THE quakers DREAM: OR, The Devil's Pilgrimage in England: BEING An infallible Relation of their several Meetings, Shreekings, Shakings, Quakings, Roarings, Yellings, Howlings, Tremblings in the Bodies, and Rinngs in the Bellies: With a Narrative of their several Arguments, Tenets, Principles, and strange doctrine: The strange and wonderful Satanical Apparitions, and the appearing of the Devil unto them in the likeness of a black Boar, a Dog with flaming eye, and a black man without a head, causing the Dogs to bark, the Swine to cry, and the cattle to run, to the great admiration of all that shall red the same.  

Free-will.   woodcut panel of two men and a kissing couple  

walk answerable to the light within you.   woodcut panel of people listening to a man standing on a barrel  

be thou merry.   woodcut panel of three men sitting at a table  

Above Ordinances   woodcut panel of four naked figures and one clothed man  
London, Printed for G. Horton, and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange in cornhill, 1655.   

The Devils Pilgrimage in England, &c.  
AS the Scripture is divinely inspired, so holy men spake as they were acted, and carried thereunto by the Holy Ghost: And to prove the Divinity thereof, and to maugre the wicked Tenets of too many Apostates in these sad and perilous Times, we shall recite these Arguments aposteriori, that is, the venerable antiquity, matchless majesty, lively efficacy, b autiful harmony, incorrigible purity, and invincible perennity, in opposition both to the injury and iniquity of Times and Tyrants, who have endeavoured and sought to suppress them: witness the burning of the Bible by sundry Quakers, flanters, or Shakers, and their denying of the true Testimony thereof, and wresting of it to their own ways and fancies, as many who resort to the Mouth at Aldersgate, and other places do, their principal design being to disgrace the Ministry, and all public Ordinances; And so numerous are they both in City and country, that the Devil has lead them a Pilgrimage as far as Wrexham in North-Wales, where they hold universal Redemption, Free-will, and falling from Grace, publishing that all men have the pure seed of God in them, and that they themselves were perfect, and without sin; that they knew at the fi●st sight sinc●re Christians from hypocrites; And very observable it is, that at their meetings( after lodge silence) sometimes one, sometimes more, f●ll into a great and dreadful shaking & trembling in their whole bodies, and all their joints, with such risings, & swellings in their bellies and bowels, sending forth such shreekings, yellings, howlings, and roarings, as not onely affrighted the spectators, but caused the Dogs to bark, the Swine to cry, and the Cattel-ran about, to the astonishment of al● that heard them. By th●se artifices one M. Gilpin was drawn in to associate himself with them, and was so taken with their Doctrine, that he resolved to close with them, refusing to red any good books, t hear any preaching Ministe●, or to call to remembrance any thing which he had formerly learned concerning G●d, Christ, his own estate, or any other thing contained in the Scriptures; for they  told him that all such knowledge was but Notional, ca●nal, & hanging upon the three of knowledge: ●dding, Cursed is every one tha● hangs on this three.  
And one of them  told him, that Christ was a man, had his failings, dist●usted God, &c.  
At his n●xt meeting he was u●ged to carry the across, and to harken to a voice w●●hin him, speaking much of a light within th m, which Gilpi● ●ot yet fi di g, w●s much troubled, and desired to fall into the Quakin● fi●, thinking that thereby he show d attain to the immediate discoveries o God to him.  
And accordingly soon after as he was walking in his chamber, he bega● to quake so extr●amly that he cou●d not stand, but fel upon his best, where he houled and cried in a terrible and hideous manner,( as others of ther used to do) yet was he not afraid, bu● looked upon it as the pangs of 〈◇〉 New birth. After half an hour he ceased from howling; and rejoiced th he could now witness against the Min●sters of England as false Prophets Pr●ests of Ba●l.  
All the night after he was much troubled with D●eams about his sins and when he awaked, he discerned something to enter into his body, whic● Satan suggested to be the Spirit of G●d like a Dove; and he th●ught I heard a voyc● wi hin him, saying, It is day, it is day, so sure as it is light sha●… Christ give thee light. Thus, in a Vision, granting a Bond and Covenant, I wait●d for 2 13 days for more light, and walking into his Ga●den, he la●… down with his face to the earth, at which time his right hand extreme to shake; and he was in a great R●pture of joy, apprehending it to be a f●…gure of his spiri val Marriage and U●ion with Christ.  
Then did the power within raise him, and set him on his feet, and afterwards la d him on his b●ck brought his si●s into remembrance, and cause● his hand at every sin to strike the ground, hearing a voice within, saying, Now is such a sin mortified.  
Then he went to another of their Meetings, with which he was mor● affencted then formerly; for that he was conceited he could inwardly witness to what he spake And upon th● speaking of one J. Andland, Gilpin was by the Devil within him drawn out of his Chair, and thrown upon the ground, where he lay all night.  
All which time his body and members were in motion, being turned from his back on his belly, and so back again several times, making C●osses with his legs, and his hands moving on the ground z● if he had binwriting; and he heard( as he thought) a voice saying, That that writing with his hand on the ground signified the writing of the L●w i● his heart: then were his hands moved to his head, and he heard the voice sa●ing, 
