liberty to take something or other for her _Susttentation_, And I must add this further, that this business of her _Fast_ was carried so, that it was impossible to be dissembled without a _Combination_ of Multitudes of People unacquainted with one another to support the _Juggle_, but he that can imagine such a thing of a Neighbourhood, so fill'd with Vertuous People is a _base man_, I cannot call him any other. _Sect._ 7. But if the Sufferings of this Young Woman were not _Imposture_, yet might they not be pure Distemper? I will not here inquire of our _Saducees_ what sort of Distemper 'tis shall stick the Body full of _Pins_, without any Hand that could be seen to stick them; or whether all the _Pin-makers_ in the World would be willing to be Evaporated into certain ill habits of Body producing a _Distemper_, but of the _Distemper_ my Reader shall be Judge when I have told him something further of those unusual Sufferings. I do believe that the _Evil Angels_ do often take Advantage from _Natural Distempers_ in the Children of Men to annoy them with such further Mischiefs as we call _preternatural_. The Malignant _Vapours_ and _Humours_ of our Diseased Bodies may be used by _Devils_ thereinto insinu[6]ating as engine of the Execution of their Malice upon those Bodies; and perhaps for this reason one Sex may suffer more Troubles of some kinds from the _Invisible World_ than the _other_, as well as for _that reason_ for which the Old _Serpent_ made where he did his _first Adddress_. But I Pray what will you say to this, _Margaret Rule_ would sometimes have her Jaws forcibly pulled open; whereupon something _Invisible_ would be poured down her throat; we all saw her swallow, and yet we saw her try all she could by Spitting, Coughing and Shriking, that she might not swalow, but one time the standers by plainly saw something of that odd _Liquor_ itself on the outside of her _Neck_; She cried out of it as of _Scalding Brimstone_ poured into her, and the whole House would Immediately scent so hot of _Brimstone_ that we were scarce able to endure it, whereof there are scores of Witnesses; but the Young Woman herself would be so monstrously _Inflam'd_ that it would have broke a Heart of Stone to have seen her Agonies, _this_ was a thing that several times happen'd and several times when her Mouth was thus pull'd open, the standers by clapping their Hands close thereupon the distresses that otherwise followed would be diverted. Moreover there was a _whitish powder_ to us _Invisible_ somtimes cast upon the _Eyes_ of this Young Woman, whereby her _Eyes_ would be extreamly incommoded, but one time some of this _Powder_ was fallen actually _Visible_ upon her Cheek, from whence the People in the Room wiped it with their Handkerchiefs, and somtimes the Young Woman would also be so bitterly scorched with the unseen Sulphur thrown upon her, that very sensible _Blisters_ would be raised upon her Skin, whereto her Friends found it