bl Li] ¢ MINMSH aes wae 380m MAGIA ADAMICA: OR The Antiquity of Magic, AND The Defcent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfeét, and full Dilcoverie of the true (alum Terre, or the Magiciant Heavenly Chaos, and. firft Matter of all Things, By EuGentus Philelethes, <° Eye Me at Bina ; parapaStiy rlulevory, x3 valen wiry, Eyiflin Enid, ¥ LoNDON: = Printed for fob» eAllen, and are tobe fould at the Rifing Sun in Pauls Church« yard. 1656.CE ee at MAGIA ADAMICA: OR The Antiquity of Magic, AND The Defcent thereof from Adane downwards, proved. Whereunto is: added a perfea&, and full Difcoverie of the true Calum Terre, or the Magicians Heavenly Chaos, and. firft Matter of all Things. By EUGENIuUS Philalethes. A. Eq’ DU tt Benross xarapaStin sln'gver, % yailen tne Bilt in Enchirid. a LONDON: | Printed for ie Allen, and are to be fould at the Rifing Sunin Pasls Church- yard. 165 6.an Ess 2s Fy he 08s Gy Fe ky 1G: CXS: Se Sel: PRE PTET, TRE PES FES TE Be To ou The moft Excelently ac~ * complifh’ d, my beft of Friends, Mr. Tuomas Hansuaw. i, 1 was the Qzere of Solomon, and it a argu- 3! edthe Supremacie of Se. his wifedom, What "e+ was belt for Man to Le all the dayes of bis Vanitie un- ler the Sun? If E with my felfe fo Vif’, as to know this great 4f* A2 farePap. 2: rents. The Epifule Dedicatorie. faire of Life, it is becaufe you <+ 3/13. What doth hee doe but Sit to manage ét, Twill not adv ifuinéve from Bed to Boord, and pro- you to pleafures,to build Houfes,ide for the Circumftances of thofe and plant Vine-yards : to inlargewo.Scenes > To day hee eates and your private Poffefsions or to muldrinkes, then. fleeps, that hee may tiplie your Gold and Silverdoethe Like to morrow. A great Thefe are old Errors, likeVitriol toHlappineffe ! to live by cloying Ree the ftoxe So many falfe Receipt sictitions, and fuch as have more of which Solumon hath tried beforeNeceSity, than of a free pleafure; you, Aid behold all was vanitic, andVhis is Tdem per Idem, and what’ vexatim of Spirit. 1 have fome+s held for Abfurditie in Reafon, times feen /éions as various, astan not by the fame reafonbe the they were great, and my own ful-vue perfettion of Life. 1 deny Jen Fate hath forc’d me to feveralaot but Temporal blefsings con- Courfes of Life, but I finde ‘not onduce toa Temporal Life, and by hitherto, which ends not in SurConfequence are pleafing tothe’ fets,or Satietic.Let us fanfie a marB ody, but if we confider the Soule, as fortunate as this worldcan makehee is all this while upon tke him; A3 wing;The Epifile Dedicatorie. nig, like that Dove fent out of Qvere Tu Anime Canalem: the 47k, fecking a place to refti I have a better Confidence in your fhee isbufied ina reftlefs InquiptiOpinion of mee, than to tell you, az,and though her Thoughts, ford love you : and for my prefent want.of true Kuawledg-, differ notBoldzefs , you muft thank your fram Deires, yet they fufficienth¥/f, you taught me this Familayi- prove fhe hath not found her Sadie. | here trouble you with a nafiition, Shew me then but dlort Difcour rfe, the B rokage and pratticewhercin my Sonle thabl reppveake Remembrances of my former, without ‘any further Difquifsrimand more imire fludies 3 Itis nd. Lan for this is it, which Svdomon callsboer’d Peece and indeed no fit, Pre- Pexation of Spirit, and you fhewfert, but I beg your Acceptance as of mee, What is Beft for Man to doe Caveat, that youmay fee, what’ under the Sun. Surely, Sir, this ishaprofituhle Aff ebtsms you have not the Philofophers fone, neitherPurch fed. propofe it not for your willlundertake to define it, butlaftraétion, ‘Nature hath already give me leave to {peak to you intd”.sited you to her Schoole, and ¥ the Language of Zoroaften : would make you my J edge, not uadre myThe Epifile,@e. ill, If therefore amongft your ferivus and more deare, Ree tirements, youcan allow this Tri- e but fome few Minutes , an think. them mt Loft, you will Per- feet my Ambition, You will place mee Sit, at my full Height, and though it were like that of Statis us,amonglt Gods and Stars,1 fhall my Py nickly find the Earth again, and with the /eaft O pportunitie prefent my felf Sir, - Your moft humble Servant, BP SEStHLESEd Sys Tz; Ppa Hy. Seporgpperon om 2y Learned, andmuch : Refpetted friend, Mr. Marnew Haruerr R Know you ¥ are notGreat, there’sa bet g A ter ttle, you POTS are Ge might have fed thi i J iene toa ‘Piznacle,made 7 he Dedication high : but | to what purpofe ? Great- fs is a Thing 1 cannot admireT he Epiftle admire inothers , becaufe I defire it not in my felf-At is a proud Folie, a pain- ted ceremonious Aavat. There is nothing ACece/- fariein it,for most mea live wit bout it,and 1 may not applic to that, which une Reafon declines, as we as. my Fortune. ‘The Truth is,\ know no 4fe o Hog bens and Titulados, \ they are inan hyamor to give, lam no Begg” “ay receive. \ look not ar rECEIY hing \ Dedicatorie. thiré Sir, but what the Learned ave jarichd withall, fadgement, and Candor. You are a trne Sriend to Both,and tom third felf. This Difcourfe 1 fhuffd up for your » fpare-houres, for it’ was borin a Vacation,when] did not fo much labour as ’ play. 1 was indeed a Or ftatéd to forme Levity, my Adverfarie proved fo . ampoten J rtisht not draw out df my forees, becaute T A2 knewThe Epifile knew not where to em- ploy them. You have here a fimple Bedlam sees ed,and whipt fer his ma Tricks.A certain Mafler of Arts of Cambridge, &a ‘Poet inthe Lol & Trot of ° Spencer Ais fi uppos dhe is ; in-Z.ove with his Fairie- Queen, & this hath made | himavery Fi -. Dedicatorie. loofnes,& hath fuch [quirts oe the Mouth, his Rea- ders cannot diftinguith his Breath from his Greech. He isa new kind of Py- . thonift, {peakes no man ‘knows what,& his Bus have much of his Belly. ButThave ftudied a Cure anfwerable to hisLifeafe, If in P hilo- : Ihave bin fomwhat Cor- : : decda fcur- | 7of’ve,and in defiance to Sep! oo ; the old Phrafe, I have ted thing, Hee istroubl'd | %a/h'd a Moore clean. I with a certain Splenetic Phave put his Hog-noddle loof-The Epifile,8c. in pickle ne tne world, a Soe sbjett Sir,& now ¥ muft tell you, my 7 drefstoyour felf hath on thing of Dury it it. I a no fooner left Milke or Meat,but my fr’ lca . ning, came from Jo#. ‘bee . pleas’d to ace Difb eC ept this final, Acknowledgement from Your Pr alley fox? ant Front Heliopel> " e i e. 1650. ayes alter cli¢ Preffe was Some eandoe my Adyerfarie’s MALKO-MANGO, & here I preferit © Non-fence-This . ) What 7 "But for thy Souze Thou h sft fpoit'd Jul like FT. th T A The Scagypie’s F Arguments ar hall chou and.I to D, attic or Thearin, Stegeseeerae-teeccaneaces as Sy St 455 oS9bd005 ef On the Author's Viadizaut Replieto the {curvie, fcribling, Colding Alazonamaftix “Twas well he did fault chee, Could not have hit ro thy Advantage fo, . has he ftyles Agorance, is Depth in Seafes He thinks there is no shid/,but Commen Fenft. Had 2acoy liv'd inthis waknowing Age, And feen Experience laugh’d at on the Stage, pelts would bave rifen in his Blow To fidean Art, which Nature hath made Good? Do’ think that Knowledee comes to thee Taaate, As Preaching on a fudden to thy Pate> « No fiare ; thou art a fimpler xrether, fic | Imutt 4/aram thee with Bue and Cry, Presbyterian fare, id pure, Cand Caro tells thee fo) that, and ylaifter’d Plate too, y Poet, who doth Lend hee faalles in cleuctand from end yo end, Dd nut one right apply'ds you doe miftake Pbilofophie, and mike is Lopic afagicall, what is unkuonn S Conjuration, frothic, and high-flomn, ife, you Areight erom boarfe, ot wh belungs to.Tapic Come, ifpsiation. come fou the Taal Lirwiie 2 or thy Fee What ave > from whence? a An Academic Rate, holy an thou know ft n Whara\ what 2 iste not lawful for my (Iearned ) friend 28508. a8 Aen Pie aet ety cie crea teete ata i i ne hs neon greateft Ge ? oe $ Br thal wee-envic him, “caufe hee hath mare 7 fs i OF Nautre’s favonrs fecupon his Score ? TEP Er eae, GS NES EG) Ni Tell mee in carneft do'ft thou think “tis fc BPH HPS Eis i To breve all shoe Arif’ writ 2 r SEV Sr eeP TPough he was blinded, yot Experience can Fe Me Madey and cvake a Clearer mat. o the Reader T£ Digbic once but view thy vayling Ucine, Hee’l think th’art Atoms, not yet foim’dto brains 3 x Phan to the bot chou got: Oh there’s the Lofe! f There’s no F ixiy in Thee, th’art all Drofe. Then fing another Sovg, thou'chat controules Our Metemplychofis of Bodi’ed "Soules = Yer Platonifi chou arc, buccanft not tell Where thefe myllerious fpivits have their Cell, Thus Ambrofé flung, dark Perfius on the ground, A blind Cantempt! becaufe he was profound. Look neerer' man, can'ft not diftingsufh yet Beewixe the highe/f, and the Lowel wit. ‘When Cynthia to the watrie Teths hics Wee know nor there what Treaferes the ¢/piet, What Margarits in Chry[eall flicames, the fends Onely tous her Influence, and lends Ell-fare the Dode- chedron | I have exa~ mined the Nativi- tie ofthis Book by a Caft of Conjlellated aes s and Deuz rable. Trash ( 8 ce