are flying up into the Demoniack 's Nose but the Minister proceeded How meanly employ'd is thy Prince Beelzebub and your sort of Devils in dealing thus about Bodies Mat. 12.24 Are ye so dull and blockish and sunk into Earthlings that ye are unfit to trade with cunninger Devils about Mens Souls And how vilely sneaking and servile are ye grown one of you taking up with the resemblance of a Mouse another of you sniveling into the appearance of a Weazil whence horridly ugly must ye needs be in preferring such soul looks before your own and filthily unclean Spirits are ye indeed Luke 4.33 that can thus wallow in the most loathsom Creepers and in the most defiling forms that were commanded to be had in abomination above all other Lev. 11.29 41 42 43. What can ye put on no better shapes than those Upon which he fell into a dead Fit whence he soon arose Then the Minister said Satan as to thy attempting this Youth's Body against which I trust thou shalt never prevail What account wilt thou give thereof to thy Superiour Devils look look Satan Dost not thou see how they glow with fiery rage against thee and shake their threatning looks and Sparkle out flames of Vengeance and bend their murdering frowns like Bows to shoot Wrathful Arrows thro' thee for thy being so long a dispatching this their business then ah how will they vex all thy powers of sensation and blast all the Spirits and crush all the strengths and rack every Article of thine Essence upon thy not succeeding herein at last and if on the one hand thou wilt be thus afflicted by them for not ruining Richard throughly How wilt thou on the other hand be tortur'd by the Lord for thy troubling him at all Ah! then how wilt thou bear his showers of snares of Fire and Brimstone and horrible Tempests Psal 11.6 when his terrours shall take hold of thee as Waters and as stormy East winds shall hurl thee away and God shall cast on thee and not spare so as thou would fain flee out of his hand Job 27.20 to 23. yet if to escape his Wrath thou shouldst flee to the utmost parts of the Sea or shouldst hide thy self in Rocks from the Face of him that sits on the Throne or shouldst thou soar among the Stars or make thy Bed in Hell and shroud thy self in the Abysse of Impenetrable obscurity yet his Spirit and presence would find thee out for Destructions in the great Day of his Wrath then who among ye will be able to stand Rev. 6.16 17. Psal 139.7 to the 12. Who among ye can dwell with the everlasting burnings of devouring fire Isa 33.14 When the whirlwind of the Lord shall go out with fury and that continuing whirlwind shall fall with pain on thy wicked head Jer. 30.23 So as may make thee cry out bitterly Let not the Lord regard this eternal day but let the blackness of the thickness of darkness dwell upon it and the shadows of death stain it so as may terrifie it out of the number of dayes Job 3.4 5 6. On which he was hurled down as dead and afterwards recovered Octob. the 11th 89 Was prefixt to be a Fast-day for him at the Surey as is before-mentioned whither the other Ministers did also come on that very Morning when the last mentioned Conference with and Fit of the Demoniack was newly over on which day multitudes stockt thither as formerly many of them coming from far and many all along seemed wrought on by that Providence and the Ordinances together as appear'd from the several Lectures that thro' this occasion were desired to be set up by the said Ministers where there had been none before Moreover on this day as also at some other times Richard whilst out of his Fits seemed very serious and attentive at the Preaching of the Word by Mr. Jolly still looking in his Bible for the proofs refer'd to and also seem'd very devout at the Ministers Prayers yea he oft borrow'd Godly Books of them reading them in private and praying by himself yea sometimes in company with bitter tears confessing and renouncing his Sins and Mourning for that the Lord had made him such a publick Spectacle of his just Judgments and importunately craving mercy vehemently crying out Ye Ministers if ye can do any thing help me I trust to be delivered by your Labours under God or no way at all Insomuch that sometimes the Ministers had great hopes that he was becoming a new Creature and that the Lord was a giving him Faith to be healed Act. 14.9 But whilst he was in such hopeful Expressions of his Piety he was seiz'd with his said Fits in the closure of which he cry'd out My next Fit returnes at Eight a Clock upon which Mr. Jolly and Mr. Carrington at the continued desires of those at the Surey did stay till the said Fit was over much of the time before the said Eight a Clock was employ'd by Mr. Jolly in Discoursing Expounding Singing and Praying during which work Mr. Carrington was meditating in a retired Walk by the River Shelder near the Surey and preparing himself for the said Eight a Clock Conflict having before given express charge to young