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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

for which the Heathen Priests were wont to Inspect the Bowels of their Sacrifices according to that in the Poet. Consulit Exta Augur absolvens superis effata recantat These Weather-Gagers were antiently applyed to to secure Corn Ground Vineyards and Cattle as well as Towns and Houses from Storms and Tempests mentioned by Seneca in his Fourth Book of Natural Questions They were deputed to a certain Office to observe give notice to the People when a Storm was coming who upon such warning hastened to kill a Lamb or a Chick or some young thing or other or if they had none of these to offer they were to prick their Finger and that blood was accepted and the Storm ceased or was prevented This was indeed a strange kind of Oblation and one might well conclude with Seneca that the Clouds have little Affinity with blood or a Prickt Finger but what will not the great Enemy of Souls do if he can but abuse and delude poor Men into a belief that by some outward means Tempests may be diverted that they may have the less suspicion of themselves and be less suspected by others whilst in the mean time they are hereby ensnared into a Diabolical Idolatry By Sorcerers such may be understood who having Contracted a Familiarity and entred into a Confederacy with the Devil or some of his Infernal Spirits consult and advise with their Hellish Confederates about the affairs in which they are employed and make their determinations according to the advice of their Familiars Nay many Extraordinary things which seem to be done by the Sorcerer are really done by the Spirit so that they seem to Exchange forms one with the other the Daemon sometimes appears in the shape and resemblance of the Sorcerer at another time the Sorcerer shall haunt ye in semblance of the Daemon Of this more will appear when we come to particular Instances in the subsequent discourse Magician is a name which imports the esteem the Ancients had for such as could perform feats above the reach and Conception of Ordinary men whether by that which is called Natural Magick or some stricter Familiarity with the Inhabitants of the lower world they were by them esteemed Wise-Men for so the word Magi Signifies and that is the name which the Turks give to their Conjurers and such as deal in those forbidden Arts at this day Such were those whom the hardened Pharaoh called for by their Magical Operations to perform things semblable in some sort and like those wrought by Holy Moses by a Divine Command and power for the wicked King saw them turn Water into Blood Rods into Serpents and with Multitudes of Frogs to cover the face of the Earth Nor is it Improbable that the evil Angels were permitted by an Extraordinary providence thus to exert and shew their power by the hand of their evil Ministers in a Judicial way for the hardening of that seared King so that seeing the seeming miracles wrought by his Magicians he might be the more confirmed in his obstinacy against the Counsel of God by his Servant Moses For the sacred Text assures us that he was raised up in an Extraordinary manner to be to future Ages an Example of the Righteous Judgment of God upon hardened self-deluded and deluding Infidels And some we read of are given up to strong delusions that they might believe a Lie By a Witch is Commonly understood a Femal Agent or Patient who is become in Covenant with the Devil having in a literal sense sold her self to work Wickedness such whose chief Negotiation tends to the spoiling their Neighbours persons or goods They have Commonly certain Excrescencies like Teats or Nipples in private parts of their Bodies which their Familiars often suck Sometimes personally and sometimes in a Dream or Trance they Revel with the evil Spirit in nightly Cabals and Consults Those particularly intended here are such as are Commonly called Black Witches there is besides another sort termed White Witches These by a Diabolical Complaisance or good-nature are to uncharm and give ease to those the other have afflicted but sometimes it so happens that one or other of the Witches dyes by force of the Counter-charm Both these are condemned to death by the Divine Law Exod. 22.18 The Suasion of such hath been sometimes sought unto and used to entice young Maids to unclean folly But Witches are themselves Imposed upon as well as they Impose on others The Grand Impostor the Devil deceiveth them as they deceive those that seek unto them and the Cures which by these Imps are performed on the Bodies of their deluded Patients tend to the Tainting and Infection of the Soul There are divers other General names for the Students of this Infernal Art as Enchanters Wizzards Dreamers Observers of times of divers of which there will be Instances in the following Collection of Relations But these being mostly Included under the definitions herein specified being much of the same Import and Signification it will be Superfluous to mention in this place but the further Notion of those Black Scholars will be better