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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

perilous and sinfull times wherein iniquity shall abound soe as the sonne of man when he commeth shall scarcely finde any fayth vp on earth Howe can it be denyed but that the lorde may smyte some with this iudgment yea and as I conceaue of this scripture will also which is more And lest we should vnderstand this of the Iewes only and restraine it to the time of the lawe either of which is absurd we must remember that we haue the same or like threate renewed vpon vs by the spirit of god in the time of the gospell and expresly agaynst euery man aswell Gentile as Iew as all men will graunt I protest saith the spirit vnto euery man that heareth the wordes of the prophecy of this booke that if any man shall add vnto these thinges god shall add vnto him the plagues that are wrytten in this booke and yf any man shall diminishe of the wordes of the booke of this prophecy c Seing then that it cannot be denied but that there are in these last euill dayes both which add to this boke dyminish from it that this plague of possession by deuils is written in the same we must nedes acknowledg cānot doubt but that god may send this plague also in this last age of the worlde Againe seing possession is a punishment or correction of the lord laid vp ●n a man by the ministery of sathan for his sinne and that men are now as greuous sinners as euer the lord also in like sorte affected now towardes sinne and sinners as heeretofore as ready euerie way to chastice men for sinne in these dayes as in former it cannot bee but that men may bee possest now yf the lorde thinke good that way to correct them yea euen as well and vsually as in former time Lastly it is to be remembred that as all churchs so al righter anciēt latter christians and papists which haue spoken more or lesse of this matter giue theire full consent heereto and many examples from age to age are giuen hereof Here might be brought in a multitude greate heape of testimonies to proue that men maye be nowe possessed but I will let them alone and only coate them in the margent because I thinke it a needelesse thing in so plaine and euident a matter to vse so many wordes specially seing hereafter I alleadge the most of theire testimonyes for the confirmation of dispossession since miracles ceased which is farr more doubtfull then this other of possession and cōprehendeth in it this also For if men haue bene and may be now dispossessed ergo possessed Wierus in the begining of his 4. booke de prestigijs doemonum speaketh of many that haue of late yeares bene possesed with diuels shewing at large their strange admirable most greuous vexations by sathan and among others he maketh mention of about 70 damsells which togither in one night 1555. in an house at Roome where Orphanes were kept became Demoniacks whereof saith he not one of them was recouered two yeares after yea it may be not at all which sure is more strange then their possession considering the great power and authority the Romanists haue ouer diuels euen the same with the Apostles if you will beleue them as hereafter you shall heare Also of later time and nearer vs euen at Amsterdam a greate towne in Holland Anno 1566. there were as he declareth at large 30 children or thereabouts in 8. or 10. weekes possessed with diuels But to let the dead and their writings goe let vs inquire of the liuing Aske of our trauailers what they haue seene credibly heard in other countries beyond the seas and you shall heare what they will say demaund of the papists and they with one consent will tell you that mē may be possest that among them ther daily are such Thyreus a man now liuing in a booke lately written of this argument nameth a great many that long since miracles ceased were possessed with diuels whereof some were great and honorable personages children to Emperours and kings Shall we say of them as it is said of our possessed persons in England that they were counterfeyts their calling of Exorcists also and formes of Ezorcisme proclaime their iudgment herein to all the world yea who knoweth not how they greatlye vaunt of the power that in theire Church they haue to cast out diuels This brage of theirs is answered by D. Fulk and diuers others but neither he nor any other returneth in answer that men cannot in these daies be possest which had it bene a truth they wold neuer haue omitted But why doth it seeme so incredible and impossible vnto some for one to be nowe possest Because myracles are ceased It shoulde seeme then to be possest with the diuell is a miracle and not a disease sometime by miracle cured For the ceasing of miracles putteth an end only to miracles and not to the diseases which miraculously were healed else we should haue none sick of feauers palsyes and other infinit diseases none dumbe deafe blind halt or maimed Notwithstandīge then that miracles are ended possession with diuels may remaine seing it is certaine it is no miracle but a sicknes or supernaturall disease which somtimes miraculously was healed by Christ and his Apostles as appeareth by the 17. of S. Mathew where the father bringing his possessed child saith thus to Iesus I brought him to thy disciples and they could not heale him and presently after it followeth and Iesus rebuked the diuell and he went out of him and the child was healed at that houre In like manner it is said in the 9. of S. Luke that Iesus rebuked the vneleane spirit and healed the child and deliuered him to his father And for further profe hereof serueth excellently that in the 8 of S. Luke verse 2. where it is said that certaine weomen were healed of euill spirits and infirmityes as Mary which was called Magdalen out of whome wēt seauen diuels where by the word healed we may learne that possession is a disease to wit supernaturall and that the miracle is when the dguell by rebuke that is by a charge or comaundement to depart is caste out in which case the party is healed or made whole of this vnnaturall disease For thus it is written in the 9. of S. Marke when Iesus c. he rebuked the vncleane spirit saying vnto him thow dumbe deafe spirit I charge thee come out of him Then it is said the diuell came out the very same we haue in the first of S. Marke verse 25. and a little after it followeth verse 27. he commaundeth the foule spirits with authority and they obey him And in S. Luke with authority power he comaundeth the foule spirits and they come out In these cases we all knowe Christe wrought a miracle now what did he he comaunded the dyuells that were in men to come out of them