Mr. G. to call him from thence when his said Fit began but there being that Night about or above a Thousand People labouring to throng into the Barn the said Mr. G. was so hurry'd down the stream and wedg'd in the crouds of them that he could not thence disingage himself to tell Mr. Carrington when Richard's Fit seiz'd him whence Mr. Jolly alone carry'd on all that Nights Work both before and thro' the said Fit which lasted near an Hour being far shorter than usual and was all the while a raging Fit without any dead Fits interrupting it wherein Mr. Jolly spoke to Satan he declined any direct discourse with Mr. Jolly and did either talk of other matters then those that were proposed to him or else his talk was not understood for sometimes he insulted at Mr. Carrington's not appearing and triumphed over him for that he encountred him not that Night as he did the Night before and sometimes he affirmed that Dicky was his own and sometimes he seem'd to speak a sort of Gibberish or to speak his words so thick that nothing could be made of them whilst Mr. Carrington wondered that he was not call'd and finding by his Watch that it was past Eight a Clock and hearing a horrible noise from the Barn he went thitherwards being met by some that came to seek and fetch him thither where he came too late for that Satan cried out as he was a coming Now Carrington I think I have couzen'd thee I will put a fine trick on thee for I will have done before thou get hither Then he became exceeding furious and hurled them that were near him on the Ground whence some of the People were likewise rude so that some small harm was then done to
alone as when he is in company Job 1.5 10. Had she power to destroy me Why cannot she do it now What could this Company do to hinder her Were she the weakest Devil among you And were all Men on Earth here to defend me from her tho' all their Bones were as pieces of Brass or barrs of Iron yet had I no stronger guard than these Oh! How should I tremble for fear of her but in this day shall this Song be sung Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks I 'll trust in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength Isa 26.14 and whether I be alone or in company Oh! how secure am I and out of the reach of the fiercest Devils whilst the Lord hath a matchless Power and Faithfulness and a mighty Arm and strong is his Hand and high is his right hand about me Psal 89.8.13 The Minister thus proceeding the Demoniack fell down and coming out of his Fit did cry out Haste give me some drink quickly any thing to drink there is as a fiery furnace in me that almost smothers me On Octob. the 10th 89 Mr. Carrington came to the Surey being the day before the other Ministers had appointed to be there for that on Conference Night last before Satan seem'd to yield before him whence he strongly hoped that Satan could not withstand such Conflicts two Nights and Days together when in the Demoniack's raging Fits Satan burst out into affrighting Blasphemies and the Minister answered One may know Satan what Country thou art of by thy Hell-language One would wonder that thou shouldst be so obsequious to Christ on Earth and then so believe in and tremble at a Just Omnipresent dreadful God and yet now shouldst talk such things against him as make us tremble far more at them then at thy menaces against us And dost thou think such Sins to be still desireable and worth thy committing who hast so infinitely lost and suffer'd by them Satan answered Sin is my trade and diversion and shall be thine and I will make thy life most wretched if thou refuse it The Minister answered wretched indeed should I be were I Master of that Trade and woful is thy case if Sin can be any or is the only diversion therein that thy Diversion being infinitely more wretched than thou canst make me on my leaving Sin and cleaving to Christ the prevailing of whose Interest and so the ruine of thine is at least as dear to me as my future and dearer than my temporal interest so that the wretchednesses thou threatens me with on this score are a grace I am infinitely unworthy of Acts 5.41 Phil. 1.7 29. Oh! how infinitely more light and easie are the heaviest loads in Christs Burden and sharpest Thorns in his Yoke than the gentlest weights and stings in the least sin Mat. 11.28 30. the least tast of the sweetest Sin being more intolerable to Christ then all Hell besides and as he rejected all the Sins thou didst or couldst offer him so would I more gladly then I would eat when hungry Luk. 4.2 6. being more afraid of sin than I am of thee dreading lest it should be too hard for me as it was for thee and fellow Angels who excel'd in strength yet could not hinder its rapacious talons from fastening on ye and dragging ye out of Heaven yea so hateful have I found iniquity to be Psal 36.2 that were it in Heaven I would not be there but rather in Hell if Sin were not there Job 36.23 Nay if there were