Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. With some account of Mr. Glanvil's life and writings / [Joseph Glanvill].

Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.

Date:: 1726

Credit: Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. With some account of Mr. Glanvil's life and writings / [Joseph Glanvill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$pern 5 there OBH muft needs fignify the Spirit itfelf, of which ihe of Endor was the Owner or Polfefifor 5 that is to fay, it was her Familiar Spirit, But fee what brazen and ftupid Impudence will do here, 31K [Bagnalatlo Qbh~] with fVebfter, muft not fignify one that has a Fami¬ liar Spirit, but the Miftrels of the Bottle. Who, but the Mafter of the Bottle, or rather of whom the Bottle had be¬ come Mafter, and, by guzzling, had made his Wits exceftive- ly muddy and frothy, could ever ftumble upon fuch a fool- iih Interpretation ? But, becaufe [Ohio] in one Place of the Scripture fignifies a Bottle, it muft fignify fo here, and it mult be the Inftrument forfooth, put of which this cheating Quean of Endor does whifper, peep^ or chirp like a Chicken coming out of the Shell, p. 129. 165. And does fhe not, I befeech you, put her Nib alfo into it fometimes, as into a Reed, as it is faid of that Bird, and cry like a ;Butterbiimp ? certainly, he might as well have interpreted {Bagnalath Obh~] of the great Tun of Hydel- berg, that 'Tom. Coriat takes fuch fpecial Notice of, as of the Bottle. And truly, fo far as I fee, it muft be fome fuch huge 5Tun at length, rather than the Bottle, that is, fuch a fpa- • eious T’ub as he in his deviceful Imagination fancies Mci~ naffes to have built 5 aputfl&op forfooth, or Oracular AEdifice for cheating Rogues and fhieans to play their couzening tricks in $ from that Place 2 Chron. xxxiii. 6. 3^4 Et fecit Tythonem* Now, fays he, how could ManaJJ'es make a Familiar Spirit ? or make one that had a Familiar Spirit ? Therefore he made a Bottle a Iun% or a large Tuby a l/.etifl&oV) or Oracular Edifice for cheating Rogues or Queans to play their couzening Tricks in. Very wifely argued, and put of the very Depth of his Ignorance of the Hebrew Tongue! whenas, if he had looked into Buxtorf’s Dictio¬ nary, he might have underftood that figoifies noton- | Jy fecit but alfo paravit, comparavit, acquifiv.it, magni fecit, none of which Words imply the making of OBH in his Senfe, but only the Appointing them to be got, and Countenancing them. For in fVebflerh Senfe he did not make [ffidegnoni] neither, that is, Wizzards, and yet Ma- naffes is faid to make them both alike. iJJpTn tl'&y Et fecit Tythonem $$ Magos. So plain is it that [Obh~\$