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Richard Gilpin
1625–1700
A seventeenth-century English minister and physician, he wrote with unusual calm and insight about temptation, conscience, and spiritual struggle. His life moved between the pulpit, the sickroom, and the turbulent world of religious dissent in northern England.
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Dæmonologia Sacra; or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations In Three Parts
by Richard Gilpin
About the author
Born in 1625 and baptized at Kendal, Richard Gilpin became known as an English nonconformist minister and physician. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, later preached in the north of England, and built a reputation as both a thoughtful pastor and a practical doctor.
After the Act of Uniformity in 1662, he was ejected from parish ministry, but he continued serving dissenting communities. His career reflects the unsettled religious life of Restoration England, when many ministers worked outside the established church while still gathering congregations and offering counsel.
Gilpin is especially remembered for Daemonologia Sacra, a work on temptation and the inner life that is less sensational than its title suggests. Readers interested in Puritan writing often value him for his steady, humane tone and for the way he brings together spiritual care and close observation of human experience.