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cause_n	great_a	life_n	see_v	3,300	5	3.3210	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96840	A vvonder in Stafford-shire; or, A Staffordshire wonder. Of a strange and horrible apparition of the divell, appearing to one James Fisher a phrenatick neare Brummingham late in the night, in the shape of one of his brethren as hee was going to one of their meeting places. Together with their severall discourses and disputes betwixt this phrenatick and the divell, to the shame and terrour of all other sectarians. Being published as a warning-piece to all other people to beware that they are not seduced into such eronious and damnable opinions. Being testified by Mr. John Hill, and Mr. Francis Collins, and one Mr. Peck living in the towne of Brummingham, besides many hundreds more, which for brevity sake we omit.	Hill, John, Mr.; Collins, Francis, Mr.; Peck, Mr.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3358; Thomason E1085_10; ESTC R31364	5,220	8

Devill it is written thou must part with thy Coat also Why truly said the Phanatick thou goest the way to performe it for if I passe this roade but a little longer I shall not have a Coat left to my backe and severall other Scripture phraises passed betwixt them untill they came unto their designed Harbour But it was even such as was suitable both for the journey and the Company the Gates flew open which way they went and mighty Trees were blowne downe which reduc't the Phanatick into such a feare that the drops of Sweat tr●ckled downe his Haire Then said the Devill how likest thou the Weather Truly said the Phanatick I am no Philosopher but according to an old Proverb we have When the wind is so high 't is a signe it will raine But this is such wind as if the Devill was abroad and upon this they arrived at the place The Phanatick like to a weather beaten Spaniell most durty and wet and in a totter'd condition which the Devill perceived began this Argument Brother said he thou dost looke now like an afflicted Catiffe How can I chuse answered the Phanatick for I seeme like one as had beene in the hands of the Devill yet little did he think it had been him all this while and therefore he oppos'd the Devill in this manner Friend said he before wee dispute demonstrate unto me what is thy name Why answered the Devill dost thou question me so high who am so generally knowne amongst all your Congregations for the prime instigator and promotor of your Actions But neverthelesse wee will not differ in judgement and therefore my name is Robin Good fellow At which his Countenance alwayes was changeable but being but a dusky and glimering light the Phanaticke supposed hee had but jested told him the Devill was a Lyer from the beginning and therefore imagined hee would bee also yet there 's many a true word spoake in jest you 'l say But neverthelesse they waved this and so proceeded quoth the Phanatick wee two shall never agree except thou canst refraine the Church deny the Congregations raise up Sectaries and prohibit the Clergy if you can Aye if I can said the Devill there thou saist true but if I should refraine the Church where should I be to make confusion in 't and if I should deny the Congregations how should I raise new Religions under which pretended Zeale I doe raise up new Sectaries thereupon my friend I must needs confute thee and as for the Clergie they are guarded with the thing called the Gospell we must dispute with them at the staffes point although I cannot say but my constant labour is to advance your Interests upon the ruines of their Liberties At which answered the Phrenatick those are the things we are aiming at so that if thou canst throw thy sub●ile devices direct our Actions in the skilfulst probabilities wee 'l maintaine thy quarrell and continue up our Sectaries Then answered the Devill you must follow these Directions and constantly keepe my advised Admonitions First You must be circumspect in your Dealings and that shall prove a cloake for your pretended Religions And secondly You must prey into the hearts of the Vulgar therby you shall make your Flock the more numerous Thirdly You must expresse your selves though with a counterfeit Explication and tell them you have the Spirit of Revelation teach them in secret corners seduce them to fields and publique places tell them you are Prophets if they will not believe you throw off your Garments and run naked shew them how you walke in the paths of humility and then they will believe you are Saints indeed seeing you are neither prone to Ambition nor Honour Then being numerous you may easily disturb mighty Congregations breed mutinies in great Cities and if you lay downe your lives for the cause I 'le receive yee Hold said the Phrenatick let me know what 's become of those that layd down their lives already Question you not that then answered the Devill but teach you this Gospell and follow my Directions Aye said the Phrenatick so we may repent it No no said the Devill 't is too late to repent you must go through with your worke if it was as high as the Tower of Babell Nay I thinke said the Phrenatick 't is too high for to accomplish and as for to repent you say it is too late the old Proverb saith It is never too late and therefore my friend I must needs confute ye now Let it passe said the Devill 't is but one for the 'tother but if you will effect the enterprise of your Ambition you must follow my Counsell and persist in my Doctrine Nay hold said the Phrenatick if we preach all thy Doctrine some will aver wee take counsell from the Devill The Devils countenance all this while was enterchangeable which made the Phrenatick in no suspicion in the least but a rugged raged tempestuous wind blew continually all the while of their Dispute which made him complaine 't was such a terrible wind as if all the Devils of Hell were there Which when the Devill heard him reply the word so oft swell'd with such jealousie that his eyes appeared as bigge as Sawcers that they glimered like two counterfet Moones at which the Phrenatick most gastly beheld with a trembling feare bowed his head towards the ground and there he espyed another dreadfull Object hee saw two deformed cloven Feet which in a terrible sweat replyed these words VVHo is your Shoomaker good Sir if I so bold might be The shape is no good fashion for it doth astonish me For the midle of it it is round the Toe is of the least And when you tread upon the ground the tracke is like a Beast Devill My feet is troubled with the Gouts one Shoomaker I use And he that alwayes make my Boots the same doth make my shooes I travell still both night and day I slumber not nor sleepe And Nights forlorne Companions they within my compass keepe There 's neither Theft nor Murther that within this World hath bin But I my very selfe was at and Author in the thing Phrenatick Why then a Devill I thinke thou art as it seemeth by thy foot I said I would maintaine thy Part but now I 'le never doe it Thy legs deformed every whit thy foot is cloven so And when so e're J looke on it it seemes as if 't was two Besides thy pricke and hornes I now more fuller doe perceive Thy swarfie brest and rusty which no man will believe Except my selfe which now doth see thy hellish parts descried That needs a Devill thou must be and nothing else beside All Meeting places I 'le refraine a Convert I 'le be now And ne're will be seduc't againe by such a Fiend as thou Thereupon arose a mighty shocke of Wind that the Barke flew from the Trees and left them naked the Devill aspiered himselfe aloft and parted in a horrible flame of fire This wretched and miserable Catiffe in a trembling feare and distracted Condition continued till breake of day and then with much adoe scambled home the Hew of his Phisognomy being so much altered with a pale and dismall Hew that even hee was growne out of knowledge with his own Family Hee remained three dayes speechlesse which sence being after restored hee repeated these wonderfull and horrid Relations in the presence of many Townes people who have testified their Evidences since for a truth which being so strange and remarkable a story I have here committed the same to the Presse as a warning piece to all Seditious persons wherein they might view the whole Proportion of their il-shap't Opinions and what Judgement and Examples have lately been upon them for the same So there 's an end of the story FINIS