou sufferedst by the holy trinity and the inseparable unity by blessed Mary thy mother by thine angels arch-angels prophets patriarchs and by all thy saints and by all the sacraments which are made in thine honor I doe worship and beseech thee to accept these prayers conjurations and words of my mouth which I will use I require thee O Lord Jesus Christ that thou give me thy vertue and power over all thine ange●● which were throwne downe from heaven to deceive mankind to draw them to me to tie and bind them and also to loose them to gather them together before me and to command them to do all that they can and that by no meanes they contemne my voyce or the words of my mouth but that they obey me and my sayings and feare me I beseech thee by thine humanity mercy and grace and I require thee Adony Amay Horia Vege dova Mita● Hel Suranat Ysion Ysesy and by all thy holy names and by all thine holy he saints and the saints by all thine angels and archangels powers dominations and ver●ues and by that name that Solomon did bind the divels and shut them up Elbrach Ebanher Agle Goth Ioth Othie Venoch Nabrat and by all thine holy names which are written in this booke and by the vertue of them all that thou enable me to congrerate all thy spirits throwne downe from heaven that they may give me a true answer of all my demands and that they satisfie all my requests without the hurt of my body or soule or any thing else that of mine through our Lord Jesus Christ thy sonne which liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy ghost one God world without end Oh father omnipotent oh wise sonne oh Holy ghost the searcher of hearts oh you three in persons one true Godhead in substance which drift spare Adam and Eve in their sinnes and oh though sonne which diedst for their sinnes a most filthy death sustaining it upon the holy 〈◊〉 oh thou most mercifull when I flie unto thy mercy and beseech thee by all the means I can by these thy holy names of thy sonne to 〈◊〉 A and Q and all other his names grant me thy vertue and power that I may be able to cite before me thy spirits which where thrown downe from heaven and that they may speak with me and dispatch by and by without delay and with a good will and without the hurt of my body soule or goods c. as is contained in the book called Annulus S. Lomonis Oh great and eternall vertue of the highest which through disposition these being called to judgement Vaich●on Stimulamaton Esphares Tetragrammaton Oliora● Cryon Esytion Existion E●iona Onela Brasim Noym Messias Soter Emanuel Sabbath Adonay I worship thee I invocate thee I imploy thee with all the strength of my mind that by thee my present prayers consecrations and conjurations be hollowed and wheresoever wicked spirits are called in the vertue of thy names they may come together from every coast and diligently fulfill the will of me the exorcist Fiat fiato fiat Amen CHAP. V. A confutation of the manifold vanities conteined in the precedent chapters specially of commanding of divels HE that can be perswaded that these things are true or wrought indeed according to the assertion of conseners or according to the supposition of witch mongers and papists may soone be brought to beleeve that the moone is made of green cheese You see in this which is called Salomons conjuration there is a perfect inventary registred of the number of divels of their names of their offices of their personages of their qualities of their powers of their properties of their kingdomes of their govern●rs of their orders of their dispositions of their 〈◊〉 of their submission and of the wayes to bind or loose them with a note what wealth learning office commodity pleasure 〈◊〉 they can give and may be forced to yeeld in spight of their hearts to 〈◊〉 forsooth as are cunning in this art of whom yet was never seen 〈◊〉 rich man or at least that gained any thing that way or any 〈◊〉 man that became learned by that meanes or any happy man 〈◊〉 could with the helpe of this art either deliver himselfe or his 〈◊〉 from adversity or adde unto his estate any point of felicity yet 〈◊〉 men in all worldly happine●se must need exceed all others 〈◊〉 things could be by them accomplished according as it is presupposed 〈◊〉 if they may learne of Marbas all secrets and to cure all diseases and Furcas wisdome and to be cunning in all mechanicall arts and change any mans shape of Zepar if Bune can make them rich and eloquent if Bero●h can tell them of all things present past and to 〈◊〉 if Asmodie can make them go invisible and shew them all hidden treasure if Salmacke will afflict whom they list and Allocer can procure the 〈◊〉 of any woman if Amy can provide them excellent familiars if 〈◊〉 can make them understand the voyce of all birds and beasts and 〈◊〉 and Bifrons can make them live long and finally if Orias could pro●● unto them great friends and reconcile their enemies and they 〈◊〉 end had all these at commandement should they not live in all world honor and felicity whereas contrariwise they lead there lives in all o●●quy misery and beggery and in fine come to the gallowes as thou they had chosen unto themselves the spirit Valefer who they say 〈◊〉 all them with whom he entereth into familiarity to no better end than the gibbet or gallowes But before I proceed further to the confu●●tion of this stuffe I will shew other conjurations devised more lately and of more authority whe●ein you shall see how fooles are trained to beleeve these absurdities being wonne by little and little to such credulity For the author hereof beginneth as though all the cunning of conjurors were de●●ved and fetcht from the planetary motions and true course of the 〈◊〉 celestiall bodies c. CHAP. VI. The names of the Planets their characters together with the twelve signes of the zodiake their dispositions aspects and government with other observations The disposition of the Planets The aspects of the Planets ☌ Is the best aspect with good planets and the worst with evill ⚹ Is a meane aspect in goodnese or badnesse △ Is very good in aspect to good planets and h●rteth not in evill □ This aspect is of enimity not full perfect ☍ This aspect is of enimity most perfect How the day is divided or