that came along with him gave such an account of his Case that I saw cause to suspect he was possessed by an Evil Spirit and I was further satisfied concering it whilst we were at Family-duty at which he was present The Fit did then seize on him partly whilst I was reading and opening the word But much worse whilst I was at prayer His motions in his Fit were very strange particularly turning the sight of his Eyes in ward and so making him stark blind whilst his Eye-lids were open with other motions preternatural He had also such strong motions as were above his natural Ability and Agility but I was more confirmed by that rage he was in against the Ordinance of God especially then Christ was more solemnly named and his condition was earnestly commended to the Lord Then he raged as if the Devil had been in his bodily Shape tho' he manifested otherwise Inclinations to the VVord and Prayer when he was not in his Fit And he was in health of Body to all outward appearance at the said time Other Means he had used both lawful and unlawful so that Prayers and Fasting seemed to be the proper and only Means in this case Accordingly he desired that we would keep a Day of Prayer on his behalf Accordingly we met at the Sparth upon the 8th of May before we begun to exercise the Pastor of another Society being present to assist in the work we examined the Parents and the young Man himself as to the occasion of the sad Affliction they at that time confessed that both Father and Son were in drink at Whally Rush-bearing upon the James-Tide before that they then had a Scuffle with a young man whom they suspected or his Partakers to be instrumental of his harm VVe also enquired as to the means they had made use of already and convinced them of the evil of some unlawful means they had made use of One Instrument they had made use of was mr Crabtree VVe also shewed them that these means we were about were appointed by Christ in this case and that they might hope for a Blessing in this way Psa 1.11 to 25. they repenting of their Sins and expecting Mercy in God's own way Multiplying of Prayers and other Services being in vain if there be not Repentance and Reformation withal God regards not to answer in Mercy where there is a secret regard to any Iniquity Psal 66.18 VVe see to whom the promise of Mercy belongs Prov. 38.13 viz. Thse who consess their Sins and forsake them through Divine Grace We then proceeded to the Word and Prayer the Scripture insisted on was Acts 26.18 To turn them from the Power of Satan to God The Power which Satan hath in particular and in general is matter of Lamentation and Supplication The Lord rebuke Satan and rescue Sinners from his Power He had two dreadful Fits in the time of the Exercise he also consessed several Appatitions he had upon the Riot at James-Tide and Offers of Gold to him c. One Sabbath he was quiet under the Ordinances all the while another Sabbath he was extream rude all the while He ordinarily attending at our Meeting under this Affliction Upon their desire we kept another day the 28th Instant on his behalf the concourse of the People was much greater He was extream rude in his Fits all the while yet we continued in the Word and Prayer as before Thus the Providence of God puts his Servants to it and withal puts his Spirit in them that they may be more instant and importunate with him in Prayer He needs not intreating Luke 18. it 's we that need exciting And we are humbly bold to say the Lord did graciously help us Our third Meeting on his behalf was at Surey Because of its Vicinity to Whally we acquainted Mr. Jea the Vicar with the occasion that he might take no offence All the while the Evil Spirit did work in the Demoniack yet it brake not out into a Fit but afterward the Evil Spirit did hurry him in a most violent manner and manifested more than ordinary Rage against Mr. waddington And the Subject insisted on was Eph. 6.12 The Rulers of the Darkness of this World shewing the dark Regions where the Devil rules This Surey the place of the Parties Habitation was recorded and certified according to Law Providence set us upon the publick Stage that the thing might not be done in a Corner On the following Sabbath there was yet a greater concourse of People Many came to see him but heard something which affected them withal The Sermon being to shew that many are under the Power of Sin and Satan in a less sensible and therefore in a more dangerous manner We were without Distractions from the Demoniack all the while Another Sabbath he was very ill through all the time of the Exercise and afterwards as I stood by him he spurned at me with great violence grinting and spitting at me in a strange manner but he hurt me not I could little think of any ill intent of his herein I took it only as the Devil's spite at me With reference to the Sabbath before God hath his ends as Men have theirs we design'd it not to draw the People to our Meetings nor it may be diâ— many dâ—sign chiefly to hear the Word much less to get good thereby It was faâ—â—rom Ovesimas's disign in fleeing to Rome that he should there be converted by Paul's Ministrs Christ's end for the Conversion the Woman of Samaria John 4. was not her Errand to Jacob's-well The next day upon this occasion was at Surey upon the 5th of July The Lord was gracious to the Assembly and Party also in freeing us sometimes from those grievous Distractions which at other times we had upon this occasion The Lord pitty'd us particularly with respect to the Lord's Day that day of Rest Isa 58.13 14. that we might the better sanctisy it Yet had we Spiritual Rest whilst in our way and at our work when he was at worst we were helped to wait on the Lord without inward Distraction however He was very present help The next Meeting on this occasion was upon the 16th instant tho' the Youth knew nothing of it upon the Lord's Day before nor any of the Family concerning this Meeting yet in a Fit upon the said Lord's Day he foretold of this day and told of the number of Ministers viz. five when as none of the Ministers themselves knew it would be so The Devil raged exceedingly at this Meeting it may be the great Confluence of the People on this occasion enraged him the more had not the Lord helpt us mightily we had been run down by him He play'd upon the younger Ministers very sore until they got above him At the Evil Spirit fill'd the Jews with Envy contradicting and blaspheming when they saw the Muleitudes flocking to hear the word of God So in this case Yet were not
in his Fits we saw Tho' he saith and others testisy he could not dance at all besore nor then out of his Fits The Youth out of his Fit would not confess any thing of a Contract with the Devil that he knew of But it 's too probable that there was a Consederacy At least wt did thensuspect such a thing because the Devil was so ready to gratify him not only in such artisicial dancing but to tell many things which could not be known without such hellish help yeathose discoveries being frequently upon whispering with something in a certain Corner That it is the Devil which speaks in him seems very plain speaking strange Langugges which the Youth never learned and with another Voice than his own Yea with two Voices at once and sometimes speaking when the Organs of Speech were nor made use of Also his saying that he was God and requiring to be worshipped yea using many such VVords and Gestures as are most dreadful tho' the Youth can tell nothing of them when the Fit is over Yet at some other times in his Fits he deelaimed much against the Sins of the Place and Time Upon the 11th of October we again met at the Surey in the same manner and upon the same account the People still flocked to the meeting very much and many were much convinced and wrought upon all along the Lord working