| Concerning certaine words which are often vsed in this | |
| Treatise of Spirites, and diuers other diuinations of things | |
| to come. Chapter.1. | [Folio.1.] |
| Melancholike persons and madde men, imagining things | |
| which in very deed are not. Chapter.2. | [Fol.9.] |
| Fearefull men, imagine that they see and heare straunge | |
| things. Chap.3. | [Fol.14.] |
| Men which are dull of seeing and hearing, imagine many | |
| things which in very deed are not so. Chap.4. | [Fol.16.] |
| Many are so feared by other men, that they suppose they | |
| haue heard or seene spirits. Chap.5. | [Fol.21.] |
| Priests and Monkes fained themselues to be spirits: also | |
| how Mundus vnder this colour defiled Paulina, and Tyrannus | |
| abused many noble and honest matrons. Chap.6. | [Fol.23.] |
| Timotheus Aelurus, counterfeiting himselfe to be | |
| an Angell, obteined a Bishoppricke: foure Monkes of the | |
| order of Preachers, made many vaine apparitions at Berna. | |
| Chapter.7. | [Fol.28.] |
| Of a counterfaite and deceiuing spirite at Orleaunce in | |
| France. Chap.8. | [Fol.37.] |
| Of a certaine parish priest at Clauenna, which fained him | |
| selfe to be our Lady, and of an other that counterfeited himselfe | |
| to be a Soule, as also of a certaine disguised Iesuit Frier. | |
| Chapter.9. | [Fol.41.] |
| That it is no maruell if vaine sightes haue bene in olde | |
| time, neither yet that it is to be maruelled at, if there be any at | |
| this day. Chap.10. | [Fol.45.] |
| That many naturall things are taken to be ghostes. | |
| Chapter.11. | [Fol.49.] |
| A proofe out of the Gentiles histories, that ghostes do | |
| oftentimes appeare. Chap.12. | [Fol.53.] |
| A proofe out of the histories of the auncient Church, and | |
| of the writings of holy Fathers, that there are walking | |
| spirits. Chap.13. | [Fol.62.] |
| That in the bookes, set foorth by Monkes, are many ridiculous | |
| and vaine apparitions. Chap.14. | [Fol.65.] |
| A proofe by other sufficient writers, that spirits do sometime | |
| appeare. Chap.15. | [Fol.68.] |
| Daily experience teacheth vs, that spirites do appeare to | |
| men. Chap.16. | [Fol.71.] |
| That there happen straunge wonders and prognostications, | |
| and that sodain noyses and cracks and such like, are heard | |
| before the death of men, before battail, and before some | |
| notable alterations and chaunges. Chap.17. | [Fol.77.] |
| It is proued by testimonies of holy scripture, that spirites | |
| are sometime seen and heard, and that other strange matters | |
| do often chaunce. Chap.18. | [Fol.85.] |
| To whom, when, where, and after what sort, spirits do | |
| appeare, and what they do worke. Chap.19. | [Fol.88.] |
| The Chapters of the second part. | |
| The opinion or beleef of the Gentils, Iewes, and Turks, | |
| concerning the estate of soules seperated from their bodies. | |
| Chapter.1. | [Fol.98.] |
| The Papists doctrine touching the soules of dead men, | |
| and the appearing of them. Chap.2. | [Fol.102.] |
| What hath followed this doctrine of the Papists, | |
| concerning the appearing of mens soules. Chap.3. | [Fol.110.] |
| Testimonies out of the word of God, that neither the | |
| soules of the faithful, nor of infidels, do walke vpon the | |
| earth after they are once parted from their bodies. Chapter.4. | [Fol.114.] |
| Testimonies of the auncient Fathers, that deade mens | |
| soules parted from their bodies, doo not wander here | |
| vppon earth. Chap.5. | [Fol.116.] |
| A confutation of those mens arguments or reasons, | |
| which affirme, that dead mens soules do appeare. And first, | |
| that is answered which certaine do alleage, to wit, that | |
| God is omnipotent, and therefore that hee can worke | |
| contrary to the ordinary course of nature. Chap.6. | [Fol.123.] |
| That the true Samuel did not appeare to the Witch in | |
