The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself.

Carrington, John, -1701.

Date:: 1698

Credit: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Words I have met with in both your Books-,) And 1 would pray farther. That God would Pardon them', tho’I doubt you will not. • . And now, whether I\^^?//s Trieks were from a Cheat, .or a Uiitem- per, or from Pofleffion, Ubfeffion, or all thele, I am not concerned. But fomething here was ftrange., and unufual, and unaccountable, by what I can judge from what all Parties lay. But in one thing I take my lelt concerned, which is, whether the, Word Obfcffion be a Ch. of li. V\ ord; for I had faid, that it’s to be found in Ct«. 72. . Mr. T. to this you fay, p. 9. The Diffentersfinding the Fret enee were Centered, ouf of that Spirit of Contradi'ction to the Ch. of E. which they moftly ail by, (this is very charitable) may befuppofed net only to make uje of the Word but the Impojhtre ,alfo, which is there condemned. Here 1 c.onfefs I am bewildred, and by a croud of Words brought into luch a Cloud, that I know not where to find you, or what you intend. Let the Canon 72 be confulted,and I find not,either, 1 .Thatthey made a Canon to • condemn ObfeJJien, Word or Thing, no more than Boffetlronnor do they fay it’s a Popilh Word. 2. Nor do they condemn Falling and Prayer, upon fuch Occafion -, hut with the B.’s Licence, they may Fait and Fray; as lome did in Norwich, (if I remember-the Place) with a Boy that was foppofed to be Obfeffed or Poffelfed; ( Here was Prayer, upon a buppo- 'fition: For how could they be lure!) with the Licence or the then t>. of Chefer.. And now take heed of Belying your Mother. AndTwiih (not for any Virtue in a B.’s Licence) fcr Caution.,■.PlteePic!'s-0? quainted the B. or lome others of the Ch. of Engl, and adviled with more Learned Phyficians, about this Cale. ; _ ,, , . Pag. 10. You charge me unjuftly, Mr. T. in faying, I would make the World believe, that you were intimate to W. C. ’s Intrigue. And tho you,never fawtheMan, you might hear of his. Hypocritical Carriage at ’Kirkhatn, where I fuppofe you have feme Relations. And the things were not; done in Secret, but generally known, and fpoken of. Ana 1 had heard you were informed of his Tricks, about that Bufinels ■, and withal, that you laid you would inform the B. which was honeft. And it never entred into my Thought* that you were acceffary to the Intrigue. I Fee your Eyes are not yet Cured, Prejudice is powerful. Again, I had faid, P. 18. Lev. The B. ofC. would never have conni¬ ved at W. C. if he had knownfuch things of him, &c. much Ms. collated him. Here you catch me * for it feems he was not Collated. Now III eafily confels my Ignorance and Miftake: For he being in the Place near two Years, I thought it rational to believe he was Collated, however the other word Connived you acknowledge. And if ICC. gave any good SatisfaQion, or did any Penance proportionable to his Offences commit¬ ted,To little a while before he went thither, I am glad of it. And being gone, you Ihall hear no more of him from me, farther than in my own$