by Providence and Ordinance together Being desired I stayed to see his Fitover tho' that was till about of the Clock in the Evening some of the time was spent in discoursing expounding singing and praying the Youth was very attentive all the while and at the close of the Exercises his Fit began and lasted about an hour in which Fit the Spirit said that the young Man was his own declining any discourse with me and insulting at Mr. Carrington's not appearing that Evening as he had done the Night before For then Mr. Carrington had baited the Evil Spirit sufficiently His Language in his Fit seemed to me to be but a sort of Gibberish at that time or he spake his words so thick that I could make nothing of them there was a great multitude of People even in the Night and they were very rude so that some harm was done to the place and to some Persons We met again at the Surey on the 18th Instant the Crowd of People was very great tho' the Season was very wet it was some Distraction among our selves that one of the Ministers whilst he was praying turned his Speech to Satan as we thought which some took to be an unwarâ—antable Apostrophe Tho' the dissatisfaction was privately managed yet the Deviltook notice of it and did reslect upon some for it Upon the 22d Instant we met again at Altham upon this occasion a great Consluence of People was there also tho' we divulg'd not the opportunity but changed the place on purpose to conceal it the more He had a Fit in time of the Exercise in which Fit two Voices spake in him at the same time and in a strange manner the Devil threamed what he would do this very day and said how narrowly the Youth escaped being hoisted quite away in the Air as he came to the Meeting Some would say that it 's a bodily Distemper or a Cheat Also that there was an Agreement of Themas Dugdale the Father with a Popish Priest but Thomas disown'd it and the Event disprov'd it Tho' some will not believe yet it 's an evident Testimony angainst the Vanity and prosanity of the Times whereof this Family had been very guilty Also against the Saducism and Atheism of many yea some testify their Envy against God's Servants and their Enmity against his ways as others are much convinced and their prejudice quite removed upon this occasion VVe could do no less than with the good Samaritan take compassion when the Priest and Levite passed by However Upon the 31st Instant we met again at Surey upon this occasion the Evil Spirit had so tormented him the Night before that his Limbs were taken from him as to the use of them and he continued in great Anguish So that before we begun the Exercise he broke out into a Fit of Impatience resolving that this should be the last Prayer-day and that he would take another course for his help had his Patents been in the same mind we had then desisted But the Father with Tears entreared us to go on the Youth was some what eased and very quiet all the time of the Exercise In the close he thanked us and wished us to go on in the same course So that it seems altogether improbable by this and several other Passager that their was any ill Design or Cheat in the Party or in his Parents who ' some have been apt to cnarge them to that purpose Charity would rather offend on the other Hand especially when the charge is so criminal Upon the 7th of November we met again at Surey upon the same account then we sound young Dugdale in a much better Frame and carrying it better then formerly the young Man all along seem'd to us be naturally of a plain Spirit nei her having the Art not being apt to dissemble the worse nor the better Here a Christian Candour appeared to us Again at Surey upon the 14th Instant since our last meeting a great Stone about 14 Pounds weight as I suppose was laid upon him in one of his Fits yet without harm to him Neither the Family nor the Spectators knew whence it came nor how it came there none such Stone being thereabout The day after he was extreamly hurried in his Fits ridden about and chafed on his Head as it were the Form of an Horse hard ridden and of a very rank smell Yet the Spirit confessed in his Fâ—t there was good news for Dick as he call'd the Youth but ill news for it self viz. The Spirit meaning some respite the Demaniack should have for some considerale time The Youth fasted for 3 or 4 days together being always full when he should come to his Meals this seems unaccountable to us in anatural ordinary way Upon the 21st Instant we met again at Surey upon the same account Our number of Ministers and of others was but slender the Lord 's assisting of us without any abatement of our other Exercises about home and abroad appear'd both as to our Spirits and Bolies For some of us did find that we could well fast 24 Hours not withstanding extraordinaly pâ—ins besides upon this occasion The Youth being lighter by more than the half and as heavy again as at other times yea this in the same dead Fit is alhing altogether unaccountable when the Sadducees of the Times have studied and said their u m st Upon the 28th Instant we met at my House this being one main occasion of the Day the Youth was quiet and attentive all the while yea very devout both now and at other times
vero est quod movet atque ducit dicitque insuper quae non noverit occupatus futura nonnunquam praedicit quo inquam pacto dicemus hac esse erraticas materiae motiones Let Mr. T. also at present take notice of what may be obvious to any one in this particular case in reference to what Mr. T. with his Testimonies say thereupon Tho the case be otherwise solved yet let us say something as to what Mr. T. alledgeth from the Physitians and would thence prove D's Fits to be an Epilepsy Convulstion or the like As to Dr. Willis the Instances brought out of him all together do not near reach this case Besides the Doctor doth not deny Possession in some of them Neither doth he according to Mr. T. tell us the means of their Cure As to Dr. Radcliffs Letter to Mr. T. upon this occasion the Doctor is not very ingenuous in saying that the Non-conformists do engross any thing to themselves in this case For if he do but peruse Mr. Burton's Collections under this Head he may have his answer And as to our averring that the Devil sometimes tells the truth the Doctor if he be well acquainted with the Scripture of Truth may easily find several Instances both in the Gospels and in the Acts to shew that the Devil sometimes speaks great Truths tho he be forced to it and besure speaks them for no good end The truth is many in this Age are more Atheistical than the Devil himself as wicked as he is for he believes a God to make him tremble he professeth Christ in his desperate way he makes use of Scripture Words and Truths to pervert them As to Dr. R's Instance out of Galen concerning the fore knowledg of his Fit it 's nothing to the purpose for D's fore-telling was in the fore-going Fit and not when the present Fit was coming on him this latter is easy enough in several ordinary natural Distempers But why doth he not bring us one Instance in that case of a Person always in so many Fits exactly fore-telling the time of the following Fit and still hitting his Fit being greater or lesser His telling and fore-telling other things also the Doctor doth wholly wave this is not fair dealing His Testimony out of Leiselius doth not come up to this case Had the Doctor haa the Surey Informations by him and consulted them he might have seen it to be as I say His account as to D's Gravity and Levity in the same Fit seems rather ridiculous for both were in the same dead Fit and he continued in the said Fit a considerable time after the Witnesses had several times tried his weight This many Persons do testify upon Oath and others inform to the said purpose I think we may challenge all the Doctors in England