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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19407	The triall of vvitch-craft shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?	1616 (1616)	STC 5836; ESTC S108830	92,097	138

is vsuall to swell with indignation or to be puffed with impatience where God doth not apertly reueale and plainely as they desire and thinke needfull the subtill engines and mysticall craft of the Diuell in the Machinations of Witches and Sorcerers but soberly modestly and discreetly so faire forth be contented to pursue the try all and iust way of their Discouery as with sense with reason with Religion is iust and righteous knowing that whatsoeuer is beyond these lists is reasonlesse senselesse and impious For since God and Nature as is before said hath limited the scrutinie of all true Arts and Sciences all naturall knowledge for discouerie of controuersies and resolutions vnto the lights of Reason Sense and artificiall coniecture prudence art sagacitie and subtiltie of vnderstanding deriued from thence vnto what other barre or seate of Iustice can Witch-craft appeale or be brought It may be obiected the Art of Witch-craft being supernaturall and the practice thereof sustained by an extraordinary power that therefore the meanes and waies of discouerie must be likewise more then ordinary and supernaturall Hereto is truely answered that since the nature power of Spirits is vnknowne vnto man as things supernaturall and can be and is no otherwise knowne but by examining the workes issuing from thence and comparing them aright with that which is naturall because man in his Reason and vnderstanding cannot discerne that which is truely trascending his Nature otherwise then obseruing how far it exceedeth that which is according to Nature therefore I say the workes of the Diuell or Witches though sustained and produced by a supernaturall power yet can haue no other way for their detection by man but that which is ordinary vnto man and natural and possible vnto man for that which is aboue or beyond his power or Nature is not his owne From hence must necessarily be concluded that there is no other ordinary way vnto man who knoweth or can know nothing but that is naturall vnto the discouerie of that is supernaturall but that way which is likewise naturall Although therefore the subiect of Witch-craft require a greater measure of knowledge to discerne that which is therein really and truely supernaturall from that which in nature oft-times hath a very great likenesse and a deceiueable similitude therewith yet is the way vnto that knowledge the common high way which conducteth vnto all other knowledge whatsoeuer Let men then be perswaded and contented since God hath alotted and allowed vnto the nature and power of man no other way in this only warranted true way to seeke the discouery to finde the footing path and steppings of Witchcraft as of all other things which by the Decree of God are reuealed vnto man and subiect vnto the knowledge of man It may be here demanded whether Almightie God doth not extraordinarily and miraculously at some time discouer this so abominable sin of Witch-craft aswell as by ordinarie meanes leaue it vnto discouerie This doubt shall more fitly in more due place be hereafter at large discoursed It hath now beene here manifested that there is or can be no other ordinarie tryall of Witch-craft then that which is common vnto all other detections of truth and also that all detections subiect vnto the discouerie of man as hath beene before cleared are drawne and deriued either from Sense or Reason or likely probabilitie raised from both CHAP. IIII. Of the workes of Witches and Diuels BEfore wee proceed further to treate concerning matter of Witch-craft according to the former waies of discouerie and inuestigation it will be needfull to distinguish who is the true Author cause immediate workman of the supernaturall workes which by Sorcery and Witch-craft are compassed or brought to passe All created substances indowed with powers and vertue from God their Creator are either bodily or corporall substances or Spirituall or mixt and betweene both Bodily and corporall substances are the heauens the celestiall bodies of the Starres of the Sunne of the Moone the bodies of the elements and all elementarie substances from them deriued and composed Spirituall substances are either Angels or Diuels or soules of men after death separated from their bodies Mixed substances partly Spirituall partly bodily are mankinde compounded of a naturall body and an vnderstanding soule Hence it commeth to passe that man by his vnderstanding Spirit doth together with Angels Spirits and Diuels participate and vnderstand many things as the Scripture reuealed the History and Creation of the whole world many truths of God the grounds of Reason the principles of Nature many generall rules and obseruations and infinite particular obiects of many things past present and to come But for that this vnderstanding Soule is depressed and imprisoned in this life by the body by the passions diseases and manifold incumbrances thereof and cannot extend or inlarge it selfe further vnto any portion of knowledge then thorow the narrow windowes closures parts and organs of the body therefore must necessarily the knowledge of man be much inferiour vnto that measure of knowledge which Spirits being of a more subtill essence and free from the burden and incumbrance of an earthly tabernacle or prison doe in a more large extent inioy As is said of the difference of knowledge in Spirits beyond the power and nature of man so may be said from the same reason of the difference of the workes of Spirits farre inlarging and extending their vertue and power beyond the power and force of men The workes of men are confined within the power and nature of these sublunarie bodies vnto which they are annexed and tyed The works of Spirits are limited to no corporall substance or body but spaciously compasse the whole and vniuersall body of the sublunary or inferiour world as the Diuell dorh witnesse of himselfe Iob 1. verse 7. and are not tyed vnto any particular place but rule generally therein and in all places by the permission of God as is euident Ephe. 2. ver 2. where the Diuell is called the Prince that ruleth in the ayre euen the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience and likewise Ephes. 6. verse 12. where he is called the Prince of darknesse of this world From these vndoubted grounds it is necessarily inferred that both all knowledge exceeding the knowledge of man must needes issue from the knowledge of Spirits and also that all works exceeding and transcendent aboue the power and nature of corporall substances must necessarily be the force of Spirts It may now be demaunded how the works of good Spirits shall be knowne and distinguished from the works of euill Spirits and diuels since both their workes proceede from the same nature substance and spirituall essence common vnto them both This shall appeare by the consideration of the orders and sorts of good Spirits expressed in holy Scripture and their properties beside which all other are necessarily euill and therefore diuels like vnto whom likewise by iust consequent must be their workes