discerned as we come to give Relation of their several ways and Methods of their Operations as they appear in the subsequent Chapters Having thus displayed the various degrees and kinds of those Confederates with the Lower World we shall now enter upon the proofs that the Heathen Priests of Old and the Idolatrous Papists of later date have been and are the Great promoters of this Infernal and accursed defection from the Eternal Fountain of happiness and the great encouragers of Daemonolatry as well as Idolatry that is to say of Devil-Worship which is the highest Homage he expects from his Infatuated Vassals and on the Account of which he principally instructs them in the dark and devilish Mysteries of Hell-Craft and Fascination It was alwaies the Custom of the Nations to seek unto their Gods for Counsel in the case of War and other Extremities and as the holy one Commanded his People to seek his face and call upon his name and expresly in the first Table forbids the making any semblance or likeness of any Image in Heaven in Earth or in the Waters under the Earth thereby strictly forbidding all manner of Idolatry so the wicked Angel hath at all times been seducing and alienating the hearts of Men from their Obedience to the Righteous Command by setting up false Gods And as the Prophets and Holy Men of God spake as they were Inspired by the Holy Ghost So the Idol Priests and Pythonists delivered the Devils Oracles to the People They were enquired of and sought unto in relation to future events and Contingencies Nay so far had these Infernal Priests Imposed upon the Biggotted World that their Daemons or Familiars for their Deities were no better obtained Divine Adoration and wanted not their High-places Groves and Altars so this Devil-Worship was Promoted under the Notion of Religion and their Services abounded with the

but Dij Patroni of the Gentiles Idolaters such as were in the Capitol Jupiter in Paphos Temple Venus in Ephesus Temple Diana and such like Alass we seem in our thus thinking and doing to have learn'd our Religion not out of Gods Word but out of the Pagan Poets who say Excessere omnes adytis Arisque relictis Dij quibus Imperium hoc Steterat c. That is to say all the Gods by whose defence this Empire stood are gone out of the Temples have forsaken their Altars And where one Saint hath Images in divers places the same Saint hath divers names thereof most like to the Gentiles When you hear of our Lady of Walsingham our Lady of Ipswich our Lady of Wilsdon and such other What is it but an Imitation of the Gentiles Idolaters Diana Agrotera Diana Coriphea Diana Ephesia c. Venus Cypria Venus Paphia Venus Guidia Wherein is evidently meant that the Saint for the Image sake should in those places yea in the Images themselves have a dwelling which is the ground of their Idolatry for where no Images be they have no such means Terentius Varro sheweth that there were three hundred Jupiters in his time there were no fewer Veneres and Dianae we had no fewer Christophers Ladies Mary Magdalens and other Saints Oenomaus and Hesiodus shew that in their time there were thirty thousand Gods I think we had no fewer Saints to whom we gave the honour due to God And they have not only spoiled the true living God of his due honour in Temples Countries Cities and Lands by such devices and Inventions as the Gentiles Idolaters have done before them But the Sea waters have as well special Saints with them as they had Gods with the Gentiles Neptune Triton Nereus Castor and Pollux Venus and such other In whose places be come St. Christopher Saint Clement and divers others especially our Lady to whom Ship-Men sing Ave Maris Stella Neither hath the fire scaped their Idolatrous Inventions for instead of Vulcane V●sta the Gentiles Gods of the Fire our Men have placed Saint Agatha and make letters on her day to quench Fire with Every Artificer and Profession hath his special Saint as a peculiar God As for Example Scholars have Saint Nicholas and Saint Gregory Painters St. Luke neither lack Souldiers their Mars nor Lovers their Venus amongst Christians All diseases have their special Saints as Gods the Curers of them The Pox St. Roche The falling evil St. Cornelis The Toothake St. Apollin c. Neither do Beasts and Cattle lack their Gods with us for Saint Loy is the Horse-leech and St. Anthony the Swine-herd c. Where is Gods Providence and due Honour in the mean season who saith the Heavens be mine and the Earth is mine c. But we have left him neither Heaven nor Earth nor Water nor Country nor City nor Peace nor War to Rule and Govern neither Men nor Beasts for their diseases to cure That a godly man might justly for zealous Indignation cry out O Heaven O Earth and Seas what madness and wickedness against God are Men fallen into What dishonour do the Creatures to their Creator and maker And if we remember God sometimes yet because we doubt of his Ability or will to help we join to him another helper as if he were a Noun Adjective using these sayings such as learn God and St. Nicholas be my speed such as neese God help and St. John to the