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Demoniac possession - England - Early works to 1800

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    A return of prayer: or A faithful relation of some remarkable passages of providence concerning Thomas Sawdie : a boy of twelve years of age, servant to John Roberts of Trebitian in the parish of Lawrack, and county of Cornwal. Who was possest with an unclean spirit, and through mercy by prayer and fasting, dispossest and delivered from the servitude and jaws of Satan. Attested by Mr. Toms, Mr. Lydston, Mr. Travers, and Mr. Nicholas Tyack eminent ministers of Christ, and other Christian friends and neighbours; whose names are annext to the ensuing relation.

    | Date: Printed in the year MDCLXIV. [1664]

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