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<P>THE QVAKERS DREAM: <HI>OR,</HI> The Devil's Pilgrimage in England: <HI>BEING</HI> An infallible Relation of their &s;everal Meetings, Shreekings, Shakings, Quakings, Roarings, Yellings, Howlings, Trem|blings in the Bodies, and Rinngs in the Bellies: With a Narrative of their &s;everal Arguments, Tenets, Principles, and &s;trange D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ctrine: The &s;trange and wonderful Satanical Apparitions, and the appearing of the Devil unto them in the likene&s;s of a black Boar, a Dog with flaming eye, and a black man without a head, cau&s;ing the Dogs to bark, the Swine to cry, and the Cattel to run, to the great admiration of all that &s;hall read the &s;ame.</P>
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<P><HI>Free-vvill.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>walk an&s;werable to the light vvithin you.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>be thou merry.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Above Ordinances</HI></P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>G. Horton,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1655.</P>
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<HEAD>The Devils Pilgrimage in England, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_AS the Scripture is divinely in&s;pired, &s;o holy men &s;pake as they were acted, and carryed thereunto by the Holy Gho&s;t: And to prove the Divinity thereof, and to maugre the wicked Te|nets of too many Apo&s;tates in the&s;e &s;ad and perilous Times, we &s;hall recite the&s;e Arguments <HI>apo&s;teriori,</HI> that is, the vene|rable antiquity, matchle&s;s maje&s;ty, lively efficacy, b autiful harmony, in|corrigible purity, and invincible perennity, in oppo&s;ition both to the inju|ry and iniquity of Times and Tyrants, who have endeavoured and &s;ought to &s;uppre&s;s them: witne&s;s the burning of the Bible by &s;undry Quakers, flanters, or Shakers, and their denying of the true Te&s;timony thereof, and wre&s;ting of it to their own ways and fancies, as many who re&s;ort to the Mouth at Alder&s;gate, and other places do, their principal de&s;ign being to di&s;grace the Mini&s;try, and all publike Ordinances; And &s;o numerous are they both in City and Countrey, that the Devil has led them a Pilgrimage as far as Wrexham in North-Wales, where they hold univer&s;al Redempti|on, Free-will, and falling from Grace, publi&s;hing that all men have the pure &s;eed of God in them, and that they them&s;elves were perfect, and with|out &s;in; that they knew at the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t &s;ight &s;inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re Chri&s;tians from Hypocrits; And very ob&s;ervable it is, that at their meetings (after lodg &s;ilence) &s;ome|times one, &s;ometimes more, f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll into a great and dreadful &s;haking &amp; trem|bling in their whole bodies, and all their joynts, with &s;uch ri&s;ings, &amp; &s;wel|lings in their bellies and bowels, &s;ending forth &s;uch &s;hreekings, yellings, howlings, and roarings, as not onely affrighted the &s;pectators, but cau&s;ed the Dogs to bark, the Swine to cry, and the Cattel-ran about, to the a&s;to|ni&s;hment
<PB N="4" REF="3"> of al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that heard them. By th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e artifices one M. <HI>Gilpin</HI> was drawn in to a&s;&s;ociate him&s;elf with them, and was &s;o taken with their Doctrine, that he re&s;olved to clo&s;e with them, refu&s;ing to read any good books, t hear any preaching Mini&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, or to call to remembrance any thing which he had formerly learn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d concerning G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, Chri&s;t, his own e&s;tate, or any o|ther thing contained in the Scriptures; for they told him that all &s;uch knowledge was but Notional, ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nal, &amp; hanging upon the Tree of know|ledge: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dding, <HI>Cur&s;ed is every one tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hangs on this Tree.</HI></P>
<P>And one of them told him, that Chri&s;t was a man, had his failings, di|&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ted God, &amp;c.</P>
<P>At his n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xt meeting he was u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ged to carry the Cro&s;s, and to hearken to a voyce w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">hin him, &s;peaking much of a light within th m, which <HI>Gilpi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ot yet fi di g, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s much troubled, and de&s;ired to fall into the Quakin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, thinking that thereby he &s;hou d attain to the immediate di&s;coveries o God to him.</P>
<P>And accordingly &s;oon after as he was walking in his chamber, he bega<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to quake &s;o extr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">amly that he cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d not &s;tand, but fel upon his be&s;t, wher he houled and cryed in a terrible and hideous manner, (as others of ther u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d to do) yet was he not afraid, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> looked upon it as the pangs of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> New birth. After half an hour he cea&s;ed from houling; and rejoyced th he could now witne&s;s again&s;t the Min<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ters of England as fal&s;e Prophets Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ts of Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l.</P>