to bring us a single Instance out of any approved Author any such under a meer natural Disease to parallel the case Pag. That Passage of Satan's pushing D on to such Words and Dees c. refers to him then as being out of his Fit so I find it to be in those Minutes which I took all along not to his Fits wherein he was so long dumb as I suppose And I may well suppose it tho Mr. T. would so disingeniously without any Proof insinuate the contrary Pag. 34 I am not able to remember particulars but must refer to my Memorials in my Diary upon that occasion where are all and only these Words about that called the Lord's Day cry viz The next meeting on this occasion will be on the 16th Instant Tho the Youth knew nothing of it upon the Lord's Day before nor any of the Family concerning this Meeting Yet in a Fit on the said Lord's Day he foretold of this day and told of the number of the Ministers viz. Five when as none of the Ministers themselves knew it would be so then none else was likely to know what can the most critical Wit and most captious Spirit make of this Pag. 36 The Family 's being so impoverisht as to sell two head of Cattle was before we had any thing to do with them as to this affair or any other ways it was by the charge whilst Dugdale was with Mr. Crabtree Our eating and drinking with them upon their importunity when the exercise was over is far from devouring Widdow's Houses as Mr. T. would suggest especially if that be true which Robert Clark testifies viz. That he had it from William Sellars that they had got above 20 l. by us And if it be true as their Neighbours say that the Family hath lived in a better condition ever since tho they have had but little from us since We did not so eat with them as to devour them nor so relieve them as to bribe them His Prediction as to England paying the Piper as he phrased it notwithstanding its present Security whilst Ireland was in such Misery is much verisied by sad Experience and I think few did then think that the War would continue so long and that the charge of it would have been so great I mention this without any murmuring thereat Pag. 37 I must confess that I do pen down all the Heads of my Sermons and the most of the Proofs to the several particulars before hand ordinarily so that the Devil might discover the same to D. tho Mr. T. judgeth very hardly that therefore we have our Sermons from the Devil The Lord judg betwixt us whether we have our Sermons from the good Spirit according to the written word in a way of Prayer or else from the evil one Unless Mr. T. be of a better Spirit than appears in his Writing and Preaching against us on this occasion His ordinary Readers and Hearers will say he speaks from his own Spirit at best which is bad enough Pag. 38 Why doth he manifest more virulence and violence against us than against the Papists What Combination hath Mr. T. proved as he hopes I dare not so much as think that he hath so little Charity for us as to think that we combined with them upon any ill design of cheating tho I confess some in their Passion have been too censorious that way But the Reverend Mr. W. was pleased in his discourse with me to clear Mr. C. himself from ill designing in this matter and some of his People have testified under their hand their sense of the sincerity of my Endeavours therein Pag. I will not foul my Paper and offend my Reader with those scurrilous and ridiculous Passages in this Page O the Eructations of an exulcerated Heart How desperately wicked is the Heart of Man Pag. 41 As to the Marginal Notes upon the Affidavits I must mind the Reader that the Witnesses Testimony upon their Oath must needs carry the cause Besides I suppose there will be nothing found in the Informations at Darwin that interfereth with the Affidavits at Holcomb I cannot but observe how little notice Mr. T. take of
not insinuate that he was the great Instrument of finding D. in the River and helping him out he owns others concernment in it as well as himself But Mr. T. doth very unjustly insinuate that F. was taught to call it a dumb Fit which D. fell into when he came out of the Water Fletcher will anon speak for himself as to this Observe also that the Gentlemen did not deny that they had been abusing D. in the Buttery at the Abby when D. in his Fit charged them with it Any one may think that Mr. T. would have let us known if it had been so So that Mr. T. hath furnished us with a further Testimony against himself Aliqando bonus dormitat Homerus As to Mr. T 's reason of that extravagant Whim as he calls it it proves but his own imagination So I may let it evaporate as an uncharitable Surmise Alas What pumping for occasions of Reflections as we see in the Instance of M. S. yet how little comes I am very loath to emprove that Hint of the near Neighbourhood of M. S. now and of R. C. before alas what Influences may wordly Interest and ill Company have upon Persons otherwise ingenuous and sober A plain representing of the Truth which I do here and all along as in the Presence of God will I hope manifest that Mr. T. is but foaming out his own Shame and that all his Falsities and Virulencies shall vanish as to us I do not wish that the guilt stain and recompence may stick upon him Should I tell him how I have pittied and prayed for him he would but scorn and scoff at it I fear as I hinted before and do what I say more than once Yea through the Grace of God I will do it till I know Mr. T. hath sinned the Sin unto Death Neither I nor any other that I know of did ever promise D. deliverance as Mr. T. is pleased to say but encouraged him from the Word of God in the way of his duty this we did and ought to do It 's not said in the Narrative that there was a Fast-day at Surey on the 24th of March 1689. I said before we had left meeting at Surey a little before for the cause aforesaid but some of us I am sure carried on that work of solemn seeking the Lord on that occasion as diligently as formerly according to the best of my remembrance I may truly and will humbly say through the Lord's help we did not let fall our Hands till we had got the Victory nor let go our hold till we had got the Blessing tho some may blasphemously call this canting I am sure as to my self I hope as to others As to the casting out of the Devil we do not know of any such gift of Miracles as to command the Devil in the name of Christ to depart and that he should immediately thereupon depart as in the Primitive Times Yet we believe that Dispossession may be and frequently hath been in tract of time according to Mat. 17.21 Even in these latter Ages as Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwich testified in his discourse with Costerus the Jesuit see his Life even among Protestants tho Dr. Heilin and such like will by no means admit it among the Non-conformists if others can give us Instances thereof we would gladly hear of them to strengthen our common Cause against the Papists I am told there is a Canon of the Convocation which prohibits the attempting this way of dispossessing Satan without the License of the Ordinary which necessarily implies that the Episcopal Clergy did believe there then was such a thing as Possession and Dispossession Yea we find in Mr. J. Bruen's Life that such a License was granted upon such an occasion I am told Mr. T. was informed of the said Cannon and thereupon reformed the first Leaf of his Preface Also as to means of dispossessing and their success now a-days Dr. Willet in Synop. Papis P. 92. owns not only the extraordinary means but this of Fasting and Prayer whereby saith he we doubt not but even in these days when it pleaseth God Satan is chased from the Possession of Christ's Members Pag. 57 But to limit the holy one of Israel to answer Prayers in accomplishing his work just whilst we are at Solemn