_Sect._ 9. As it has been with a Thousand other _Inchanted_ People, so it was with _Margaret Rule_ in this particular, that there were several words which her _Tormentors_ would not let her hear, especially the words Pray or Prayer, and yet she could so hear the letters of those words distinctly mentioned as to know what they ment. The standers by were forced sometimes thus in discourse to spell a word to her, but because there were some so ridiculous as to count it a sort of _Spell_ or a _Charm_ for any thus to accommodate themselves to the capacity of the Sufferer, little of this kind was done. But that which was more singular in this matter, was that she could not use these _words_ in those penetrating discourses, wherewith she would sometimes address the _Spectres_ that were about her. She would sometimes for a long while together apply herself to the _Spectres_, whom she supposed the _Witches_, with such _Exortations to Repentance_ as would have melted an Heart of _Adamant_ to have heard them; her strains of Expression and Argument were truly Extraordinary; A person perhaps of the best Education and Experience and of _Attainments_ much beyond hers could not have exceeded them: nevertheless when she came to these Words _God_, _Lord_, _Christ_, _Good_, _Repent_, and some other such, her Mouth could not utter them, whereupon she would sometimes in an Angry _Parenthesis_ complain of their Wickedness in stopping that _Word_, but she would then go [8] on with some other _Terms_ that would serve to tell what she ment. And I believe that if the most suspicious Person in the world had beheld all the Circumstances of this matter, he would have said it could not have been dissembled.