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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    £>\my SDemontack. again, or did the Devil carry him to you at Altham ? Ycu fhould have told us how R. got from the Devil : But you were fo full of ycut- felf, lo Ambitious to be thought the Devils Tormentor, and fo delirous that the World Jhould know that you had been the hVedn^.fday before on all Four, as your Devil calls it, that you forgotto cel! us where F{. landed : But I fhallnot forget to tell the World, that out of the Vanity you have to ac¬ quire the Title of Dxmono Maftix, or the Devils Tormentor, which he himfelfis pleas’d to Dub you with, you ftick not to aggrandize your felf by a Religious Lye ; for all this Palfageof Ffs being Hcifted up 'into the Air, is a Notorious Untrrnh, if we may believe the Perfon him felf; and therefore I conclude the other Paftage to be no better. I fhall afterwards have occafion to take notice of his FVcdnefday Fail; and therefore now I pafs onto try his Prophetick Talent; the fir it Instance of which occurs, p. 5. When on the moniacl^ at Mr. Jolly’s Meeting-place, Narrative, E talk of having fix Minifters againft me next Wednefday at the Surey; but there will only Five be there then ; and I’ll make Fools of you, for I’ll be quiet at that time. Which words feem’d ftrange to Mr. Jelly, who on Friday before, with one or two more, many Miles from the Surey, had very privately named Six Minifters, as fit and defirable for attending the Surey Meeting, which they concluded to keep on the aforementioned W'ednefday, July 16, 1689. But th^y only knew of Three Minifters, whofe prefence they then expected on the faid Wedne/day. Which Meeting, befides, they had kept private, and had not fpoken of, fo as it could be known to any of the Surey, by any Humane means, before the faid Lord’s-day Cry of the Demoniack; in whofe IVednefday-morning Fit , he cried out. One C. will this Day terribly fhake me ; which amazed the By- ftanders , who had never before heard of a Minifter fo called, for it was but about half a Year fince he firft began to Preach, (3 c. I know not what Predictions there Mr. C. calls it 5 but I know there are Lord’s-day, July 1 3, 1689. The De¬ in a Fit, cries out, according to the To the Letter, Fterwards hearing that at the Minifters Prayers he talked, and was harrafted more outragiouf- ly, I went again out of Curioftty, the Minifters having the Week be¬ fore pitched on that Day, fpeaking of fix Minifters* yet knowing but of three that would come, not ac¬ quainting any with this their Aftig- nation till Sabbaths Sermon, in which he fell into a Fit, crying, on Thurfday there were fix Minifters appointed to torment him, but only five fhould come, but he’d Befool them all, for he’d be quiet all the while. Yet having a Fit on iVed- nefday-night after, he faid, Nay, C. fhould fhake him ; tho’ I was un¬ known, unlook’d for in thofe Parts, this being my firft going to the Su- rcy (my firft Journey being to a pri¬ vate Friends HoufeJ where the Mi¬ nifters met about him on the faid Thurfday. ) may be in the Lord’s-day Cry, as both Contradictions and Falfitics in it.