The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself. / By an impartial hand.

  • Carrington, John, -1701.
Date:
1698
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Credit: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself. / By an impartial hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am no ways concern’d in the Surty Demoniac^ I have read fo many Stories of the like kind, that (tho’ I believe there have been, and may be ftill,. Perfons a£ted by a Diabolical Power, and really Pouelsd by Evil Spirits ) yet mofl fo efteem’d, are either Cheats, or Delufions of vitiated Phantafies, or preterna¬ tural Diftempers, by which yet many Learned, Wife, and Good Men have been deceiv’d. And I did from the time I firft heard of this, really believe it would prove an Impofture •, not in a Combination of thole Perfons that afted in it above-board, ye- • f 4 • n • f i • 1 n 1 * 1 , fbme of’em better than to have fuch an uncharitable thought. And I muft profels, that your Book hath done more to the abating of my Cenlure of it, which was peremptory enough, than the other had done to convince me, of its being a proper Pofleffion or Obfeffion. I do indeed freely join with you in condemning Mr. C?s Phan~ fips, and ! doubt, unwarrantable Colloquies v and I arn griev’d ,-iat he hath expos'd himfelf in fo many infignificant Fopperies* ioifted into his Narrative: I take him to be a Man of a warm Brain, but, I think, an honeft Heart y and by, the Character given of him, he is not fuch a Sir John Lack^leArning as you ipitefully reprefont him, and the reft of the Minifters you fo invidioufly Charge. It will be no Advantage to ypur own Re¬ putation, that you endeavour fo to leffen and vilifie them.. As for Mr. Jolly > he is an Ancient, Grave, Pious, Serious ' Man, that feareth God above many *, and tho’ he bee qf a diffe¬ rent Perlwafion from me, as well as from you, yet I am perlwa- ded he would not knowingly, ;he guilty of .wftat you , with fo ^en and Rage Charge upon him^ for aft the World iv, cuiu. luiiiw win ut uaiu . x Mir. sty’s Credulity, but I dare fay ..thought Dygdale's Ap- ^18 a warrant for him toiufewhac la^|ul^eaps,he.couid for the .relief of Ificha Miferable Crea¬ ture. And wh.it Pitiful and Charitable Man would not'lend', his help to fuch,^lamentable Spedfacie as he l^m’d to be l • AM y6ur little Tricks and Mif interpretations of-things, and confident Misjudging and Wire-drawing every paflage to the