Prayer were a great presumption and tempting God indeed yea would be found contrary to the ordinary Experience of those who know what belongs to the answer of their Prayers or the benefit of any Ordinance or Providence which usually comes after some time of waiting This also we take to be the meaning of those Scripture-Phrases of looking up and hearkening what the Lord will say As to what I judg in this case I shall with all plainness and modesty declare my self afterwards according to clear Scripture Warrant without any appearance of tempting the Holy Ghost as Mr. T. would charge upon us I hope we shall be found far as from tempting the Spirit of the Lord so from lying to him It 's true of some on the on hand in imposing on the holy Spirit that they may offend so on the other hand in Quenching Grieving Vexing Resisting yea denying of Him his Office Operatinons and despiting the Spirit of Grace Some would have called Caleb's other Spirit an odd Spirit as well as Mr. T. calls ours so All the Extremity D. endured his impatience and fleeing to Sir E. A. for relief must argue to impartial Persons that there was nothing of Cheat or of Popish Combiantion in the case the Effects of his Fits were sometimes so grievous that to use his own Expressions he would not for all the World wish that Misery to the vilest Creature in the World The Ministers discouragement because of the ill Frame and Carriage of of D. sometimes as to the success of their Endeavours which Mr. T. objects against us is nothing but what there 's cause for and it may be others in the like Circumstances would have thought so too As to the Lord 's giving up D. also We are but Men and so subject to like Infirmities with others yet upbraiding in this case is very unbecoming As to the trying of Physicial Means this might have been better taken by Mr. T. as our designing the discovery of the case and doing the Party good by any lawful means But things are it seems ad modum recipientis How will Mr. T. reconcile this to his cenforious charging us with an ambitious design of a Power to cast out the Devil The Physicians we consulted with were judicious conscientious Persons Licentiates by the Colledg of Physicians they honestly declined intermedling as Physicians tho they might have made considerable advantage by it apprehending that his afffliction was not mainly a bodily Disemper yet these must needs be my Tools and less sincere than Mr. Crabtree the Spider will have Poyson even where the Bee will gather Honey As to the suspicion of Witchcraft in the Family I have already
our indifferent Person would thereupon not only vindicte us but the D's also from the Cheat or Combination seeing we all declined the use of any such Popish Magicial Diabolical Means As to Mr. T 's most untrue and uncharitable charge of our promising our selves a rich Harvest by the Miracle we should work It 's well for us Mr. T. must not be our judg and that our own Conscience is as a thousand Witnesses for us His other Reflections here are like the opening of some stinking Grave which I would rather cover Pag. 65 Mr. T. is void of all Reason as well as Modesty in saying that we were guilty of superstitious Credulity were coming Creatures to the Priests swallowed all that was offer'd by them when he at the same time saith it 's true we declined the reading of the Paper over D. that the Priests sending the Paper to D. is an unanswerable Argument of his corresponding with them when himself acknowledgeth that the D 's declined it also Where 's Mr. T 's Religion or Reason Sed perit judicium quandores transit in affectum Mr. T. dare eng age for the Devils vanishing upon our reading that Paper over D. It was wisely done to pass his word for the Devil on such hard Conditions as were never likely to be performed I shall leave the business of the Commission here mentioned to others to canvass I shall only hint here that the Papers which came into D's hand when he stretch't it forth were undoubtedly from an invisible hand as the Spectators testify so as to those Papers and other things which he committed it is attested that he was not near any Wall nor could any one visible convey them to him For I took little notice of what the Devil said concerning his commission nor of the date of it I had a higher to look at from whom he had his Commission or Permission and who alone could determine the time and cancel the Commission as he pleased As to that Poyson of Asps and Gall of Bitterness in charging us with vain-glory all along our being so full of our selves and of the Spirit we had to deal with It serves but to fill up his own measure and that of his Partakers which seems to be almost brimful I confess I did from several Circumstances fear that the Devil in some drunken Fit had drawn D. into some blind Contract with him or Consent to him not because the Devil might say to that purpose but because he was ready to gratify D's Humour several ways yet if the Devil be found a Lyar herein I am not sorry for that and if I did mistake I hope their needs no very large Charity to cover it Pag. As to Mr. T 's reproachful Term of a Farce and reproaching us with weariness because we could do no good in the former he is profane if he refer to the Ordinunce in the latter he doth some of us wrong I am sure we may be weary in our work but not weary of it How little any threatning with Warrants did affect D. towards accepting of the Physician will appear by further evidence and the event in that he was cured of his strange Fits before he took the Physick tho it 's evidenced already that he had his Fits as formerly after the Threatning As to the Passage of Satans speaking several Noises and Voices out of the Lump which rose up I do not remember any thing but that T. Core testifies to that Dr. B's Testimony will but signify a little in this case with those who knew what his Faith and Practice was but he 's dead de mortuis nil nisi bonum And as to his Profession as a Physician what Judgment could he pass upon D's Fits whenas he saw him but once and had not seen the Depositions at all as I suppose I cannot be positive for his supposed Letter bears no date neither can I tell when it was that Dr. B. died Besides what he is supposed to say is not to the purpose for what is it as to the rising of the Lump from his Foot upward when he tells of convulsive Twitchings How doth he prove his being before instructed to improve those Motions to such a purpose Might not a Spirit move such parts tho it have neither Flesh nor Bones so could not be felt What silly work is here But when Men lose their Religion they lose their Reason also What rational Person will deny a Spirits acting tho not animating as the Soul doth the Body Concerning the Expressions in Prayer which I am charged with by I know not who at second or third Hand this is my constant comfort amidst my acknowledged Infirmities in all my Duties that I hope I have the Holy Spirit to help my Infirmities Jesus Christ to bear them the Father to pitty them that I stand not to the Mercy of some Men's Misconstructions and Misrepresentations nor to the Wresting and wiredrawing of my Words by such as Mr. T. to their evil Ends but take the words which they insinuate me guilty of and as they are reported by Mr. T. the former part of them viz. that Satan might appear or seem to be in those that did not believe him to be in that young Man by way of Possession are potentially expressed such a thing might be I wish it were not so The latter part of the words that others might take Warning and thereby Learning are exprest optatively as praying that others may take warning and learn by this Example The Reader will pardon the Incoherence of the Expressions and rather impute it to the Ignorance of the Reporter and the Imperfection of the Report Where now is