Miraculous Powers

CHAPTER X. EXPELLING EVIL SPIRITS

Upon this we have the same delicacy as expressed in the last chapter on “Discernment of Spirits.” This gift has no doubt been exercised, but there has been far more counterfeit than true on this head. None but the humblest and most devoted and faithful could be entrusted with such gifts. MIRP 97.1

“Coming to Mansfield Woodhouse, there was a distracted woman under a doctor’s hand, with her hair loose about her ears. He was about to let her blood, she being first bound and many people about her, holding her by violence; but he could get no blood from her. I desired them to unbind her and let her alone, for they could not touch the spirit by which she was tormented. So they did unbind her, and I was moved to speak to her, and in the name of the Lord to bid her be quiet and still; and she was so. The Lord’s power settled on her mind, and she mended........ Many great and wonderful things were wrought by the heavenly power in those days; for the Lord made bare his omnipotent arm, and manifested his power to the astonishment of many; by the healing virtue whereof many have been delivered from great infirmities, and the devils were made subject through his name; of which particular instances might be given, beyond what this unbelieving age is able to receive or bear.”—Geo. Fox’s Journal, p. 26. MIRP 97.2

John Wesley says: MIRP 97.3

“Soon after, I was sent for to one of those who was so strangely torn by the Devil that I almost wondered her relations did not say, ‘Much religion hath made thee mad.’ We prayed God to bruise Satan under her feet. Immediately we had the petition we asked of him. She cried out vehemently, ‘He is gone! he is gone!’ and was filled with the spirit of love, and of a sound mind.”—Journal, Vol. III, p. 158. MIRP 97.4