tels me this Pa~ ee fayd the witty Aleman dyLie wate eg a te forme the Teor of | this Senor path 4 kind, large Light, Bat thou poore, trape Ratton! | ike Scycbian Dogs, do’ ft bark again: the Moon. wel e, T7 ‘Great, rare Bugenits ! doe not thou delay 4 all a from amongft 7Zex, but fhe rath Thy courfe, becaufe his Lire lyes in thy may. ‘all alone, poore and naked. S weat Saye thy white skin for dace, and bee thou rit travail’d very fa . She had not Surprisid like Ermins, by the daw6ing Plate hich y far, when ftanding on sein co viyy tal) Meridian, let thy Star igh mountain, fhe perceiv'd a 2 Create a Rubric to our Calendar, Taiz to pafle by : I Iv'd a great ‘and wee will uffer Anthems to chy fivine asa Chari y : Inthe middeftof ic So long as Date can give a Name to Time, avsot atrended with Kings. mo P.B, AM.Oxonitnf B PrincesTo the Reader. Lintnat a I yernors, and 1n ' Princes and ¥ oto like aa ain i eal ommanded the sa a eee} Poor Truth, fhee ae core this pompous Squadron P wh er ar: chariot came OV! d but when the €barta ho was there | : Lady Lie whe fin aint here ice of her, aoe ne i fo pageants to fay, hone {comful- i ne < r Here hither bi ro come neo ebence [be eee eo To | y caval oe? and bat weed as the | fe mow eftions fhe anfwerc’ ly and thefe Ques Truth is, very ime Lie Sues Whereupot on her, and P ndsher to wail comman' for that wa é ei Thanks then 0 he Dice | tions of ¢ 7 put to the Confignrarr mce with m ve acquain' ane ae am and poe: fere tae Book is like to attar7 TO- my the Confid my part contented, though mf To the Reader, vation of this durty Reare be very waufe= ou, and able to fpoile a fironger fto- mach than mine, Ir hath been faid of Old, None! Planta veritates Super tera vam, Trueth is an herb, thac grows not here 4e/ow : and can I expe that thefe few feeds, which I featter thus in the florm and tempeff, fhould thrive to their full eaves, and Harve > But Reader, Jet it not trouble thee to {ee the Trut come thus behind, it may be there is more of a Chafe in it, than of Atten- dance, and her Condition not altogether fo bad, as her Station. If thou art one of thofe, who draw up to the Chariot, paufe herea little in the Reare, and be- f all het® fore thou doft addreffethy felf'to _ari- that in the Reare, and em place Off tote! and his Lady s Lie, think not th ot to the {tars} Cour tfhip loft, if thou dock kiffe the lips of poor Truth. It is nor my Inten- tion to jeff with thee, in what I thall write, wherefore veadthou with a good good made Man Faith, what I will tell thee with « Conference. God, when hee firt BeTo the Reader. it isthe proprietie of their Na- Decale ost “thus wee eae philofopber being taken at a tea ‘ene Difcourfe, will Dlufh, as if Doe 1 i mitted fomething unworthy of bim{el > andtruly the very Senfe of this Del ace prevailes {0 farre with fome, they had rather per/if? in their Error, ans oe fend it againtt the Truth, than acl ps dedge their Infirmities; i which vefpeé a J make no Queftion but many Peripa tetics are perver|ly ignorant. Te may bee they will fcarcely heen ai a fpeak, or ifthey hear, they will not un derftand : howfoever I advife them 2 wilfully to prevent , and hinder a glorious end and perfetlion, for which the very Author, and Lather of ieee created them. It isa terrible thing tO procfer ariflotel to Aelobim, and a " dema the Truth of God ,to juftifie t 7 Opinions of Afan. Now for my be 7 dare not be fo irreligion, as to thin’ God fo vain, and improv To the Reader. workes, that he fhould plant in Afan a Defire to know, and yet deny him Know- ledge it felf. This in plain termes were togive me Eyes, and afterwards fhute mee up in Darkaefs, left I fhould fee with thofe eyes. This carneft Longing, a ; and bufie /7quifition wherein Afentyre | themfvlves to attaia to the Trath, madeacertain Waller of Truth {peak in this fafhion. Ergo liquide apparet in hac Mundi flrufluri, quam cernimus, a~ liquam triumphare Veritatem 5 qua to- ties rationem noflram commovet, agitat, implicat, explicat ; toties inquietam, to- ties infomnem miris modis follicitat, non fortwitis, aut aliunde adventitiis, fed fuis & propriis, @ originarits Nae ture Illicibus ; gue omnia cum non fiant | fruftra, utig, contingit , ut Veritatem Eorum que (unt, aliquo tandem opportu- xo tempure amplexemur, Ic is clear therefore ( faith he) that in this Fabric of the world, which we behold, ticre is fome Trath that rules ; which 77uch fo B 4 oftenTo the Reader. often ftirrsup, puzzles, and helps our Reafon , fo often follicites her when fhee is reftlef, fo often when thee is watchfull, and this by range meanes, not cafual and adventitious, but by ge- nuine provocations and pleafures of na- ture ; All which Motions being not to no purpofe , it falls out at Ja(t thac in fome good time wee attain vo the true Knowledge of thofe things that ave. But becaufe I would not have you build your Philofophie on Corals and whi(tes, which are the Objefs of little Chil- dren, of whom we have {poken formet- ly, Twill fpeak fom what of thofe Ele- meants,in whofe Contemplation a 442 ought to employ himfelf, and this Dif~ courfe may ferve as a Preface to our mbole Philofopbie. Atan according to Trifmegiftas hath but two Elements it his power, pamcly Earth and Water : To which Doftvine Ladde this, and 1 have it from a Greater than Hermes, That God hath made AZaz abfolute Lord To the Reader. ihe 7 fife ae and from the the Di(penfationth of, all the fortunes : oth good of man both and bad doe proceed. A ae . According to ¢ Bees and [eafure of this ‘Subspace tN are rich or poo t r poore, and h poy ea fe: and withall the yhe can make his tunes conftant, but hee i : that kno! i not,though his Eftareb ene r t e never fo gre. a ona /lipperte Foundation. rook ut thee then,and confider how thou 5 E art compaffed with infinite Treafures. > a . ete but thou art {0 d//zd,thou ee CT = mad, thou dooft think they ete b els xo ufe ti ES of them, for thou doeft ehieve ee aowledge is amecre Peripateticall ° att, and that the Frets of it are not ee words. Vf this were true, I pee never advife thee to [pend one “a rtaeal thy “feupon Learning, I ea pal rft be onc of thofe fhould ru- ; ea I Lidraries and Vaiverfities inthe world, which God forbid, any good ChriftiasTo the Reader. ‘h 2 fhould defire. Look up then t , Heaven and when thou fect t < a leftiall fives move in their fwift an ae fous Circles, think alfo there are ere below fome cold Natures , dt A ver- look, and about which cy wee “inceffantly to beat, and concord a Confider again, thatthe Me tile pirit, { pee ere ial jiet eee otherwife might fe TE thou doeft —— Tower and fix thy Thoughts where ; 4 fe re.chat thy wigs may be like ¢ pale te nie aia atthy Heeles ; ene wile fi the Earth farrounded with i o ter and that Water heated, and fats by the Sax and his larrs,.0 pote ee ee tlieaes thickened, i eal OY aie ulated as witha Rennet : outo rates all things. two Nature gene i oe and Silver, Pearles and Diamonds ing vr, and falt Oo} are nothing els but water, Ps To the Read the Earth concotted. Behold ! I havein a few words difcovered unto thee the , whole fy.item of Nature, and her Royal | High-way ot Generation. Ti isthy Du- © ty now to gmprove the Truthjand in my | Beoke thou may ft, if tLou ert vile, find thy Advantages. The foure Elemexts are the Odjetis, and rmplicitly the Sub= jecls of Atan, bur the Earth is sarifitle. T know the common Man will flare at this,and judge me nor very fobcr,when Tafirmethe Earth, which of all fub- lances ismott groff and palpatle, to be invifiéle. But oa my foule it is {9, and which is more, tic Eye of Alan never far the Earth, nor can itbe feea with- out Art. To make this Element ifi- ble, is the greatefl [ecret in Magic, for it is a amsraculons Nature, and of all o- thers the mof holy, according to that Computation of Trifmegillus, Calum, Ether, Aer, @ facratifina Terra. As for this Fxculent, grofs Body upon which we walk, it is a Compofk , and no Earth,To the Reader. Earth, but it hath Earth in it, and even that alfo is not ovr magical E arth. In awordallthe E/ements arc us{ible but one, namely the Earth, and when thou haft attained to fo much perfettéon, as to know why God hath placed ‘the Earth in obfcondito, (hou haft an #x- cellent Figure whereby to vifible. Beginning che Earch was a mire, or quivering kind of Jelly, foirit; Cam adbus When ab yer the Earth ing, {baking fubfiance , make it Sold. The fame feedsin thefe words ; know God him(elf, and how he isvifible, how ia- ‘Hermes afirmeth, that in the Quake- it bee ing nothing el but water congealed By the Incubation, and beat of the Divine (fayth hee) Terra tremula effet, Lucente fole compatta eft. was a@ quiver- the San after- wards (binizg upon ir, 1id compat? it,or Aurhor in- troducet® Gol, fpeaking fo the Earth, and impregnating her with all forts of Cumq; manus e- que validss impleffet rebus, q#e in Na- tara, To.the Reader. pee Ambienteq, erant, G pugnos valé- ee conftringens 5 dume ( inguit ) 6 Sacra (erra, qua Genitrix omnium es futui | née alli re egena Videaris; eee : sae oportet Deum habere, expandens, demifit Omnta ad rerum Conflitution ms ea When God (faith he ) had fi led his powerfull hands with thofe pings which are in Nature, and in en compaffeth Nature, then Rees clofe again , hee faid; q ordained tobe the ne have ! char are 01 thou fhouldft want or thing whe prefently opening fuch’ bands as it bee comes ee ‘9 have, hee powr'd awa Ithat was Nec: flary ro the Confti tution of things. Now th reaning of itisthis; ‘The Holy s nivit moving pro ae Chaos, which UGdion forme a “ compare to the Lacubation of with his bear comibsicat O1fe et i ci ni fold Influences to the Matting Bor aa weewee know the enfe beat but fo did God Suaand they have. cotved wis isa pupernat -sothet Orar Hee didtive and bri Chick whence that oth Zoroaller, Onisia fib avo Tg Neither did he oncl but he allo preferves rerperuall Efex ol Hence hee is ftyld i Pater Tain To the Reades. . sua doth not onely dif- fom other fecret Iaflax 5 (o in the Creation, and, all theflarrste- ;. -ll Sunor for Godhimfelf e, according le of Zaroajler, cit AMundum, Ler te refore batch the Afatter, x our the fecret Effences, as R iS brought out of the fbeil, er Pofition of the fame ne gerita elf. ygereraleny then, them now, wirh a € heat and [piréts nthe Oracles, Dita; , Latcens , Althea Thi To the Reader. This is Advertifement enough : And now Reader, I muft tell thee, 1 have met with fome /ate Attempts on my two former Difcourfes, but trath is Proof, and I am fo far from being over- come, that I am no where under- ftood. When I firft ey’d the Liéell, and its Addreffe to Philalethes, 1 judg d the Author ferdous, and that his Defigz was not to abufe mee, but to znforme Himfelfe. This Conceit quickly va- | nith’d, for perufing his ferepart, his | Eares (hot out of his ski, and prefen- ted him a perfe Affe. His Obfervati- o“s are One continucd KéaZ, and the Oyffer-Vrhores read the fame Philofo- phie every day. ’Tis a Scurril, fenfe- leffe Piece, and as he well ftiles himfelf, a Chip of a Block-head. His qualities indeed are tranfcendent abroad, but they are peers at home: his Afalice is equall to his Ignorance. I laugh’d to fee the fooles difeafe: A ex Of Gale, which made him (#7 at theTo the Reader. ~ "To the Reader MN the Chops, whiles another held the | it, for. defie . Preffe for him like Porphyries Bafon to ; becaufe rhe cate ate tai the Rost, Ariftotles Well. There is fomthing ¢ the Yagee@ oF it Tdoe theretea? but in him prodigious : his Excrements mit this pecce to the sad ener CO run the wrong way, for his mouth : Protestzon but its ohn a without any ftooles, and hee is fo farr from man, | cA#flimat of that Seatethet aitd ‘the that hee is the Aggravationto a Beaft. it., Forthe Reft, as I at widerflands Thefe are his parcs, and for his perfon, will not 4eg their 4 See force, fol Lturn him over to the Dog-whippers, not bee great by avo ation. 1 would that hee may be well lath’d, a pofterzo~ Brtefes. They ma ee vhacd rich by vi, and bear the Brrata of his froat im- fi and I fhallbe whel what they will, printed in his Reve. I cannot yet find | am. . a fitcer punifhment : For fince his Head could learn nothing bur Non- fense, by fequel of parts, his Tayle f{hould be taught fome fenfe. Eugeri.Phila* This is all, at this time, and for my prefent Difcourfe, I with it the common fortune of Truth and Hone- lie, vo deferve well, and hear ill. As for Applaufe, 1 fith not fo much in the Ayre, asto catch ur, Ir isa kind of Popularitze, which makes mee foorn| it,Re Hat I fhould profeffe Magic in this Ditcourfe, and Juiifie + he Profeflors of ie withall, is p /mpicticwith Many, bue Reo Zigion with Mec. Ivis'a Canfei- ence Vhave learnt from Ana thors greater chan my Self, and Scriptures greater than Both. Magicis nothing Is but the #1/dom of the Creator revealed and planted in the Cyeatare. Ieisa-Name (as -4- rippa faith ) apf Evangelio non iagratum, not iftaftefull to the very Goljel it lf, At agici- as were the firft Attendants our Saviour met Nithallin-this world, and the onely Phrlofo- C2 pier4 Magia Adamica, or © | but in Love ; tor Ircceive my Principles, and believe Them being received Solo erga Reve- Lastem amore ,oncly out of my Affection to Him that reveales them. Thus our Savior would have the Jewes to 1 believe Him fit for his ows fake,and when that i" fayled for His Workes (ake ; But fore ‘Drvenes believe onely for “/r#/fotle’s fake, if Logic ren~ ki ders the Tence probable, chen it is Creed, if not Hi tis elcoran. Neverthelels ziriftorle hintelf, Ki who was firtt Pedlar to this ware, and may for Sophiftric take place of Zgvarins in his own a) Thar Conclave, hath lett us this Conceffion ¢ Ee fs, We fay wy rb wadec inv Dex j opepee, That Rea fon is fi - gor onely ject to Error, as well as Opinion, Aud P/vlo- we 3cieMees bons expounding thele words of his, («) Nox HN principle [olen [eientians, fed ey Prencipinm Selentia Salto ot “ele aliquad dscinins, Quo Terminos cogvofei- {Scence to mys, hath this excellent and Chriftian’obler- Bebe Lome vation, “Apne ep imsiaat rire rciange ene 1 ina f} Thing grated ve Duley Ui ese s "Opes F va roury yy Hia Ts Genes ey Odean indeed ({aith hee) the mrad, to bee the I findthe Principle, or firft Curfe of Knowledge, nes Temese ari, bat that of God, which ts above us; but tae king che Termes to be Lrte:l thual, and Divine Furmes, Thus according to ririflotie (if you trult the Commenr) the Divine mind is the firtt Canute of Kaowledge : for if this Mind once un- folds hinfelf, and theds Ais (ght upon us, hae The Antiquitie of Magic, 5 fhall apprehend the Jtellettuall Formes, or ‘Types of all things that are within him, Thele Formes hee very properly calls ‘ope, becaule they termsinat, or end all Things : For by them the Creature is defined, and hath his Indrvidwa~ tion, ox to {peak with Scotus, his Hacceitie, by which heis This,and not That. This now is the Derzonftration we fhould look after, name- ly the Expanfion, ox opening of the Divine Miad, not a Syllogifm, that runns perhaps on all Foure. If once wee be admitted to this Communion of Light, wee fhall be able with the Apoftle to give a Reafon for our Faith, but never without it, Now you are to underftand that God unfolds not himlelf, xi magno Colo prits patefatto, uniefle the Heaven of Man bee firltunfolded, Amovete ergo velamen Intel CAgrip: lett us veftri, Cat of the veile that is before your faces, and you fhall bee no more blind. God is not Goda far off, but God at hand. Behold (faithha) I rand at the Dooye, and Ayock,: Open your felves then, for it is written, If any mun opens, I will come in, and Sup with Him, Thisisthe inward CAty(icall, not the outward 7 ypicall Supper, and this is the Spiri- tuall Baptifia with Fire, not that Elemental one with warer, Truely lam much comforted, when I confider two Things ; Firft, that AZ2- gic did afford the firft Profiffers of Chriftianity, 4 whole6 Magia Adamica,or whofe Knowledge and Devotion brought them from the Ealt to Jerufalem. Secondly, that this Art thould fufter as Religion doth,and for the very fame Reafon. The main AZotives, which have occafion’d the prefent Rexts, and Divifi- ons of the Church, are the Ceremonies and Types ufed init. For without Controveifie the -4 po- files intticuced, and left behind them certaine Elements ot Signes, as Water, Oile, Salt and Lights, by which they fignified unto us fome great, and reverend ALy/teries. But our Refor- mers miltaking thefe things for fuperftitious, turn’d them all out of Doores. But verily it was ill done: for if che/haday of Saint Peter healed. fhall not thele jhadowes of Chrift doe much more? The Papif# on the contrary ‘knowing not the figzification of thele Types, did place a certains Juherent holine(s in them, & fo fell into a very dangerous /dolatrie.T omit many Things which he invented of his own, as [m.iges, Holy Lumbes, and Meligues adding thele dead Boxes tothe Primitive, and beaute- ous Bodie of the Church, Now to draw up the Paratell The Magicians, they alfo inftituted certain Signes, asthe Claes: to their Art, and thele were the fame with the former, Namely Water, Oile, Sult and Light, by which they tacitly difcovered unto us their ‘Three Princt ples, and the Light of Nature, which fills and actuats The Antiquitie of Magic. 