A Table of the Chapters of the three principall parts, touching Spirits walking by Night.
Of the first part.
| 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.