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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

brought up the afflicted Maid in order to get Cure himself being here before and having made way to get her into Thomas Hospital in Southwark she being come the day of her reception was appointed her Father with two of her sisters one living in Town brought her to the said Hospital But so it happened that when the Officers came to receive her she was taken with one of her fits in such a manner that they would not but said she was fitter for Bedlam than to come into an Hospital among sick People Thus her Father being filled with care and sorrow knew not well what course to take but was then advised to have her to a man that lived in Winchester Park in Southwark which advice he accepted of and went to the said man with his Daughter and after some time of discourse and consideration he professing some skill in Astrologie told them she was bewitched and that if he did take her in hand he would have five pound ye could not promise perfect cure For said he if I cannot be strong enough for the Witch after I have taken the affliction from the Maiden I must bear it my self but if I can be strong enough for the Witch she must bear it till she dispose of it to some other for none of her Familiars will bear it The Father of the Maid having received this Answer had no encouragement to make use of him Thus being at last almost without hope of obtaining any help for his distressed Daughter whose distracted condition was the cause of much trouble and sorrow to all her Relations beholding her if not prevented to bite her own flesh or doing other violence to her self or such as came to hold her also that if her own father had at any time taken a Bible to read she would have been gone and not heard nor read her self but would fall into her raging fits And now her Father having used all wayes for help and could find none like to the poor man that waited for the moving of the waters so had he waited on outward means and at last met with the mercy of the same compassionate Iesus as the poor man did For in the month of Iuly 1662. the Lord drew forth the heart of one of her sisters to desire that we would ●●ep a day in fasting and Prayer in the behalf of her sister which we were ready to perform and appointed a day at which time appointed we came to the house where this afflicted Maid was and there we found her in a deplorable condition which put us upon some consideration of the work before us calling to mind the Promises of God for our encouragement knowing and believing that that God that cannot lie would be found of them that diligently seek him according to his Promise Mat. 18. 19 20. Mark 11. 24. We having Gods Word to confirm our Faith and nothing but his Glory for our end and the distressed condition of the Maid being an object of Pity seeing her bound with the bonds of Satan we applied our selves to the Throne of Grace by Prayer The Maid being laid on a bed lay a pretty while undisturbed but at last she rose and was in a very great rage and unlaced her clothes to her ve-very skin pulling her headclothes off her head crying out in a lamentable manner in which fit her Father and Sister proved too weak to deal with her one of us rising from our knees to help hold her she finding her self mastered said If we would let her alone she would sit down and be quiet Then we set her down in a Chair she was no sooner sat but she said to him that held her she would kick him and as she spake did so Soon after she lay down again and seemed to sleep between whiles and after a little time rose again and as before pulled open her clothes struck her father and sister took up fire from the hearth clapped it to her sisters arm burnt it the breadth of a shilling that the skin shriveled off presently and thus she remained by fitts most part of the day sometimes endeavouring to pull down all the Hangings about the Bed and Chimney breaking the Windows at other times making excuses to go down from us and did so far prevail with her sister that she was let go down but was not willing to come up again but that she had left a Tobacco-pipe above which they refused to bring her down and rather than she would be without it she came up for it and so was kept in by shutting of the door The reason why she set so much by her pipe was because she took very much Tobacco About mid-day as she lay on the bed being pretty quiet one asked her how she came into this condition she answered That one time she was sick and there came a woman to her and brought her an Apple which she did eat and saith she it lieth here still pointing to her throat We perceiving by this that she might be bewitched therefore in our petitions to the Lord made mention of the Witch and desired he would be pleased to rebuke her power if any such thing were but at such times as we spake those words she would taunt at us and say in an extream rage What have you to do-with the Witch cannot you let her alone she doth not trouble you and would labour to disturb us all the wayes she could so that at the last she was fain to be held down on the Bed by her sisters but while they held her down she struck one of us on the face violently while he was at Prayer by her insomuch that she made her own arm swell After this one of us being at Prayer at the beds feet and she perceiving she could not reach him spat at him so that it hung on his hair and breast very loathsom to behold but he continued in Prayer was not any way moved at it and soon after the evening came on we left her very quiet on the bed as one that was willing to rest her self after a weary dayes work And truly the Lord was so pleased to give in an answer after such a maner that after this day she would take a Bible read an hour or two together and in a small time God clothed our friend Iohn Crump and his daughter Hannah with garments of joy for sorrow and filled all the hearts of their Relations with praise and so she continues in good health unto this day free from that affliction which began upon her on the first of November 1661 and continued till the time aforementioned for which Mercy we may say with the Prophet O bless the Lord for his mercy endureth for ever And let all the people of England know to whom this may come that not by our own power but by the Power of God in the Name of Iesus were these two made perfectly whole We whose names are here under written were eye-witnesses of this great Work of God Iohn Clayton Richard Aylmore Mary Boune the Maids sister Ioel Iasut FINIS

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