the Profaneness and Curse of the Petition Where is the Justice of any being scandalized What occasion hath Mr. T. so Sarcastically and Blasphemously to reflect upon praying by the Spirit and Spiritual Sacrifices offer'd up to God But it 's according to the Evil Spirit that Mr. T. I doubt is led by and walks after Pag. 67 Whenas Mr. T. would insinuate against us words of Blasphemy or near bordering thereupon were not my Soul filled and fortified with such firm Faith in dear Love to and deep Veneration of the most precious Person of Chirst his most glorious Gospel and truly Miraculous Works Yea his most Holy Spirit and Conversation too then might Mr. T 's Scorpion Language tho thy such a feeble Hand wound me to the quick but through the Grace of God it is but as Lashes upon Armour in this case Whenas also he would insinuate that a Tongue which speaks such words ought to be boared through with an hot Iron but we must spare the Phanaticks saith he Blessed be God who hath made our Officers Peace and our Exactors Righteousness yea thanked be our Rulers which are such Shields of Defence to us else we yet see what such as Mr. T. would be at right or wrong And what is all this bitter Zeal as the Apostle James calls
the case doth not at all weaken the cause For it 's ordinary that Possessions are by Witchcraft as Instances in Old and New England confirm But that Mr. Pendelbury who was sometime assisting in the work did afterward take it as a Cheat neither is nor can be proved The Testimony put upon Elizabeth Mills of Ratchdale is not so much as pretended to be under her own Hand So Mr. T. must be only on some-bodies hear-say which sort of Testimony he will not allow to others neither doth Mr. T. tell us who the Reporter is So that we are bound up from sifting this Matter Mr. P. and E. M. being dead as Mr. T. saith the Reporter being unarmed and we having little reason to take Mr. T 's word Thus Mr. T 's Ground-work fails and his Superstructure falls Besides it 's likely Mr. P. would have suggested it to some of us if he had suspected it to be a Cheat But I never heard that he ever hinted any such thing to any of us or any other I will do that worthy Person now deceased this right that he is only mentioned as one who was sometimes assisting in the work Let the Cause stand upon it's right bottom and let not the Blessed Memory of such a one suffer on either hand I now have it from good Hands that indeed Mr. P. first was not fatisfied whether it was a natural Distemper or what to call it But afterward when he heard two Voices from R. D. at once c. and heard what account others gave of other Particulars then he was satisfied that D. was acted by a Diabolical Power As to the Testimony of Dr. Whittaker who was a faithful Witness all along to what passed in this Affair Mr. T. might have spoken more civilly of him For Dr. Whittaker is both a Gentleman and a Schollar as Mr. Townly well knows That he did teach some few Youths to perfect them for University Learning before he came to his Estate this is no more Disparagement to Dr. Whittaker than to Mr. T 's Father who made School teaching his Calling nor are the Youths which Dr. W. taught any Disparagement to Dr. W. I wish Mr. T. be no greater Disparagement to his Father Mr. T. might have been more civil to Dr. Whittaker as a Physician than to call him a Medicaster when as he underwent the strick Trial of the Colledg of Physicians and hath his Diploma from them to shew No such unlearned Emperick as Mr. T 's Dr. C. Pag. But as to Mr. Townly's Letter Dr. Whittaker doth acknowledg some loose discurse he had with Mr. Townly about the Surey-Case and doth remember that Mr. Townly himself did then own the Signs of Possession in young D. and Mr. Townly might justly suspect and suggest the Politick Intrigueing of the Popish Priests which I may say they fruitlesly attempted But Dr. Whittaker doth peremptorily deny the words as he is charged in the Letter Of which Letter also we have but part set down by Mr. T. breaking off at a Comma and closing it with an c. Yet if all were granted that Mr. Townly saith of the discourse betwixt the Doctor and him the Doctor 's Certificate under his own Hand will stand good and he will stand to it For let it be observed that Mr. Townly's Letter to Mr. White gives us no account particularly when that discourse was and tho the Doctor might then also be jealous of the thing and of it's issue yet upon further observation of his own and hearing the Depositions he was fully satisfied as other Non-conformists present before the Justices at Holcomb in like manner were tho they very much doubted the thing before As to the Passage of D's being Dumb and Deaf so long I have declared the Truth before and I was likelier to know the Truth the Paper being delivered to me that he sometimes was sensible out of his Fit of what was in his Fit is not denied but we affirm that ordinarily he was not sensible See as to this Origen de Principiis cap. 3. Concerning the Reserves that Mr. T. pretends to and threatens us with through the Grace of God I fear them not at all nor any thing that any one can say or do in this case as to me I hope I am on a sure bottom and under a strong guard so that I need not fear this Shock after all the rest As to all that impudent insolent Language which Mr. T. gives us in the close of this Page I do humbly and meekly yet cordially and confidently retort it upon himself as Arrows shot against a Brazen-Wall Religion is not abused by us but by himself we are not an ambitious designing Party whatever he is We could have sate down content sooner or later if Providence had not led us from first to last We have not seen our selves baffled neither in danger of it by the Vltimi Conatus the dying Efforts of such Men we can through Christ strengthening us hold up our Heads in the World Yea lay down our Heads in Peace and lift up our Heads before the Judg of all at last Tho he may do somewhat towards judging in this matter even in this World it is no Spirit of Infatuation nor Vanity that led me to and through this work so far as I am concerned and I should know the Spirit of Christ as well as Mr. T. Surely I do know my self better than he knows me it was neither Wickedness nor Weakness that concerned me thus far I suppose that to all serious sober Persons it will be chargeable elsewhere it is no Superstitious Popish piece of Priest craft on our part besure At other times Mr. T. will rather judg us to be too far from Superstition and Popery both Name and Thing we may also retort upon him his Terms of audacious Wickedness the scarce to be parallel'd Insolence of a young scossing Ishmacl It is Mr. T. that the Inconsistencies and Vntruths will be found with upon perusal of our reply and examining the case further That the Father of Lies doth sometimes tell the Truth as Doeg did of David tho for an evil End and the Lord turns all against himself as appears in the Gospel-History That we do not credit Satan any further than we have it consirmed other Ways or by the Event That there is no affront to God Almighty or Presumptnous attributing that to his Spirit and his Ordinances which is wholly owing to the Sins and Chea's of Men Neither is there base Insincerities nor lying Legends and Forgeries nor a Spirit of Fanaticism and Division sanctified with Prayer and Fasting The Lord is coming to execute Judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly Deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard Speeches which they have spoken against him We have some of us seen something in our time of the Lord 's handling such Sons of Zerviah or Sons of Belial even in
