as you doe such it is cleare you by these wordes meane it is most sure And here by the waye what cause hath the church of Rome thus to vaunt of the miracles wrought in her aledging the same as a migh tie confirmation of the truth of her doctrine and some singuler priui ledge bestowed vpon her surelv no more then the roge hath cause to bragg of the hole in his eare or the theife of his burnt hande For as these be certaine and infallible signes of a rogue and thefe so miracles wrought by satan and such are the papists miracles are a most certame and infallible marke of the aduersarie to Christ whom wee call Antichrist As he then is rather out of his witts theÌ„ in his right mind that beinge for his theft burnt in the hande will boast therof so had not Sathan bewytched that whore of Rome and depriued her of her iudgmente and vnderstandinge shee woulde neuer boast of her miracles considering they make much against her euen to wytnese that their Pope is that Antichrist which shoulde come and their religion false and Antichristian And where you intimate here and els where affirme that howsoeuer hereticks may happely be able to worke mira cles to some other ende as to confirme some article of the faith or truth of God wherin they agree with you yet not to confirme their false faith therby that you see will not availe you consideringe that the former testimonies of scripture directlye in expresse wordes as wee haue heard affirme and teach the contrarye Howsoeuer then heritickes can not proue their false and erronious doctrines by the scriptures yet they may worke miracles to confirme the same wherby it is euident that whilest they papistes stand and contend for the priuiledg of dispossessing of vncleane spirits the which they arrogate to themselues as pecularly belonging vnto them and denye to all others they shewe themselues in the meane season to be possessed with a foule spirit of error And how soeuer Thyerus hath likwise this aforsaide addition saying nunquam ab hominum corporibus â—t heriticks shall neuer be able to expell diuils out of the bodies of men whensoeuer and as often as euer they shall assay it to confirme their doctrine which they professe yet by the argument he presently addeth he seemeth to proue the generall without any such restraint For first saith he Signa cos qui crediderint ct These signs shall followe them which beleue In my name they shall cast out diuiles But heriticks are not in the number of beleuers therfore they are not able to driue awaye deuills by any power of Christ communicated vnto them a second argument is we neuer read them to haue expelled deuils And a third is It is reported in histories that they haue often bene deluded when they haue gone about to caste out deuills wherby it is cleare that they denye to vs all expulsion of deuils to what end soeuer and meane that if at any time in our church spirites be cast out of some it is by the power of Sathan as appeareth in the end of the saide chapter These thinges well considered who seeth not that they mighttilye freind the papistes and strengthen them in this grosse error and brage of theirs which contend for the counterfeitinge of Somers Dar ling K. Wright confidently deny the 7. in Lancashire to haue bene eyther dispossest or yet possest with deuils doe not such doe them as great apleasure theirin as posible men can and giue them occasion to sport themselues about our dispossession of deuils as Thyreus doth full swetly concerning Luthers dipossessing may not they with some face of honestie and truth publishe in their writings that our former possessed persons did meerlie counterfeite apossession and were not possessed much lesse dispossessed seeing the same is openlye mayntained amonge Vs euen in our Courts and that by great Prelats one of the persones possessed I meane Th. Darling imprâ—â—oned and such as god vsed in the dispossessing of them suspended imprisoned along time theere also vsed more strightlye then other priâ—oners then felons murtherers trators in a worde so handled and dealt with as no table deceiuers and malefactors wheras on the other side had wee acknowledged this worke of God wrought diuers times and vpon sundrie persons amonge vs and laboured withall to haue manifested the truth therof insteade of obscuring it as in deutye we ought then would vndoubtedlie the papistes haue herein bene ashamed and confounded in themselues for the greate vauntes and arrogant bragges they haue here about in many oâ— their books giuen out scatteâ—ed But seeinge the Romanists glory so much in the dispossessing of deuils let us a litle examine the same and see whether it be altogether with them as they beare the world in hand it is wher they