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cause_n	according_a	good_a	pleasure_n	1,473	5	6.8396	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43854	A faithfull remonstrance of the holy life and happy death of Iohn Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford, in the county of Chester, Esquire ... by the late reverend divine William Hinde ...	Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2063; ESTC R14489	155,350	254

part in the suffering or in the doing of them His fits and passions His fits and passions were much after this manmer Being brought so low so weak and feeble for any naturall strength that hee was nothing as we say but skin and bones yet for the space of 24 houres every day having one halfe houre which they called his awakening time wherein they gave him a little refreshing by some food to susteine him he shewed himselfe to be of that extraordinary strength that if he would fold his hands together no man could pull them asunder if he did roll his head or tosse his whole body as usually he did no man could stay or restrain him hee would with marvellous astonishment to the hearers and beholders somtimes howle like a Dog mew like a Cat roare like a Beare froth and some like a Boare When any prayed with him his passions were the strongest and his rage and violence the greatest ready to fly in their faces and to drown their voyces by his clamours yellings and outcries If one came neare him with a Bible though under his cloak and never so secret yet would he run upon him and ramp upon him with great violence to have gotten it from him and to rend it in peeces as he did divers when hee could come unto them Sometimes he would lye along as if he had been stark dead his colour gone and mouth so wide open that he would on a suddeine thrust both his hands at once into it His gestures and actions And as for his gestures they were marvellous strange In so great weaknesse hee would leape and skip up and down from his bed unto the table from the table to the window from the window to his bed again and all with that nimblenesse and quicknesse as scarce any professed Tumbler could do the like And that which maketh the matter yet more admirable having all this while his legs grown up close unto his buttocks whereof he could now have no present use for such feats of activity Sometimes we saw his chin drawn up unto his nose so that his mouth could scarce be seen Sometimes his chin and brows drawn almost together like a bended Bow His countenance fearefull by yawning mowing c. Hee was brought to the Bishop The poore Child being thus tormented the Bishop for his better satisfaction hearing so much of his strange affliction sent for him His parents brought him And once the Bishop prayed with him when the boy was so outragious that he flew out of his bed and all his men were affraid and one of them fell into a sownd and then such a stir about him that the Bish was glad to lay hold on the boy ramping at the windows to have gotten out that way But they could not find him a counterfeat as some imagined The Bishops Licence for a private fast for his release Afterwards this Rev. Bish being moved with compassion towards the boy did grant a Licence himselfe together with the High Commissioners for a private Fast in his fathers house for his better help and release according to Gods good pleasure and that in these words Having seen the bodily affliction of this child and observed in sundry fits very strange effects and operations either proceeding from some naturall unknown causes or of some Diabolicall practises We thinke it convenient and fit for the ease and deliverance of the said child from his said grievous affliction that Prayer be made publikely for him by the Minister of the Parish c. And that certein Preachers namely these following M. Gerrard M. Harvy M. Pierson c. these and none other to repaire to the said chid by turnes as their leisure will serve and to use their discretion for private Prayers and Fasting for the ease and comfort of the afflicted c. Ric. Cestren David Yale Griffith Vaughan Hugh Burches According to the tenour of these directions Master Bruen telleth us who did joyne together in Prayer and Fasting to that end Master Harvy and M. Pierson saith hee two godly Preachers were with him prayed and fasted My selfe also and some 20 or 30 more But God gave not deliverance at that time Now as for his Speeches strange in themselves 3 His Speeches yet more strange in this that hee never uttered any of them but when he was in his fits without any understanding or knowledge of what he did or what he said I will give you a taste of some few of them Jesus saith so he usually began his Speeches The Devill when he comes takes away my hearing seeing understanding hands legs that I should have no senses nor lims to glorifie God withall Jesus saith If they would have cast out the evill spirit they should have come better provided Jesus saith Some men did think that he that prayed had a better Faith than the other but he had not Jesus saith I have but three Divels It is like one of the spirits will go out of me and go and take counsel of a great number of foule spirits and come againe and trouble me worse Jesus saith Some folke will say that the Witch will not looke one in the face but shee will look here a way and there a way And so he turned his hands this way and that way Jesus saith The witch saith shee hath done mee no hurt that she knows of A witch may overlook a child but shee cannot make him in such a case as I am in The Devill is affraid when hee heares any word that he must be cast out then he quakes Iesus saith Now the witch would faine undo that which shee hath done but now shee cannot undo it Jesus saith Some say if I were bewitched or possessed I could neither move my tongue nor my lips But the Devill can move both my tongue and my lips Satan I am bound to a hard prentice-ship for thou wilt not give me leave neither holy-day nor work-day to eat a morsell of bread The Papist that brought the stinking weed and laid it to my nose if God had not had a stroke in this would have cast out the Devill And a boy was confederate with him Now the Devill is possessed of their soules And he must continue a little while with me but a great while with them God puls the Devill back with a ring in his nose yet the Devill shakes my faith as if it would go out of mee They may know there is some ill thing in mee for when I should say may prayers he would come up and stop me and then I must stay a little and then again and he would stay me Being in a sore fit and a great rage biting his own hands gnashing with his teeth foming like a boare and casting blood and filth out of his mouth hee uttered these words Proud witch witch proud I will tell you who these witches work all upon life all upon life all upon life but they cannot take my