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mudfhave come to an evil death, fo that they haveei- NS Cy a vittheher defperately drowned or hanged themfelves, a ZA it lior killed chem(elves fome other wayes ;and de- S\, S ks 5 tilfparting from God their Saviour , have given. SS 2 ie dghemfelyes to the devil : and for chat caufeydo Q Sh i x tel wander’about,and are referved by the devil unto — ., YR {aiiche day of the laft Judgement. ~ Sos ie} = There have been fome who have fuppofed § 9 id chat chey are vaine Phantafies,and chat they haved) \> S|
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Moy} And many do chinke that they are the Ine VW). ¢ fiso) chanrments of the Magicians. | There are others who having feen andheard/N
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Laft Judgement, or untill their cuftody thereoff , is found out ; and this opinion they receive from the words of Chriflt, where he faith, Where’, your treaiure is, there will your hearts be alfo, Bnt I donot fee any reafon why they fhonld un-f derftand the heart forthe Spirit , bue that theref, is much difference berween them; wherefore If" fay chat all che Judzemerts which are fpoken off... before, are but falfe opinions, when as thefearef? to be underftood to be halfe-men, that beas rulef. and wander in che four Elements;and in che firftf and priftine times of nature,they have beentaken) and worfhipped in {tead of God: Thefe are they ’ of woom God Almighty admonifhech us in char Commandment of the firft Table, faying, that we fhall not have any other Gods but him, nei- ther inthewaters ( where the Nymphs are un-|. derftood ) nor under the Earth, (by which hel" meaneth Sylphes or Pygmies) For the Lord our? God isa Jealous Ged, and for fuch an offence punifherh the fins of che Fathers uponthe Chil- dren unto the third and fourth cenerarion. The Mountain of Venus in Ivaly , was much ' poffeffed with thefe Spirits: for Vems her felt was a Nymph, and thar Mountain was by a compari- fon as her Kingdome and Paradice: But fhe is dead, whereby her Kinydome.ceafeth ro bes buth where orin what place is there any mention heard to be made of'themr, as in former’ times}. when Danhanferus and many others entred nj™ unto them? Neither ‘did they Invent thefey™ fables sthey were of {uch a nature and conditi« on, thar they loved :all-‘men that ‘loyed chem ; | and}
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} uttral and everlatting death, and are both de- ¥\ 4, ye Prived of everlatting life: wherefore whofoever\ | 4 oy piveth or fubscribeth himfelf unto chem, thefame — fone CVEDE happeneth unto him as to them: Let every SS eils(OD€ therefore have a fpecial care unro himfelf, \ and confider well what he doth, before he fub-
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ehat the Devil hath done this for this caufe,eithehir(| that che man hath not kept his promife and comb jy; pact with him, or chat the time which he covelyi manted.and {ub{cribed himfelf unto him for,is exy,,; pired;and chat now he receiveth his laft reward), \, Buc thefe opinions do not proceed from chit. fountaine of cruth ; for the office of the Devi}... conrajneth no fuch thing in his power, but raj, ther he {uggefteth unto men, evil chonghts andy, Cogitations, whereby he draweth them away, from obeying the will and commandments o}j, (, God; by which means he maketh chem to be th¢, ereate(t finners, and toforget and deny God... their Creator: and afterwards draweth then}, into defpaire, fothat they cannot any more bd... able to pray unto God : wherefore the Elemen}, y rary Spirits are moft like unco the devil,and often}. times they are execurioners of the wrath and... vengeance of Gods neverthele({s they do often, times alfo admonith and warne us, and do watch over us and defend us from many dangers, angq,. fomerimes do deliver fome from prilon, and afiy,. ford to men many other helps. = Wherefore fich men as are burdened and © verwhelmed. with grief and forrowful Imagina: tions, are not to be left alone, but ought to b entertained with various and pleafanr difcourfe which may delight their mindes, and expel rheis forrow:The Devils likewife are in thefe cafes not idlesbut as bufie as thofe cerrene Spirirs,& do eaft- ly cemprfuch kinde of men, From hence it comes to pafs, thac fome people, efpecially women tr child-bed,have been fo oppreffed in the night it chei!
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hambers,where the doores and Windowes are Baur ;buc the Sylphes and Nymp/eseafily can.