Horse God and St. Loy save thee thus are we become like Horses and Mules which have no understanding For is there not one God only who by his Power and Wisdom made all things and by his Providence governeth the same and by his Goodness maintaineth and saveth them Be not all things of him by him and through him Why dost thou turn from the Creator to the Creature This is the manner of the Gentiles Idolaters But thou art a Christian and therefore by Christ alone hast access to God the Father help of him only These things are not written to any reproach of the Saints themselves who were the true Servants of God did give all Honour to him taking none unto themselves and are Blessed Souls with God But against our foolishness and wickedness making of the true Servants of God false Gods by attributing to them the Power and Honour which is due to God only And pa. 48. It is further added If answer be made that they make Saints but Intercessors to God and means for such things as they would obtain of God That is even after the Gentiles Idolatrous usage to make them of Saints Gods called Dii Medioximi to be mean Intercessours and helpers to God c. The homily calls it a Lewd distinction of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For it is evident that the Saints of God cannot abide that as much as any outward Worshipping be done or exhibited to them and to attribute such desire of Divine Honour to Saints is to blot them with a most Odious and Devilish Ignominy and Villany and indeed of Saints to make them Satans and very Devils whose property is to challenge to themselves the Honour which is due to God only see pa. 50. And pa. 54 he proceeds but in many points they have far exceeded in all wickedness foolishness and madness particularly in this they pass the folly and wickedness of the Gentiles that they Honour and Worship the Reliques Bones of Saints which proves that they be Mortal Men and Dead and therefore no Gods to be Worshiped which the Gentiles would never confess of their Gods for very Shame And after a great many ridiculous practices of theirs in reference to the Reliques are reckon'd up the Homily concludes that they are not only more wicked than the Gentiles Idolaters but also no wiser than Horses Asses and Mules which have no understanding Great pitty it is that so useful and pious a detection of the Idolatries of the Roman Church should be neglected to be read in such a time when they have the Impudence to face us down with their bold and false denyals of their Ethnick Doctrines and practises Hereby we see what Opinion the Reformed Church of England hath of their detestable Polytheism or making a plurality of Gods In this they act exactly as the Holy Scriptures speak of the workings of Antichrist with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness and teach up the very Doctrines of Devils That the Original of this Saint and Angel Worship was from the Heathen is plain from Nicephorus a very Credible Author in his Church History book the 15. cap. 28. Where he informs us that one Peter Gnapheus an Heretical Bishop of Antioch in the fifth Century which was before the year 500 was the first that Instituted the Worship of the Virgin Mary and that her name should be called upon in the publick Prayers of the Church which is likewise testifyed by the Historians of Magdeburg

that people They have amongst them a vast number of Priests which they have in high veneration and a prodigious accumulation of Rites and Ceremonies And though the Turks in their extended Empire do forbid the use of Idols yet we find in Knowles his History of them that they have amongst their Priests abundance of Conjurers which they call Wise or Cunning Men by which they maintain a Correspondence with the black Inhabitants of the Infernal World So that tho they do not permit the use of the more lawful and liberal Studies they yet give themselves up to be Scholars and Disciples to the most interdicted Mysteries In Lappland they maintain such an ordinary Correspondence with the expulsed Spirits that a Lappland Witch is almost grown to a Proverb with us And though it be common amongst the Inhabitants to Converse and Revel with their Daemons and Familiars yet the Priests among them generally acquire a dexterity in the Art above what the rest can pretend to So that they do as ordinarily train up their people in those Black Arts as we do ours in Trades and liberal Sciences There was in the year 1677. or 78. a Book printed Intituled The History of Lappland which gives a full relation of their many Methods of raising their Spirits and of divers forms and shapes in which they ordinarily shewed themselves to their Invocators and conversed with them sometimes like a Satyr sometimes in the likeness of a Man and there is amongst them such a kind of Familiarity maintained as if they were of the same Country and Descent Amongst the many ways they have to call the Spirits to their Attendance none is more in use then that of a Magical Drum they have and in great esteem amongst them they are very well described in the Book above mentioned