must first knowe that it is not denied or doubted off by vs but graunted that by their exorcists exorcising the possessed among them haue ease and deliuerance from the evill spirits formerlie vexing and possessing them but the doubt and question is whether the cast and driue out Sathan For my owne parte I will not denye but that a true deliuerance of the possessed may in the papacie For wheÌ„ I consider that possession with Deuiles is a temporall Iudgment And that the humiliation of Ahab an Idolater a man also that had sould himselfe to worke wickednes preuailed so farr with the Lord to spare him and his sonne concerninge the temporall Iudgment which the Lord had be fore threatned and pronounced by his prophet to bringe vpon him and his posteristie I cannot see why the like humiliation performed by a papistes an Idolater may not obtaine the like I meane a corporall blessinge of the Lord or the remouing of a temporall Iudgment Yet notwithstanding when on the other side I turne my eve to the meanes they vse I cannot but thinke that when their possessed are helped they spirites are not cast out but of themselues goe forth as seruinge greatly for their owne advantage and vpholdinge of there kingdome of darknes amongst them But what are the meanes they vse in the dispossessinge of euill spirites even these as appeareth by Thyreus First the Inuâ—cation of the name of Iesus wherby he doth not meaine Inuocation or praâ—er but the often mentioninge of the name Christ specially Iesus which bare name is greuious to the diuil and hath great power in it saith he 2. the vse of holy râ—licks 3. vsing the signe of the crosse 4. the vse of consecrat things as holy water hallowed salt bread drinke ct 5. exorcismes Now how can one imagine that these or any of them should be of force to expell Sathan seeinge they are not onlye such as weare not appoynted of God theirvnto but also in his worde condemned as offensiue to his maiestie and vnlawfull at all to be vsed and are besides in themselues most vaine and such as in the
they which dealte or at this daye do deale in the dispossessinge of satan by this meaines should or dyd know with what kind of spirit the partie possessed was vexed which can not be but that one being possest and dealt with for their deliuery from Satan by this ordinary and perpetuall meanes in the church if by praier for an hower 23 or more he be not deliuerd vndoubtedly that being perfourmed aright because of the kynd of spirit possessing then let fasting therto be ioyned and that certaynlye if the Lorde thinke good to blesse his sayde ordinance shal be mightie and effectual to the casting out of the spirit of what kind soeuer he be indeed this cours we did not take with the aforsaid persons but at the first proceded to fastiÌ„g praier which we therfor did becaus we much desired that our labour might not be in vaine as touching their delyuerance thus also thought beleued that what kind of spirit soeuer were in them we vsinge prayer fast ing the said holy meanes would be effectuall through the mercy of God to expell and driue them out had they bene or were the spirite of the worst kind much more theÌ„ others saying that I dealt otherwis with Kath Wright whose dspossession was by prayer with out fastinge beinge vpon the daye of her dispossession delyuerede by noone and no fast not so much as intended eyther by her self or any other in her behalfe or shee once aduised theirvnto If any shall approue of the aforesaide exposition so farr forth as it doth or maye agree to they apostles and otherwise reiect it affirminge that of they Apostles soely this scripture is to be vnderstood to whom it was spoken and some others which had the gift of miracles and so power to cast forth Deuills I answer that to appropriate this speach and tie it to the persons of they disciples as meerlye and peculiarlye belonginge vnto them is more then the text either in expresse words or by necessary consequence will beare and therfore considering also theris no other scripture to helpe in this case it is more then any man can for certaintie affirme and such as we may as well deny as others confidently avouch Yea certaine it is that it can not be vnderstood of the Apostles as ment and directed to them otherewise then hath bene sayd thereby to signifie vnto them that it was one of the worst kinde of Deuills wherwith the child was possessed whence partly it came to passe that they had not cast him out and others indewed with the gift of myracles for asmuch as Christ speaketh exper slye and by name of an ordinarye meaynes to cast forth Deuills and therfore in these words of such as by they said meanes had or should cast them out not of they Apostles theirfore