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. _FINIS._ [Illustration] 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. To the intent, that those men which occupie themselues in reading of this my Booke, and especially in perusing of other auncient writers, may the better vnderstand euery thing, I will at the first enteraunce briefly expounde those things which shall séeme to concern the proprietie of words and termes vsed in this my Treatise of Spirits. [Sidenote: Spectrum.] _Spectrum_, amongst the Latines doth signifie a shape or forme of some thing presenting it selfe vnto our sight. =Scaliger= affirmeth, that _Spectrum_ is a thing which offereth it selfe to be séene, either truly, or by vaine imagination. The Diuines take it to be a substance without a bodie, which being heard or séene, maketh men afraide. [Sidenote: Visum.] _Visum_, signifieth an imagination or a certaine shewe, which men being in sléepe, yea and waking also, séeme in their iudgement to behold: as we read of Brutus, who saw his owne angell. =Cicero= in his first booke =Acadæm, quest.= writeth, that _Visum_, amongst the Grecians is called φαντασία, a fantasie, or vaine imagination. [Sidenote: Visio.] Also the Latines call those things _Visiones_, which the Grecians name φαντασίας. [Sidenote: Terriculamenta.] _Terriculamenta_, are vain visions or sights, which make men afraide. The Latines also call it _Terriculum_, because it bréedeth feare. [Sidenote: Phantasma.] [Sidenote: _Mat._24.] [Sidenote: _Marke_ 6.] That which S. =Matth. 24.= and =Marke 6.= call φαντασμα, Erasmus doth translate it _Spectrum_, but the old interpreter vseth the Gréeke word. [Sidenote: Phasma.]