this World Lege Historiam ne sis historia I only say the Lord rebuke the foul Spirit in this Man and the Lord give him Repentance Else I am afraid the Lord will soon reckon with him for what he doth say and would do It 's not the warmth of Fancy but pious Zeal it 's not the bare Opinion but good Assurance that we serve God It 's not Will-worship but Gospel-worship However Surely they are not the groslest Mistakes the worst of Errors and the vilest Superstitions that are possible for Christians to be ensnared in as Mr. T. would have them to be How is this Man even bursting asunder without any Provocation and falling headlong with his Rage and Rancour the Lord judg betwixt us as to the cause Yet let him not enter into Judgment with to proceed in Execution thereof upon the Offenders We acted according to the Measure of Grace and Gifts that we have received whereof we dare not will not boast but as to consulting with the conforming Clergy we must needs differ from them in this as in other things if they preach such Doctrine as M. T. did in this Country If we had consulted them it 's very likely they would have expected that we also should have passed by the miserable Man on either side as the Priest and Levite did but he lay in our way and we had Mercy on him Blessed be the Name of the Lord for it If the Popish Priests were playing a Game it was soon at an end without our going to any to learn to read and understand the Papers which were vomited up by D. We need not fear Rivalship of those in such a case who deny all Possessions in latter Ages or give us no Indications thereof Nor of those who are such Strangers to the right use of Gospel-Means in this case and therefore set on soot Means of their own devising as some have done of late as I am credibly informed For my part I am more satisfied in the thing than ever since I have further enquired into it since also I see with what a Spirit in what a manner Mr. T. hath managed the matter As to our People also they are better instructed and spirited than to give heed to such rash Heads as Mr. T 's who abandons himself to his unmortisied Passions and unbridled Expirssions Enough to turn the Spirit of any true Christian against such Men and their Cause too As to our Injudiciousness and Insincerity our People who hear you sometimes and live amongst you who hear us ordinarily and converse so much with us are likelier to judg in the case than Mr. T. and such like who I suppose never hear us nor scarce know us at all Yet these our People dare not adventure their precious and immortal Souls under the way of Preaching nor in the way of Living which too many go in Concâ—rning the Church Mr. T. doth Laodicea like so boast of we do heartily acknowledg there have been many and we hope are some of the Episcopal Perswasion who are sound according to the true sense and intent of the Doctrinal Part of the 39 Articles who are of a right Christian Temper of a Holy Conversation and are for Parochial Discipline and Reformation These we honour and consent with so far But as to this Faction who so vainly boast of their Purity and Perfection whenas the Lord Jesus knows their works Yea any one even with half an Eye if indeed open'd may see even by Mr. T 's Scurrilous Slanderous Scandalous Pamphlet and look no further that they are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked By this time of God and Religion Yea have by their implacable opposition to the Truth and way of the Gospel with the Preachers and the Professors thereof block't up as much as in them lies the Course of Reformation also by their unfaithful Preaching and ungodly Practise with the countenancing such as partake with them how bad soever have open'd the Flood-Gates to Atheism and Profaneness consequently to Superstition and Idolatry as woful Experience doth testify beyond all contradiction O that there were indeed such a Zeal for revealed and real Religion for Protestantism and Reformation against Atheism and Profaneness Superstition and Idolatry as is pretended After all this I must solemnly profess that such an heap of gross Lies notorious Slanders unworthy Insinuations reproachful Reflections and base Language did I to my remembrance never meet with as in this Pamphlet of Mr. T s and this against those who not only may I hope be reckon'd among the least of Christ's little Ones but who through his Grace have in some measure approved themselves as his Ministers according to 2 Cor. 6.3 to 11. so that my Heart akes and I even tremble to think what guilt this Man hath loaden himself with and what judgment he hath exposed himself to according to Mat. 18.6 7. Luk 17.1 2. The result of all as to the Case and it's Signs the Cure and it's Means Mr. T 's invidious odious Representations of persons and things being waved as meer Folly and Falsity yea wiped away as Filth and Froth too like that of the Demoniack in some of his Fits I shall plainly and calmly express my self 1. Negatively 1. It is not to be denominated a Mania or Distraction a Spasma or Epilepsy Convulsion or any such bodily Disease tho there might seem sometimes to be something Symptomatical thereof for the Affidavits and Informations do plainly demonstrate that it was a further thing which continued after Mr. Chew's first physicking him and Mr. Crabtree's second physicking him so strongly which strange Fits also were removed before he took Mr. Chew's Physick the latter time observe here that Mr. C. said that he would ride an 100 Miles to help him Also that D. in several of his Fits said he might be kill'd or cured before the 25th of M. when Mr. C. gave him his Physick the latter time 2. It could not be any Art of Man especially in this D. for all who know him must say that he is but of a very ordinary aptness or capacity as to Intellectuals and not so much as of an ordinary Agility or Activity as to his Body Any one would judg him very unsit as to the inventing of such things and a very bungler as to the acting of them 3. Neither ought it to be called a Counterfeiting or Cheat to get Money or for any other Sinister End seeing they are things that could not possibly be counterfeited seeing also that it was so chargeable to them whilst they were under Mr. C's Hands also in the hireing of a continual Keeper and other ways seeing also that any such Cheat is solemnly disowned by the Parties concerned as appeared before in the Informations Affidavits Certificate which himself signed and doth further appear Besides if the Gentlemen look't on it as a Cheat why did they make use of Physicial Means if they look't on it as a
Indeed sometimes his carriage under the Ordinances and at other times gave us some hopes towards a Change as to his spiritual Stats which would he much better to him and so the more desirable to us Yet a partial Change as to that and a perfect Cure as to his Body are signal desirable Mercies As to our Repute in the World what is that to some of us who are so near our going out of this World As he return'd from the Meeting on the Lord's Day following he had a Fit in which as some creaible Persons said who were with him he repented the Heads of the Sermon and the Proofs withal The rerurn of his Fits after many days of discontinuance must needs much exerise us but Psal 37.3 to 8. was of good use to some of us in that case Yea we were as frish to work as at first the Lord anointing us with fresh Cile of his good Spirit Psal 92. â—â— Upon the 5th of December we again met at Surey we were but two Ministers to carry on the work He told one of some private Discourse and Passages betwixt him and Sir E. A. Upon the 12th we met at the Sparth upon the said occasion We were but few the Demoniack was detain'd at home by a Fit in that Fit the Devil told him he would find him somewhat else to do then to eat Bread and Cheese with Cottom Lass at Sparth as he had done 25. Weeks before he also told what Distress Ireland was in and that Fagla nd must pay the Piper as he phcased it notwithstanding