and their dispossessyng of vncleane spirits who not by any appoynted or ordinarye meaines in which case their can be no myracle but without all meaynes by the power and gift they had to worke miracles did cast forth diuils But it will be sayd that howsoeuer they Apostles indeed by vertue of that gifte and power they had receiued from Christ to worke miracles could and did dispossese wicked spirits without meaines yet this was not generally true of all spirits for that there were some kind of Diuels imagine the worste which for al the power they had receued without prayer and fasting would not be expelled and that this is it that Christe meaneth when he sayeth these kynde can by no other meanes come forth but by prayer and fasting as if he had said your faith is lyttle and wauering and thence partly it is that you haue not helped the child but besides you must knowe that theire is a kinde of eueâ— spirits of which number is that wher with the childe was possessed which without prayer and fasting can not be cast out and therfore consideringe that meaines by you was not vsed it is no maruell thought you dispossessed not the diuill yea it could not so be and of this mind is traiterous Stapleton a popishe proselite though otherwyse learned whose words of this scripture are these nunc autem alam causam adsert c. Now he aleadgeth an other cause why the Apostles could not cast out this Diul which had so longe time possessed the man euen from his insancie for it was necessarie they shoulde haue praied and fasted where we see that howsoeuer he doth not appropriat this speache to the Apostles but acknowledgeth as in the same place appeareth that praier and fastinge is now a meaines for the casting forth of Diuells yet he affirnâ—eth that necessarily the Apostls should haue prayed and fasted and that for the want or neclect therof it cam to passe that the diuill was nâ—t caste â—ut and with him agreeth Thyreus who writeth thus hoc genus Demonorum c. this kind of Diuels saieth Christ is not cast out but by praier and fasting surely the Lord doth insinuate that the Apostles neede not fasting and praier to driue away other Diuils but was sufficiente to cal vpon the name of Christ but here besides they need them meaninge fastinge and praier because this spirit is hardlyer expelled then others If this exposition were true then ther should he a certaine sort orkind of divels which the Aposts by al the faith they had or could haue wer not able without further helpe to subdue the which in ded Stapletone further granteth and affirmeth saying presetly after the former words thus sit fides quantum cunque feruens c. let faith be neuer so feruent as a graine of mustarde seed yet must praier and fasting be vsed as a most stronge meadicine to driue awaye Deuills of this kinde and this he vnderstaÌ„deth of the Apostls as is plaine by these former words he saith of them necessarium quippe fuisse orare et idinare for it was necesarie for the Apostls to haue praied and fasted Now this semeth verye strang vnto me such as nether can nor dare beleiue and receiue for truth for when I consider of the manifold great signes wonders the apostls wrought wherof we read in the history of the Acts. of the Apostls that as Peter saith thy did them not by their owne power or godlines but as they prayed for also professed by the name or power of Iesus christ to whom all power was gyueÌ„ in heauen and in earth who had committed also giueÌ„ part of his power authority vnto them I se not how any infernall power could be able to resist hold out agaiÌ„st this divine power eueÌ„ the power of the Lord Iesus they cam in if their faith was stroÌ„g so this power preseÌ„t with them though they had no other helpe by praier or praier fasting foralbe it the apostls somtims vsed praier in the miracles they wrought thou gh neuer fastiÌ„g praier that we read of yet they nede not
for the younge man denyeth that he was possest yea affirmeth that he counterfeited and the world also saith the same and thus lyes falshood are imbraced for truth almost of all men and the truth indeede reiected and the louers thereof hated scorned despised slandered and some of them worse intreated It going thus it is not against but according to the scriptures yea herein the scripture is fulfilled in that Somers is quyet and free from all molestation by sathan notwithstandinge he is in him because the strong man armed saith the scripture keepinge the house without resistance there is peace but let Christ Iesus the stronger come vpon him in the meanes he hath sanctified for the recouery of this house to himselfe the right owner and the expellinge of the vsurper then vndoubtedly there will be an end of