Section 10

Althongh there are many prefervatives which will keep and defend men from.all thefe Fafci- nations and Wirchcrafts. which are wrought. by |dtes the arifing of thefe evil Spitics, {uch as.are Coral, | Azoth, and the like, which being ufed,according tee to their due ufe and orderwill well preferve from diy thefe enormities before {poken of... For che pre=lany: vention and prefervation fromthem ts eafie,. buciSorn the cure is difticulr ; neverthelefs it: is poffible.s ini But in fuch cafes, che. proceeding: thereunto. mot they be mavical and {npernatural : From:thence {prung that fayine which {ome ufe, That nonecan better help the bewirched, than chem thar. hurt them: This is a true, faying which cannot be contra- dicted : bur they .which ufeiry underftand nog th
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| Some Witches make and form Images’ in imiithe form and likenefs of fome man which they annotpropofe to themfelves, and conceive in their own ullijminds ; and doftick anail in the fole of his foot, idendjand after this manner hurtthe man , that he in- lt parjwafbly feelech the pain of a nail in his foot, atid itthelis fo cormented therewith, chat he is not ableto dtieljZ0, uneil che nailis pulled out of the foor of the y tiimage ; which-being drawn away, the man is hea- tailed: which noman knoweth better howto do, ydelwthan he that fixed the nail inthe Image; nor ih aliwhere ic was fixed, or what the Caufe of the Dif
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happenerh without any vifble blow or bruife cof*” be perceived; he will nor judge any orherwife," bur thac he is {mitten by rhefe Images, aa Ic istoo often feen. to fall out, that 4 mar pa: fometimes lofeth an Eye fuddenly,° or ish’ ftruck quite blind ; or deaf in one, or both Ears if?! dumb, or fome imperfection in his.fpeech ; croo- bd ked, lame, ot dieth; all which accidents are?” wrought by Wirches , through the divine per- z thiffion: All which are Magical acceptions andf™ torments, and are made and completed by the a Afcendants, uy fo In thefe Cafes the Phyfitians ought to rakef heed, and be advifed, chat when rhey petceivel* fuch kinds of Difeafes ro be fupernatural, rchatf! then chey do nor judge them to be natural Dif-—™ eafes, and fo chink to Cure them wich their com-—*) ' mon Apothecaries Medicaments : For thereby7™ they will reap nothing bur difgtace, which often} " happens to many of them: Ic is acrofs (fay they)#¥ ot dffli&ion by God laid upon them, which nof™ Phyfician can help. Oh you Quackfalvers, it isfl not as yon think, but indeed it 1s a chaftifemenc, M4 by the permiflion of God, wrought by Witches#™ and evil men; wherefore the Phyfitian ought cof"! conGder the Signs, whereby he may know, andfiti judge of the Difeafe : and thereby may inform eg t himfelf which way to effe& the Cure thereof = pit And Medicines areto be ufed,and applied theres i unco. ty In the firft place it is neceffary that he ask chef Parient, How, and in what manner the Difeafe my cook him, or kappened unto him 3 what — ny . the
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iiepite original of che evil, Whether it were. occas twig, ioned by any fall, blow, chrutt, brnife ; or if any bther natural Canfe can be perceived : or thar t tgphere be any Flux,or inward corruption of blood: of ypucif none cf rhefe fgns appear, then let him a- Bi ig@in demand of the Patient, Whether he hach a+ coypy body in fufpirion thar is :m enemy, or one not y vihing wellrohim, chat might b¢ a Witch? If ¢ eee anfwer chat he hath fome miftruft of any fuch, said) en he fhall judge that it hath happened to him byt 4s above declared, Therefore ic is moft necef- ary for the Phyfitias to underftand rightly after ) at manner he isto deal with the Patient, if he icaneitefixe to be perfe&t in this are. But che Ancienrs have not wricten at all any thing concerning this \ppinde of Cure, neither Galen nor Avicenna, nor ronfny other ; we fhall therefore lay down the thyfanner of the Cure in Order, which follows, ‘ofe) «LZ hey who are bewitched, cannot be Cured hey. better, than by hurting again the fame place icnooeticted 5 chat is, by making ( chrough Faith and ; ith} MAgination ) fuch alike member as is hurt, or a, rife a whole Image out of Wax, which he thall jegeeuther anoint or binde upwith Plaitters', where sieto Turnors, Signs, or Spots be, isa prefenc help OF Chae perfon in whofe name it‘fhall be made : (yd che pain fhall ceafe, ec. But if he be {6 be- dvatched, that he is in danger ro lofe an eye , his pearing; or be impeditedin che Generative fa- uty of his privy Members, in his Speech, or neath bis Members made crooked or wreathed a« vwiviy 5then ler there be made an Image of the ivhole body of Wax, with a firm. Faith: upon Sie eae | whick
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which Image let the intent of your imaginatiorp! be firmly fixed; and afterwards let the whole" Image be confumed with fire in due order,Makeffi! no wonder char people bewitched are thus eafilya* Cured: neither be like the Sophifters of the A+! cademies, who {coff and deride at fuch things yay and fay, That chey are impoffibilities, and again fifi) God and Nature, becaufe they are not taught 1 their Schools, 00 It follows then, fince they are true, That ajitd! Phyfitian: ought not ro reft only in thar barefitt! knowledge which their Schools teach,’ but cop learn of old Women, Egyptians, and fuch-likepmté perfons ; for they have greater experience in fuctymin things, than all Academians, Cure We come to {peak alfo of che Dartings andi: Jaculations of all Witches, as the Inchanters andjmat Witches do call chem 3 when they affli& any man,ithe, that they infert athes, hairs, feathers, briftles offul Hogs, fins ‘of Fifhes, and ‘fuch like things into the foot, or fome part of the body; without any fim opening of the skin. thy But how, or after what manner this is done,jpth we fhallnot here fpeak of s le(tif it be known tojony fome, it may be by them made ufe of to do evil 5 fi wherefore we fhall pafs ic over, ir being only ne- uh: ceflary to'write of rhe manner of the Cure, that tiny the fame. likewife: may: be effeéted without fy| opening of the skin, and {uch griefs taken'away. {2 The way and ufe of the. Ancients ‘in fuch kinde fm of Cures; is e/pecially co be avoided, who ufed to fin, lance the part affeSted»with Razors, about the} jh centre chereof,and that very deep, where there Im * are
