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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

Worshippers some of them whom thou givest most to finding all empty fading cloying vexing and so far short of what thou promisedst and they look'd for and others of them are put off with scanty parcels of what thou flatter'dst them with scarce getting Hutts for their Heads Scraps for their Bellies Raggs for their Backs and Graves for their Corpses but think not thus to impose on him since thy part in the Vow or Bargain thou tellest of is not kept by thee as abovesaid it must needs be void and he now free from it so as you having thence no part nor lot in him cease Dancing Satan and be gone from him upon which the Demoniack forbore Dancing for a while walking very hastily and angerly too and fro till at last he fell to Dancing again the Minister said Canst thou Dance no better Ransack the old Records of all past times and places in thy memory Canst thou not there find out some other way of finer trampling pump thine invention dry Cannot that universal Seed-plot of subtle Wiles and Stratagems spring up one new method of cutting Capers Is this the top of skill and pride to shuffle feet and brandish knees thus and to trip like a Doe and skip like a Squirrel and wherein differs thy leapings from the hoppings of a Frogg or bounces of a Goat or friskings of a Dog or gesticulations of a Monkey And cannot a Palsey shake such a loose Leg as that Dost not thou twirle like a Calf that has the turn and twitch up thy Houghs just like a spring hault fit or does the thoughts of thy treading of the Wine-press of the fierceness of the Almighties Wrath Rev. 19.15 strike thee into such Convulsions as toss and distort and jert thee thus Or does thy walking on the burning Coals of his Fury make thee startle and fling and sprent so wretchedly During this Discourse the Demoniack seem'd sometimes as put out of his Dances till he fell into his dead Fit whence arising he fell to Dancing again the Minister saying Is this a time for thee to Dance in when the other Devils are a trembling hast not thou heard the News so sad and fatal to them and thee that the great day of the Lord is near It is near and hasteth greatly even the Voice of the day of the Lord the day of Wrath and fiery jealousie of trouble and distress of wastness and desolation of thick clouds and gloominess Zeph. 1.14 15. Mark mark Satan dost not thou see the Angel coming down from Heaven Having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand laying hold on the Dragon the old Serpent the Devil and Satan and binding and casting them into the bottomless pit where he will shut and seal and keep you up from deceiving or troubling men on Earth Rev. 20.1 2 3. So that thou shalt no longer tell that the World and its Kingdom Power and Glory is deliver'd to thee and to whomsoever thou wilt thou givest it Luke 9.6 7. and that thou wilt give it Christ upon his Worshipping thee No no it shall be his whether thou wilt or no for behold he cometh with Fire and with his Chariots like a Whirle wind to render his anger with fury and his rebukes with flames of Fire to take unto him his great power and to reign for ever and ever and to extend his Churches peace as a River and her glory as a stream flowing over the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea satisfying his People with joy and gladness delights and satisfying consolations for the abundance of her glory Rev. 11.15 17. and 10.7 Isa 66.10 to 16. and notwithstanding your Plots against the First and Second Adam and all your devices to hinder his coming Behold he comes quickly and his reward is with him Rev. 22.12 And should ye pray to him as when he was on Earth Mat. 8.29 Luke 8.28 to stay the Wheels of his Chariots And should ye beg more earnestly than ever any dying Man did for a few moments longer out of Hell yet surely he will not tarry Hab. 2.3 And art thou like the Malefactor on the Gallows ready to be turned off the Ladder and yet desperately dancest and frolickest about the Mouth of the Fiery Lake that thou art a sinking into Upon this the Demoniack was hurled into a long dead Fit whence as he recover'd he cry'd out My Fit returneth next Morning at Seven a Clock And just before the Minister entred on this Nights Work he was told of several Gentlemens coming on purpose to ridicule and discompose him instead of which they at the end thereof openly thank him for the satisfaction and assurance they had thence received of Richard's being actuated by Satan which before they questioned After which the Paper vomited by the Demoniack was unfolded and dryed by the Fire whereon was written much Greek and other Letters or Charracters which none then there understood one sentence whereof was this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 600 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was put in a Diary for that 600 the Figures therein seem'd to refer to the whole number of days that were to pass betwixt Richard's first trouble and the time when the Lord would plunge him in the Lake of burning as the said paper threatned On the remainder of which Night the Minister lay near a Mile off the Surey with an ingenious Gentleman to whom several Arguments were long urged for proving that Richard's Affliction was thro' Satans possessing him he frequently answering I cannot believe that it is thro' possession Early next Morning whilst the said Gentlemen seem'd to be asleep the Minister little thinking of such Devil Spectators as he afterwards heard of put his Mouth to the Water in a Bason that was on a seat behind a Curtain close by the Beds-head and washt it so as the said Gentleman could scarce have seen thro' the Curtain had he then been awake after which he went privately thence to the Surey to wrastle against Satan in the said Fit before the other said Ministers were to come thither In which Fit Satan burst out into his usual bravadoes saying Dost thou again trouble me after thou hast seen my Commission which thou dost either understand and so thou know'st it is in vain to oppose me or else thou art ignorant and so unfit to deal with me Said the Minister The Commission thou tellest of threatens that the Lord will put him in the burning Lake How couldst thou know this Satan Hast thou lookt into the Book of Life and found Richard's Name even as thine own awanting there Or does the Lord reveal such Secrets to thee Nay surely the Lord never gave thee this Commission which I shall reckon among thy usual vain gloryings unless thou shew how it empowers thee to trouble him here or to get him to Hell And what good would it do thee to get him or others to Hell so as should make thee thus insatiably desire them thither

