The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open, in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and county of Lancaster / By Zachary Taylor.

  • Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.
Date:
1696
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Credit: The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open, in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and county of Lancaster / By Zachary Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vpon this he fent to de* fire us to give him the Communion according to the Church of England, and is fnce departed with our prayers in the fame Faith. c s ); . . ■ The Children of Robert Topping an ho- neft poor Neighbour, were alfo called to come near, and the fame queftion was again ask’d ^ and the Prieft declaim’d up¬ on it, and told them that their Father was iickly and weak, and charg’d them that they fliould tell him in what danger he was, if he continued to dye in that Faith, wherein he had lived. Now when the Devil had done all the Service for them that he could, had confirm’d their new Creed by the Truth of his own Confeflion, and had damn’d every body, but thofe that believed as. he and the Prieft did \ The Prieft ( like an unkind Mafter to a Trufty Servant ) would needsturn him out of Doors, command¬ ed him to be gone, and threatned what he would do, if he of¬ fered to ftay 5, giving him a parcel of very foul words, ftamp- ing with his feet, and calling him, as his Authors teach him , all that was nought, an Infernal Dog, an Accurfed Devil, &c. And here it was that he had a mind to give them a Touch of his Learning, andfhew the Excellency of his Parts, and fo he takes occafion to tell them that the Devil was a Latin Devil, and that he underftood Latin, for they fhould hear he would fpeak to him in Latin, and bid him put out his Tongue, and he fliould obferve him, fo he learned ly belpeaks him, Extende lingam Diabole7 Put out thy tongue thou Devil, and the Demoniack, as became a difereet Pati¬ ent to a skillful Phyfitian, put out his Tongue, which was fomething of a blewifh colour, and the Proteftants were call’d on to fee the Black Tongue of a curfed Devil. But here happned an unlucky blunder, for MrfSkinner Hand¬ ing a little on one lide that he could not well Mengus indeed and the Scriblersof Exorvifms teach their Priefts this Biliings-gate Language. But how unlike is this to our Saviours fpetch, or the j4rch«A?igels to the Devil, who in the Caufe of God and his Saints, durfl not bring againfi the Devil a?iy rail¬ ing accuJation, but only prayed, the Lord to re- bake him, Jud. v. 9. Here you mufl obferve that to difcolour his tongue, they prejt it in his mouth, with their Thumbs (which perhaps had aDy on them) and Jometimes nipt if. -