A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell.
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A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell.
Author
Darrel, John, b. ca. 1562.
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[England?] :: Imprinted [by the English secret press?],
1600.
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Subject terms
Harsnett, Samuel, -- 1561-1631. -- Discovery of the fraudulent practises of John Darrel -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Demonic possession -- Early works to 1800.
Exorcism -- Early works to 1800.
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"A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours, of Samuel Harshnet. entituled: A discouerie of the fravvdulent practises of Iohn Darrell wherein is manifestly and apparantly shewed in the eyes of the world. not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19855.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 97
Discouerer.
The chiefest meanes whereby M. Dar. did seduce the people, and cun∣ninglye
in fruct So. without suspition in any that beleiued him, were these
two false gr••undes, (wherof in the first booke) vz. that those who are poss••ss∣ed,
haue in there sitts no vse of there senses or saculties of there mindes, and
that whatsoeuer they either d••e or say at such times, it is not they but Sa∣than
that doth both say and doe it.