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A19860	Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.	A true narration of the strange and greuous vexation by the Devil, of 7. persons in Lancashire, and VVilliam Somers of Nottingham Wherein the doctrine of possession and dispossession of demoniakes out of the word of God is particularly applyed vnto Somers, and the rest of the persons controuerted: togeather with the vse we are to make of these workes of God. By Iohn Darrell, minister of the word of God.	1600		.xml	application/xml	65285	1870	67	wi● any be so absurde , as to thinke and confesse that the holy scriptures speake most truely as touchinge the tormenting here on eard●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 re●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 ? This euen●g he acted many sines , by signs & gesturs most liuly representing and shawdoing them out vnto vs : as namlye brauling , quarriling fighting , swaring , robbing by the high wayes , picking and cutting of pur●●es , burglarie , whordom , prid both in men and women , hypocrisie , slugishnes in hearing of the word , drunckennes , glotinye , also dauncing with the toyes thervnto belonging , the manner of antique dances , the games of dicing and carding , the abuse of the viole with other instruments at the end of sundrie of these he laughted excedingly , diuers times clapping his handes on his thighes for ioye : and at the end of some of them , as killing and stealing , he shewed how he brought them to the gallowes , making asigne therof .	cache/A19860.xml	txt/A19860.txt