1 a@uats all Things. The common Man peru- fing their Books, but not their Senfe, took Can- les, Common Water, Oile,and Salt, and began to Confecrat, and exorctfe them, to make up his damnable and Devilith A¢-gic. The Ma- Gicians had a (Maxim amonytt themfelves, Quod nulla vox operatur in Magia, nifi prius Det voce formetur, That no word is efficaci- ous in A7aesc, unlelsit be firft animated with the word of God, Hence in their Books there was frequent mention made of /crbum, and Sermo, which the Common Man interpreting to his own Fanfie, invented his Charmes, and Yocabula, by which he promifed to do wonders. The (Magicians in their writings did talk much of 7rémgles and Circles, by which they intimated unto us their more fecret Tiiplicitre, with the Rotation of Nature from the Begin- ning ofher #eck , to her Sabaotk,By this Cxrcle allo.or Rotation they affirmed that Spirits might be bound, meaning thac the Son/ might be sni- tedto the Body, Prefently upon this the Com- mon Man fanfied his /r¢ang/esand characters, with many ftrange (ebirebs or Figures, and a Circle to Conjure in ; bue knowing not what Spirit that was, which the AZz¢rcfans did bind, he laboured, and ftudied to bind the Devill, Now if thou wile queftion mec, -who thele AMagicians were? Tmiatt tell thee, They were Kings,3 Magis Adamica, or Kings, they were Priefts, they were Prophets + Men that were acquainted with the Subjeanté- al, Spiritual Myfteries of Religion, and did deal, or difpente the outward 7 ypical/ part of it tothe Peop/, Here then wee may fee how Ma~ gic came to be out of Requeft ; For the Lamers and Common Drviws, who knew not thee Secrets, perufing the Cerememal, Superftitions Trab of tome Seriblers, who pretended to Afagic, preicribed againit the care it felf as Improzs, and Antichy :jtian fo that it was a Capital jis to profelle it, and the Punifhment no lefle chan Death, In the Interim thole few who were Mafters of the Science, obferving the firft Monitories of it, buried all in a deep Si- Tence. But God having fuffered his Truth to be obfcured for a great time, did at Jaft fire up fom refolite and active fpirits,who putting the Pen to Paper, expell’d this Cloud, and in {ome meafure dicover’d the Light. The Leaders of this brave Body, were Cornelis Agrippa, Li- banins Gallus the Philofopher, fobtmes T rite miss Geor cis Vents, Johannes Renclin.called in the Greek Capsion, with feverall others in their feverall Daycs, And afier all /hefe as an Vier tothe /r2ixc,and one borne out of duc time, Ev ccnties Poilalether, Secing then Ihave publickly undertaken a Province, which 1 might have governed pri vauly The Antiquitie of Magic. 9 vatly with much moe Content and Advantage, I think it not enough to have diftover'd the 4_ bnfes and misfortunes this Scicace hath fuftered, unlels Iindeayour withall to demonftrate the Antiquitie of it, For certainly it is with e4res, as itis with Afen, their Age and Cominnance are good Arguments of their frrezerh, and Ln- tegritie, Molt appofit then was that Check. of the Agyptian to Solon: O Solon, Solon Vos Grace femper pucriefis, nullam habentes an riquams Opintonen, mllam Difesplinans tempor ve canam ;You Gracians (faid hee) are ever childith, having no Ancient opinion, no Dilci- plinc ofany long ftanding. But as I confefle mny felf no aAnriquaric, {ol with fome Selden would ftand in this Breach, and make it up with thofe Fragments, which are fo nect ‘Du/f, that 74me may put them in hisGlafs. I know for my own part, it is an Enterprife I cannot fufficiently performe, but fince my hand is alrea~ dy in the Bag, I will draw out thole few Peb- bles V have, and thus 1 fling them at the Mark, This 47¢, or rather this A4y/Rerie is to bee confidered feverall wayes, and that becaule of its Jeverall Subjcéls, The Primtrive, Original Exiftence of it isin God himielf: for it is no- thing els but the prattice, or operation of the Divine Spirit working in the matter, uniting Principles10 Magis Adamica, or ‘Principles into Compounds, and relolving thofe Componnds into thei Principles, In this Senfe wee feck not the Antiquity of it, for it is e#= crnal, being a Notion of the Divine Wifilome, fand Exiftent before all Time, or the Creation of it. Secondly, we are to Confider it in a Derie vative Senfe, as it was itnparted, and commu- nicated to Man,and chis properly was no Birth, or Beginning, buta Difesverte, ot Revelation of the Arr. From this ime of its Revelation, wee are to meafire the Antiquity of it, where ic fhall be our Task to demonttrat upon what Motives God did reveale it, as allo to whom, and when, The Eye difcovers nor beyond thar rage, wherein it is Converfunr, but the Eure receives the Sound a great way off. To give an experi- ene’d Teflimonie of Actions more Ancient than our {elves, is a thing impoffible for us, unlefle wee could look into that Gle/s, where all Oc- currences may bee teen, Pall,’ Prefeut, and to Come, Imutt therefore build my Di(evrfe on the Traditions of thofe Men, to whom the Word both rites and Ady/Picall was intru- fled, and thefe were the J-wes in General, but more particularly their Cabalifis. Itis not my Intention to reft on thele Rebbins as Fundamene tals, but I will juttifie their Affertions out of Seripture, and intercain my Reader with Proofes, The Antiquitie of Magic, 1x} Proofés, both Divine and Humane. Finally, will pafle out of Jude into egypt and Grace, where againe I fhall meee with thefe Atyfteries, and prove that this Science did ftream (as the Cfim/Ps fay their Salt-Founeais | doth)out of Juric,and watered the wholeE arth, Teis che conftant Opinion of the Hebrewes, That before the Fall of 4am there was a more plentifull and large Commur.son berween Heaven and EarthGod and the Elementsthan there is now in ourDays.Bur upon the ranigref= fion of the firlt Man, CAL:/cuth (lay the Caba- Lifts) was cut off from the / nfo that a Breach was made between both #ir/ds,and their Cha- nel of Lnflwexces ditcontinued. Now ALalcuth is the Jnvilible, Archetypall Moone,by which our vefibleCeleftinll Moone is governed, and impregnated : And truly it may be that upon this Rerreate ofthe Divine Light ftom Life rrors, thole Spots and ‘Darknes, which we now fee, fircceeded in the Body of this Pluvet, and notin her alone, but about the Sw# alfo, as it hath been difcovered by the Tel-(cope. Thus (fay They) Ged to punith the Sin of Adam withdrew himfelf fiom the Creatures, fo that they were not feted with the fame meafire of Influences as formerly. For the acre Moone which is placed inthe mnwn Haf- chimain, t© receive, and‘onvey downe the Voflux12 Magia Adamica, or OG Tnflax of the fix fuperior Invifible Planets, was (as the Jewes affirme ) either feparated from the L/i, or her Breu/és were fo fealed up that fhe could not difpenfe her A4i/k to Foferiors in that happy and Primitive Abr dance. But becaule I would not dwell Jong on this point, let us heare the Caba/éft himielt flare ic in’a clear, and appofit phrale. Initio Creations Mundi Divina Cobabrtatio erat defcendensin Inferiora, G cnm effet Divina chabstutto mfersisreperti funt Cali oe Ter- vawsti, os viacs Fonts, ge Canales abtivi in perfeitionc, > wrahebunrgume Superiore ad Tita forts, or invenicbaray Dews complens (uperné & Lnfernc, Fexit Adina primis, & peccavit, & diruti furt Defeanfiss, Ge confracti (wie Canales , fit Aqua-ductus, ceffuvit Divina Cobshitatio, divifa eft Socictas. »Thatis: In the Beginning of the Creation of » the world God did defcend, and cohabitat » with Things here below, and when the Di- > vine Habitation was here beiow, the Hea- » vens and the Earth were found to be uni- > ted, and che Vital Springs and Chanels were yin their perfection, and did flow from the >, Superior to the Inferior World, and God » Was found to fill all Things both Above, >and Beneath. Adam the firft Man camic, and 2 finned, whercupon the Defcents fiom above ware » We The Antiquitie of Magic. 13 »» Were reftrained, and their Chanels were bro- > ken, and the Water-Courfe was no more, » and the Divine Cohabitation ceafed, and the »S0cietie was divided. Thus far my Rabbi; Now becaufe I have promiled Serspture to my Cabalifm, Ywill fabmie the Tradition to ALe- Jes, and truly that Rabbi allo is of my fide, for thus] read in Genefis, And to Adam he faid, Becanfe thovs haf eaten of the Tree, whereof 1 ©! commanded Thee faying, Thou {halt not eate o it: Curfed is the Gretiid for ie fake, in es row fhalt thou eate of it all the Dayes of thy Life, Thornes and Tebftles fhall it bring forth wnto Thee, and Thou fhalt exte the A, orb of the Field. Inche fiveat of thy face fhale Thow eate Bread, untill thon returne unto the Ground, for ont of it walk thou taken, for Duft Thou are and'to Duft fhale thow returve. This is the Curfézand Adam was {a fenfble of it, that he acqusined his pofferity with it. For’ Lamech Pprophelying of his Son Noah, hath thele words. This fame fball comfort ws, woncerning ofr Cap. $.¥) work, and Toyle of onr Hands, borane : Ground, which the Lord hath enrfed, Klee ” indeed was accomplifhed in fome fenfe after the Floud, as the fame Scripture tells us, dnd the Lord {aid in bis Heart, Y syill not A /gaine surye the Ground any more for Mans fake Here now we are to confider two Things : Fir, 414 Lagia Adamica, or Firft, The Cur/e it {elf, and next the Latitude of it, To manifelt the Nutsre of the Curfe, and whac it was, you mult know, that Go eflentially is Light, and Ev#l/is Darkyes.’ The Euill poperly isa Carruptioa that immediatly takee place upon the Removal of that_which is Good. Thus God having removed his Candle~ firck and Light from the Elements, pretently the Durkyes and Cold of the ALatter pravai- Ied, fo that the Earth was necrer her firjt De- formitie, and by Confequence leffe frwitfull and Mall, Heaven and Hell, that is Light and Darkwes, are the ¢wo Extremes which Confummat Geod and. Evill. But there are fome mean Bleffings which are but #7 ordine, or difpofing to Heaven, which is their 4#/? per- festion, and fuch were thefe Biffings, which God recalled upon the Tranfgreffion of the -firft Man, Againe there are fome Evils, which are but Degrees conducing to their aft Extremitie, or Hell, and fuch was this Curfe or Evill, which fuceeeded the “Yranfgreffion. Thus our Saviour under thele Mortons of Blef- fedand Curfed comprchends the Inhabitants of Light and Darknes : Come you Bleffed, and Goe you Curfed. In a word then, The Cisrfe was Nothing elfe but an -4é repealed, ora Reffraint of thofe Bleffings which God of his ancer Goodnes, had formerly communicated to his The Antiquitieof Magic. 1 his Credtures : And thus I conce ve th ; é . ve ii and pe and full irwsonie beeween UM hes seal i: Cc He ifts. But to omic ther Depofi- i is nough g-eatand high we are not to teek But i point for the Teffimunie of an Aneel. e inter of Efdras, ainongtt his other Darterious Infiuctions, hath alfo this Do- Can. 7 . 7 Adams tranfercffid my Statutes, Virryt2y 1 then was that decreed, whi i were the Entrances of the Bond nek: Het pom, fl ef ferrin aid Traell 1 bey are but Sow and Evull full of perils, and very pairfult eee ntrances of the Elder World, were ride and fire, aed bravele forth Immortal a ir fei for ae Latitude of it, Te c ened Now inne led Chiefely for M1an, who was the om ly Canfeofis, bue Extend-d to the Elements ae EArt and for his fake. For if God a grelade him fiom Eden. and Continued | eis in her Primitive Glortes, he had but Sees anaes Paradsfe into Another, | anal fendoa Cpecic aerate Se Ste e Man tible World, Buc in Tea ewer not Mee Fel Earth alone that fuffered in this Conf Ea pus crear alfo . For faith God is nt, Thou art Curfed above ai = tel, and above every Beall of the Field, a ‘hee D Cuttel16 Magia Adamica, ~ Cattel and Beaffs alfo were curfed in a) meafire, but this Serpent above Them all. To this alfo agrees the Apoftle in his Epifile x0 ve "Ys Romans,where he hath thefe words. For ae Creature was made (ubjett to Vanttte, es Ey I. ingly, but by Reafon of him, who att. b fitb~ jeifed the fame in hope. Becaufe the Creature “it felf alfo, (hall be delivered from the Bon age of Corruption, intoche Glovions, Liberty of the Chuldren of God. ‘Here by the Crearure he underflands not AZaa, but the ‘nferton pecies, which he diftinguifheth from the ee of God, though he allows them éorh the re Liberty, But this is more plaine out at fubfeqtient Texts, where he makes a cleat dif ference borween Mur. and the whole Creation. “For we know (faith he) that the whole Creation crosncth, and travarleth rogether in paine ea Till now, And not only They, but our felves al fo, which have the firft fruits of the (piri, oor swe or felves groune within our elves, wate ting for the Adoption, to wit, the Rei me fa of our Body, Here we {ee the fir# Frairs of the Jfpirit referred to AZan, and why not fome fe cond fibordinat friits of it to the peat General? for as they were curfed in the ‘al of ALan, for Man's fake, fo it teems in his Re~ flitution they fhall be alfo bleffed for bis fakes xt of this cnough, Let us now fimme up.an But of this enough, Let id The Antiquitie of Magic. 17 Confider the feveral inconveniences our firlt Parent was Sibjell to, for they will be of ome ufe with us hereafter. Firft ofall, he was eje-; éted ftom the prefince of God, and expofed to the Adalice and Tentations of the Deviil, He’ was altered trom Good to Bud, fiom Tucorrup. sible to Corruptible: In she Day(trith the Scrip= ture) Thor eate/f- thereof, Thon Shalt dye the ‘Death, He was excluded from a Glorious Pats radyfe, and confin'd to a bale world, whole Lickly infeéted Elements conlpiting with his own Nature, did aft and haften thac Death, which already began to reign in his Body. Heaven did mourn over him, The Earth, and all her Generations about him. He look'd up- onhimfelfasa Felon, and a Murtherer, be- ing guilty of that Curfe and Corruption, which ficceeded in the »or/d becaufe of his fill, as wehave fufficiently proved out of the Mo~ Saicall and Cabalifticall Traditions, He was Igvorant, and therefore hopeles of Life eternal, and for this Temporal prefent Life, he was not acquainted with the Provifions of it. The &= Jements of Husbandrie were aot as yet known, there was neither Houle nor Plow, nor any of thofe manuaff Arts, which make up a worldly providence, He was expofed to the Violence of Rains and Winds, Frofts and Snows, and ina,word deptiyed of all Comforts Spiritial, Da and18 Magis Adamica, or and Nutural, What thoald 1 fay more? He wasameer ftranger in this World, could not diftnguith (Ak adscines from Poyfons, neither, washe skilld in the ordinarie preparatsons of eAL ateand Drizk., He had xo Vittrals rea- dy to his r bage cf che Earth, to thache mutt cither ftarve, or feed as Nubachadnczar did, with the Beatts of the Field, He heard indeed fometin.es of a “Tree of Life in Eden, bac the Vegetables of this world for ought he knew might be fo ma- ny Trees of Dearh, I conclude therefore that he had foe Inffrnttor co initiat him in the wayes of Life, and to thew him the intricate and narrow p:ths of that wildernefs. For with- our queftion his outward (Mijéries, and his snvard “De(paire were Motives whereupon God did reveale a certuine -Artunto Him, by which he might relieve his and imbrace a firme Hope of a future and glo- rious Reftitutson. For God having ordained a fecond «ternal Adam, did Expertence manifelt the poffibslitie of his com ming to the Fir/t, Who being now full of Defpaire, and overcharged with the Gusle of his ows fix was a very fit Patient for [0 Divine and mercifull a ‘Phyfician, Bat omitting our own Reafons, which we might produce to this 's, who purpoic, lec us repayre to the Cabalifts hands, bur the rude unfeatoned Her- indeed refent Neceffitics, | by fome my/ferious {i ibe The Antiquitic of Magic. 19 ee Gries] high pha Pest, and thus they elves, God (fay the i oe fat the Doores of Gis ney) paving Perot Aden, fometienes the Deareft of , did notwithftandi Primer, sexing Ws armen Sacha rds him ill. For Gud is faid to i v he pee, not that there is any thing evely ‘ Them without theie (renter, but if chat hee i ives theix perfettron : Thatis to fay he would have chem € osformableto hinfelf ‘and fitt co eceive his Image or Similitud, which isa {pi es Imprefs of his Beaty, Now to reflre ae peer in Adam was impoffibleunlefle Ge hould reaffume that to himfelf, which a ad fallen from him. So tranicendent, ee moft incredible a Mercie had God teas po up in his fecret Wil, being refolved to a Ear of Man to his Own, and fo a ae im ae Death, by taking him into * eitte, which is the true Forntcis and C ter of Life, This Will Clay che Cebus) es i revealed to the Azgels, and that by Ged himfelf in thele words ; Ecce Adam fictit nous ex Nobis ; Behold an Adem Ish : em like one ven £4P keowing Good and Evill' This ipecch they, cal ivan, an occultiffimam & Creatore Mundi ne ae Angelis in fie Divintratis Pene- libus habitam; A molt fecret Conference D3 Which | \ i | | I i20 ALagia Adamica, or which God had with the bleffed Angels in the Inner-Chambers of Heaven. Now that the fame Scripiure fhould {peak one thing in the Letter, and another in the Afsfrerte, is not ange to mee, how difficule focver it may feem to another, For verily this Text may not concern the fix/t Adan, who knowing Evill by Connsiiting it, could not be like God inrelpect of thut Kaavledge, which madc him finfall.and altogether wulike him, For God (if I may fo exprefie it ) knows the Ex#// onely F Fyn alinuch as sorhing can efcape wledae, and therefore is not gstlty of or as Tritemine hath weil oblerved, i non eft ALU, (ed Nias ; The Scienri: T huowldge of Evill is not Evill, but the prattice of it. It remains then, that this Speech con- cern’d the Second Adim, Chrift Fefis, who kxew the Evill, but did not commit it, and therefore was dike one of us, thacis like One of the Trisitse, knowing Good and Eviil, and yet no way gilrie of the Evill, This primitiveand Compendious Ge/pe/! was no fooner imparted tothe Angels, but they became ALinisters of it the Law (as St.Pal faith) being ordained in their hands, ill Clr if? Chould cake it into Fis ownand their Adminifiration to ALan took Beginning with this Oracle. Thus (fay the Cabalif? s) “Razicl: the Angel was prefently : difpacch’d The Antiquitie of Magic. 