no way nor state wherein I might be without sin I would not be any where saying with Job chap. 7.15 16. My soul choseth death rather than life I hate it I would not live always Let me alone for my days are vanity Said Satan My Tormentor I told thee I would shew thee my Commission as thou oft requiredst see here it is upon which the Demoniack vomited to the Minister a piece of Paper all very much wet close wrapt up in a round lump said the Minister Where hadst thou this which thou callest thy Commission Or what is in short the Contents of it Satan answered Read it if thou wouldst know for thou art like to know no more of me but what thou findest there What canst thou not understand it I think I have given thee something to study on upon which he very scornfully vapor'd by insulting Words Gestures and wild Pranks especially by Dancing wherein he excelled all that the Spectatours had seen or heard of and probably all that mere Mortals could perform and though the Demoniack before and after and out of such Fits could scarce Dance at all or but very sorrily yet in them he oft for six or seven times together leapt up so as that part of his Legs might be seen shaking and quavering above the heads of the People from which heights he oft fell down on his knees which he long shivered and traverst on the ground at least as nimbly as other Men can twinckle or sparkle their Fingers thence springing up in to 's high leaps again and then falling on his Feet which seem'd to reach the Earth but with the gentlest and scarce perceivable touches when he made his highest leaps How wondrous then were the movements of his Feet and deportment of his Body whilst he did not leap and every sort and part of his Dances seemed chained to some Tunes or Measures and regulated in conformity to some Musick which none there heard and all seem'd to be done with so much freedom and ease that tho' continued one or more hours his Body seem'd no more spent or tired or out of breath then at the beginning of them and so obstinate was he in persuing his Dances that many offering to hinder them were not able till the Ministers discourse seem'd at last to break them off more than all their forces the Minister saying What Satan is this the Dancing that Richard gave himself to thee for And did his Wish thou tellest of bind thee to do no more than this for so great a purchase as thy seizing him No no this answers not his Vow for his being a good Dancer for surely his Wish was that he might Dance well meerly of himself without thy painting or actuating his Limbs or Dancing in and for him Surely he wisht to Dance when he pleased alone or with others and not when thou pleasest so that no others dare Dance with him Surely he wisht to Dance for his diversion and not that Dancing should be his Punishment and why could not he Dance out of his sits as well as in them were he a good Dancer as he wisht and is not therefore thy seizing him without giving him his said wish a wronging of him just like thy cheats in other cases as when thou offerest the World and its Kingdoms Powers and Glories to such as will Worship thee Luke 4.5 6 7. How dost thou delude such
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 Exoâ— 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
they such Ordinances God's Spirit sets not in with any Ordinance whatsoever for the Conversion of all under it How then can't be imagin'd that it should be ty'd to the Conversion of all under possession Luke 16.31 Acts 13.11 12. John 3.8 5.36 to 39. 10.25 26 27 37 38. And what necessary connexion is there 'twixt Souls and Bodily Cures Are bodily Distempers always removed upon the removal of an errour or a graceless state from the Soul Or Why may'nt Satan sometimes be even as Distempers often are remov'd from the Body without the removal of Soul Maladies thereupon Psal 106.15 43. 2 King 6.20 and some have been Converted before their Bodies were troubled with Satan where surely Conversion could be no attendant of or consequent to Satan's leaving their Bodies Luke 13.16 Job 2.3 7. Altho' if a Conversion work have not yet been wrought on Richard 't is hoped he may yet attain thereunto being some who continu'd Unconverted whilst under Miracles were notwithstanding Converted afterwards John 5.9 to 16. Acts 2.36 37. and being it is his greatest concernment to make sure that his Conversion be sound which if it prove not it may be more tolerable for Tyre or Sidon at the day of Judgment than for him For if the mighty works which was done on him had been done on them they might have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes Mat. 11.21 On Sept. the 19th Whilst the Ministers were at the Surey Richard was in a Fit and Satan had in his Fit told of a Parchment Contract which Dicky entred into with him Of which see Octob. the 18ths Discourse And Richard had dealt unworthily with the Ministers in signifying behind their back either by Letter or