The Surey impostor : being an answer to a late fanatical pamphlet, entituled The Surey demoniack / By Zach. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.
Date:
1697
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Credit: The Surey impostor : being an answer to a late fanatical pamphlet, entituled The Surey demoniack / By Zach. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Diffenting Miniflers, Mr. Jolly, and 7 compilers of, Mr, Carrington, $ 1 Mr. Sugar, K^erjhaw, . H/dddington, Mr. Th. Crompton, H f 'Jo. Crompton, )Parry Angier, .Wballcy, 'p'Cotiftant, or ' Mr. < Frankjand, >Occafionally J The Impoftot^ Hey wood, SAHifters at, )> of the Surey I Dcmoniack. ( Hey wood, j , Affifters to Gentlemen, The Foundation, whereof I am an unworthy Member, being intended'for the Prefervation of His Majcftys SubjeHs from falling into Errors j fuels as tend to Popery : And a late fcandalous Pamphlet Intuit ed, The Su¬ rey Demoniack, looking altogether that stay; I thought my fefi in Duty to God and His Maiefty (whofe Servants we are) bound to figntfie to the World the impofter cf it. And the Difcovery of this Cheat is dedicated to Tou, Gentlemen j not that tt feeks your Patronage, but your Reformation. . 7 rn . ... For i befeech Tou, Gentlemen, confides the Evil you have, done ,n PubiiJhing a wild Story, fir a Religious Truth, in this Sceptical and Irreligious Age Tou find (if you have any Converfe with Men or Books) that there are Perfons who make it their ftudy to explode all Revealed Religion out of the World: And fince the Truth of Chrifttanuy is much grounded on the Miracles that our Saviour and his Apoftlcs wrought-, oneI,.fiance of which, was this Power ofcafting out Devils: What occ fieri have you given ffinimbje Difputants, to call in queftionthe Truth of what our blejfed Saviour did, by Foiftin up an Impofture, which Mr. Jolly hath declared to be as real a PoiTeuion, as any in ^VshTrade, which you have learn d from the Papifts, was deftgri d to enfnare htm*and well-meaning but eafy People: Por fince neither you, nor they., can by Arguments juftify mr Superstitions and Divifions from the efiablifh’d Church ;_you were fare d \le Shifts1 and Tricks, that by working on weak. Peoples Fancies, you might win fe _ ur Party by Craft and Whiles, which you could not by Ppafon and Religion. * The Prtdt firft and you from them did learn to play this Game ; for that tby te.*- dermal riot think, tlfpretence of yours to c aft out Devils, to be feme new Giftlatelybe- t wd upon you I must acquaint him, that it it an old Juggle that our Prcdecejfors, the PuritaL prahifed: They indeed ailed on their own Bottom and were not made fuel, ” pfqs a! yOU have been: But their Knavery, at well as yours, was d,[cover d, of thick tllie the following Account, out of Dr. Heylinb Hfiory of Presbytry, p. 34«- *• ad kZtuilhis time brake out the Juglingp of John Darrel; who, without any law-