this vniuste peace and therein likewise we shall see the scripture fulfilled In the holy scriptures it is written that if we resist the diuell he will flye vnderstand this not only of sathans temptations but also of his person and then affirme I that this scripture hath bene fulfilled In lyke manner the scriptures tell vs that the way to resist Sathan so as wee may put him to flight and ouercome is to vse prayer and the word of god which is the sworde of the spirit Vnderstand this as the former herein this scripture also hath bene verifyed The holy scriptures shewe how that greate thinges euen incredible hath bene brought to passe by prayer and fastinge more particulerly that euen diuels thereby haue bene and are to be caste ovt of men herein the scripture likewise hath bene fulfilled In the scriptures it is recorded that when the deuil goeth out of the man whome he possesseth he renteth him sore câ—yeth aloude the possessed after lying as dead nowe many of vs euen hundreds haue seene with our eyes and hearde with our eares this scripture fulfilled In the holy scriptures we reade that when the vucleane spirit is gon out of a man he will retorne seeking to reenter Besides the reports of all and euery of the parties possessed the sudden vnspeakeable frights and terrors which many of vs haue often beheld in the spirits assaites to reenter doe greatly confirme this retorne vpon our Demoniackes all which was donne that the scripture herein might be fulfilled The scripture saith that if the diuels fynde the house empty swept and garnished that is the partye out of whom he is come prepared to receaue him which is when he is empty or voyd of the graces of the spirit and garnished or replenished with iniquities for the furniture must be sutable to the ghest the vncleane spirit must be interteyned in all vncleannes that then he reentreth and recouereth his pray as otherwise although he would fayne yet he cannot Nowe who seeth not the case to be so with W. Somers for were he not empty swepte and garnished he would neuer deny the work of god which hath benshewed on him and giue forth to the great dishonor of god hurte of many and danger of his owne soule that he had counterfeyted not to speake anything of his open and notorious lyinge and doublinge with that false tongue of his nor of his charging mee with the instructing of him neither of his fearefull periury somtimes betaking himself bodye and soule to the diuell if he counterfeyted at other times protesting as depely that he did counterfeyt In the repossession then of Somers it is euident that this scripture is fulfilled as on the other side this scripture considered and his present estate condition I meane that he is empty howe can it otherwise be but that he is reposessed further the scripture saith that the vncleane spirit retorning and reentering he doth it with 7. other worse then himselfe Now this hath bene found true in Kath Wrights repossession I doubt not but that the truth thereof will one day appeare also in Somers wheÌ„ he shall come againe to be dispossessed if so be at any time it will be graunted that the meanes for the discouery of sathan and after for the casting of him out may be vsed Finally in the holy scripture it is said that if the vncleane spirit retorning finde the party out of whome he came empty swept and garnished that he will not only enter in and take vp his lodging there as it were for a night as a stranger doth in an other mans house and away in the morninge as he doth as I may say in his first possession but will nowe as hauinge further interest there then he had before make scriptures speake truelye in and concerning the matter of possession dispossession and repossession and not accordinge to the truth in other things wiâ— any be so absurde as to thinke and confesse that the holy scriptures speake most truely as touchinge the tormenting here on eardâ—e of the bodyes of those men the diuels enter into and will they not as well beleue the same writinges tellinge them that after death and in an other world the diuels shall torment the workes of iniquity in hell fyre which neuer shall pe quenched and of which tormentes there will neuer be an ende And seinge the substance of this booke I meane the holy byble is spent in reportinge thinges incredible to flesh and bloud such as the reason of man reâ—ecteth scorneth among which these concerning diuels their nature power entrance into men c. are some and that this is it which letteth man from imbracing it as a word of truth and that sundry of these incredible impossible thinges to reason we euidently see with our eyes and our selues of our owne knowledge knowe to be most true why should we not be fullye