21 difpatch'd co communicat the Jrtelligence to Ad.m,and to acquaint him with the Afy/Rertes of both World eAternall, and / emporall, For as he tould not obtain the B/effing: of the «Z- ternall World, unlels by a true fuith hee appre= hended the Three s4ternall Principles of it. fo neither could he fully injoy the bevefits of this Temporal World, untels hee truly tad:r toad the Three Vifible fubftances whereof it con- fits. For there are Three above, and Three be- neath, Three (as Se.fobn faith ) in Heaven, and Three on Earth, The Inferior bear witnels of the Steperior.and are their only Proper Recepta- eles, They are Signatures and Created Books, where wee may reade the AZ/lertes of the fis pernaturall Trexitie, But to proceed in our former Difcourle: The Cab.tlifts doe not one= ly attribute a Grirdi.n to Adam, but to evey one of the Parréarchs, allowing Them theie Prefidentsand Tutors both to affift and in. Strut Them in their wearifome and worldly Peregrinatéons, K Dath: ine in my Opinion not more Religéozs than Neceffury,how Prodigious foever it may feem to fome Phantaftic, inliped Theologicians, For Certainly it is impoffible for us tofind out Mylicries of our felves, wee * muftcither have the Spirit of God, or the In- 1 ftrudtion of his A4:nifers, wherher they bee Mien or Angels, And thus wee fee out of the D4 Tradi~22 M gia ddimica,or Tr ditions and Doétrine of the Jewes, how their Carla and ovr Afegic came firlt into the world. I thall now examine the Scripgures, and contvTe with them ; where (if I am nos much muftaken ) I fhail find tome Confegnen- ces, Which mr ft needs de;end on thele Prancé= pics.and thas 1 apply my telf to the Task. The firtt Harveft Y read of. was that of Cum.and the firlt Flocks, thole of sibel, A Shepheard: life in thofe Early Dayes was no difficle Protetion it bei: g an Imployment of more C re, than 40 but how che Earth was plow’d up betore the found of 7 #6./’s Ham= mers, is a piece of Husbandrie unknown in the eDayes Howoever it was a Labour per= fo.nr'd, and not without Retribution, Ca hachhis Shea as wellas det his Le mibs + both of them receive and both acknowledge the Benefit. [find ett. bl fhed jn thefe wo a ceram Pi # od, they atend both to the Aer and the fir? Bova was thed by Sacri- fcr the vers by Abert or, * Now tod: L a Land fo thort of Syllogifmes, thele Hrange Psmp:. and "7 iragogues, which lavethe . rethex Peto like Water, that all my Reafon cannot make thele Men Levits without R ~«/.té7. For I delire to know how came they firlt co Sac. éfi/. and_by whom were they éfested? If you will fay, by ee Ae The Antiquitie of Magic, 23 The Queftion indeed is deferr’d, but not fatisfie ed ; For I would know firsher_In what Schoole was ddim inftruéted ? Now that it was jm-~ poMible for him to invent thele S'adowes and Sacraments of himfelf, I vill undertake toDe- mon(trate. and that by invincible Reafon, which no Adverfarie fhall dare co contradiét. Icis moft certain that the Hope and Expr~ Eatios of Man in Matters of Sacrifices, confit inthe Thiag fienified.and noc in the Signe it felf. For the Material Coriuptible (hadow is not the O6,ect of Faith, but the Spiritual, eter= nahi Prototype, which anlwers to it, and makes the dead figure E ffettval. The Sucrific-s of the Old 1 ¢f.ment, and the Element: of the New, can‘Be no way «cccprable with God, but ina muuch asthey have a Relation to Chrift Fi fus, who is the great, perfect Sacrifice offered up once for all. I¢ is plain then that Sacrifices were fir/t infltuted upon (apernatural grounds, for és Nature there is no reafon to be found, why God fhould be p/eafed with the De.ith of his Creatures. Nay the very Contrary is written inthat Book, fox Death both Natural and Folent proceeds not fiom the Pleafsre, but from the ds/pleafure of the Creator. 1 know the learned A/kind builds the efficwie of S2- orifices on a Sympathie of parts with the great world ; for chere is in every Animal a portion . ofb orphyr. + Sacrif. 24 Magis ddamica, or of the /t.r-five ; which fie upon rhe Diflofuti- on of che Compound is united to the General fire trom whence ic fir came, and produccth a “fenfo. ot Morion im the Lizbies to which it is nnited, Thisindced is true, but chat Afstrox caufeth no J.y there, and by Contequence 10 ‘Remard to the Sucrificer:for Whall make it to appeare eliewhere that the 4 /r.«/ Mother doth mozrn, and not r at the Dewth of her Crildren, Now if wee look back on thele te for Sterificers, we Mall find Abe! and his Ob- Lition accepted, which could not be, had he not offerr’d itup asa Symbol, or Figure of his S.cvi~ onr. To drive home my Argument then, I fay, that this knowledge of the 7 1pe, in who all offerings were acceptuble, could not bee obtai- ned by any use Indufer se, buc by fole Re- welation, For the Paffion of Chrift Jefe was an Ordisece wrapt up ian the fecret will of God, and he that would know it, mutt of Ne- ceffi.ic bee of Ars Conscell. Hence it is called in Scripture the Hidden Afy/ferze, for the rath and Certainty of it, was not to bee received from any but onely from 41, who had both the #77 and the ‘Power to ordaim it, But if you will tell mee (like the Author of the Predic.zbles ) chat men facrifiled at firt by the Laftivit of Nature. and swvithoue any Re- [pz the Typ2,1 thal indeed thank you for my mirth, The Antiquitie of Magic. 25 mirth, when‘oever you give mec fo julta Rea- fon to laugh, Ictemains then a molt firme ma fallible Foundatvon that Adm was firtt in- Jirastted concerning the Puffion, and in order to that, he was taught further, to Swcrifife, and offer up the Blonds of Bestits as? ypesand Pro- droms of the Blond of Chr sft F. fis, the Alars of the Law being but /feps to the Crofs of the Gofpell. Now if it be objected that feverall Nations have ficrifiied, who did not know God atall, much lets the $2 of God, who is the Prototype and perfection of all Ob/.tions: Tothis I anfwer, that the Cuffome of Sucri- ficing was communicated to Heathens by Tit dition from the firf? Aan ; who having inftru- ted his own Children, they allo delivered it to their Pofteritie, fo that this Vizard of Religion remained, though the S#b/Paice and true ‘De- EFrine of it was loft. And thus in my Opinion ic fufficiently appears, that the firftmen did fa- crifile, not by Mature as Prophyrins that Enc- mic of our Religion would have it, but fome by Revelation, others by Cuffome and Tradstion, But now I think upon it, I have Scripture to confirme me concerning this Primitive Reve= Jariox, for Salomen numbring thole feverall Bleffings which the Divine tifdome imparced to the Axcient Fathers, amonglt the reft {peci- fies her Jndulgence to Adam. Shee we . fail26 ALteis Adamict, or (faith hee) the firf farmed Father of the world, thir was created alone, and brought bins ont of his Fall, Here I find e4dam in fome mealuire re/ored, and how could that bee, but by d:ferveriag unto him the Great Reftorative Chrifé Fefas, the ( cond A.Lon in whom he was to believe ? for without Faith he could not have been brongit ont of his Fall, and without Chrift revealed, and preached unto him, hee could have 0 Fair, for hee knew not what to beheve. It remaines then that hee was inftru- fed. for asin thele //? dres weeare caught b the Sx: of Gud. and his Apo/?es; fo in thole Sirf times they were taught by the Spirit of cand his mini fring Avgels. Thele were “t-» for of them they /eard the i¥ord, wee are cold that ftth comes by Te is now (asTthink) fifficiently proved, that Adam had his Metapioviics fiom Above: our next Service (and perhaps fomewhat diffi- cult ) is, to givefome probable. if net Demon- ftrative reafons, that they came not alone but had their P/yfics allo to attend chem, I know the Scriptures are not pafitive in this pefar, and hence the Seite will lug their Confequence of Reprobation, Truly for my part, I defire not their Ham burt their paticnce + I have though againftthe ‘Precept for many years ee * ther The Antiquitie of Magic, 24 ra their Philofephie, and if they {pend a few hours on my Spermilegie it may coft them fome part AaI7.11 of their Fuferce, but none of their Favours, But that we may come to the thing in hand ; I hold | it vety Neceffarie to diftinguith rts, for I have not yet {een any Author, who hath fully \ confidered their difference. The Art I {peak of, ‘ is ceuly ‘Parficrl/ in Srbieét, ALethod, and &f- fit -Bucas for Arts publickly profefed, and to the Difadvantage of Truth allowed, not one of them is fo qualified : for they are meer Kaaeks and Bables of the Hand, ox Braine, having no firm Fundamcatils in Natures ‘Thefe in my opinion $.1/on-07 numbers among(t : his Vanities, when hee {peakes in a certaine Eeclefie' place, That God had made man upright, but hee alt.7.23 had fought out many Inventions. Of thele In- i ventions we havea fhort Catalogue in Genefis, where CAh/és feparates the Corz from the Chaff, che Works of God, from the Whymzies of Man, Thus wee read that Jubal was the ’ Father of fuch as dwell in Texts, his brother Senge Jubal che father of all fch as handle the Harp *” and Organ, and Trbal-Casm an Inftru&er of every Attificer in Braff and Zroz, What mif- chiefes have fucceeded this Brafle-and-Iron Cy- clops, Ineed not tell you : if you know not the fates of former Times, you may ftudie the A- tions of your owne, you