malam rem quid mihi tecum rerum tuarum satagas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Minister answered Why call'st thou me a Busie body and sayest that I am imployed in business that nothing concerns me What have I no business here where I am called by the Ministers and People of these parts Nay as a Man ought not I to do my best to help a Beast out of a Ditch much more to help this youth out of his Misery and especially as a Christian Doth it not belong to me to oppose the Devil seeing this I was bound to by a Vow at Baptism and oft since engaging that through the Lords help I would to mine utmost through all my time practise every known duty tho' never so much against my will or name my livelihood or life which I bless the Lord that I was so bound to which through Gods grace I will ever keep and mine heart exalts whilst I do now solemnly renew it and do denounce an irreconcileable War against thee and will do all that I can to drive thee out of the Country and so cordially do I abominate and so effectually would I ruinate thine interest in the World that I cannot acquiess meerly in this general Vow against thee but do further profess my self an offerer at a special Vow for prosecuting thy Kingdoms overthrow as the only Vocation Calling and Business which I have to mind and follow in this World and even as every orderly Person besides his Christian trade does fix on some particular Act or Science Mistery or Craft to spend his Life in 2 Thes 3. v. 11. Just so would I enter on the most tremendous Ministerial Vow against thee that I may do the greater mischief to thy cause and ways The Demoniack reply'd Carlisle Carlisle Colloquamur Latine vel Graece vel quâlibet aliâ linguâ auditoribus ignotâ adeon ' indoctus es ut alio Idiomate usi non possis quam quod cum materno lacte imbisti Respondeas ergò nec anglicè in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illiteratus palam dici malles To which the Minister said What Satan wer't thou intimate with all the Babel-builders so as to learn of them all their Languages or being some of those Languages died with our Ancestors and some new Dialects were since invented and sprung up in their stead didst thou learn all these Tongues and Idioms by thy long Travels through the Earth in all those times wherein they flourished or by conversing with all in Hell that great Emporium whether Men resort of all Ages Speeches Countries But is it not better to speak that one Language of thine old Heavenly Country which I hope to learn and thou hast irrecoverably forgot than to be so universal a Linguist as thou pretendest to be however I am not careful to answer thee in this matter for should I talk to thee in a Language unknown to the hearers as thou desirest then I should follow the Devils Counsel and do his pleasure and still stand at thy Courtesie whether upon my gratifying thee in speaking such a Language thou wouldst not still challenge me to some other Lingua which if I understood no● thou wouldst still stile me as thou threatnest me even now illiterate for not knowing so many Languages as thou and besides such Languages would be no satisfaction or advantage but much prejudice to the Hearers who might then think that I used Charms and Spells and Enchanting Words and Magical Expressions to Conjure thee out of this Youth And I de rather the Hearers should repute me unlearned for refusing than an Exorcist for abusing strange Languages in our Dialogues But tho' I 'll not yield to thy last request yet thy Discourse last before it I continue to Answer thou little thinkest how thou pleasedst me by threatning me with thy hatred which I value infinitely more than thy Friendship But I fear thou flatteredst me and wouldst make me overjoyed and cajole me to think too well of my self by telling me thou canst not abide me and I fear thou dost not really hate me but only say'st so to tempt me into presumption but if thou dost really hate me as thou say'st then I comfortably conclude that I am none of thy Children or Party whom thou couldst not hate For the God of this World still loveth his own Mark 3. v. 24 26. John 7. v. 7 15 19. And thence may I infer that I belong to Christ and am of the same side with the Saints and Angels whom thou hatest also as ill as me Rev. 12. v. 7 10 17. John 8. v. 42 44. and so thy hatred is an Evidence that I shall dwell for ever in that all Glorious Heaven whence thou irretrievably fell into an all cursed Hell which I shall escape for ever But as Paul after his Soul ravishing sense of unutterable Glories was sorely buffeted by Satan 2 Cor. 12. v. 7. so the Minister after his said joyous hopes was as swallowed up in the hour and power of Darkness Luke 22. v. 53. Whilst the Demoniack shaken as with an Hurricane after most Execrable Curses cried out Carlisle Thou art mine own and shalt never get to Heaven mine thou wert at first and wert since given finally up to me and whilst thou livest Ill employ thee in my Work and then Ill carry thee to Hell where I and other Tormentors will rack thee into Lamentations and Mournings and Woes into Weeping and Wailing and gnashing of Teeth Wines of Wrath having long been on the Lees for thee a ripening and a gathering rageous strength and quick Spirit of Fury and when drawn off thrice refined from all Tinctures of Mercy for thee to drink up the very first sight of them will shoot thee through as with ravenous flakes of fiery stinging Poyson and when the Sword bathed in Heaven has for ten thousand Millions of Ages been fatted with thy Kidneys and drunk with thy Souls Life Blood thou shalt then be as far from the end of thy Torments as thou art now and even then thou wilt think thy infinite Woes already past were nothing in comparison of those horrible Tempests of vengeful Plagues which thou wilt then see a rushing successively on thee without mitigation or intermission for evermore And here Satan described much of the nature and sorts of Hell Torments at a more lively and terrible rate than ever the By-standers knew done by Mens Books or Sermons insomuch that many things then spoken by the Devil about Hell being afterwards collected and so far as clear Scripture proof for them was found formed into a Discourse at T. one that heard it broke his way through the Company and ran out crying as in a Fright Away away else the House will be set on fire about our Ears Yea so uncommonly did Satan penetrate as into the experienced Misteries of Damnation as if he were gushing out all Einae's roaring Floods of blazing Sulfur Rocks or stirring up the very dregs and bottoms of the

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