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.

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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.
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Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
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[London] :: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert ...,
1651.
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Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800.
Demonology -- Early works to 1800.
Occultism -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62395.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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CHAP. XXVIII.

That popish priests leave nothing unconjured, a fomre of exorcisme for incense.

ALthough the papists have many conjurations, so as neither water, nor fire, nor bread, nor wine, nor wax, nor tallow, nor church, nor churchyard, nor altar, nor altar cloth, nor ashes, nor coales, nor bells, nor bell ropes, nor copes, nor vestmens, nor oile, nor salt, nor candle, nor candlesticke, nor beds, nor bedstaves, &c; are without their forme of conjuration: yet I will for brevity let all passe, and end here with in∣cense, which they do conjure in this sort✚. I conjure thee most filthy and horible spirit, and every vision of our enemie, &c: that thou go and depart from out of this creature of frankincense, with all thy deceipt and wickednesse tat this creature may be sanctified, and in the name of our Lord ✚ Jesus ✚ Christ ✚ that all they that taste, touch, or smell the same, may receive the virtue and assistance of the Holy ghost; so as whereso∣ever this incense or frankincense shall remaine, that there thou in no wise be so bold as to approach or once presume or attempt to hurt: but what uncleane spirit so ever thou be, that thou with all thy crast and subtilty avoid and depart, being conjured by the name of God the father almigh∣ty, &c. And that wheresoever the sume or smoke thereof shall come, every kind and sort of divels may be driven away, and expelled; •••• they were at the increase of the liver of fish, which the archangell Raphael made, &c.

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