otherwise that he got no good by them but grew weary of their pains as he had all along manifested his forwardness and desires for their proceeding thus far so he then confest his fault and with his Father besought them to go on as they had begun On Sept. the 26th Was a Fast-day for him at the Surey Mr. Jolly's Discourse was so clear their Call and Conduct in this Work and the Reverend Mr. O. Heywood's on 1 John 3. v. 8. as upon other days the Reverend Mr. Frankland Mr. Pendlebury and others assisted upon the desires of Richard and of the rest the said Carrington staid all night as formerly but meddled not with so weighty a province as speaking to Satan while the other Ministers were present without their order or example they then and at most other times forbearing any Speeches to or Conferences with Satan but being what happen'd on such Conference Nights may be perceiv'd by the more large description of the past Nights Conflicts therefore what passed in this or other such Nights shall be more briefly declared so as very many considerable things yet unmention'd shall be past by and if already mentioned shall be no more so though they were done frequently by Richard This Nights raging Fits of the Demoniack seem'd different from the former a voice in or from him and something about him and a pertinacious insolency and defiance of all methods for removing Satan seeming otherwise then formerly when the said Ministers last left him who in his first raging Fit did say Tell me Satan how thou troublest Richard And dost thou do this meerly by thine own immediate acting in or about him or by ill humors disorder'd in him or infused into him or by outward Agents or Assistances about him Satan as with an insulting scornfulness and haughty fierceness answered Thou may'st as well spare thy pains about him and remove a Mountain from its roots as me from him said the Minister I am sure that Faith can drive thee hence though thou be more unremoveable than a Mountain Mat. 17. v. 20. The Son of Peace shall I trust bruise thee under our Feet shortly Rom. 16.20 I trust that God will stand with us and strengthen us so that he shall be delivered out of the mouth of the roaring Lyon 2 Tim. 4 17. And I wait till the Lord Jesus shall say unto thee the Lord rebuke thee O Satan The Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee Is not this a Brand pluckt out of the Fire Zach. 3. v. 2. Satan answer'd It were better for thee to forbear for I am sure that he is certainly mine own and in spite of thee and all thy partakers I will do what I will with him and carry him to Hell at my pleasure The Minister answered Poor Satan Nothing is thine own but Sin and Hell and thy Slaves already doom'd thereunto How does it appear that he is so doom'd What! Because thou art permitted to trouble him Art thou hence sure that thou shalt get him to Hell No! no! for so the Devil would have been sure of Job and of the Syrophenicians Daughter whom they were allowed to trouble but thou thy self knowest how perfectly Despotical Arbitrary and Imperial Christ's Government is and how by the least beck of his Will he works the greatest Changes and Revolutions throughout the Worlds in a Moment turning all Creature-wheels hither and thither with as much freedom and ease as if they were but one single Wheel in his hand Ezek. 10.13 thy title to and tenure of him is but disputable usurped and precarious and may e're long be lost to the Absolute Power and Soveraign Pleasure of the Head over all Principalities and Powers Mightinesses and Dominions Ephesians 1.21 22. and thou or the stoutest so that Legions among ye cannot stay in Humane Bodies or Souls one Moment longer than his effectual Call by which hast not thou been cast out of many a Soul that thou hast been as sure of as thou art of him Why then mayst thou not soon be turned out hence yea perhaps the very Sword is just now issuing out from him to pack thee hence suddenly mark is it not now a hurling thee out so that instead of thy being sure of him he ere long may sit on the Bench at Christ's right hand to demand the Judgments against thee for now troubling him where we likewise may joyn our Testimonies as Eve did Gen. 3.13 to 16. against thy Oaths Lies Blasphemies and Curses and attempts to beguile us which may further bruise thy head and aggravate thy destruction Satan answer'd Let me alone Carlisle art thou come again to torment me have done or I will tear thee in pieces and be thy death Said the Minister let him come I will not through the Lord's help give place to the Devil Eph. 4.27 Let the Lord do with me what seemeth him good tho' he slay me yet I will trust in him but if the Gates of Hell were all opened and all therein might be saved thro' their killing of me so that they with all their fellows on Earth should conspire to destroy me they could do nothing against me if the Lord be for me as I trust he is Rom. 8.31 during which words he fell into