Christ in God,  
God in Christ,  
And Christ in thee.   
Which words he was comp●lled to sing fo●th in a strange manner, and with such a voice as was not his own. Then the Devil raised him up, and bid him be humble, and lead him out at a back door to the River, and back ●g● in, and then into the Town, where he was drawn down the street to a door that he knew not: whereupon two of them that followed him, said, Whither will you go? This is the Fidle●s h●use: Gilpin answered, Be it those house it will, Christ leads me hithe, and hither I must go: Then was his hand forced to knock at the door, and a voice b●d him say, behold Christ stands at the door and knocks.  
The fiddler opening the door, he went in, and taking down a Base viol, ●… e was forced to play on it, and to dance; whereupon h● questioned what ●… or e● lead him to such actions? and the voice presently answer●d him, This is not because I love music, for I hate it, but t● signifi● to thee what by there is in heaven at thy conve●sion: as also, what spiritual melody ●… how shalt have hereafter.  
Then was he lead out of the house, and carried through the Town, being ●… ce as he went, to proclaim, I am the way, the truth, and the light. Then ●… is hand was forced to take up a ston, which he t●ought to be like a mans ●… art, and the voice  told him, That Christ had taken that ston out of his ●… earth, and given him an heart of fi sh: then holding it forth to the sp cta●… s, he threw the ston amongst them.  
Then was he cast upon his back on the ground, and the voice said, Thou shalt have two Angels to keep thee; and immediately two Swall●ws came down the Chimney, and sat on a shelf near him: whereupon he cried, My Angels, my Angels, and withall lifted up his hands; At which motion they vani●hed.  woodcut of kneeling man Then was he c●rried upon his hands and knees out of the doors into the street, and when his wife would have stopped him, he said, He must not be stopped, conceiving that he bare the across of Christ upon his neck. Then the voice asked him, Where is thy across? upon which he thought he saw it visible 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, saying, Be lowly minded, and harken to the voice within thee, and so they left him. But immediately he began to question, whether these strange Actions were Divine or Diabolical? whereupon he began to tremble, 〈◇〉 his hand was forced to take up a knife which lay by, and to point it to his throat, and the voice said to him, Open a hole there, and I will give thee eternal life: But casting of it away, he had an assurance that he was possessed by the Devil, crying out, Now the Devil is gone out of me, at which instant, he and his 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 possessed and seduced him hitherto, but now Christ was come, and had cast out Satan, &  told him also that what he had done the day before was in obedience unto Satan, and that at he had then served him in his clothes, so now he must undo all in his shirt in obedience to Christ: whereupon he went into the street naked, where( in a vision) he beholded some of the Quakers dancing naked, others feasting, and some again greeting. Then the Devil  told him, that he must be carried into the house by 4 women, or else that he should for ever stand there like a pillar of salt, as Lots wife did.  
Then 4 women carried him into his bed, where in his short he played topsey-turvey from one bed to another; and immediately app●●red a man without his head; for you must note, he was formerly a Tub-man, and no small enemy to the late King.  
After which, is pleased God to give him a sight of these delusions, crying out with a loud voice, Lord, Lord, what have I done, or what wilt thou have me to do? But the Devil answered, It's too late to cry unto God, for Sentence is already past against thee, give me my bond, for it belongs unto me, thou hast nothing to do with it.  
To whom he answered,  
Satan, Satan, thou shalt not have the bond, thou hast nothing to do with it, I have put it where thou canst not fetch it; for it is in my Bible at the 3d Chapter of Genesis, where these words are, The seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head: Upon this the Devil( in a fiery flamme) vanished, taking the window along with him.  
Thus having( through the Lords infinite mercies) received the Testimony of Jesus Christ, and the peace of a good Conscience, he caused a Narrative to be published, discovering the danger of these ways, &c. whereby many has been convinced of their declining from their former steadfastness; as appears by the ensuing Examples.  
In Liecestershire a converted Q●aker sitting at his book in his chamber, the Devil appeared, looking over his shoulder, which he perceiving, took a piece of paper, and wrote in it, The Son of God came to dissolve the works of the Devil; and so holding up that paper to the Devil, he vanished.  
Another being molested by sundry nois● made by the Devil in his chamber, encountered him with that ●●ntence, Omnia subjecisti pedibus ejus, Thou hast put all things in subjection ●nder his feet: After which he remained in safety.  
Another being walking alone in his garden, the Devil appeared to him in the likeness of a black Boar; but upon these words pronouncing, The Son of God appeared to destroy the works of the Devil, it vanish d.  
Another of M. Foxe's Parantes being likewise converted, the Devil appeared to him as he lay in his bed: To whom he said, If thou hast nothing else to do thou mayst stand there still, for I will betake myself to rest: And accordingly composing himself to sleep, ●he Devil vanish●d.  
FINIS.