<P>All the night after he was much troubled with D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eams about his &s;ins and when he awaked, he di&s;cerned &s;omething to enter into his body, whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Satan &s;ugge&s;ted to be the Spirit of G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d like a Dove; and he th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ught I heard a voyc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wi hin him, &s;aying, <HI>It is day, it is day, &s;o &s;ure as it is light &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Chri&s;t give thee light.</HI> Thus, in a Vi&s;ion, granting a Bond and Covenant, I wait<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d for 2 13 days for more light, and walking into his Ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">den, he la<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> down with his face to the earth, at which time his right hand extream to &s;hake; and he was in a g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eat R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pture of joy, apprehending it to be a f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+gure of his &s;piri ual Marriage and U<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion with Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Then did the power within rai&s;e him, and &s;et him on his feet, and after+wards la d him on his b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ck brought his &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s into remembrance, and cau&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his hand at every &s;in to &s;trike the ground, hearing a voyce within, &s;aying, <HI>Now is &s;uch a &s;in mortified.</HI></P>
<P>Then he went to another of their Meetings, with which he was mor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> affected then formerly; for that he was conceited he could inwardly wit|ne&s;s to what he &s;pake And upon th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peaking of one <HI>J. Andland, Gilpin</HI> wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="5" REF="3"> by the Devil within him drawn out of his Chair, and thrown upon the ground, where he lay all night.</P>
<P>All which time his body and members were in motion, being turned from his back on his belly, and &s;o back again &s;everal times, making C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;|&s;es with his legs, and his hands moving on the ground z<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> if he had binwri|ting; and he heard (as he thought) a voice &s;aying, That that writing with his hand on the ground &s;ignified the writing of the L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his heart: then were his hands moved to his head, and he heard the voice &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing,
<Q><L>Chri&s;t in God,</L>
<L>God in Chri&s;t,</L>
<L>And Chri&s;t in thee.</L></Q></P>
<P>Which words he was comp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lled to &s;ing fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th in a &s;t ange manner, and with &s;uch a voice as was not his own. Then the Devil rai&s;ed him up, and bid him be humble, and led him out at a back door to the River, and back <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in, and then into the Town, where he was drawn down the &s;treet to a door that he knew not: whereupon two of them that followed him, &s;aid, Whither will you go? This is the Fidle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;e: <HI>Gilpin</HI> an&s;wered, Be it tho&s;e hou&s;e it will, Chri&s;t leads me hithe, and hither I mu&s;t go: Then was his hand forced to knock at the door, and a voice b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d him &s;ay, B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hold Chri&s;t &s;tands at the door and knocks.</P>
<P>The Fidler opening the door, he went in, and taking down a Ba&s;e viol, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e was forced to play on it, and to dance; whereupon h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> que&s;tioned what <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> led him to &s;uch actions? and the voice p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ently an&s;wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d him, This is not becau&s;e I love mu&s;ick, for I hate it, but t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ignifi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to thee what by there is in heaven at thy conve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ion: as al&s;o, what &s;piritual melody <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hou &s;halt have hereafter.</P>
<P>Then was he led out of the hou&s;e, and carryed through the Town, being <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ced as he went, to proclaim, I am the way, the truth, and the light. Then <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">is hand was forced to take up a &s;tone, which he t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ought to be like a mans <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">art, and the voice told him, That Chri&s;t had taken that &s;tone out of his <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eart, and given him an heart of fi &s;h: then holding it forth to the &s;p cta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s, he threw the &s;tone among&s;t them.</P>