| Endor. Chap.7. | [Fol.127.] |
| A confutation of their arguments, which woulde haue | |
| Samuell himselfe to appeare. Chap.8. | [Fol.133.] |
| Whether the Diuell haue power to appeare vnder the | |
| shape of a faithfull man? Chap.9. | [Fol.140.] |
| Moses and Elias appeared in the Mount vnto | |
| Christ our Lorde: many haue beene raised from the dead both | |
| in bodie and soule, and therefore soules after they are | |
| departed, may returne on earth againe. Chap.10. | [Fol.145.] |
| Whether the holy Apostles thought they sawe a mans | |
| soule, when Christ sodeinly appeared vnto them after | |
| his Resurrection. Chap.11. | [Fol.148.] |
| Concerning the holy Fathers, Councels, Bishoppes, and | |
| common people, which say that soules doo visibly appeare. | |
| Chap.12. | [Fol.151.] |
| Whether soules doo returne againe out of Purgatorie, | |
| and the place which they call Limbus puerorum. | |
| Chapter.13. | [Fol.155.] |
| What those things are which men see and heare: and first | |
| that good Angels do sometimes appeare. Chap.14. | [Fol.159.] |
| That sometimes, yea and for the most part, euill angels | |
| doo appeare. Chap.15. | [Fol.163.] |
| Of wondrous monsters, and such like. Chap.16. | [Fol.164.] |
| That it is no hard thing for the diuell to appeare in diuers | |
| shapes, and to bring to passe straunge things. | |
| Chap.17. | [Fol.167.] |
| Diuels do sometimes bid men do those things which are | |
| good, and auoyde things that are euill: sometimes they tell | |
| truth, and for what cause. Chap.18. | [Fol.171.] |
| The Chapters of the third part. | |
| God by the appearing of Spirits doth exercise the faithfull, | |
| and punish the vnbeleeuers. Chap.1. | [Fol.175.] |
| What the cause is that in these our dayes, so fewe spirites | |
| are seene or heard. Chap.2. | [Fol.183.] |
| Why God doth suffer straunge noyses, or extraordinary | |
| rumblings to be heard before some notable alterations, or | |
| otherwise. Chap.3. | [Fol.186.] |
| After what sort they should behaue themselues, which | |
| see good or euill spirits, or meete with other straunge | |
| aduentures: and first how both Iewes and Gentiles behaued | |
| themselues in the like cases. Chap.4. | [Fol.187.] |
| How Christian men ought to behaue themselues when | |
| they see spirits, and first, that they ought to haue a | |
| good courage, and to be stedfast in faith. Chap.5. | [Fol.190.] |
| It behoueth them which are vexed with spirites to | |
| pray especially, and to giue themselues to fasting, | |
| sobrietie, watching, and vpright and godly liuing. | |
| Chap.6. | [Fol.193.] |
| That spirits which vse to appeare, ought to be iustly suspected: | |
| and that we may not talke with them, nor enquire | |
| any thing of them. Chap.7. | [Fol.195.] |
| Testimonies out of the holy Scripture, and one example | |
| whereby it is prooued, that such kinde of apparitions are not | |
| to be credited, and that we ought to be verie circumspect in | |
| them. Chap.8. | [Fol.201.] |
| After what sort the faithfull in the primatiue church, vsed | |
| themselues, when they met with spirits. Chap.9. | [Fol.204.] |
| That sundry kindes of superstition haue crept in, wherby | |
| men haue attempted to driue away spirits. Chap.10. | [Fol.206.] |
| That spirites are not to bee driuen away by cursing and | |
| banning. Chap.11. | [Fol.214.] |
| After what sort we ought to behaue our selues, when we | |
| heare straunge cracks, or when other forewarnings happen. | |
| Chapter.12. | [Fol.216.] |
F I N I S.
The first parte of this
Booke, concerning Spirits walking by night.
Wherin is declared, that Spirits and sights
do appeare, and that sundry strange and
monstrous things doo
happen.
CHAP. I.
Concerning certaine wordes whiche are often vsed in this
Treatise of Spirits, and diuers other diuinations of things
to come.