its present Security We have by sad experience found the truth of the Demon's Predictions in this and other Instances the false Prother could foretel Evil. Deut. 13.18 O that any warning any ways did awaken us That tho' our iniquity have brought us very low it may not be our ruin In his Fit upon the day following he told us of some Money to come before the messenger came by whom I sent some for their Relief the Family being taken of their Callings put to Charge and very much impoverish'd upon this occasion Upon the 20th Instant our Meeting was again at Surey upon this account We had but little Company his Fits were not so frequent and violent as formerly Several Scriptures besides those before mentioned had been insisted on at these Meetings no this occasion viz. Eph. 6.12 Mat. 17.21 1 Tim. 5.15 1 Tim. 1.13 14 15 16 Mt. 11.28 29 30 All which were directed for the sanctifying this occasion to the Family and Country that all might be sanctified to us by the Word and Prayer Not only that the Devil might be driven from the Demoniack January the 1st at Surey My brethren of the Ministry being all taken off by other urâ—ent occasions I turned this Meeting to an Exercise there being a likelyhood of a Tempta … n. As to the success of Prayers in this and other cases I took occation from Heb. 5.7 to clear the Providence of God concerning that point of the answer of … yers It was near Twelve-months we were almost Weekly employ'd upon this occasion in most solemn Prayer with Fasting some of us coming many Miles Hâ—d not some of us been long enuâ—ed to hard Service it could not have been so 〈…〉 Upon the 9th Instant we agian met at Surey as formerly Before the Exercise begâ—n 〈…〉 and plainly with the Family We had appâ—rent cause to judg 〈…〉 work did stick on their part considering how Popishly they had been brought up what profane Lives they had led Yea how 〈…〉 some of them had of their sad Case and how slow they were a consessing what might be hte Causes thereof Some of my Brethren thought it requisice yet to ceal more roughtly wiht shem the elceting some suspition of a Contract with the Devil or of VVichcract even among themselves I confess I was somewhat shy as to further proceeding lest we had not around to go upon lest we should exceed the bounds of our Calling lest we should give the man occasion of Offence yet they offering themselves to trial some trial was made and further as in ended that the thing and themselves might be cleared And in Case of grouned suspicion as to VVitcherast or Imposture the matter must be put into the Magistrates hards who is the Judg in that Case and must do as he sees cause VVe in the use of Spiritual Means are concemed so far as it is a Possession VVe would have proper means used and we would keep our place VVhatever other judge of us Upon the 23d Inslant we again met at Surey on the same occasion and in the same manner I thought the work must be wholly devolved upon me but one of my Brethren came in for my help about the middle of the Exercise I had laboured to work to me Serse upon the Youth as to his Case But alas to little purpose So that I much feared the total and find giving of him up to Satan in the worse sense The D … iâ— did 〈◊〉 him very strangly in his Fits so that he did Feats above his own Skill and Strength undoubtedly yea it 's altogether worderful that his Head was not dasht in pieces and his Spirits quite spen yet then his Body was in as good a case if not better than ever The Doubt and Distraction about our Duty in this Case did much exercise me Lâ—w Sâ—veriâ—ies being so foreign to my Spirit and Calling So that the Morning after I was pressed more than ordinary concerning it yea in some Agony about it O the wrestlings I then had more especially Upon the 6th of February we again met the Surey upon the same account I was then wholly faild by my Brethren through their other occasions as I suppos but the Lord he ped in asi the Work The Youth had been free from any cnsiderable Fit for a Fortnight so that they seem'd to be wearing off In his last Fit he further spake of things done at a distance and at the same i me when a doing Upon the 20th Instant there was again a more full meeting of Ministers at Surey upon the occasion aforesaid Tho' the D'scouragements from many others were very great I then finish'd that Discourse upon 2 Cor. 11.3 At the close of the Exercise we found the Youth some what mroe ingenuous towards us tho his Father bewrayed more Disingenuity The Youth took occasion ro confess further to me that after the aforesaid drunken Fit upon James-Tide was Twelve-month and the Dancing Humour he was then in he had the Apparition of a Man's Head all along in the way as he went to Westby hall as it 's commonly call'd the Week after When he came thither he wrought hard at the Hay and was taken with an unusual Merriness in the Evening of the same Day He made himself drunk again as he confessed and in his Drink he was transported into such an heighth of Profaneness as did astonish the By-standers
So that they did conclude the Devil had then some extraordinary Power over him He also as himself said had an Apparition of the Devil pointing at something he had lately done So that then we concluded that the Devil in his Drink drew him into a blind Consent and Compact to sarisfy his Curiosity and Dancing Humour He also confessed to me since that when he had thought to confess something to this purpose his Mouth was stopped that he could not and then he had a Check for confessing so much Sometimes he refused to do what the Devil moved him to and then it appeared he was tossed strangely Providence now seem'd to call us off from attending upon this Surey-Case as formerly laying before us occasions and opportunities of more publick Concernment It seem'd also to take us off from meeting at that place the Landlord thereof being stirr'd up against the Family there because of the harm to his Hedges thereby So that if we had persisted in meeting there it might be great prejudice to them they having much dependance on him as to their outward condition In those circumstances the Ministers and others generally rather halting in their work also as Jacob even when he prevail'd for the Blessing The Lord was pleased to give some visible Encouragement as to a good issue of this Affair in some sort For upon the 24 th of March he had a most terrible Fit and therein the Evil Spirit took it's leave of him As it 's said by several Witnesses it left him with a strange kind of vomiting yet nothing visible appearing After that time he told me he did not find that manner of working in his Body as heretofore So that he hoped he was deliver'd I told him tho' at present we did not meet at his Father's House as formerly for the Reasons aforementioned yet we did coutinually remember his Case both privately and publickly He own'd the Spititual Means as the means whereby he had this help and desired our continuing of the use thereof He hath been altogether freed for many Weeks now Years save that once he had some Threatnings again as to a Fit being then in Drink This he was troubled for He had cause to be troubled remembring what advartage Satan got against him by that Sin at first dreading least the unclean Spirit return and his last Estate be worse than the first Luke 11. And the Lord smote him with his immediate Hand which I endeavoured to set in with Thus far are the Minutes in my Diary as to this case This short account of the said Affair I thought meet to give because the Impression of the former Narrative is sold off Besides the Reprinting of that at large with this would make this too bulky and so too costly for the ordinary sort of Buyers Some such account also seems necessary to those who have not seen the former Narrative And indeed this was the first