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<P>Then was he ca&s;t upon his back on the ground, and the voice &s;aid, <HI>Thou &s;halt have two Angels to keep thee;</HI> and immediatly two Swall<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ws came down the Chimney, and &s;at on a &s;helf neer him: whereupon he cryed, <HI>My Angels, my Angels,</HI> and withall lifted up his hands; At which motion they vani<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hed.<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>woodcut of kneeling man</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> Then was he c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rried upon his hands and knees out of the doores into the &s;treet, and when his wife would have &s;topped him, he &s;aid, <HI>He mu&s;t not be &s;topped,</HI> conceiving that he bare the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t upon his neck. Then the voyce asked him, <HI>Where is thy Cro&s;s?</HI> upon which he thought he &s;aw it vi|&s;ible hanging in a thread, which with his hand he put behind his neck. Thus he continued till the evening, when many of the Quakers came to him, &s;aying, <HI>Be lowly minded, and hearken to the voyce within thee,</HI> and &s;o they left him. But immediatly he began to que&s;tion, whether the&s;e &s;trange Acti|ons were Divine or Diabolical? whereupon he began to tremble, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> his hand was forced to take up a knife which lay by, and to point it to his throat, and the voice &s;aid to him, <HI>Open a hole there, and I will give thee eternall life:</HI> But ca&s;ting of it away, he had an a&s;&s;urance that he was po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the Devil, crying out, <HI>Now the Devil is gone out of me,</HI> at which in&s;tant, he and his
<PB N="7" REF="4"> family heard it thunder, though no others heard it. Shortly after the Devil came to him again, and told him that it was Satan that had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and &s;educed him hitherto, but now Chri&s;t was come, and had ca&s;t out Satan, &amp; told him al&s;o that what he had done the day before was in obedience unto Satan, and that at he had then &s;erved him in his cloaths, &s;o now he mu&s;t undo all in his &s;hirt in obedience to Chri&s;t: whereupon he went into the &s;treet naked, where (in a vi&s;ion) he beheld &s;ome of the Quakers dancing na|ked, others fea&s;ting, and &s;ome again greeting. Then the Devil told him, that he mu&s;t be carryed into the hou&s;e by 4 women, or el&s;e that he &s;hould for e|ver &s;tand there like a pillar of &s;alt, as <HI>Lots</HI> wife did.</P>
<P>Then 4 women carryed him into his bed, where in his &s;hort he played top&s;ey-turvey from one bed to another; and immediatly app<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">red a man without his head; for you mu&s;t note, he was formerly a Tub-man, and no &s;mal enemy to the late King.</P>
<P>After which, is plea&s;ed God to give him a &s;ight of the&s;e delu&s;ions, cry|ing out with a loud voyce, <HI>Lord, Lord, what have I done, or what wilt thou have me to do?</HI> But the Devil an&s;wered, <HI>It's too late to cry unto God, for Sentence is already pa&s;t again&s;t thee, give me my bond, for it belongs unto me, thou ha&s;t nothing to do with it.</HI></P>
<P>To whom he an&s;wered,</P>
<P>Satan, Satan, thou &s;halt not have the bond, thou ha&s;t nothing to do with it, I have put it where thou can&s;t not fetch it; for it is in my Bible at the 3^d Chapter of Gene&s;is, where the&s;e words are, <HI>The &s;eed of the woman &s;hall break the Serpents head:</HI> Upon this the Devil (in a fiery flame) vani&s;hed, ta|king the window along with him.</P>
<P>Thus having (through the Lords infinite mercies) received the Te&s;ti|mony of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and the peace of a good Con&s;cience, he cau&s;ed a Nar|rative to be publi&s;hed, di&s;covering the danger of the&s;e wayes, &amp;c. whereby many has been convinced of their declining from their former &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;s; as appears by the en&s;uing Examples.</P>
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<P>In Liece&s;ter&s;hire a converted Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aker &s;itting at his book in his chamber, the Devil appeared, looking over his &s;houlder, which he perceiving, took a piece of paper, and wrote in it, <HI>The Son of God came to di&s;&s;olve the workes of the Devil;</HI> and &s;o holding up that paper to the Devil, he vani&s;hed.</P>
<P>Another being mole&s;ted by &s;undry noi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> made by the Devil in his cham|ber, encountred him with that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ntence, <HI>Omnia &s;ubjeci&s;ti pedibus ejus,</HI> Thou ha&s;t put all things in &s;ubjection <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nder his feet: After which he remained in &s;afety.</P>
<P>Another being walking alone in his garden, the Devil appeared to him in the likene&s;s of a black Boar; but upon the&s;e words pronouncing, <HI>The Son of God appeared to de&s;troy the works of the Devil,</HI> it vani&s;h d.</P>
<P>Another of M. <HI>Foxe's</HI> Parantes being likewi&s;e converted, the Devil ap|peared to him as he lay in his bed: To whom he &s;aid, <HI>If thou ha&s;t nothing el&s;e to do thou may&s;t &s;tand there &s;till, for I will betake my &s;elf to re&s;t:</HI> And accord|ingly compo&s;ing him&s;elf to &s;leep, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Devil vani&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</P>
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