live in an Age that cal28 Magis Adamica, or cau inftrudt you, Verily, it is worth our ob- fervation that thete 4-r6, and their tooles, pro~ ceeded not fromthe P. jertty of Seth, in whole Leas our Saviour (tands, for as wee fhall make it appeare hereatter queftionleffe they had a better kwowiede Bur they proceeded from the Seed of C 22, who in Adtiow was a Aturtherer, and m the Circzmftuce of ita fratricide, To be hort, there is no Vanity tothe Vani- dc of Sciences, I mean thofe Inventions, and their Proteflors, which produce nothing trre and Mutsr.:/, but E fetls cither fal/e, oc in theit Exds cormupt and Milent, Buc 'tis no Conqueft touread on Ruines, Corseline Agrippa, hath al- ready layd thele Rodomoctados in the ‘Dirt, and thar to handiomely, they were never fince of a general Reputation, Give me an Are then, thatisa pertect intire ALzp of the Cre.ition, that can lead medircétly to the Kuowledge of the true God, by which I can dilcover thole Unt ver- fal muthble Effences which are fabordinat to him ; An Are thacisno way tibje& to Evill, and by which I can attain to all the Seerers and Abrfleries ia Nature, This is the ert where- inthe Payiics of eAdam,and the P.tréarchs confitted, and that this Art was revealed to him, Iwill undertake co demonftrat by Scriptures, tev of his Pofferitie. This Truch, Jam certain, will feem St The Antiquitie of Magic. 29 if not incredible co moft men, the Providence of God being prajudic’d in this point, for they will not a/low Lim to infteuét us in Natarall things, but onely in Swpersaturals, fuch as may concerne our Sos/s, and their S:/vation, As for our Bodies he mult not prefcribe for their Nevefliries, by teaching us the tre Phyfic, and difcovering the Lawes of his (yreatton; for though he made Nuture, yet hee may not t- tor usin Natural Sciences : byno means, -A- riftorle and his Sy//-gifma can doe it much’ bet~ ter. Certainly this Opinion is nothing difference from that of the Epicure, Deum ad Cali Car dives obambulare, Se milli rangi ALortaliums cura, That God takes the Aire. I know not in what walkes, and Quarters of his Heaven, but thinks not of us Mortals, who are here under his feet. Queftionleffe, a moft enmmnent Impie- tic, co make God as /erti//san Said of old, Ot8- spptog. ofitns, & mexercitum Neminens in rebus Hyu- doo World, having nothing to doe with our A- 24+ faires , as they are Aiatural, and Humane. Sure thele Men are afiaid left his Merey fhould diminith his Afayeftre, they {uffer him totrade onely with our immortzl parts, not with Corruperble bodies that have moft need of his Affiftince, they are bale Subjefts, which he hath turned over to Galen, and the 4 potheca- vith, mantis, Anidle, unprofitable No body in this Gent. Cap t30 : Magia Adamica, ot rics, Not fo my friend: he hath created Phy- Sie. and brings it out of the Eurth, bur the Cae fit kuowesit not; Heeit is, that pitties out affhetions, he is the good Sumaritane that doth Not pa S by usin our miferies, but poures Ore and #77. into on wennds 3 This I know very well and I will prove it out ofhisown Mouth, Did not hee inftruct Nath to build an airk, to pitch ie within and w:chout, and this to fave Life ina Time, when hee himfelte was revolved to deftvoy it? Ina time when the world was ac- quainted wich no ¢ Atechunics, buc_a litle Husburdvis, anda few Knacks of lubal- Cain, and his brechren ? But even thofe | Inven. tions alfo proceeded from that light which hee planced in man: an Effence perpetually butie, and whefé Ambition it is ‘to jaar won- ders, yet hee teldome produceth any thing of his owne, but what is funtaftic, and monftrovs. Did he not put his fpirit in Bexaleel the fon of tri, and in sAvoliab the fon of Alifamach 2 Did hee not teach them to devife cunning Workes, to work in Gold, in Silver, in Braffe, in Cutting of ftoncs,in fetting of them, in Car- ving of Timber, and inall manner of Work. manfhip ? Bur tocome necrer to our purpole : did hee not informe Ao/es in the Compofitton of the Oile, and the Perfume Ee hee not fea i g t eprofie, and tl him the Sympeoms of the Leprofie, Con Exod. 31. The Antiquitic of Magic. 34 Cure thereof? Did he not prafcribe a Plaffer of Figstor Hezekiah, and to ule your owne Terman Ophthalmic for Tobit? Did not je~ Sis Chrift bimfelfin the ‘Dayes of his Fh, work moft of his AMtiracles on our bodres, though his great Cure was that of our Sonles: Is hee not “the fume then to day as yefler~ day ? Nay. was hee not these from the Be- Spmring? Did he care for out Bodies then, and doth ke xeglec! them wow? ov being feated on the right hand of the Mar fie on nigh, is hee ‘come ef? good, becaule mere Glorious? God forbid / to think fo werea fin in Superlatives, Let us then take him for our Prefident, for he isnot (laith $t.Pas/) fiach an onewhich cannot Hebr.4. bee touched with the feeling of onr I, firmities, 15 but hee is indecd one thar looks to our pr efrate, afwell as to our feture. and isas fenfr- ble of our Lafirmitie.as hee is Carefull of our Immortalitie, When hee was on Earth, with the Duff of that Eurth hee made the Béizd to John 9." fee,and of meet Warerhe made Wine. ‘Thete were the vifible Elements of his Phyfic, or va- ther (fo the Motion doth not offend you) of his A¢agic. Buc (hall I thew you his Librre, and in that his Three-fold Phil-fophie? Ob- ferve then fir(t, and cenfure afterwards. Have Salt in your felves, and again, yor are the fale of the Earth, and in a third place, fale is good. E This32 Akuta Adanict, Thisis his wévertd Doctrine, will you know hus Meger ty Storde wins of obs capt up. I ? Icisin ws dure Boks, a Alue anda Lid. Lally hehath his e4- and tely that’s a Serene Seal’d not who may epexie. Hee needed isopeled bere wite fle of Inui, for he And whac of all this yes tome /ploreric Sopinfber 2 id Twollintivect chee. Fire of all have elt, for ic will fafaw thy fete and proferve thy Br. ines that are paersied with the Derr of Ar Perle Ta he secend place Tearn whae the Suv of the wreiis,to which the Da/ciples are compared, and that bya regular, tolid {peculation. Third. Iycome up to Experzeree, and by a Phrficall radtice know in what lente S.zlt is | amine the Li ies by Five, and the Hier of Fare, that thou maylt fee their mrracu las vrfible Iveufares.and where- in that {peech of Truth is verified, That Sulo- neon ta ali bis Royaltre was nt cloathed like one ea. Ut chou wile atcempea higher CALegic, thou maylt being firlt fez/oxed. but in this place iz is noc ny defigne to lead Thee toit. eAsinal Afvitertes thou cant never per- Jegitimat The Antiquitie of Magic. 33 paration thettof. This Difcourle I confelle, is fomewhat remote from that I firlt intended, namely that Philofophic was revealed to -4- dam,as wellas Divi stie, but tome Pates ate Blocks in their own wayes, and as I told you formerly, will not believe that God dilpenieth wich any Nutarall fecrcts; This made mee produce thele few /:/Pszces out of Scripture, as Preparatives tothe Propofition it felt, and if hee be any thing #ecniors, to the Reader. His Compteance tomy Prénciples 1 expest not, nay Tam fo far trom it, hee may fi{pend his Churnée. Lethim bee as rigid as Juftice can makehim, for with not to previle in any thing but the Trweh, and in the Name of Trath, chus I begin, You have been told formerly, that Car and P Abel were inttcadted in Matters of Sacrifice by cheir father ddim, bue Grin having mur- thered his brother be. his Priefthood dctcen- ded to rh, and thisis confirm’d by thole Fae culties which attended his Pofteritie, for Enoch, Luamech, and, Noh, were (allof them) Pro- poets. Te troubles you perhaps that J attribute a Prieftiod to Abel but 1 have belides his own practice. Chriffr Teftimonie for it, who ac- tectly obtain withoue the Knowledge of the | Counts the Bld of Abel amongtt chat of Luke cap. fuk yrncrf focree namely the Sur of the | pertecaced Prophess and Wifonen. Now eens ilk maine! fecree, Sut pet " ea : Evi, whichis Sule and no Salt,and the Pra- 1 t©conclude that thefe men had xo K vledge 23.35, ; paration E2 in34 Magia Adamica, or in Pbilofophie, becaule the Scripture doth nor mention any #/é they made of it, is an Argu- ment that devies fomething, but proves nothing, To thew the vanitie of this Inference, I will give you an Example out of AMofes himtelf. Wee know very well there are #0 Prophecies of Abraham extant, neither doe wee read any where, that ever hee did Prophefie but notwith- flanding he was a Prophet, For God reproving Abmelech King of Gerar, who had taken Sa- rah from him {uppofing fhehad been his Ss- er, hath thele words ; Now therefore reftore enel20- phe ¢ atan his Wife, for hee 1s.a Prophet, and hee Shall pray for thee, and thon [halt live, Hence wee may learn, that the holy Ghoft doth not al- wayes mention the /ecret perfeclions of the Soul, in che pablic Charutter of the Perfon Truly I fhould not be fo impudent, as to expect your affent to this Duitrine, if the Scriptures were filent in every Text, if I did not find there fome infallible