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A31092	The Lord's arm stretched ovt in an answer of prayer, or, A true relation of the wonderful deliverance of James Barrow, the son of John Barrow of Olaves Southwark, who was possessed with evil spirits near two years the diversity of means used, with the way in which he was delivered / published by me, John Barrow.	Barrow, John, 17th cent.	1664 (1664)	Wing B965; ESTC R30215	17,813	22

the window strangely and fell a calling for more help as though some stood without and beckned with his hand to them and bad them come in Why did you go out come back again come back again they will not hurt you you need not fear you may come if you will come quickly what are you mad to stand there and then would beat himself for anger that they did not come when he called It was observed that two hats hung in the Window and a friend took them down supposing the Boy might heed them and when they were down he cryed the more Now there is more room now you may come if you will come away come come and then cryed Diabolus Diabolus many times saying it many times Come or the work will be done And one taking him by the hand he cryed Let my manus go many times One asked me whether I had taught him any Latine I said No. Then the Boy sweat much and seemed to be in a great toil or agony and then told us If we would not give over and depart quickly the house would fall and kill us all you will be all killed Now it was observed that at the departure of every Spirit which was as we suppose five at distinct times their departure was with a kind of strange rising upwards to his throat as if he was ready to be choaked bursting forth with a kind of belching and throwing forth his hand saying There is one gone so in the departure giving the distinct number of them as they went forth crying out when the third was gone There is one for every day as aforesaid And when the fourth went out he shaked his hand after him saying Fare thee well farewel there is four now all is gone now all is gone One said Thou art a Lyar for till God put praise into this Boys mouth we will not give over But when he said four were gone it was to be observed he did butten up his doublet very carefully and orderly measuring the breast of it to see whether he did it even after which he fell asleep and slept as near as we could judge an hour and an half or thereabouts in all which time we continued earnest in prayer to God and at the last he awaked and looked about him wildly and in a little time the fifth spirit began to roar and to be disturbed as the other before and then one of us did adjure him in the Name of Iesus to come out Then he said If he did he would go into another upon which he was commanded to come out and go to his own place Then we heard him cry Legat come out come out come out thou must come out thou must come out oft saying it over and then stopt his mouth with his hands and coat and knees and arms as if he were resolved to stop in the Devil with them but at the last to the praise of our God be it spoken for ever which worketh wonders by his own Power alone brought him out he brought him out with a sneeze and a kind of thruttling in his throat and so the fifth came forth at which time the Boy sate very still with a very sober countenance lifting up his hands and eyes as though he had matter of praise in his mind for the space of three hours and at that time I was desired to speak to him but found him dumb and then he sate down again and we applied our selves to the Lord in prayer and the last that prayed asked of God a sign as in the morning whether the work was done and that if it was done the Lord should put praises into the Boys mouth and then the Boy did lift up his hands and eyes which we did look upon as an Answer from the Lord and so with one accord returned praise to God with all our hearts and when we had concluded we asked the Boy how he did but he could not speak One asked him whether we should pray for him but he did not answer Iames said one if we shall pray for thee give us a sign then he did lift up his hands and eyes and then they went to prayer again that the Lord might loose his tongue and so they left him my self his mother and two other friends more with him and went into the Kitchin One of the friends that stayed above put his finger into his mouth and finding his tongue doubled laboured to unfold it and groaned in spirit to the Lord and it pleased the Lord so to loose his tongue that he spake and praised his holy Name who alone worketh great Wonders Then we found that the Lord had answered our prayers to the great joy of us all then we sung forth his praise and met that day sevennight and kept it a day of thanksgiving to God for that he was pleased to shew us that his hand was not shortned nor his ear heavy that it could not hear but that he is the same to day and yesterday and for ever This in the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes A true RELATION of the wonderful Deliverance of Hannah Crump Daughter of Iohn Crump of Warwick who was sore afflicted by Witchcraft for the space of nine months with the several means used and way in which she was relieved Christian Reader THis following Relation is not put forth to reflect upon any sort of People nor to seek any popular applause from any but onely to shew that the Lord's hand is not shortned that he cannot save or that his ear is heavy that he cannot hear but the Iniquities of the sons of men in this day have hindred good things from us as well as it did in times past and that the want of Faith in Gods promises have made us want those spiritual presences of God by his Spirit and to manifest that if we seek him in the way of his Appointments he will be found of us as he hath said Yea if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed great things shall be obtained by Faith in the Promises he hath made being the onely means he hath appointed through Christ to draw down the Benefits and Priviledges that belong to his servants by promise And therefore we having had great experience of the Lords faithfulness in our approaches to the Throne of Grace many a time have taken liberty to declare in his particular Treatise two special Appearances of our God in answering our Prayers The first is that that goeth before the second is as followeth One Iohn Crump of Warwick having a Daughter which was very much afflicted with strange fits to the amazement of all her Relations her grieved Father left no meanes unattempted for the Recovery of his afflicted Child as Physick and what the wisdom of man would afford him in the place where he lived but all proved in vain Then at last He and one other of his Daughters came up to London and

