A Guide to Grand-jury Men, Table of contents
The summe of these two bookes.
In the first Booke.
THat Gods hand is in all crosses, who ruleth ouer Deuils, & ouer all their instruments.
II. That strange diseases may happen from onelyonly naturall causes, and neither be wrought by Deuils nor Witches, and how to bee discerned.
III. That one supposed to be possessed, or b…witched, may be a very count…rfeit, and how he may be discouered.
IIII. That Deuils may doe much mischiefe to man and …ast, of themselues (through Gods permission) without any association with a Witch, and how to know this, with diuers Questions, concerning Satans knowledge, his power to doe mischiefe, of his possessing of bodies, and of his casting out.
V. That Christian minds, may not (as commonly many doe) forthwith ascribe their crosses to Witchcraft, with the reasons of the manifold euils, which come therby.
In the second Booke.
THat there are Witches.
II. What sorts of people are most apt to be seduced and to bee made Witches.
III. How these doe prepare themselues for Satan, when hee enticeth to Witchcraft.
IIII. That Satan sheweth …imselfe commonly in some visible …ape to Witches.
V. Of …n …xpresse league …ade betweene the Spirit and … Witch, and how it is ratifi….
VI. The proofes for this …ague: also why hee inticeth to …uch a contract, and the reasons, …ewing how it commeth to passe, …hat such are ouertaken, to enter …nto such a couenant with the Deuill.
VII. That some there are which onelyonly make a secret league with Satan, and who these be.
VIII. That there are such as be called good Witches, and how they may be knowne to bee Witches.
IX. That none ought to goe to these kind of witches for helpe.
X. That many yet neuerthelesse runne vntounto them, and their reasons, which are answered.
XI. That there are bad Witches, and here of their common practice, of their Familiars, how they come by them, and how many things must concurre, before any can bee bewitched.
XII. Of the signes to know whether one be bewitched.
XIII. What be the Witches watchwords, and their deedes which they doe; both being as signes to their Familiars to set them on w…rke.
XIIII. Who they bee that are most subiect to be hurt by Witches, and what the remedies be against them.
XV. Of the meanes which diuers vse to helpe themselues, when they suspect themselues to be bewitched.
XVI. That witches may be discouered, albeit there be herein many difficulties, and what bee the causes thereof.
XVII. Of the great presumptions of the practice of Witchcraft, for which the suspected may be brought before au…hority, and examined.
XVIII. What the maine …oint is, by which the suspected …ay bee certainely conuicted of …itcherie, with the euident proofs …hereof.
XIX. The manner of exa…ining the suspected, thereby to bring him or her to confesse the crime.
XX. That all Witches are condemned by holy Writte, with the seuerall names therein expressed, and so of their seuerall sorts mentioned in Scripture.
XXI. That eueryevery Witch ought to die, the imagined good, as well as the bad.
XXII. That the rude carriage of people against euen the bad sort of Witches, when they bee vnderunder the power of Authoritie, ought to be reformed.
XXIII. In the end is added how Satan in and by his Witches striueth to imitate God in many particulars, the consideratio… whereof will cleare the Reader… vnderstanding in many things re… lated between the Deuill and th… Witches, grounded vponupon this his damnable imitation, to prouoke the Lord to wrath, and to dishonour his name.