Reps of Afugic, fiuch as may fead me withouta Lavrhorx te the Archives ofthe Arritfelf. Iknowthe Troup, and T#- mule of other A fftires are both the AZasy,and the ALaivein the Hifforie of Mofes, But in the whole Current, I mect.with fome éts which may not be numbred amongft the for- tunes of the Patréarchs, but are performances extraordinarie, and {peak their Cafés not Com- i mon, \\ The Antiquitie of Magic: 35 m0n. Eliexer the fteward of Aér.thins, who when he praved at the Well in Mefopotamia, could make his Camels alfo kueele, Y mult not be- lieve there was any Hlocas in this, or that the Spirit of Banks, may be the jpirit of Phayer. Ficeb makes a Covenant with Labws, that all the fpotted and brown Cattell in his Flocks fhould be affigned to him for his wages, The Bargain is no fooner made, but he finds an Aye to Multiple his own Colors, and tends his Fa- ther-in-law almoft aWoolgathering, And F.cob took bins Rods of green Poplar,and of the Hafel, & Chefinut-tree, & pilled whire fPrukes in then, © ard made the white appear which was in the rodsy “And hee fet the rods ebich be hal pulled, before the Flocks inthe Gutrersin the watering troughs when the flocks cameto drink, that they ould conceive when they came to drink: Aid the Flocks concerved before the Rods, and brought forth Cattel ring raked, [peckled and {potted As for that which the Sertpture tells us cllewhere, namely that Juccb faw ina dream, and bebold the Rems that leaped on the Cattell were ring= Siraked fpeckled, and grifted,This doth no way impaire our eAfertion,or prove this generation setraculous, and fupernatural. For no man, I believe, is fo mad as to think thofe cAppen rances, or Rams of the dream, did leap. and E 3 Supple en, 37 T have ever admir'd that Difciptine of ,. Gen enel.2, IL 12, 0.30,36 Magis Adamica, or" fapplic the natural males of the Flock: God uling this efpp.raioe onely to fignihe the Truth of that ety. Fcab acted by, and to tell hinythat his hopes were effected. But I fhalll nee inhtt long on any partiendzr , and theretore Lill pafle from this Dred toanother, Jofeph being tevenceen years old, an Age of tome Dif cretion, propounds a Ffias to his Farther, not oofly andxo no purpole, as wee tell one an- other of our dreams, but expecting, I be- Keve an Jiterpreration, as knowing that his ‘cher had che shel wo expownd it. The wile Patriarch being not igavrant of the Scerets of the two Lemmuriss atcvibutes Afales to the Sua and Feailes to the -Moox, ther allowes a third Sugarfication to the m#-or [arrs, and lal ly antivers his fonue wieh2 Queftion: What 18 this Dream that thor hisf? dreamed? Shall 1, and thy (Abuler, and thy Brethren indeed come to bow duwn.onr filues to thee, to the Earth? » Now, Ichink no man will deny but the Ja- ‘ terpretitian of Dreams belongs to cALagic, and hath been ever foughe atier asa piste of feeret Lesrrimg, Frueitis, when the J aterpre- ser receives his knowledge jmmnedéatly from Ged, as Danie! did, themit falls not within the Limits of a Natstvall Serence ; but tpeak of a Phyficall Expofition as this was, whieh de- pends on certain wb/frufe Similitudes, for hee that The Antiquitie of Magic. 37 thar knowes the eHitlncic of parts to partsin this great bady, which wee cail the Weurhd, may know hur every Sigxe fignities, and by Conte quence may prove’ a good Inzerpreter_ of dreames, Asfor Juices firlt practice, which wee have formerly mention’d, namely the Prv= Ppig.ition of his ipeckled F locks, it is an etkeet io purely AZagre// chat our molt obttinat +Ti~ verfartes dare not Quettion it, I could cite one place more, which referrs co this ‘P.triarch, and points at the Fundumentals of Afigic, bue being anncx’d to his difcourte. it would ditco- ver too much, I fhall therefore Ieave it to the Search of thole. who are Conliderable Profici- ents, ifnot Matters in the Art, The iumm of all istlis Man of himlelf could not attain to true Knowledge. it was God m mecr mercie did intruct him. To confirm this, 1 fhall detire the Reader to Confider his own Expei Wee have in thefe our dayes many fn ieul/ Bocks extant, wherein the ert is dilcovered both truly. and plainly. Wee have alioan infi- nite Mamber of ALow, who ttudie thote books, but after the Indeavours of a long life not one in Ten Thoufand underftands them. Now if wee with all thele edvrtages cannot arcain tothe Secrets of Nature, fhall we think thole firft fathers did, who had none of our Libra vies to affilt chem, nor any learned man upon E4 Earth {38° ALigis Adimica, or arth to infu them >? Could they doe that wetiont means, which Wee cannot doe wih meus, and thole too very confiderable? The Porip itetics perhaps will teli me their Silo. fmisthe Engine that can perform 411 this, Lec ‘em then in Bay barry cr Baroco demon. ftrate the fir? mutter of the Piulofopher’s ttone, Butthey wll tell mee there is no fitch thing, Behold Tell chem again, and afline thers too on my Salvation. tre ic, but in Truth their Logic will never find itcut. Yeas clear then, that God ac fir( intltuced «A Lin from hina his ( Latdrex received it and by their Tradition it delcenced to the Putrrarchs every Father be- SMeathing thele Secrers to his Child, as his befh and molt lating Legacies. T have how atten. ded Zcul, the Lf-uel of Ged. both in hig ten Grinhage at Pedr ims, and in his Typical Tnhe.icance, the Earneft of the Land of Canaan, But two Kemor.tl/e perfeét net the wondrings of a Petrarch ; God calls him from the Hia- bsttion of bis Futh, *s tu the Prifin of his Pub vitte, auvd provides him a plies of Freed nn inthe hovfe of Bendige, mutt follow him where his Fortune leads, from 1 frrste?s Febron, to the Gijhen of Phacroithen back againto the cave and Duff of ALachpelith, “Re foe Ine fons and their + #e, who attended his Afo. zeon thither, I find notany Partseuliy Remens ° brance The Antiquitie of Magic, 39 brance of them, onely AZo/es tells me of a £* Exod.t. nerall Exit :Fofeph died, and all bis brethren, EX: and all that Generation. YT muft now then to prove the Continsunce and Succeffion of this Artaddreffe my felf to the Court, where I fhail find the Son of Lez newly tranflated from his e4rk., and Bulrufhes. Yet, there is fommthing may be fayd of Fu ph, and verily A proves how Common Alagic was in thofe dayes, and the effects of it xo vewes to the a of Jacob ; for having conveyed his Cup into the Sack of Benjamin. avd by that policie detain’d his Brethren, hee asks them: #’hat Deed is this Cap-ae that you have done? Knew yee rot that Sich avers. an as! can certaialy divine ? "in this Speech he makes his Brethren no fran. gers to the prfermances of drt. but rather ‘Inakes theit femseliarity therewith an Argu- ment againtt them Kew vor not 2 but the fol- lowing words are very effectual. and tell us what qualified perfons the ancient Magi were. They were indeed (ashee fpeaks of himfelf) fiich as Foferh was “Princes, and Rulers of the People, not beggarly Gypfies. and AMountcbasks, as our Dectorsare now. It was the Ambition of the Great in thofe Dayes to bee Gord, and as thele Sccrers proceeded from God, fo were they alfo entertained by the Gods, [mean by Kings: For faith the Scripture, J have Lhe4o ALagé. t.ddumica, or eae “a same Comrreric.tted to them, becaule Te had the power to doe wonders, fox in this a + fe , 7 , Bxedseas, GESHeH Jeilethe rust cAipeaks to Mops Teves Neel have male ele Gud to Pheavohy and / fay Rocther Aaros phil bee thr Prephor ; eel ver dy this sre Knowledge. and chis Pirlo thac belongs co ic did chat fille Serpert praw sane en toour f PP Poren 3 Eveess fient Dui, Yow renege, Malle as Gade komme’ good and evil. Bo tis not this fbedl Dragon, but Bonus ile Sonn Pr rs, thac good. Crurtficd Serpent, chat c fobn x. 5, Givens both this Knowledge, and chis Vane by him all thy Qs were made, and without his vos any thing irae made, that ts wide. tf hee wade them then, hee can teach us alte j they weie meade. T mult now refer my elfen AD fes whoat his fir(t Acgunincance with God. faw many Drevsionae » One in his own ¥Lih, another of the Rod in his hand, with a shi A promaifed, and afterwards psrfarmed uport Hacer Te is written of him,thac he was skilf'd i all the learning of the Egyptians : but for aa prt! doc much quettion what kind of Ie in ing that was. the Seripture aflixing mee 3 Fl that by the Pesof AMfofes, thei Wonders’ vane effected by Lachearmente.’ This is certain, their Lewning was Axsient, for Vind Af egici ees iv cE gypr, tour hundred and chirty years and up- Fasibres, This is Confirmed wards, before James and , t f E The Antequitic of Magic. 41 Confirmed by Phuaroh’s Dreame, which his own Sorcetcrs, and Wiaards could not interpret, but Fofeph alone expounded-it. Verily ic can- Gen. not be denyed, but fome Branches of this rs, CAP: 9 though extremely corrupted, were difpersed a. V4 mong all Nuscunis by (rctitcon ftom the firft man, and this appeares by more Teftimonies than one, nthe Land of (uaa, before , ever / fuel poflelt it, ‘Del, which