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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Title: 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.
Publication: [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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OF CHAP. I.

Discouerer.

How M. Dar. laboured from time to time, to make those thinges that So. did, & were but very toyes, to be thought both strang & extraordinary.

Darrell.

VVhether the thinges deposed to be done by Som. (done indede by the Diuell) were very toyes and nothing strange and extraordinary in them: and further whether the things done by So. were such as he did or could doe of himselfe. and so argue a counterfeitinge, or whe∣ther the did passe his reach, skill, and power and so argue a supernatu¦rall power, namly the power of the diuell within him, let the christian reader himselfe Iudge by my answere to the last chapter.