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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20001	A summarie ansvvere to al the material points in any of Master Darel his bookes More especiallie to that one booke of his, intituled, the Doctrine of the possession and dispossession of demoniaks out of the word of God. By Iohn Deacon. Iohn Walker. Preachers.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.; Walker, John, preacher. aut	1601 (1601)	STC 6440; ESTC S109440	212,590	277

bitter exclamations I must necessarilie admonish you Readers of some particulars in either of both and therewithall must aduise them to beware they doe not either too rashlie approue of your spirit or too inconsideratelie affect your Cabalisticall conceits For first in one of the Epistles you apparantly discouer to all the world your grosse and intolerable pride by indighting arraigning adiudging and condemning of Passhur and the Prelates as it please you to terme them of the vnpardonable sinne against the holy Ghost Labouring the Lord Chiefe Iustice withall not onely to recouer himselfe with speede from that forenamed fearefull sinne whereunto it seemes by the purport of your speech you doe greatlie feare he is fearefullie falling but also to practise a fresh such a platforme of Iustice as your selfe doth more deliberatelie portrature to him for those his iudiciall proceedings more especiallie concerning your speciall matters Namely that he doe forthwith reuerse the precedent iudgement which passed against you and admit you a new plea to proceede in a fresh and the same at your pleasure to prosecute eftsoones before the iudgement seate Which motion of yours being freely admitted and the same once made but a meere matter of course tell me what one definitiue sentence against malefactors must at any time stand currantly sound without the speedie reuersing of some at the least For if offendors may once haue free passage to such a proceeding they can very subtlelie suggest and are cunning enough to pretend many colourable pretences and probable presumptions for the timely annihilating and for making a plaine nullitie in any definitiue sentence against themselues whatsoeuer Againe in the very title it selfe as also in the Epistle before your detection you doe to too dangerouslie detect a very vndutifull and disloyall heart to her Maiestie by branding her Maiesties iudiciall proceedings against you with the treacherous title of a sinfull shamefull lying and ridiculous discourse terming the dealers against you no better then English Inquisitours such as bewitch her Maiesties people with their crooked conueiances Instruments of Satan Impudent and shameles discoursers the publishers of shameles and malitious inuectiues yea such and so mightie aduersaries as you must necessarilie cracke and diminish their credits yea take all credit quite from them by detecting their filthinesse especiallie the Discoursers that so by making his name to rot and to stinke you may gaine among men the more credit to your sillie poore languishing cause With these and infinite other like vnchristian courses vndutifull termes and inhumane proceedings are those your two Epistles pestered full what say you Exorcistes vnto them Exorcistes I am so farre off from forethinking the same as I could heartilie wish they were doubled and trebled vpon their pates Orthodoxus Fie fie for shame these your vndutifull and disloyall reuilings of men endowed with her Maiesties lawfull authoritie doe euen make the very eares of all men to tingle Surelie howsoeuer we our selues in our former conferences were in very great hope of your happie conuersion yet now the naturall corruption of your proude and intemperate spirit so deepelie discouers it selfe all good men stand greatlie in doubt of doing you good by any their holy endeuours But tell me I beseech you what spirit you are of Tell me from whence you receiued so large a Commission as that you dare by vertue thereof thus insolentlie inthronize your selfe into the sacred throne of the eternall God for the arraigning adiudging and condemning of consciences What priuiledge haue you thus proudely to pull downe from the seate of iustice such approued Magistrates as her Maiestie hath authenticallie placed therein and then so proudely skippe vp into their places your selfe by countermaunding annihilating and reuersing definitiue sentences yea and which more is by aduising disposing and determining at your pleasure quite contrarie courses for iudiciall proceedings Where is your warrant so vnreuerently to rayle vpon reuile and speake euill of any in authoritie We know very well who hath giuen vs straightly in charge not to curse or reuile the rulers of the people but we vnderstand not as yet where or from whence your selfe should possiblie procure such a plenarie power to countermaund or controll that former charge of the Lord. You take much more vpon you herein then euer did Iehoshuah the high Priest or Michael the Archangeli when they stroue with the Diuel for they durst neuer giue rayling sentence to him but onely said thus The Lord reproue thee O Satan euen the Lord that hath chosen Ierusalem reproue and rebuke thee Whereas your selfe in most disloyall and vndutifull manner doe offer a most dispitefull disgrace to publike gouernment and doe very seditiouslie depraue and speake euill of persons in publike authoritie as though your tongue were your owne to prate what pleaseth your selfe But tell me good Exorcistes doe these the outragious outgoings of your vnrulie affections proceede from the spirit of God or the Diuell Exorcistes I reuerence the authoritie it selfe and doe only oppose my speech to shameles and graceles men in authoritie Orthodoxus Whatsoeuer you imagine the men to be the best is they doe stand or fall to their Lord and therefore there is no cause they should greatly feare the boysterous thumps of any your Cannon-like thunder cracks all the while the greatest matter of your charge is but winde and paper For it is an vndoubted truth I assure you that as these Rabshakeian reuilings and raylings against the persons of men doe bewray to the world the badnes of your cause and primarilie proceede from the very circumference it selfe of your circular conceits so are they all equallie and proportionably directed to one and the selfe same period viz. ad vertiginem cerebri I meane to the giddi-braines disease or the turne-about sicknes But be it the men were fully so bad as you beare vs in hand we hope you will neuer hold them to be halfe so bad as the Diuell and yet the Diuell receiuing notwithstanding his badnes a Commission from God to afflict the Church Iehoshuah and Michael they durst not as we told you before giue rayling sentence against the Diuell for feare of being found thereby to rayle against God himselfe whose Executioner or hang-man he was You are wise enough to make the application your selfe Besides al this we haue the exāple of Dauid of Stephen of our Sauiour himselfe of all the holy Martyrs of God yea and of the saued theefe on the Crosse who all prayed for their persecutors pursuing their deaths but we haue no one president of any that euer reuiled or railed on the persons of men saue onely that of cursed Shimei of rayling Rabshakeh and of the damned theefe on the Crosse whose number we hope you will neuer encrease by seconding such their vnchristian courses your selfe For if he who curseth the Ruler but only in the secret and hidden thought of his heart