Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS.
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the monks produced the demoniac, the Prince
caused him to be exorcised in his presence, but
without effect. The devil kept his birth with all
the obstinacy of a mule, and would neither be
moved by threats nor coaxing. The Prince then
ordered the monks to withdraw, and delivered
the demoniac to some Tartars, whom he kept
about his stable, with orders to give the devil his
due. At first, the demoniac thought to terrify
them by his horrible gestures and. grimaces ;
but
these Tartars used their whips with such faithfulness
as the devil never witnessed before. Having
never dreamed of
such a mode of exorcising,
he found himself taken on the weak side j
and therefore, without the use of either relics,
hard words, or holy w^ter, he began to cry for
quarter, and confessed, that the monks had hired
him to personate a character, which he was ill
qualified to sustain.
The Prince again requested the presence of
the monks, and produced to them the man, who
threw himself at his feet,
imposture.
and acknowledged the
They at first declared this to be only
an artifice of the devil, who employed the organs
of this man to propagate such a falsehood,
to the discredit of rehgion.
But when the Prince
told them, how necessary it was to exorcise the
father of lies out of them also, they began to repent,
and acknowledged that they had been guilty
of this imposition, with a view to stop the
progress