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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20000	Dialogicall discourses of spirits and divels declaring their proper essence, natures, dispositions, and operations, their possessions and dispossessions : with other the appendantes, peculiarly appertaining to those speciall points, verie conducent, and pertinent to the timely procuring of some Christian conformitie in iudgement, for the peaceable compounding of the late sprong controuersies concerning all such intricate and difficult doubts / by [brace] Iohn Deacon, Iohn Walker...	Deacon, John, fl. 1585-1616.; Walker, John, preacher.	1601 (1601)	STC 6439; ESTC S323	312,434	405

DIALOGICALL Discourses of SPIRITS and DIVELS Declaring their proper essence natures dispositions and operations their possessions and dispossessions with other the appendantes peculiarly appertaining to those speciall points Verie conducent and pertinent to the timely procuring of some Christian conformitie in iudgement for the peaceable compounding of the late sprong controuersies concerning all such intricate and difficult doubts By IOHN DEACON IOHN WALKER Preachers If there shall arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreames giue thee a signe or woonder and the signe or woonder which he haue tolde thee come to passe saying Let vs go after other gods which thou knowest not and let vs serue them Thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams for the Lord your God prooueth you to know whether ye loue the Lord your God with all your hart and with all your soule Deut. 13. 1. 2. 3. If any shall say vnto you Lo heere is Christ or there is Christ Beleeue them not therefore for there shall arise false Christes and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and woonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the verie elect Matth. 24. 23. 24. Aug. De Trinitate Quisquis audit vel legit vbi pariter certus est pergat mecum vbi pariter haesitat quaerat mecum vbi errorem suum cognoscit redeat mecum vbi meum reuocet me Ita ingrediamur simul charitatis viam tendentes ad eum de quo scriptum est quaerite faciem eius semper That is Whosoeuer heareth or readeth where he is perswaded with me let him proceede with me where he is doubtfull let him inquire with me where he acknowledgeth his errour let him returne with me where he espieth mine let him recall me So shall we walke ioyntly togither in the way of charitie going foreward towards him of whom it is written Seeke yee his face euermore Propugnaculum vitae patientia LONDINI Impensis Geor. Bishop 1601. TO THE RIGHT Honorable and righteous Iudges Sir THOMAS EGERTON knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England Sir IOHN POPHAM knight Lord cheefe Iustice of England Sir EDMVND ANDERSON knight Lord cheefe Iustice of the common Pleas and Sir WILLIAM PERIAM knight Lord cheefe Baron of the Exchequer with other the most reuerend Iudges of the common Lawes of England I. D. and I. W. do hartily wish all sauing knowledge in Iesus Christ. RIGHT Honorable Lords you may not possiblie be ignorant of the late-bred broyles not long since brewed broached at Nottingham by meanes of Sommers his supposed possession and dispossession especially those selfesame broyles being eftsoones reuiued since and now also by what priuiledge we wotte not so publikely reported in Print as their flying rumours doe mightilie ouer-runne the whole Realme yea euen to the vttermost borders thereof We two did vndoubtedly assure our selues that the holie regard of Religion of loyall obedience to her Maiesties Princely prerogatiue of the publike peace of the Church of due reuerence to her Maiesties positiue Lawes of dutifull submission to the definitiue sentence of Iustice of common humanitie towards the persons of men yea and of a carefull continuance of their honest reputations woulde something haue restrained if not vtterly inhibited the parties especially conuicted from the vntimely attempting of any such vnorderly course as now by their newly published Pamphletes they haue most vndutifully blazed abroad And therefore the Christian care of that their hoped moderate cariage hath caused vs hitherto euen purposely to suppresse this folowing Treatise which almost three yeeres since we had euen carefully ●ompyled as a christian counter-checke to al such vnwoonted occurrents yea and this our former suppressing thereof proceeded we assure you from a felow-like feare of procuring vntimely disgrace and of adding affliction to the principall parties themselues Esteeming it much better to burie our precedent labours in the graue of forgetfulnes then by any their needlesse publishing to procure a present disturbance or to hatch a subsequent broyle in the Church by pestering the same with such impertinent obscure and needlesse paradoxes as in their books are broched abroad Howbeit perceiuing the principall parties with other their vnder-hand fauorites as it were in a setled pertinacie not onely to hold all those their former phantasticall toies with tooth and naile but which more is thus preposterously and perhaps also with the secret support of their vnder-hand Fauorites thus vndutifully to pursue the same with such publike disgrace of publike persons notwithstanding any the precedent countermaunds or definitiue determinations of publike authoritie we verily thought and our owne conscience did witnes against vs in the presence of God that we might iustly be deemed too too irreligious towards the Lord disloyall to her Maiesties Princely prerogatiue ouer-much carelesse of publike peace exceeding remisse concerning the positiue Lawes of our land most derogatorious to the definitiue sentence of iustice monstrous inhumane towards the persons of men yea altogither carelesse of our honest reputations if that light which the Lord in mercie we hope hath reuealed vnto vs should now any longer Lie buried vnder a bushell and not rather be set on a candlesticke for the better enlightning of all in the house concerning these intricate and hidden mysteries More especially now at this present when the fearefull infection of those their factious proceedings so vniuersally and so dangerously ouer spreadeth it selfe not vnlike to the fretting Gangrena or incurable Canker Experienced Antiquaries right honorable Lords doe verie well know to what dangerous heads such si●ly beginnings haue by carelesse negligence growen in continuance of time and therefore euen the verie primarie appearances of euerie such fearefull occurrent would be the more warelie and more wisely nipt in the head yea and the streaming courses thereof the more heedfully intercepted and stopped in time for feare of ouerflowing the yoong buds of our holy Religion For these speciall respects wee haue now proffered our labours to publike view and doe verie humblie importune your Honors patronage and fauourable protection for them so farre foorth especially as they fully accord with the infallible truth of the Scriptures We protest right Honorable Lords that we our selues in penning this Treatise did euen purposely resolue with our soules to banish all partiall and priuate respects from out of our brests as may by the matter and method thereof verie plainely appeere to any indifferent Reader Yea wee wholie deuoted our selues to penne onely such speciall points as other writers report and record in their seuerall workes and which in our owne consciences before the presence of God we are hitherto perswaded are vndoubtedly true desiring with all our harts to be better and more fully informed wherein we haply may erre by the holie endeuours of such as the Lord hath in mercie enlightened with a more syncere and sanctified knowledge concerning these points The speciall motiues for our thus