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Richard Gilpin
1625–1700
A seventeenth-century English nonconformist minister and physician, he spent his life serving communities in the north of England through both pastoral care and medicine. He is especially remembered for writing about religious experience and temptation in a way that spoke to readers far beyond his own time.
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Dæmonologia Sacra; or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations In Three Parts
by Richard Gilpin
About the author
Born in Westmorland and baptized in 1625, Richard Gilpin was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he took his M.A. before turning to divinity and later medicine. He became known as both a preacher and a doctor, a rare combination that shaped the practical, compassionate character of his work.
Gilpin was a prominent nonconformist in northern England during a turbulent period for religion and politics. After the Restoration, when many ministers who would not conform to the established church lost their positions, he continued to serve outside the Church of England, especially in Newcastle and the surrounding region.
He is also remembered as a theological writer. His best-known book, Daemonologia Sacra, explores temptation, conscience, and the inner struggles of religious life, showing the same close attention to human distress that marked his ministry and medical practice.