| O chon of lictle faich! as doubrful as Peter, MS Who fufferet thy lelf to be roffed with every finde, and art eafily drowned: thou thy felf are he caufe hereof, by reafon of thy little,dubious, tits d yeake faith ; alfo thy evi! theughts do draw Ot Myee unto this: Thou haft alfoin thy felfa fe- ‘iter Maones that arcracteth every like. This is
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th itl ra eth Iron and {teel,above the Quinrefferice olttad tarry Magnes,which maketh the dejeéted Wate d hidden Iron to appear:for the Celeftial Mag- Hes is of fuch power and virtue, chat from the ‘Iitance of a hundred thoufand miles, even from
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it’s exaltation. p A ple Wa powerful operation the Imagimatio}e in hath, and how. the fame cometh to its hig and exaltation, may be feen by an example takehre, from experience in the time of peftilence,wherdyy i in the Imagination poyfoneth more then anjpm infected Aire.;.and againft which, no Antidoce hey, neither of Mithridate nor Treacle, nor any fuc. prefervarive,can exhibit any helpe; unlefs. the {uch an Imagination do pa{s away and be forgotly,, ren, nothing elfe willhelpe. So quick and {wiflye,, aRunner and Meflenger is the Imagination}, ni chat icdorh not onely fly out of one houle intdyy. another, out of one {treete inco another, bur alfe mot fwiftly pafferh from one City and Countryji; inco another ; forhat bythe Imagination onely,, of one perfon , the Peftilence may come intdyy): fome whole City or Country , and kill manypie, thonfands of men: as may be underftood, by... this example,, Pur cafethere were cwo brethren}, dearly loving one another, and ane of them live in France and the other travels into Jta/y, who} is taken away by the Peftilence in the middle}, way, and newes fhould be brought to the bro-}.,,, ther living in France, that his brother in Italy, was dead of the Plague; ac which he being at-}.,; frighted, it pierceth through his Skin , into hishi., Imagination,fo that he cannot forget its and it ish...
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|] of Gold:and Silver, which do fend forch rheic ) idhowersfo long, until they thine bright acain
vhich 2s not before rhey are perfectly cleare,and __||eparated from the other itnpure Metals: After tlie fame manner alfo the Imagination {trikech shithacke; and worketh it felf unto the highett de- ‘uithree; after there will be a relucency thereof; ihetthow it is received ina veffelin the man, as the 4 i5erme of a man is received in the ‘ Matrix of lddthe woman, whereby the conception of the wo» iylithan immediately follows.So doth the Peftilence i tio from one to another, fo long till ic fpread o- siiMer a whole Cicyor Country: Ir is good there- iNiisre to keep far off 3 not becaule of any cosrapt aio r infegted Aire, for it infeets nor che Aire, (as ¢ lli>me Fonorane people fay’) but chat they may iKiliot fee or héare rhe operacions of ché Peftilenice; ounkiiyhichmtay infe& their mindes.: Bue thofe peos one Je co-whom any fuch newes ‘is reported as be- eM@>refaid, ought nor to be left alone , neither Mint they be fuffered co mufe filently with them- od tf:lves, whereby the Imagination may labour int citieir mindes ; but they are to be comforred,
ulitind the Imagination is to be expelled from their ”
jlihinides 5’ by exciting them co:mirth and’ joy : niddeVeither let any think that I fpeak this as'a fable, : i's though it fhould feern to be a light bufigels 5 i lifeither is the remedy fo eafie for opprelt Tma~ ig Minations; for the Imagination is as it were pitch} ollivhich eafily cleaveth and fticketh ; and foone olltakech fire, which being kindled,is not fo eafily inde E extine
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plifh allthe heroick noble a&s of fuch a many 0) he fhall not onely attain to be an old Souldier, Kt Out fhall accomplith his defires in attaining to mi che like honours. i This hach fuddenly happened’ to many. wha ’ tithave followed the procels of their Imagination, 'lm@fo that they have attained to great honour and) ‘ahd iches, | NS eine Objet. But [ome may Objett, that forture;’ . itl Prength and induftry hath helped them, and promo UMted (uch men 3 alfo , that fomehave werne herbs, NM yoote’s and [Pones, &cC. by reafon of the virtue where- | bold of, they could not be overcome nor wonnded. ica” “ Anfr, Vay chat all thefe things are confotts
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W E fhall declare fomching concerning Trea- {ures hid under the Earth ; and fhew fome meanes whereby they are known and yorten, ‘And alfo what things, fomcimes evil, and yon- | derful, do happen abour them, cos The firtt ching to be treated of, fall be the fignes whereby they are known, thac it my be certainly made manifelft, and not out of meere opinion onely. , Nore that it cometh to pafs,where fuch places >” are,thatthere do appear many Phantaimes, an ‘S\ {omrimes immoderate ftrange noifes are heard , +, wherewith they that go out in the night are | pr Reucke with terror and feare; fo thar fomumes they are caft into acold fweate, and their haire of their head {tands upright,which for the moft part happens on the Sabbath night. Alfo if any lights do appear and feem to fall abour thofe | 2 places, and there their light 1s extinguifhed and soeth out; and fomrimes there feeme to be No great flathes of wind in their houfe whole the 2 SS greafure is, and where it is hid ; and there. are S feene many vifions and {trange Phanrafies = and > many firange Rumors and noifes: are _,there i % ae St - heard and do fhew chemfelves moft commonly \>.*\. abour the middletime of the night: Aind the \, S caule of thefenoifes and fights are » coun ~ thac