perswaded or the deuine and certaine trueth of the other incredible thiugs there reported and that all those also in theire time we shall as certainely see fulfilled as we haue alredy in part senee these Thus me thinketh the fulfillinge of many sayinges in the scriptures in this worke of god should be a moâ—ue and inducement to many to giue that credit vnto them which percase beâ—ore they did not yea surely if man will but giue eaâ—e to â—is reason wherewith god hath indued him and discusse or debate hereof after this sayde manner it will perswade him herevnto I do not saye that this is effectuall or of Power and sent of god to that ende to worke sauinge faith in man ffor I knowe faith cometh by hereinge and how shall they beleeue in him of whome they haue not hearde But this I meane that he which before thought basely and ga ue no regarde or credit to the holy worde of god by this rare work of his and serious â—meditation thereof may well be brought to thinke more reuerently of the worde and to be perswaded of the truth therof where before he doubted and so brought to the historicall faithe as we call it where beinge
diabolicall speaches supernaturall strength and knowledge which were in Somers and the other persons came not only from the diuell whereof there is no question or doubt at all but from him being within them yea how can we otherwise thinke or how can it otherwise possibly be except these effects all or most of them might procede from some other cause the which I haue heretofore shewed cannot be In naturall diseases and in other cases we reason from the effects to the cause and gather or conclude the cause by the effects neyther doth it at any time deceaue vs though it may be soÌ„times we deceiue our selues The phisitian if he perceiue in his patient that he hath a cough stich and that his sicknes began with an ague knoweth thereby as by signes or effects that he hath the plurisy In case we see one euery other day quiuering and shaking for cold presently and truly wee say he hath a tertian and who is so simple that when he seeth smoake ascendynge vp out of a chymney knoweth not that there is fyre why then should we doubt when in the strange handliÌ„g torments of a man such as haue bene described we se as I may say the smoake of a spirit that is the operationes and effects of an euill spirit but that there is in that man a wicked spirit Is there any disease of the body wherein men are so handled as these persons were must it not needes then be some supernaturall disease and other then this it hath bene shewed I trust in the begininge it can not be Our Phisitianes if the haue the pulse vrin and some two or three other signes of a disease straightwaies they affirme it is such a disease and we beleue them though they receiue their skill from the wrytings of men which are subiect to error How much more ought we to beleue that the aforesaid 10. persons were sicke of the disease wee treate of to wit possest with diuels seing we haue not 3. or 4. but so many signes thereof and those not taken out of the bookes of men which may yea often do erre and deceiue but out of the boke of god the word of truth And here this I affirme that the spirit of god in descrihing at large the manner of their handling and vexation by sathan who were possessed in Christ's time according to that we haue heard doth not sett it downe only as a matter of fact but in reporting the same did besides thereby purpose as I conceiue to giue a rule and leaue a direction to his church whereby to discerne of possession in the time to come to the end of the world implying therein thus much that when wee shall see one handled after the same manner that thereby wee learne and from thence gather that the said party is possessed with an vncleane spirit And for confirmation hereof serueth excellently the question of Christe to the father of the possessed child after he had seene his sonne in one of his fits how long time is it since he hath bene thus for it is as if he had said Indeede thow saist true thy child hath an euill spirit in hym for whosoeuer is thus handled hath the diuel in hym causing the same but how long hath he bene possessed where wee see that instead of askynge the father how long time hys sonne had bene possessed he sayth thus handled thereby secretly teaching vs that they which are handled after that manner there mentioned are possessed Againe if it be so that Christ Iesus hath left a medicine for the cuâ—ing of this supernaturall disease that is a meanes for the casting of sathan out of those he possesseth and the same perpetuall as I hope is here after made manifest who can doubt but that the lorde Iesus hath lefte some direction for the