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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    Cl ) Ah Answer to a late Fanatical Pamphlet, fillV/, The Su rey Demoniack. » TH E Mydery of the Surey Demoniack is fuch a Mafler- piece of complicated Iniquity, as I believe the World may admit for an Original. Two different Parties will be found contending for the Glory of a Miracle. One adts underhand, and by Art and Cunning abu- feth the fuperftitious Credulity of fome Interlopers. The other ap¬ pears openly upon the Stage, plays the fandlified Buffoon, and then cryeth out, That they have won the Prize. In my Anfwer I Shall take Notice of both thefe. And Firft, Give a Reply to the Narrative, Depositions, &c. And then Secondly, Difcover to the Diflenting Minidcrs, whofe Tools they have been, in thofe Religious Scenes which they fo pubiickly have adted. The Anfwer to be returned to the Narrative, mud proceed upon the fame Grounds, which the Narrative it felf doth, vi^. The vain Opinion, that the Diffenting Minifters have cad out a Devil, and a Defire the World Should believe fo too. This is the Glory they have affumed to themfelves; and the Vanity of it, is what I am now to expofe: And Since (not underdanding whofe Enquiries they were) they have printed it as a Thing Real, as a Thing Real I am obliged to Anfwer it. For tho they were impofed upon, yet Since they arrogate the Merit of the Fadt unto themfelves, they have made it Perfonal, and as fuch I mud treat them. But before I proceed to anfwer the Particulars of the Narrative, it is very neceffary, that we Should previously cad an Eye upon the Model of it, as it is prefented to us ; and the Perfons that were mod adlive in the Edition of it: For if the very Frame of it betray a Defign, and the Editors be found Infincere ; we have F„eafon to dand upon our Guard, and examine (as fufpedting) every Thing that is contained in it. Now Fird, For the Model of the Narrative it is altogether fo framed and contrived, that nothing is more apparent in it than a Studied Defign of Popularity and Vain-glory. Cad but your Eye upon it, and you Shall find it fo artificially methodized into feveral Branches, and broken into Parts, that at the feveral Turns, either fome Adtion of the pretended Demoniack, or fome Reply of the pretended In- B habiting