A vindication of the Surey demoniack as no impostor, or, a reply to a certain pamphlet publishd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called The Surey impostor. With a further clearing and confirming of the truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure. / by T. J.

  • Jollie, Thomas, 1629-1703.
Date:
1698
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Credit: A vindication of the Surey demoniack as no impostor, or, a reply to a certain pamphlet publishd by Mr. Zach. Taylor, called The Surey impostor. With a further clearing and confirming of the truth as to Richard Dugdale's case and cure. / by T. J. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. That Dr. C's Phyfick could not cure Mm at all, as poflefs’ci which is here fuppofed. Where there is no proper Vehicle,as to nstmal caufes to conveigh the evil Spirit into him, there can be no Physical Means todiflodg it: But here was no proper Vehicle, Ergo. Dagdale was not Melancholly, which is called, E'ehiculum Deaboli, nor Lunatick, nor Epileptick, before thefaid ftrange Fits: If there was any of thefe, or any other Diftemper afterward, it was rather the Effed of his ftrange Fits, than any way the caufe thereof. As to his Boyijh Trices and Childifh Fancies, moll of which he pe¬ remptorily denies, thefe were long before, and prove nothing to the purpc • c. The Tricks he is charged with, when he was a School- Boy, are not only denied by himfelf, but by other of his School- Fellow-. 3. That the Spiritual Means were the only Means of his Cure, as to his ftrange Fits. I prove thus, The Means muft need go before the End, as to Execution , but thefe Spiritual Means were the only Means that went before the faid Cure, therefore-- finis eft prior in intentione, pvfterior in executi- cne. ’ However it may not be amifs. to make fome remarks upon whatpag. Mr.T. faith,fo far as l am more immediately, and efpecidly concern¬ ed ^ for my main bufinefs is not to difprove any tampering of the Papifts, with then’s, but to fettle the cafe, as a Poileflion, upon a fureBafis: Which l fiippofe is done already, and not likely at all to be lhaken by all Mr. Ts Combination, to prove a Popijh Combina¬ tion. Letitberemembred all along, that tho Mr. 71 is pleafed to call us the Papifts Tools, yet withal he conftfeth that we would not give Way. that iheyfljould handle us nor the U*s neither : So that there was no gnat darker of the Papifts doing any harm by ns,as their Tools. But let Mr. T beware how he meddles with' edged Tools, or rather in Scripture*Phrafe, how he hsh againft the Prices. Indeed Mr. T s Ignorance and Infidelity, as in the Apoftles cafe, may by fome betaken as an Extenuation o( the Fault of his furious Zeal •> 1 Tint, v 1. 13. Yet ethers will take it as an Aggravation thereof, efpe- cially if we conlider whole Son he was, and what Education he had. I wonder what Mr. T means, by our having mop Plots, and the worft Utck^in Plotting that ever Men had Have we had more Plots and worfe Succeis than the Papifts ? Was there in all his remembrance any but that of the Meal-Tub, and will Mr. 7. vindicate that to be a Presbyterian Plot, • ®