discerning of this disease now all men will confesse he hath left none other It must nedes thereforebe that he did it in setting downe the manifould effects and operations of the diuell which being in men he sendeth forth from whence he would haue vs being reasonable creatures when we shall see the same effects in any to gather and assure our selues that there is the very same cause viz an vncleane spirit in the party so afflicted That which many obiect heere forasmuch as Thyreus hath donne it effectually as he supposeth I will produce that which he saith instead of all who although I doubt not but if he vnderstood how it was with our Demonyacks as well as the papists among vs doe he would say with them that ther is no question but they were possest yet because in his booke of Demoniakes which he hath very satly set forth is in the handes of many he saith somthing against this first reason of mine and the certainty and sufficiency of the aforesaid signs which I haue gathered out of the gospell I will therefor labour to answer him and weaken that hee obiecteth that so my aforesaid reason may styll stand and remayne in his full strength And therewithall I will say somthing of the signes which the papists principally rely vpon trust vn to for the discerning of their possessed His words be these followinge Addo quod nec ipsa signa c. I adde that neither the very signes which are found in those possessed of whom the gospell maketh mention are certaine and sufficient tokens of men possessed Some of them were blynd some dease others dumbe some of them were cruell to themselues some to others They seemed to be the workes of such as wer possessed but they were not the signes of possessed persons vnlesse per aduenture we will haue all that be blynd dumbe and deafe and also all feirce and cruell men to be possessed And in the 25. Chap hauing spoken newly before of the excedinge greate strength of possessed persons euen such as passeth all humane strength and of their casting into the fye and water he saith of them that they be not certa et indubita signa certaine and vndoubtfull signes his reason is Quoniam non doemones tantum verum etiam praeter doemones alios authores et causas habere possunt Because theis things or signes may haue not only the dyuels but al so besides the diuels some other authors and causes which hee further coÌ„firmeth by examples as of Maximinus the Emperor and Iunius whoe were of extraordinary and supernaturall strength as he sheweth there at large non tamen saith he pro obsessis habiti sunt and yet notwythstanding they were not held to be possessed Thus we se Thyreus flatly denyeth and argueth against that which hath bene somuch insisted vpon and pressed by mee To passe by that absurdity of his where graunting these thinges to be the workes of the possessed that is of sathan possessing he yet deny eth them to be signes thereof as though the seuerall operations of sathan in any were not so many seuerall signes of
happely he will not reste but there by be drawen to giue eare vnto the worde preached and so be brought to that faith the end whereof will be the saluation of his soule whereof if this worke of god be an occasion to any oh howe will such bless God for the same and ioye in this that the sounde there of came to his eare Thus we plainely see howe this worke of god sarueth to confirme the authority and truth of the holy scriptures I meane howe it som what helpeth to perswade vs incredulous men to beleue or more stedfastly to beleue that the are deuine and certainly true in that we see many thinges spoken of in them and very incredible to flesh and blud as well as others there mentioned fulfilled before our eyes and to be most true Seinge then no hurte but mnch good as we haue heard cometh by this worke why shoulde any be offended with vs for bearinge witnesse to this work and why doe any stand vp and sett them selues against this worke indeuoringe to annihilat the same Certainly in fo doing they are not only iniurious to man hindring him of the good fruite he might reape thereby but also aduersaries to god and his glory prophaninge and not hallowinge or sanctifiinge this his name Christ Iesus to such as he cured was wont to say be it vnto thee as thou beleuest thy faith hath made thee whole goe in peace thysinns are forgiuen thee synne no more least a worse thinge come vnto thee and to many see thou tell no man of this I haue donne vnto thee yea somtimes he straightly charged others that they should tell no man what was doune But to him out of whome he had cast out the dyuell he saide goeshewe what greate thinges the Lorde hath donne vnto thee and howe hee hath compassion on thee It is also to be obserued