Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation, spelling accents and punctuation remain unchanged. Footnotes are located at the end of the book. Italics are represented thus _italic_ and superscripts thus y^e. 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, Congregational Union, 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 Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. General Editor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, D.D., EDINBURGH. [Illustration: Portrait of Richard Gilpin with handwritten note as follows. _it was only my design to endeavour a more full discovery, though every way short of the thing itself, of Satan’s Craft, because ye knowledge of this is so necessary, & withall others have done it more sparingly. Such as it is accept & improve for thy spiritual advantage for that was ye end of this undertaking, by him who desires 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. CONTENTS. PAGE I. PREFATORY NOTE, xiii II. MEMOIR OF DR GILPIN, xv III. DÆMONOLOGIA SACRA. To the Reader, 3-6