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ure no hairsjnor any thing elfeto be found.; and doy that way of proceeding, do affli& the Patients Midwith moft intolerable torments, as if they were ‘ediweacked in the hands of the hangman:. for by. the A this kinde of Remedy, very few are Cured, but lingynany have thereby loft cheir lives; Wherefore minis. proceeding is quite to be left, and a better rhrikeo be chofen.: which is :, Let fome quantity, the whole, or half, much or little, of the like injacu- tar ated matter,which may be found:and buried ei- her in an Elder.or Oak, and. fixed with a wedge bowards the Haft ; which. being done,there needs hiiiaot any greater labor, for then that which re- infadjmains may, be extracted from the. body, andthe iCure will follow without ufing any other Reme- dy: But it will be otherwife, 1f the extracted matter be not placed ina right place; whatloever it be, ic cauferh hurr, and diminifheth not the in- jaculated matter. Wherefore it were to be withed,that ic might be extracted from rhe body of man, without labor ot pain, without making any incifion, combuftion, or opening thereof: It dmnejis therefore efpecially to be noted, that the fame wotoughe co be done by the virtue of the Magnes, ,eii#(which actraéteth all bewitched matter to it felft) ly {uch as is Oak-leaves, Celandine, Azoth, and “‘tulpowder of Coral: which if any one of them be ‘hoelby himfelf bound and faftned about the Centre, nyqtn 24 hours ic will extract from the body all fuch tindematcer, as by any fuch means of Witchcraft is edopinjaculaced therein. ee ttt) ifhall only add this one thing, which isa come jheepmnon faying, ufed by many to fay, lam an enemy | Rae z C05
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duly prepared with the hand and: age by which among’many people, are held ‘ant),, accounted to bé fuperftitious and wicked.) Operations, atid againft natures that they, are idolatrous operations , and that thq help of the Devil is ufedco bring chem tq perfe@ion. They fay, How canit be polis fible, chat Metals being enoraven upor},; only with Charaéers, Letters and Words, ny fhould have any fuch power, unlefs theyjy; were prepared through the Graft and Altus fiftance of the Devile To thefe: we An: {wer, I hear you give Credit tothem, ancy, do believe chat they have power and vir * tue, being prepared by the help of the Deni, vil, and do operate through him; And are you not able alforo believe that God§ who is the €reator of the whole Work of Nature, hath as. much power in Heaven, and alfo that he giveth power and virtue), to thofe operations in Metals » Herbs gio} Roots, Stones, and fuch likethings ¢ Buthy; imyour judgment you feem ro make thehhy, Devil more wife and powerful, than thély, only Omnipotent Lord God, who of his). great Mercy, hath Created all Meralsjin Herbs, Roots, Stones, and all shingshh,, whatfoever, that live, or move, in, offy upon the Earth, Water and Air; and hath endued
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perience evidently, That che Changes and (Mutations of time, have great and power- ul ftrength and operation ; and that thiefly in Metals, which are made ina cer- jain determinate time, as it is manifeft to nany, and very well known to us by fun- Iry experiences. No man likewife can each chat Metals are dead fubftances, or catilo want life; feeing their oyls, fale, ful- )hur,and quinteffence are the greateft Pre- ervatives, and have the greateft ftrengch ‘ind virtue to reftore and preferve the life pf man, before all other Simples, as we all ceach in all our Remedies. affigned ukhereunto: Certainly if chey had not life, Avtihiow could they help Difeafes, and reftore ithe decayed Members of the Body, by put ing life, and ftirring up corporal vegera- ; bifion in them ¢ as in Contractures, thé iellitone, Small-pox, Dropfie, Falling: fick- liefs, Phrenzy, Gout, and feveral othe of if ifeafes which for brevities fake I omit to aiention. Therefore I fay, That Metals, stones, Roots, Herbs, and all other Fruits i, pave life inthem, though of divers kinds, pccording to their Creation and growths is.. H
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and the due obfervation of the ume conf, tingent thereunto. . Fer the times havjp, in them fingular power and. virtue 5 whicll’,, manifeftly;appeareth, aod may, be prove), , by, fundry. Arguments, which we fhall ac}. here produce, fince they are fo commonly. known. For. it is not ourinsent here w trearof things thac arefocleerly known yi but of more:weighty and undifcerned fe}, crers, which to-fence feem contrary. Chars@ers, Letters, and Signes, dq, have feveral, visiues and Operations |) wherewith, alfothe nature of Metals, chi, conditionof Heaven, andthe influence a she Planets,with their operations, and th), fignifications, and proprieties of Cha), racers, Signes, and Letters, and che off | fetvation'of the times,do-concur,and, sere], together. Who can object that thefeSienf™ and Seals have not their virnue and-operd}, ” tions, one for infirmities in the head, bein} ” prepared, in his time,;. another, for. ch 4 fight ;. anorher for gzavel in the Reins an 4 Stone, rc. but every one is to be: prepaf” xed. in bis-own proper time, and -helpeck {uch and uch infirmities, and'no others af drink is. to. be taken within: the body, any not otherwife ¢ buc.all, this. is to-be donf™ by means; by the help and affiftance of th "| Fathe}™
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