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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61990	The Surey demoniack, or, An account of Satans strange and dreadful actings, in and about the body of Richard Dugdale of Surey, near Whalley in Lancashire and how he was dispossest by Gods blessing on the fastings and prayers of divers ministers and people ...	Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S6196; ESTC R33823	69,276	74

The Surey Demoniack OR AN ACCOUNT OF SATANS Strange and Dreadful Actings In and about the Body of Richard Dugdale Of Surey near Whalley in Lancashire And how he was Dispossest by Gods Blessing on the Fastings and Prayers of divers Ministers and People The Matter of Fact attested by the Oaths of several Credible Persons before some of His MAJESTIES Justices of the Peace in the said County LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1697. THE PREFACE AMong Satans various methods for the ruining of the Gospel he hath kept up among us abundance of his Institutions Customs and Exercises which he brought in among our Barbarian unchristened Ancestors 2 King 17. from ver 17. to the end Neh. 13.24 and has manifested himself in such practices or appearances as he did or doth act in and among Pagans or Jewes such as in Apparitions Possessions Witch-crafts c. A particular Instance whereof is hereafter related as also how Satan was herein defeated thro' the Lords setting in with our Endeavours against him and oh that by this Alarm this Evil Generation may be rouzed out of their Security Prejudices Formality and Sensuality if God peradventure will give even to those that oppose themselves Repentance that they may acknowledge the Truth and recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil 2 Tim. 2.25 26. which would more rejoyce them and us had we thus our Name written in Heaven than if we had the Devils subject to us Luke 10.20 Mat. 7.22 23. And oh that none may either with the Pharisees Luke 11.15 16. contract the dreadful Guilt and Danger of imputing the Lord's extraordinary Workings to wrong Causes or may be disregarders of the Works of the Lord and of the Operations of his Hands whom he will destroy and not build up Psal 28.5 or may be despisers which behold wonders and perish thro' the Lords working a Work in their days a work that they will in no wise believe tho' a Man declare it unto them Act. 13.41 On the following Occasion the Reverend Mr. Baxter desirous to add this Narrative to his late Book called The World of Spirits evinced by Apparitions Witch-craft c. order'd about half a dozen Letters for our sending it up to him hence arose our intentions of Printing it which seem'd to die upon his dying before this was sent to him But afterwards another Reverend London Divine desired that it should be Printed as an Appendix to Mr. Increase Mathers Book called A further Account of the Trials of New England Witches A. D. 1693. Upon which much of it was then at London for the same purpose as is declared in an Advertisement on the back of the said Book 's Title Page But it not being then throughly compleated and certified it was again as dead or at least delay'd which delay proceeded partly from our backwardness to shew our selves to the World being far from seeking to be known openly John 7.4 insomuch that were it consistent with this Work we would be unnamed herein being especially desirous that none might be eyed but only the fearful in praises working Wonders nor any in the least share in the first Title that cannot reach the last Exo● 15.11 Psal 136.4 altho ' it might have come abroad long ere now had not Satan likewise sensibly hindred once and again 1 Thes 2.18 as to give one instance On Sept. the 16th 95 about Seven in the Evening one of us walking by the Bell and Dragon an Apothecaries Shop at Kings-street end in Cheapside with the fair Copy of this Narrative and the only Copy of a Postscript designed for it wrapt together in his Pocket to be offer'd for the Press about half a dozen Men sudenly claspt about him and notwithstanding his strugling and calling for help got the said Copies from him so as all his endeavours could not yet regain them However this delay is not so long but that were there any falshoods as we are satisfied there are none herein they might be as well detected now as at first Nay this delay seems rather to advantage than disparage this Narrative since had it been Printed soon after it happen'd Satans removal from or return to Richard's Body had been more questionable than now Deut. 18.22 and then the proofs of it might have been reputed the effects of mistaken surprize and of the ferment and wonder which the Country was then in about it whereas the within mention'd proofs of it preserved these Five Years and given in on a far less plausible Juncture and that after the hearing of what can be said against it must needs be more weighty deliberate digested and satisfactory tho' far less numerous then might have been at first from the Crouds of Spectators that are now scattered we know not where But he in whom are all our Springs to whom belong the Issues from Death seems at last to rescue it from the death it thus long lay under and to over-rule the Obstructions of it Rev. 12.4 for the furthering of its production Act. 5.38 39. and to say let it live by the Mouths of two sorts which indeed are the all sorts of Christians First Of the Believers of Satan's actuating Mens Bodies by Possessions Witch-crafts c. Many such eminent Divines Physicians and others urged the publication hereof as a very likely expedient for rooting out Atheism Debauchery Sadducism and Devilishness and for planting the practice and power of Christs precious Truths and Ways in the room thereof Yea several have at different times pressed this by inculcating Captain Bell's Case as in the Preface of Luther's Table talk viz. Luther's Mensalia which did so promote the Protestant Religion in Germany that each Church had one of them chain'd in it on which the Pope and the Emperor caused them all to be burnt only one of them was long afterwards found wrapt up in an old Wall by a German Gentleman that pull'd down his old House who not daring to keep it for fear of the Law against it sent it to his Friend Captain Henry Bell in London desiring him to turn it out of the German into the English Tongue The said Captain thro' business or otherwise deferring to translate it one Night between Twelve and One a Clock appear'd to him then awake an Ancient Man standing at his Bed side all in white with a broad White Beard down to his Girdle taking him by the right Ear saying Sirrah Wilt thou not take time to translate that Book which is sent thee out of Germany I will shortly provide for thee both time and place to do it in then vanisht his fright and sweating astonish'd his Wife yet not heeding Visions the Book again slip'd out of his mind till Warrants from Charles the First 's Council-board laid him in the Gate-house in Westminster for Ten Years without shewing him any cause Five of which he spent in composing the said Translation which was publisht by the Assembly of