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meri t * used him at length with much seeming ins pect ) & gentle * woman came to him with a bottle of sack , urging him to preach El recantation sermon the next
morning befoxe the lords , promising that , if be would do so , the king would make him a doctor * He repjied , Sure , you do but mock
me , for should I preach upon suck short warning , the lords would never bear euch extempore stuff ; but if you he in good earn * e&t and would make me a doctor
indeed , then let me have the same law you used to give your doctors , mzm a quarter of a year ' s time to make a sermon , and by that time you may know more of my mind . * *
Master Balsom was presently removed to Oxford , where , on his arrival , his life was threatened by * * a compaey of the queen ' s followers [ probably soldiers of a
regiment called the queen ' s ] . He was conveyed to the castle . Awhile aftor he set up an expositionslecture , in the prison twice « . day , to which not only the prisoners and some of the soldiers , but
divers courtiers , and many out of the town often came . Being pro * hihited , once or twice , to go on in this exercise , he answered . If ye are weary of me I am not trilling to trouble you any longer 9
y £ may turn me out of your doors wahen you will . After some months of imprisonment , be was released by exchange , and was sent for by the Lord General Essex , lo be
chaplain in his army , with whom lie continued during his command *" Master Balsam on quitting the army , became a preacher at Ber » mick , where he remained till within two years of his death . During kit abode there two things were
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very remarkable / ' A child , whos * malady ** neither physicians nor divines" could discover , was in . stantancously cured in conse . quenceuf Master Balsom havina " moved some Christians to seek
God with him by fastiag and praye r * ** The other remarkable circumstance was the ^ Hedged dispossession , in the following narrati ve : *< A Scottish lord , by name * the lord of Granson , took , up his habitation for
a time in . Bafwi dk , and brought with him his family ; in which , amongst others , was the steward of his house , formerly reputed a godly man , who was very much afflicted in mind : Matter Balsoxu came to visit him , and ad *
ministered some comfort to him for that time 5 but two or three days after , he being sorely afflicted again , Master Balsom was sent for , who finding him very much weakened and worn out hj the violence of temptation , began to speak comfortably to him ; but
perceiving that no words of comfort should fasten on him , he whispered to him in his car to U > is purpose : I doubt there h something within that you would do well to . discover ; whereupon im . mediately the man ' s tongue swelled out of his mouth , insomuch that he
was not afele to speak . Master Bal . som continued speakiqg to him . till at length , to the astonishment of those in the room , being many , and some of them persons of quality , a thrill voice t
** as heard ,, as from out . of his thrpa , ( having noit any use qi his tongue ) to this purpose : What dpst thorn talking to him of promises and free grace f He is mine . Master Balsom , apprehending it tojbe tfte vpice of the devil ,
rcplyi ? 4 5 Balsom . No , Satan , Ihou ^ ost not know any . man to be thine while there is life in him . $ 4 Um . Mvkt t&fe is a notoriovs wick-Cd . wrctqh , ^ nd therefore is rnif \ e . Bmlsom . The blood of Jesus Chrut clcanscth us from all sin .
Satan . If God would let me loo * Upon you , I thould find enough i » to # bS ? t of yov , to ma > e jou aU miae . Balsom . But thou art bound , t > ata * . And so turning himself to thepcop w with a imiling couatciuuice , he § w ^
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535 Account of " Master Balsom ** the Exorcist *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/8/
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