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. XXXVII.
A pleasant miracle wrought by a popish Priest.
WHat time the Waldenses heresies began to spring, certain wicked me••, being upheld and maintained by diabolicall vertue, shawed certaine signes and wonders, whereby they strengthened and confirmed their he∣resies, and perverted in faith many faithfull men; for they walked on the water and were not drowned. But a certain catholick priest seeing the same, and knowing that true signs could not be joined with false doctrine, brought the body of our Lord, with the pix, to the water, where they shewed their power and vertue to the people, and said in the hearing of all that were present. I conjure thee O divell, by him, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 I carry in my hands, that thou exercise not these great visions and phan∣tasies by these men, to the drowning of this people. Notwithstanding their words, when they walked still on the water, as they did before, the priest in a rage threw the body of our Lord, with the pix into the river, and by and by, so soon as the sacrament touched the element, the phantasie ga•••• place to the verity; and they being proved and made false, did sink, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 lead to the bottome, and were drowned; the pix with the sacrament im∣mediately was taken away by an angell. The priest seeing all these things, was very glad of the miracle, but for the losse of the sacra∣ment he was very pensive, passing away the whole night in tears and mourning: in the morning he found the pix with the sacrament up∣on the altar.
Notes
Inspeculo exem∣plorum, dist. 6. ex lib. exemplo∣rum, Caesariis, exempl. 69. Memorandum it is confessed in popery that true miracles cannot be joined with false doctrine; Ergo neither papist, witch, nor conjuror can work mi∣racles.