Draught tho' it came forth last FINIS Postscript IT may be thought a little unaccountable by some that the Book entitul'd the Surey-Impostor which so basely reflects upon the Candour and Ingenuity of those Worthy Persons concerned in the Surey Affair and which so insolently attempts to invalidate Matter of Fact attested upon Oath by so many credible Witnesses and even by such as are of Mr. T 's own Communion has not been answered long ' ere this The Worthy Author of these Papers is not accountable for this delay he having drawn up a Vindication of Matter of Fact so far as he was concerned therein several Months ago and the Copy of these Sheets has been out of his Hands with a design that they should be speedily printed for above these eight Months But the expectation that Mr. C. would also draw up his Answer to come forth with this has been one Principal Reason hereof together with the Author 's great distance from the Press that he could not so hasten it's publishing as otherwise he might But however it 's to be hoped that the candid and unprejudiced Reader will not suppose the Author's cause to be the worse or Mr. T 's the better for his Book not having a more speedy answer ERRATA PAg. 27. lin 6. for Physicial read Physical P. 29 l 6. for Deaboll r. Diaboli P. 34. l. 40. for Magicial read Magical Ant P. 35. l. 2. the same P. 40. l. 33. for strick r. stict P. 49. l. 24. for as r. that
the People affrighted but followed on Yea the Concourse was still greater On the Sabbath following we were mereifully freed from Disturbance by the Demoniack until the close of the Exercise We were in our place at our work we should not hinder the People from coming nor give place to the Devil but the Lord was pleased as he saw meet to make him to give place to us Zech. 3. 2 Cor. 10.4 5. being met together in the Name of Christ 'T is he that rebuked Satan it 's through him only that the Weapons of our Warsare are mighty Alas we are meaner weaker than others than any Upon the 25th Instant we had another opportunity on this occasion the young Man was detain'd from us much of the time by reason of several Trances he was in The multitude of the People was very great that it caused great Distraction and Danger also a Hay-lost in the Barn being broken down by the weight of the People Yet was their through God's special Providence no further harm done This Meeting was in Altham We were forced many times to meet in Out houses the Crowds of the People being to very great Mat. 131.2.18 20. our Chappel also being rather at an outside from the ordinary Congregation We did for their ease sometimes meet elsewhere having Christ's example and encouragement thereunto all the places of meeing being laso licensed according to Law The next day upon this occasion was at Surey the 1st of August then the Youth was quiet all the while Here the voung Man dwelt with his parents His Father and he were Gard'ners It is about a mile from Whally Should there not have been some respite sometimes it had scarce been pessible for the young Man or we to have held out We montion that others also may see the Lord's Mercy as well as our Infirmity VVe would not so far offend others as to meet at Surey upon any Lord's Day it being so nigh Whally yea all our Meetings are order'd as inoffensively as may be Again at the same place upon the 13th Instant then the Devil raged in the young Man exccedingly discovering himself more then ever by the Demoniack's discovery of several things in his Fus which could not be discover'd but by a Diabolical Means that Subject John 16.8 9 10 11. was several days insisted on there and also at our Lord's-day Meetings In my ansence Mr. Waddington and the rest of our Society had a day in Read upon this Dugdale's account tho' he was not present Indeed he was mostly present at the Meetings whether on his account or not tho' not always I was absent at this time only and so I have a further advantage in giving account of this Affair Upon the 3d of September we again met at Shrey on young Dugdale's account As I went to the place of the meeting he gave me notice by a little Paper which he put into my Hand that as his Spirit told him in his Fit he must be dumb and deaf whilst we prayed immediately upon his delivery of the Note to me he became both dumb and deaf all the while that the Exercise continued Note That sometimes he did out of his Fit tell what he heard or saw in his Fit being done at a great distance 2 Kings 6.8 to 12. at the same time As the Prophet could by the means of good Angel tell what was done at such distance But in ordinary he out of his Fit did not know what happen'd in his Fit We would deal plainly on the one Hand as well as the other We were but few to carry on the work so that we continued not so long as at other times They shew'd us at that time a large Button and a Curtain-Ring But especially a large corner'd Stone All which the young Man had vomited to the Astonishment of all Also we had account of several Latin Words and Phrases which he utter'd tho' he knew nothing of them his natural and acquired Abilities being but ordinary Upon the 5th Instant we met at the same place upon the same occasion The Lord brought in more Ministers for our help and the Meeting was very full Satan was chained up and the Demoniack gave us not much Disturbance We met at the same Place in the same mauner upon the 10th Instant the concourse of People was great tho' the Weather was very bad Satan we filenced this Day also It seems the Demoniack was told by his Spirit in his Fits That he most not be delivered as yet But as Lot's Wife be for a Warning to others Mr. Waddington and my Self were on the 19th Instant call'd to Surey The occasion was the Devil in one of the young Man's Fits had 〈…〉 something of a Contract which the Youth had made with him for a certain tâ—me 〈◊〉 subscribi … to a Parchment A Jade as he stiled her taking his â—and out of Bâ—d and put in one or two of his Fingers to the Writing VVe were also informed that the Youth h … written to Sir E. A. their Landlord to signify that he got no good by our praâ—ers and so seem'd to grow weary of our Pains It concern'd us to clear these two things but he was then in a Fit and as long as west id so that we could not examine him as to the former As to the lat or he dealt very unworthily with us considering the Case and Charge also we had been at for their Relief every way Had he not manifested himself free and forward for our proceeding thus far we should have desisted before this VVe had hereupon desisted but that the Youth consessed his Fault and his Father besought us to go on On the 26th Instant we again met at the Surey upon the same account The Reverend Mr. O. Heywood came in also for our help on that Day The Lord sent us that fuitable VVord by him 1 John 3.8 I thought it requisit ay some hing also as to our Call to the Work and Conduct therein as to the Case and present Circumstances also The Truth is we were then in great doubt and distiess for as we are men subject to like Infirmities with others So our Temprations were then more than ordinary Insomuch that we needed to look very narrowly inon the Case our Course and Carriage also VVe had need to be satisfied from our selves when we had so little satisfaction from others Upon the desire of young Dugdale the Junior Minister of the Company staid with him that Night The Devil it seemed in the Demoniack still did further declare that there was such a Contract that the first hold he got him was upon a vain Wish he had in he Abbey-hall That he might evccel all others in Dancing That the Contract was for 18 months Out of his Fits he would consess what a fancy he had to Dancing and that he cou'd not refrain from Dancing after the aforesaid Jams-Tide was a Twelve month that he danceth most artisicially