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death_n	die_v	fear_v	life_n	8,855	5	5.0708	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54396	The devill of Mascon, or, A true relation of the chiefe things which an unclean spirit did, and said at Mascon in Burgundy in the house of Mr. Francis Pereaud, minister of the Reformed Church in the same towne / published in French lately by himselfe ; and now made English by one that hath a particular knowledge of the truth of this story.; Antidémon de Mascon. English	Perrault, François, 1577-1657.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1584; ESTC R40060	21,898	64

but his servant yea that he was not the same that had bin in the house the night before that then one of his fellow servants was waiting and that they two were expecting their masters returne from his Journey to Chambery whence he should returne within few daies Howsoever whether it was the Master Devill that then spake or one or more of his servants I have beene informed by worthy witnesses that at the same time there was a Spirit in the house of Monsieur Favre the first president of Chambery who for his learning in law was one of the illustrious men of his age To him the Spirit spake and told him among other things that he came from Mascon and had past through Bresse and seene such and such kinsmen of his To returne to what was in our house at that time the Spirit bespoke aloud great preparations of provision as turkies partriges hares and the like for the comming of his Master Then he sung many prophane and bawdy songs among others that which is called le filou He counterfeited the voyce of Juglers and mountebankes and especially that of huntsmen crying aloud holevrier ho levrier as hunters use to shoute when they start a hare He offered to tempt us by covetousnesse one of the ordinary temptations of the Devill for which reason he is called Mammona Divers times he would peremptorily affirme that there was six thousand crownes hidden in that house and that if any of us would follow him he would shew us where the money was hid But I can say with a good conscience before God and his holy Angels that I never searcht for it nor employed others about it nor suffered any to looke for it or ever had any will to make benefit by it He would try us also by curiosity saying that if we had a mind to see him in any shape of man woman lyon beare dog cat c. he would give us the sport of it Which motion we did much abhorre and reject saying that we were so farre from desiring to see him in any of these shapes or any other that we were very desirous if it might be Gods pleasure never to heare him but that we hoped that God would shortly deliver us from all his temptations In the end he became very angry first against me because I had told him Goe thou cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Whereupon he told me Thou liest I am not cursed I hope yet for salvation by the death and passion of Jesus Christ This he sayd perhaps to make us believe that he was the soule of a woman deceased a little before in that house the daughter of a woman whom I had ejected by law out of that house for there had beene a rumour that when she died she prayed to God that she might returne to the house after her death to vexe us He told me in great wrath that he would doe this and that to me Among other things he told me that when I should be a bed he would come and pull off my blankets pull me out of the bed by the feete I answered him the same thing that the Royall Prophet David said to his enemies I will lay me downe and sleepe for the Lord maketh me dwell in safety I told him also that which Jesus Christ said to Pilate Thou hadst no power on me but what is given thee from above Whereupon he answered me repeating two or three times these words It is well for thee It is well for thee He was also very angry with one of the company who had called him stinking hee-goate and gave him many ill words as these Thou wouldest appeare a good man but thou art but an hypocrite thou goest often to Pontdeville pretending to goe heare Sermons But when thou goest thou takest thy boxe of bills bonds along with thee to exact thine arreares vse money Goe thou wouldst make no conscience to hang a man for twenty shillings as Mr Denis doth That master Denis was the hangman of Mascon Then making a noise as if he had clapt his hands together he sayd agaíne to the same man Thou makest heare the shew of a valiant man having brought thy sword along with thee this night but if thou beest so bold as to come hither without a light it shall be seene which of vs two is the most valiant Having sayd all these things of the time past present he would also speake of the future Speaking of those that professe the reformed Religion within the Kingdome of France he made once this exclamation O poore Hugonots you shall haue much to suffer within a few yeares O what mischiefe is intended against you more words to the same purpose He sayd of my wife that was with childe neare her time that she should have a daughter sayd it two or three times The case she was in made me feare that she should get some harme in her childbearin by a fright caused by our infernal ghest Wherefore I desired her to goe out of the house goe to her grandmother the Lady Philiberta de la Moussiere with whom she had bin bred from her infancy to lye in at her house But she did excuse herselfe from it very courageously saying that going away would be mistrusting the power mercy of God That since it pleased God to visit vs so he might find vs as well in another house that to resist the Devill we must not flee from him Wherein verily I acknowledged her to be in the right because wee are often exhorted in the Scripture to ●esist fight wrestle with the Deuill ●ut never to flee from him which would be ●eilding to him the victory For he is like he wolfe or the crocodile whom if you and against stoutly they will runne away but if you feare them runne from them they will run after you The Demon sayd one night before vs all ●hat without fayle I should dye within three ●eares thinking thereby to torment me with a continual apprehension of death so make me fall if he could into some melancholy so into sicknes thereby to have made his words good But I answered him in the words of St Paul Act 20. None of these things moue me neither count I my life deare vnto my selfe so that I might finish my course with Joy the ministery which I have received of the Lord Iesus to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God The Demon having used all these wiles against us was forced to say that he could not prevaile against us because we did call two much upon the name of God To shew the efficacy of our prayers this is an observable truth that every time that the Devill saw that wee began to kneele to goe to our prayers he left talking and many times told us these words While you are at your prayers I 'le goe take