The poore man, raging mad, ran home incontinent, Intending for to kill them all, but God did him prevent. For why, the chiefest man that in the Parish dwelt, With meat and money thither came, which liberally he dealt. Who, seeing the poore man come home in such a rage, Was faine to bind him in his bed, his fury to asswage. Where long he lay full sicke, still crying for his Gold, But, being well, this whole discourse he to his neighbours told. From all temptations, Lord, keep both Great and Small, And let no man, O heavenly God, for want of succour fall. But put their speciall trust in God for evermore, Who will, no doubt, from misery each faithfull man restore. ‘A TERRIBLE AND SEASONABLE WARNING TO YOUNG MEN. [Illustration] ‘Being a very particular and True Relation of one _Abraham Joiner_, a young man about 17 or 18 Years of Age, living in _Shakesby’s_ Walks in _Shadwell_, being a Ballast Man by Profession, who, on _Saturday_ Night last, pick’d up a leud Woman, and spent what money he had about him in Treating her, saying afterwards, if she wou’d have any more he must go to the Devil for it, and, slipping out of her Company, he went to the _Cock_ and _Lyon_ in _King Street_, the Devil appear’d to him, and gave him a Pistole, telling him _he shou’d never want for Money_, appointing to meet him the next Night, at the _World’s End_ at _Stepney_; Also how his Brother persuaded him to throw the Money away, which he did; but was suddenly taken in a very strange manner, so that they were fain to send for the Reverend Mr. Constable and other Ministers to pray with him; he appearing now to be very Penitent; with an Account of the Prayers and Expressions he makes use of under his Affliction, and the Prayers that were made for him, to free him from this violent Temptation. ‘The Truth of which is sufficiently attested in the Neighbourhood, he lying now at his Mother’s house,’ etc. Stepney seems to have been a favourite haunt of the Devil, for there is a tract published at Edinburgh, 1721, entitled ‘A timely Warning to Rash and Disobedient Children. Being a strange and wonderful Relation of a young Gentleman in the Parish of _Stepheny_, in the Suburbs of _London_, that sold himself to the Devil for 12 Years, to have the Power of being revenged on his Father and Mother, and how, his Time being expired, he lay in a sad and deplorable Condition, to the Amazement of all Spectators.’ CHAPTER II. ‘Strange and True News from Westmoreland’--‘The Politic Wife’--‘How the Devill, though subtle, was guld by a Scold’--‘The Devil’s Oak’--Raising the Devil--Arguments in Favour of Devils--The Numbers of Devils. [Illustration]