and I have lately seen one of those Drums in Gresham Colledge it is all over marked upon the vellam with a sort of Necromantick Characters somewhat like the Arabick letters but doubtless a sort of Orthography taught by the Black Master of the Infernal Science When one of these Drums is beaten with the addition of some Diabolical Ceremonies and Incantations the Spirit presently attends and either answers to what is demanded out of the Drum or else appears in some form in a place assigned him and there resolves the matter for which he was invocated It is notorious amongst all Historians that the people of Lappland sell Winds to Merchants for certain Voyages by which they much enrich themselves But I fear I have stretched this Chapter beyond its due length though I have used all possible brevity to contract it I shall therefore here put a period to this and hasten to the seventh Chapter CHAP. VII Confederacy of several Popes and Roman Priests with the Devil Such the principal Incouragers and promoters of Idolatry in the Church HAving as succinctly as I could given an account of the Gentiles and Jewish Idolatry with the mischievous Consequences thereof in the former Chapters My Method now leads me to relate in this Chapter how fatal Idol-Adoration hath been and must still be to those that continue it tho under a different denomination So that Rome Antichristian will appear not to come short of if not to exceed the Daemonolatry of Rome Pagan I shall therefore first begin with a list of some of their Popes as I find them Registred by the Learned and Ingenious Mr. Wanly in his Wonders of the little World page 473. where out of their own Authors and particularly their Celebrated Platina he gives a Catalogue of divers of them who stand Recorded for Conjurers and such as have had Familiarity with the Devil And here it ought not to pass without good Observation that in the first Centuries before their Bishops had made a defection from the humility and purity of the Evangelical Doctrine we find none of them branded with that blackest of Characters but after the Apostacy from the Primitive Simplicity had gradually obtained among them then came they to fall off from the Worship of God himself to a down-right contracting with if not Worshipping of the Devil We will first observe by what degrees this defection obtained upon them For 1. Alexander the first introduced that which they call Holy Water mixed with Salt and ordered it to be used 2. Sixtus the first ordered that Priests should Minister in linnen Surplices 3. Faelix the first appointed yearly Sacrifices in memory of the Martyrs 4. Marcus the first brought in the singing of the Nicene Creed and the giving the Pal to the Bishop of Ostia 5. Zosimus brought the use of Tapers into the Church 6. Boniface the third obtained of Phocas a Murtherer of his Lord that Popish Supremacy which to this day is so much stood upon and was the first that Usurped the proud Title of Universal Bishop 7. Boniface the fourth instituted All-hallow day and dedicated the Temple of Pantheon an Idol Temple to the Virgin Mary 8. Martin the first ordered Priests to shave their Polls and to keep themselves single 9. Vitalianus the first first brought Organs in use in the Church of Rome He sent Theodorus and Hadrian into England to introduce the Latin service 10. Leo the second Ratifyed the sixth Synod to confirm the Mass and brought in the kissing of the Pax. 11. John the seventh noted for building Churches and erecting Images 12. Gregory the second Excommunicates the Emperour Leo Isaurus for standing against Images 13. Gregory the third Excommunicates the Emperour upon the quarrel about Images 14. Paul the first Excommunicates the Emperour Constantine Capronimus upon the same Quarrel upon which it was well worth noting that the Emperours who were descended from Idolaters and Persecutors withstood Images being convinced of the dangerous consequences of them when those who pretended to be the Successors of the Apostles were the Introducers of Heathenish Idolatry into the Church of God 15. Stephen the third brought in Worshipping and Censing of Images So the point was gained 16. Martin the second his Father Palumbus was acknowledged to be a Conjurer by which Arts it is said he sought the Papacy 17. Christopher the first is Recorded to have got into the Chair by the aforesaid evil Arts and was therefore deposed and thrust into a Monastery 18. Sergius the third ordained the bearing of Candles in the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary 19. John the thirteenth a man from his Youth polluted with all kind of villany and dishonesty deposed in Council by the Emperour Otho slain in the Act of Adultery 20. John the fourteenth began to Baptize Bells and give them Names 21. Silvester the second was a Magician and contracted with the Devil for the Papacy 22. John the nineteenth given to Magick he took off the Election of the Pope from the People and appointed the Feast of All-Souls 23. Benedict the ninth a Conjurer wont with Laurence and Gratian two Conjurers whom he made Cardinals to wander