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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19860	A true narration of the strange and greuous vexation by the Devil, of 7. persons in Lancashire, and VVilliam Somers of Nottingham Wherein the doctrine of possession and dispossession of demoniakes out of the word of God is particularly applyed vnto Somers, and the rest of the persons controuerted: togeather with the vse we are to make of these workes of God. By Iohn Darrell, minister of the word of God.	Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.	1600 (1600)	STC 6288; ESTC S109297	131,635	124

one of his leggs were as heauie as if it had bene irone shortly after to London he went and dwelt with a barber in Eastsmithfeild from whence he went to the Bishope of London wher after he had bene about a month my selfe somwhat longer in the Gathouse for herisie he proceeded further added this to his former iniquitie that I had taught him to counterfeit which accusatiō hath bene in such sort pursued against me as is shewed in the seuerall treatises published by some frendes to the cause the other charge of herisie for which I was sent to prison as appeareth by the warrant ' lyinge in the dust neuer word beinge spoken therof vntill this daye no not so much as the herisie or heriticall opinion once named that I should hold and mayntayne FINIS THE DOCTRIN OF THE POSSESSION AND DISPOSSESSION OF DEMONIAKES OVT OF THE VVORD OF GOD. PARTICVLERLY APPLIED VNTO SOMERS AND THE REST OF THE PERSONS CONTROVERTED TOGETHER with the vse we are to make of the same We haue hard in the former treatyse of 8. Persons that weare vexed with euill spirits viz. 7 in Lanchashire and one at Nottinham and of diuers strange actiones or passions done or suffered by them Now that the glory of God the edification of the christian reader which two thinges only I haue aymed at in the publishing of this story may be the better furthered therby I haue thought it necessarie to treate of these 3 thinges 1. that all those persons were indeed possessed with vncleane spirits and did not counterfeit apossession as is affyrmed by some 2. That they were all vndoubtedly dispossessed and that by prayer and fastinge the meaines which God hath thervnto apoynted 3. what is the holy and right vse we should all make of this rare and great worke of God which euery on should specially in the reading hereof ayme at though it can not be attained without the certaine knowledge of the two former poyntes 1 That they did not counterfeite a possession but were verily possessed with vncleane spirites I doe not say with the poet felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas he is a happie man who can find out the causes of things but this I affirme it is the parte of a wyse man to search out the cause of a thing He therfore yea he onlye shall carrye hymselfe wyslye in the present controversie we haue in hand and iudge aright therin who shall laboure to find out the true and proper cause of those strang accidents whereof a true reporte hath bene made in the former treatyse I wyll not stand here to iterate and heape vp those strange things which are before specyfyed all which may be referred either to ther extraordinary and supernaturall strength or their supernaturally knowledgd or their extraordinary and supernaturall actions or passions of their bodyes only in the spirit of meeknes and with all humilitie I demaund of them which deny and call in question or doubt of their possesion whence or from what cause the actions or passiones acted or suffered by them came can theire any naturall cause be giuen of them or is there any thing in nature that might send forth such effects verilye though yt myght be graunted of some of them yet vndoubtedlye it cannot truly be affirmed of all but that some of them are not humian * but it cam from som other thing then the nature or industri of man And what should that be but wicked spirits within them according as in times past it hath bene with others in the like case except we will be so grosse as to imagine either that God wrought them immediatly without the ministrie of any creature or by the seruice of an elect Angel neither of which can possibly be considering theire vanityes toyes and fooleries the distorting and dissiguring of ther faces with other accidents of that kind and the vncleane blasphemous speaches aboue mentioned On the contararie side they all well be ●ee●e the vncleane spirit and sute exelentlye with his nature and therfore make greatlye for confirmation of their possession If any graunting that these things were done by wicked spirits shall saye that it followeth not theirevpon that the spirites were in them and so possessed them * I answere that a spirit without man may diuers wayes greatly trouble and afflict him as by sightes and visions yea even in his body as he did Iob. So likewise after the deliuerance of the aboue named persons as also of on Thomas Darling aboy not long since dispossesed dwelling in Burton vpon Trent in the countye of Stafford they spirits in their returne to repossese them did many times and sundry wayes that by fearing astonishing and threatning of them they might prevaile mightily molest and trouble them * But that the diuil beīg without mā can rule dispose of the whol body of man and euery part therof according to his pleasure as he dyd with these and doth with all those he posseseth it is absurde to affirme For what more can satan doe to the body of man then rule and torment it thus in the inward and outward partes and in euery parcell and member theiro● accordinge to his lust and pleasure the which if he could doe being without he would neuer desier nor seek entrance into man to posses him the which no man will deny but he doth for what would his said entrance advantag him to the hurting or tormenting of man in his body more then his being without him Secondly satan being without man can not cause or send forth those effects which are indeed signes of possession wherof we haue hard before more shal be spokē afterward because then god should haue left his church destitute of all meaines wherby to discerne of possesion which can n●t be the wisdom of God considered on the on sid and the necessitie of man to be directed herein on the other Againe if it were true that the euill spirit could so torment a man on euerye sid being without him only how could the common people among the Iewes haue knowne when men were possesed as it is euident by the * gospell they did for it is certaine that by no other meaines but the manner of their handling or vexation by satan they knewe it as a● may partly appeare out of the 9. Cha●t of Marke now might not this same obiection as well haue bene obiected vnto them as it is against vs at this present The deuil by some outward operation can do all that which leadeth you to thinke that such and such are posesed you may therfore erre and be deceiued in so thinking and affirming But it hath bene obiected that these things came though not frō nature yet from the corruption of nature in that they were counterfeytes I answer that he which well considereth of the strange accidēts whereof we haue harde may easily perceaue that there are manye particulers