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as Bishop of London undertook to limit Puritanism, he had the cessationist view advanced against Darrell. In 1602 Puritan ministers who attempted an exorcism of Mary Glover were imprisoned. The new Canons of the Church of England of 1604 specified (Canon LXXII) that days of prayer and fasting for
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The Canon did not put an end to Puritan belief in the efficacy of exorcism. On the other hand, it stamped out the public use of exorcism by clergy of the church, until the period of the
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did not recognise the ritual of exorcism. Some Puritan ministers performed exorcisms; but some leading Puritan writers, such as
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Sands, Kathleen R. (2000). "The Doctrine of Transubstantiation and the English Protestant Dispossession of Demons".
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is also used, which allows for the differences from Catholic practice. There are a number of well-documented cases.
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Fasting became important in Puritanism exorcism, but was not present in earlier Elizabethan procedures.
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pattern might be applied, of thoughtful investigation of an "affliction" attributed to God, prayer and
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exorcised Robert Briggs without fasting, and John Darrell initially did not use it. The exorcism in
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after the apostolic times ruled out the resort to exorcism or casting out of devils. The
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Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558–1642
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had a career as an exorcist spanning about 15 years; others were Robert Balsom,
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Orthodox for the Church of England, and more broadly for followers of the
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casting out of devils could be held only with the bishop's permission.
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from 1552 made no mention of it. On the other hand, a general
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Index

exorcism
Puritan
demonology
Early Modern
Protestants
Church of England
William Perkins
witchcraft
John Darrell
John Foxe
Protestant Reformation
cessation of miracles
Book of Common Prayer
Calvinist
fasting
John Foxe
Norwich
John Parkhurst
Richard Bancroft
English Civil War
Nonconformists
Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558–1642
ISBN
978-1-84384-114-2
doi
10.1111/1468-229X.00156
JSTOR
24424955
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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