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A56194	The Quakers unmasked, and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs, Jesuites, and Franciscan fryers, sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation by an information taken upon oath in the city of Bristol, January 22, and some evident demonstrations / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1664 (1664)	Wing P4047; ESTC R8191	28,485	41

extravagant Agonys Trances Quakings Shakings Raptures Visions Apparitions Conflicts with Satan Revelations Illuminations Instructions in new divine Mysteries and Seraphical Divinity whereof they pretend they were wholly ignorant before being illiterate persons their intimate familiarity and immediate communion with God Jesus Christ in and after their agonies and extasies their extraordinary callings Missions Messages to such and such particular orders sects places persons their sudden speaking understanding of several languages which they pretend they never learned but got by Inspiration All which are the very same in form and substance with those ridiculous lying Enthusiasms Impostures Cheats Agonies Revelations Visions Raptures Illuminations Inspirations Apparitions c. of Popish Saints Fryers Priests Jesuites Nunnes recorded in the lying Legends and lives of their Romish Canonized SAINTS by Capgrave Surius Lippomanes Ribadeniera Mafeus and other of their fraternity especially in the Lives of St. Francis Ignatius Loyola the founders of the Franciscans and Jesuites orders the principal Actors Speakers amongst the Quakers and other late Enthusiasts if fully examined and of St. Dominick for men of St. Katherine of Sienna and St. Briget of Sweden for women Out of this St. Brigets Life and Revelation printed in Folio at Nuremberg An. 1524. most of our Male and Female Quaker Extravagant new Revelations and Impostures are extracted as those who will but compare them may at first discern And though they conceal their Jesuitisme and grossest points of Popery from their Disciples at first baiting their hookes only with pleasing Novelties shewes of Superlati●e Sanctity and invectives against our Ministers Ordinances Church Tithes Presbyterian Government and the like that so they may more easily catch the silly people yet they discover their Jesuitical Positions and Popish Doctrines more openly by degrees at last as Evangelical perfection Justification by our own inherent righteousness and holiness c. crying them up for new Gospel Light amongst the ignorant vulgar and crying down our Protestant Ministers Ordinances Sacraments the Articles of our Creed Church Litergies Gods Ten Commandements the Lords Prayer our Churches and sometimes the Letter of the Old and New Testament as Popish and Antichristian As the Fryars and Jesuites did heretofore in their Books and Discourses in their very language And it is evident by some late instances that they are Anti-magistratical as well as Anti-ministerial Yea that these Quakers use inchanted Potions Braclets Ribons Sorcery and Witch-craft to intoxicate their Novices and draw them to their party As Simon Magus bewitched the people of Samaria with his Sorceries Acts 69. 11. and other seducing false teachers bewitched the foolish Galatians that they should not obey the truth Gal. 3. 1. which Enchantments Sorceries Charmes Fascinations and Exorcismes are very frequent amongst Popes and Popish Priests Monkes Fryers Jesuites as you may read at large in Joannes Wierus de Prestigiis Daemonum Incantationibus Basilae 1568. especially l. 2. c. 7. l. 5. c. 2 3. c. Platina Benno Cardinalis Balleus and others in the lives of Popes Silvester 2. Benedict the 9. John 20. and 21. and other Popes who were all most infamous Magicians Sorcerers and Inchanters by which black arts they got the Papacy And Dell Rio his Disquisitio Magie and John Jee his Foot out of the Snare London 1624. will prove the Jesuites and Priests in Engand are still accustomed to them to win and seduce their Proselytes Whence we finde this Scripture-expression concerning Romish Babylon Revel 18. 23. By thy SORCERIES were ALL THE NATIONS DECEIVED Now for our Quakers and others better instruction I shall inform them by way of Caution of these considerable particulars relating to their Agonies Inspirations and Revelations 1. That the Devil by Gods permissions frequently doth cause and produce by his own immediate power extraordinary strange Convulsions Contractions Distortions Agonies Tremblings Quakings Shakings Motions Jestures of the Bodies Members Joynts Nerves Muscels both of men and women when where and in what manner he pleaseth as we see by common experience in such persons as are either possessed by the Devil himself or bewitched by his Instruments and by the Convulsions Trances Quakings Shakings Gestures of Witches Sorcerers and other acted or possessed by the Devil of which we have many examples in History and experience and one recorded in the Gospel it self Mar. 9. 17. to 28. 2. That it was the usual practice and custome of Devils heretofore by their Idolatrous Pagan Priests and Prophets to give answers in their temples oracles to their worshippers in Greece other places which of latter times and at this day is likewise frequent amongst the Pagan idolatrous Indians by humane voyces nods antique gestures affictis sub inde gestibus Furentium nonnunquam Ebriorum alias Trementium aut Ridiculae Gesticuiantibus as Joanni Wierus relates out of Strapo Geogr. lib. 16. Their Priests who were and are usually Witches and Sorcerers when they prophecied and gave answers to the people being cast into strange real or feigned Extasies Trances and Quaking fits using sometimes the gestures of mad-men sometimes of Drunkards other times of Quakers Tremblers and of ridiculous Anticks oft-times howling shaking their brests foaming at the mouth and falling down in a swoon as some of our Quakers do now as if they had the Falling sickness the Devil in seeming entring into and acting in them as you may read at leisure in Wierus and Mr. Samuel Purchas his Pilgrimage l. 9. cap. 5. l. 8. cap. 6. and elsewhere in his Voyages VVhether our Quakers Shaking-fits Convulsions Trances Agonies running about naked into the open streets sometimes and to particular Persons Towns Ministers Magistrates with pretended Messages Prophecies and Oracles from God but really from the Devil himself like so many distracted Bedlames Drunkards Antiques Furies and Enthusiasts are not exactly paralleld with and originally derived from these Idolatrous Pagan Idol-priests and the very Devil himself I refer you to John Gilpin a reclaimed Quaker his late printed Relation touching his own Shaking-fits and Actions proceeding from the Devils possessing of and acting in him as he and others believed and to those who have seen them in their Fits and Raptures the wisest whereof are of that opinion and many of the vulgar people too These Quaking Fits and Trances were really and feignedly taken up and imitated of late times by many Popish Priests Monks Nuns and female Saints as you may read at leisure in Surius Ribadeniera and other Collectors of their Lives and Legends and which verified Coppingers relation and Cowlishaw his oath Mr. Tillam the Administrator of the Anabaptistical new-dipped Congregation at Hexam near New-castle a Papist or Popish Priest of late though now a zealous Anabaptist and Dipper in his Banners p. 24. professeth That these Shakings Tremblings and Extasies now used by the Quakers were derived from the FRANCISCAN FRYARS as Mr. Tho. Weld Richard Priderux Sam. Hammond William Cole William Durant