bagges or burdens of corne into a campe of Souldiers At the same time in the same manner such a like Asse as hee in dreame imagined himselfe did bring such burdens into the same campe From these examples may bee iustly drawne a plaine demonstration of the Diuels palpable iuggling and illusion which also may serue for confirmation together with the reasons before annexed vnto my former answer concerning the Diuels seeming or deceitfull presentation of the reall body of Pythagoras in two distant places at once in the same point of time And from all these conioined and conferred may be truely inferred and collected that the Diuell as hee doth many supernaturall workes really so he doth many other by illusion and beguiling the imagination These his iugglings notwithstanding are things also supernaturall and tricks onely possible to Spirits and impossible to man For it is impossible to man to frame so liuely a seeming presence of man in one place that it shall not bee discerned otherwise then the very same true presence and real substance which is really in another place as also to fasten such dreames as were before mentioned vpon men and according to those dreames to cause the things dreamed by the witnesse and testimony of other beholders to bee brought to passe in so liuely likenesse and similitude as cannot bee discerned and discouered otherwise then the very same that they were in dreame likewise beleeued From hence it doth also follow very necessarily that what man soeuer shall vndertake these supernaturall iuglings which are only possible in the power of Spirits and of the Diuell alone is therby as truly conuinced to be a Witch or Sorcerer as hee that vndertaketh any of the former reall supernaturall works or any other of the like kinde because they are both and all alike proper onely to the diuell and wherein man can haue no property or power but by and through him Let vs now then againe returne vnto the Diuels reall supernaturall performances and workes vnto Sorcerers from whence by the way of answere vnto the former doubt concerning Pythagoras his supposed realty of being at once in two places wee haue hitherto onely digressed It is written as a thing vsuall vnto many famous Magicians Sorcerers and Witches vnto the view and sight of some admitted spectators to raise resemblances of the dead which seemeth a thing vndoubted by the Witch of Endor raising Samuel the Prophet vnto Saul the King before mentioned In this kinde those famous and renowned Witches Medea and Circe in old and ancient times are reported to excell Hence among the Heathen had Necromancie the reason of the name and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is diuination by calling vp or raising the dead Later times haue not been behinde former times in the record of the like but to adde reason to inforce the truth of report herein I will answer an obiection which may be made Whether in these apparitions there be only illusion and imagination or some thing truely and really visible vnto the outward sense As touching the reall raising of the dead it is impossible vnto the limited power of the Diuell either in the substance of body or soule to reduce or bring the dead back into this world or life or sense againe because in death by the vnchangeable and vnalterable decree of God in his holy Writ the body returneth into dust from whence it came and the Soule to God who gaue it Notwithstanding since the outward shape and figure and proportion of any substance and not the substance it selfe or creature is the true and naturall obiect of the eye according to the Philosopher who truely saith Res non videntur sedrerum species that is the substances or things themselues are not offered nor come vnto the sight but onely their shape and outward figure as also for that common sense and experience doe teach vs that it is a thing absurd and impossible that all those bodies substances which in infinite number wee dayly see and behold really and materially in their corporall substances and dimensions should be contained in the small body of the eye for these causes I say it is possible according to reason that the Diuell in these supposed apparitions of the bodies and substances of dead men may present true reall and naturall obiects certaine and assured vnto the eye and sight if he can onely present thereto the outward liuely pourtraitures and shapes of the substances or bodies though the bodies themselues be away That the Diuel can doe this is no doubt For if man by Art can vsually diuide the outward shapes and figures of creatures and substances from the substances creatures themselues as is apparent by the looking glasse and the cunning Painter can in another borrowed substance separated from their true right and proper substance represent perfectly the true and liuely shape of men and other creatures euen when they are not onely absent and remoued in farre distant places but when oft-times they haue many yeares beene swallowed of the graue why should it be thought impossible vnto the Diuell who certainely is more then exquisite Apelles excellent to offer and present vnto the eye likewise any true shape whatsoeuer If he can offer the true shape as is not to be doubted he doth offer a true and perfect obiect and therefore that which is truely and certainely manifest to sense although speech and the motion thereof without another visible bodie to sustaine it being impossible vnto shapes and pourtraitures drawne by men be things supernaturall and truely spirituall which doe therefore make it a worke proper vnto the Diuell And thus it is apparent that the supposed apparitions which the Diuell doth offer of dead men may bee esteemed and reckoned among such supernaturall workes of Diuels and Sorcerers as manifestly are brought to outward sense Now let vs returne to view some other kindes of the same workes of the same Authors It is reported by some Writers of worthy credit that the bodies of Sorcerers and Witches haue beene really carried and locally remoued from one place into another by the Diuell And of later times as Bartholomaeus de Spina doth witnesse the inquisit●●● haue condemned vnto perpetual prison and there detained Witches who by their owne confession and others proofe haue by the Diuell been transported into so farre distant places in few houres that afterward it hath bin a trauell of many dayes by their owne naturall power to returne againe from whence they were manifestly by the diuell carried It is a thing likewise written and vulgarly receiued that Witches are oft-times seene bodily to haunt places fields houses graues and sepulchers in an vniuersall and miraculous manner and wondred fashion These things and infinite more whether true or no cannot be knowne but to him that doth himselfe behold and can from his owne sight auouch them really true and not imaginarie To performe some manner of asportation and locall translation of the bodies of