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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46994	A vindication of the Surey demoniack as no impostor, or, A reply to a certain pamphlet publish'd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called, The Surey impostor with a further clearing and confirming of the truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure / by T.J. ... ; to which is annexed a brief narrative of the Surey demoniack, drawn up by the same author ...	Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing J889; ESTC R10650	80,797	80

vero est quod movet atque ducit dicitque insuper quae non noverit occupatus futura nonnunquam praedicit quo inquam pacto dicemus hac esse erraticas materiae motiones Let Mr. T. also at present take notice of what may be obvious to any one in this particular case in reference to what Mr. T. with his Testimonies say thereupon Tho the case be otherwise solved yet let us say something as to what Mr. T. alledgeth from the Physitians and would thence prove D's Fits to be an Epilepsy Convulstion or the like As to Dr. Willis the Instances brought out of him all together do not near reach this case Besides the Doctor doth not deny Possession in some of them Neither doth he according to Mr. T. tell us the means of their Cure As to Dr. Radcliffs Letter to Mr. T. upon this occasion the Doctor is not very ingenuous in saying that the Non-conformists do engross any thing to themselves in this case For if he do but peruse Mr. Burton's Collections under this Head he may have his answer And as to our averring that the Devil sometimes tells the truth the Doctor if he be well acquainted with the Scripture of Truth may easily find several Instances both in the Gospels and in the Acts to shew that the Devil sometimes speaks great Truths tho he be forced to it and besure speaks them for no good end The truth is many in this Age are more Atheistical than the Devil himself as wicked as he is for he believes a God to make him tremble he professeth Christ in his desperate way he makes use of Scripture Words and Truths to pervert them As to Dr. R's Instance out of Galen concerning the fore knowledg of his Fit it 's nothing to the purpose for D's fore-telling was in the fore-going Fit and not when the present Fit was coming on him this latter is easy enough in several ordinary natural Distempers But why doth he not bring us one Instance in that case of a Person always in so many Fits exactly fore-telling the time of the following Fit and still hitting his Fit being greater or lesser His telling and fore-telling other things also the Doctor doth wholly wave this is not fair dealing His Testimony out of Leiselius doth not come up to this case Had the Doctor haa the Surey Informations by him and consulted them he might have seen it to be as I say His account as to D's Gravity and Levity in the same Fit seems rather ridiculous for both were in the same dead Fit and he continued in the said Fit a considerable time after the Witnesses had several times tried his weight This many Persons do testify upon Oath and others inform to the said purpose I think we may challenge all the Doctors in England to bring us a single Instance out of any approved Author any such under a meer natural Disease to parallel the case Pag. That Passage of Satan's pushing D on to such Words and Dees c. refers to him then as being out of his Fit so I find it to be in those Minutes which I took all along not to his Fits wherein he was so long dumb as I suppose And I may well suppose it tho Mr. T. would so disingeniously without any Proof insinuate the contrary Pag. 34 I am not able to remember particulars but must refer to my Memorials in my Diary upon that occasion where are all and only these Words about that called the Lord's Day cry viz The next meeting on this occasion will be on the 16th Instant Tho the Youth knew nothing of it upon the Lord's Day before nor any of the Family concerning this Meeting Yet in a Fit on the said Lord's Day he foretold of this day and told of the number of the Ministers viz. Five when as none of the Ministers themselves knew it would be so then none else was likely to know what can the most critical Wit and most captious Spirit make of this Pag. 36 The Family 's being so impoverisht as to sell two head of Cattle was before we had any thing to do with them as to this affair or any other ways it was by the charge whilst Dugdale was with Mr. Crabtree Our eating and drinking with them upon their importunity when the exercise was over is far from devouring Widdow's Houses as Mr. T. would suggest especially if that be true which Robert Clark testifies viz. That he had it from William Sellars that they had got above 20 l. by us And if it be true as their Neighbours say that the Family hath lived in a better condition ever since tho they have had but little from us since We did not so eat with them as to devour them nor so relieve them as to bribe them His Prediction as to England paying the Piper as he phrased it notwithstanding its present Security whilst Ireland was in such Misery is much verisied by sad Experience and I think few did then think that the War would continue so long and that the charge of it would have been so great I mention this without any murmuring thereat Pag. 37 I must confess that I do pen down all the Heads of my Sermons and the most of the Proofs to the several particulars before hand ordinarily so that the Devil might discover the same to D. tho Mr. T. judgeth very hardly that therefore we have our Sermons from the Devil The Lord judg betwixt us whether we have our Sermons from the good Spirit according to the written word in a way of Prayer or else from the evil one Unless Mr. T. be of a better Spirit than appears in his Writing and Preaching against us on this occasion His ordinary Readers and Hearers will say he speaks from his own Spirit at best which is bad enough Pag. 38 Why doth he manifest more virulence and violence against us than against the Papists What Combination hath Mr. T. proved as he hopes I dare not so much as think that he hath so little Charity for us as to think that we combined with them upon any ill design of cheating tho I confess some in their Passion have been too censorious that way But the Reverend Mr. W. was pleased in his discourse with me to clear Mr. C. himself from ill designing in this matter and some of his People have testified under their hand their sense of the sincerity of my Endeavours therein Pag. I will not foul my Paper and offend my Reader with those scurrilous and ridiculous Passages in this Page O the Eructations of an exulcerated Heart How desperately wicked is the Heart of Man Pag. 41 As to the Marginal Notes upon the Affidavits I must mind the Reader that the Witnesses Testimony upon their Oath must needs carry the cause Besides I suppose there will be nothing found in the Informations at Darwin that interfereth with the Affidavits at Holcomb I cannot but observe how little notice Mr. T. take of