that we reade not the same or like speach to this vsed to any besides of all those that Iesus healed whereby it may seeme that the Lorde Iesus woulde not haue this worke in any case smothered and kept close no not for a time but rather set as a candle in a candlestick vpon the table that it may giue such light vnto men as we haue already seene and no maruaile considering the wordes followinge of our Sauiour goe slew saith he what great thinges the Lorde hath donne vnto thee Are there greate thinges to be looked vpon in this worke we speake of euen by the testimony of Christ himselfe whoe then and where is he if Somers the 7. in Lancashire and the rest were possessed and dispossessed that dare stand vp to darken and obscure the saide worke whereby the people of god be kept from behouldinge the greate thinges of the lord and so hindred from the greate good they might reape thereof and god from his glory If it be euident that vpon these persons this worke of god hath bene wrought who seeth not how contrary minded such are vnto Christ Of the 70 desciple whom Iesus sent forth by there preachinge miracles to prepare and make awaye for him selfe and his ministrie it is sayde that when they had accomplished this worke they returned againe with ioye sayinge Lorde euen the deuils are subdued to vs through thy name In this subiection of the spirits vnto them aboue all the greate workes and miracles they wrought they reioyced wherein how so euer they exceeded wherevpon Christ reproueth them sayinge In this reioyce not that the spirits are subdued vnto you but rather reioyce be cause your names are written in heauen yet marke that he doth it so as that he denyeth not but that they might reioyce there in but rather indede aloweth and commendeth the same so that we keepe a measure and make it not our cheife ioye the which shoulde be that our names are written in heauen wherof the other giueth no assurance for asmuch as it may fall into a reprobate And truely how can they which heare of the aforesayde worke of God but reioyce when they see the Lorde Iesus subduinge Satan vnto men when we see by praier and fastinge deuylls cast out of men whe we see God perfourming his promise the scripture before our eyes fulfilled and our christian brethren also delyuered from the torments of Satan If wee turne our eye eyther to God or man can wee chuse but reioyce and blesse God for such a worke greatly then are they to blame and farre from that affection they shoulde haue who are disquieted and offended here with and most faultie of all shall they be who when the worke shall be made manefest to there conciences as I trust by this treatise it is shall yet notwithstanding lift vp there hee le agaynst it Through the want both of a corrector and of the authour their be very many faultes in the printing among which these following be some 〈◊〉 with I desire the reader with patience to beare pag. 6 chaire open for chaiâ—e open p. 7. departed in for departed 8 〈…〉 for stâ—e caned p. 10 fleamthicke for fleâ—n c lhiere p 13. 〈…〉 for her p 1 2 pence read 3 Pence p 33 the diuers for diuers ib wherwith 〈…〉 p 22 derelinquisti for derellquistr ibi fortaken for forgotten p. â—5 〈…〉 p 49 learne for leave p 51. continancy for continuance he had in p 57 〈…〉 for with all possible p 60 who indued for who was induâ—â— p 91. the 〈◊〉 prayer for the fasting and prayer they vsed verse 1. Lohn 9. math 11. 24. math 28. 12. 2. Cor. 13. 8. â—s 4. 20. â—â— 2. 11. â—th 9. 33. 34 12. 22. 〈◊〉 11. 14. act 20 27. â—al 111. 2. ver 8. 15. 21. 31 v. 11. psal 143 5. ps 111. 4 ps 91 4 psal 105 â— math 12. 30. this sheweth that the deuill transformed himselfe and appeared vnto them like an angell of â—ight in like sort William Somers had asore throat after the departur of the spirit Luke 11. 26. by the manner of meeting the 2 time and wordes vttered to him the 2 time it should seme rather to be the deuill in the liknes of an old woman This Kath Wright is a yong woman dwelling at a place called Bridgway lane not far distant from Blackwel more who about 14 yeres past being possesed was by prayet deliuered but is since repossesed 〈◊〉 like in my owne hearingâ— did Kat. VVright â—eing possessed Math. 21 43. who because he was an aduersari was made a comâ—issioneâ— with him 2 other Pet. Clerk Maâ—or Mâ—es Leigh officiall say I counter feited Such effects ac haue bine down by these parties possessed cannot proceed from the nature or skile of man how spirits being with out man do vexe him Iob. 2. 7. It is impossible for Satan being without man to haue the whole rule and disposition of the body math 15. 2 2. mark 9. 22. verse 17. 18. 22. Against the filie shift of pretended counterfeiting 14 ther