THE LORD'S ARM STRETCHED OVT IN AN Answer of Prayer OR A true Relation of the wonderful Deliverance of JAMES BARROW the Son of Iohn Barrow of Olaves Southwark who was possessed with Evil Spirits near two years The diversity of Means used with the Way in which he was delivered Published by me Iohn Barrow O Thou that hearest Prayer unto thee shall all flesh come Psal. 65. 2. He will regard the Prayer of the Destitute and will not despise their Prayer Psal. 102. 17. And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in Prayer believing ye shall receive Mat. 21. 22. LONDON Printed in the Year 1664. THE PREFACE to the READER Christian Reader MAny may be ready to judge that this wonderful and merciful manifestation of God's Power and Goodness in the delivering my Child from so great an Evil doth arise rather from ostentation than from any real cause I had to publish the same for I know that it was in all Ages the design of Satan to put an odium upon the best of works that have been done in the world Hence it was said of Christ that he cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils that by that means the Iews might hide from the eyes of the People the Goodness and Power of God which was plainly seen in what Christ did Things of this nature will not pass without censure Such is the reigning power of Satan in the hearts of many at this day also that a work of this kind will by them be stigmatized and the persons also that God made use of as instruments in his hand to do it I therefore thought it meet to give the Reader to understand that my end in the publishing of what God hath done for me in taking my Child out of the hands of Satan is not the lifting up of my self nor those men that wrestled with the Lord for me God who knows the secrets of all hearts knows it but that he alone might have the glory and praise of so great a mercy to whom I desire to give it and to no other but him alone which is the main reason why I make the world acquainted with it for should I conceal so great a Mercy it would be ingratitude in me Another reason that hath induced me to publish what hath been the Lords doings is that others might be stirred up to praise the Lord with me who is a God hearing prayer of whom we may say as once Moses did Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods who is like unto thee glorious in Holiness fearful in Praises doing Wonders Exod. 15. 11. for surely it would not only be ingratitude in me to the Lord to conceal a thing of such weight but it would accuse me of want of love to other Christians who may thereby be not only occasioned to praise the Lord but encouraged to seek the Lord in all their straits forsaking those vain if not wicked proceedings of some who by Charms think to deliver from the power of the Devil as will appear in the following Discourse for I my self indeed being no otherwise nor no better informed endeavoured the help of my Child by such means as I have now cause to repent that ere I made use of them but the Lord was pleased at length to let me see my folly therein after I had spent and wasted that little estate I had as is well known to many therefore what ends I should have in what I do may be easily discerned by the Wise. I know there are some tongues that will not be wanting to sander me and my Child with dissimulation though it is well-known by many it was no such matter neither can it be in reason so judged seeing there was no profit made thereby but as I said it was to the impoverishing of me and mine Whatever is said by any shall not I hope trouble me I having a good Conscience I bless the Lord my Child is now well and hath continued so ever since the Lord was sought to Blessed be the Lord let all his Saints bless him with me John Barrow The Lord's Arm stretched out in an Answer of Prayer c. IN Iuly 1661. was the beginning of the lamentable and deplorable trouble of my poor Child who was then taken ill after this manner following His Mother my Wife bad him read his Book which he did and after he had read a Chapter he was taken with a violent burning so great that we thought it would cost him his life In this condition he continued about a week at the end whereof being on his Legs again he would walk up and down the room throwing his hat from his head laying his hands under his belly and screeking out lamentably forty times in a day or more this lasting some eight or ten dayes he was afterwards taken in another manner as he walked about the Chamber there was heard a croaking in his throat very strange to them that heard it which continued eight or ten dayes or thereabouts Suddenly after this there appeared Rats to him and Cats with Rats in their clawes dancing them sometimes coming as he said with glasses of Sack in their clawes and Pasties offering them to the Child but he refused to receive them and threw things at them then they would demand his Soul bidding him give it to the Devil but he refused to condescend to them They told him when his Father and Mother was gone forth they would come and dine with him at the long Table after which time he could neither eat nor drink except he did first go behind the door and sing with his hat off otherwise what he eat or drank would not go down but endanger the choaking of him Suddenly after this he was taken above thirty times in a day both lame dumb and blind continuing so for a time After this I no sooner went out about my imployment which lay abroad but he would be cast upon the ground with a great force insomuch that I could not otherwise conclude but it must be done by the malice and power of the Devil When he was upon the ground he would strike himself upon the face with all his force to the great amazement of the spectators which were several Friends of mine that came to see my Child hearing what condition he was in by reason of whose coming as we supposed he was changed into divers and several actions for the more they came to see him the more his fits came upon him which we perceiving desired them to forbear coming they did so and then his fits abated After this he was confined to a certain stool that was in the house insomuch that if any one else did sit down on that stool he would be thrown flat on the ground as it were dead and not arise as long as any one else did sit on the aforesaid stool At a certain time going to a Neighbours house he carried this stool with him because he could