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Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.Variations in hyphenation, spelling accents and punctuation remainunchanged.

The Genealogical Tree on page liii has been recast using theMeurgey de Tupigny System to fit within page constraints.

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NICHOL’S SERIES OF STANDARD DIVINES.
PURITAN PERIOD.


With General Preface

BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D.,
LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF GREENWICH.


DÆMONOLOGIA SACRA;
OR,
A TREATISE OF SATAN’S TEMPTATIONS.

BY
RICHARD GILPIN, M.D.


COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION.


W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, CongregationalUnion, Edinburgh.

JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh.

THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University,Edinburgh.

D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas’s Episcopal Church,Edinburgh.

WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and ChurchHistory, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh.

ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United PresbyterianChurch, Edinburgh.

General Editor.
REV. THOMAS SMITH, D.D., Edinburgh.

Frontispiece

it
was only my design to endeavour a more full discovery,though every way short of the thing itself, of Satan’sCraft, because ye knowledge of this is so necessary, &withall others have done it more sparingly. Suchas it is accept & improve for thy spiritual advantagefor that was ye end of this undertaking, by him whodesires that thy soul may prosper.

Rich: Gilpin.


DÆMONOLOGIA SACRA;
OR,
A TREATISE OF SATAN’S TEMPTATIONS.

IN THREE PARTS.

BY
RICHARD GILPIN, M.D.,
VICAR OF GREYSTOKE, CUMBERLAND; LATER OF NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

EDITED, WITH MEMOIR,
BY THE REV. ALEXANDER BALLOCH GROSART,
LIVERPOOL.

EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL.
LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: G. HERBERT.


M.DCCC.LXVII.


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