A26888:174
The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls…
The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the malice and misery of the devils and the damned : and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices &c. / written, as an addition to many other treatises for the conviction of Sadducees and infidels, by Richard Baxter.The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the malice and misery of the devils and the damned : and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices &c. / written, as an addition to many other treatises for the conviction of Sadduces and infidels, by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I will not trouble you with many Circumstances, one I shall only tell you, which I think will evince a real Possession. The Report being spread in the Country, a Knight of the Name of Forbes, who lived in the North of Scotland, being come to Edinburgh, meeting there with a Minister of the North, and both of them desirous to see the Woman, the Northern Minister invited the Knight to my Father's House (which was within Ten or Twelve Miles of the Woman) whither they came, and next Morning went to see the Woman. They found her a poor ignorant Creature, and seeing nothing extraordinary, the Minister says in Latin to the Knight, Nondum audivimus Spiritum loquentem; presently a Voice comes out of the Woman's Mouth, Aud• loquentem, audis loquentem: This put the Minister into some amazement (which I think made him not mind his own Latin) he took off his Hat, and said, Misereatur Deus peccatoris; the Voice presently out of the Woman's Mouth said, Dic peccatricis, dic peccatricis; whereupon both of them came ou• of the House fully satisfied, took Horse immediately and returned to my Father• House at Thirlestane Castle in Lauderdal• ⟨p. 85⟩where they related this passage. This I do exactly remember. Many more Particulars might be got in that Country, but this Latin Criticism in a most Illiterate Ignorant Woman, where there was no pretence to dispossessing, is Evidence enough, I think.
I will not trouble you with many Circumstances, one I shall only tell you, which I think will evince a real Possession. The Report being spread in the Countrey, a Knight of the Name of Forbes, who lived in the North of Scotland, being come to Edenborough, meeting there with a Minister of the North, and both of them desirous to see the Woman, the Northern Minister invited the Knight to my Father's House (which was within Ten or Twelve Miles of the VVoman) whither they came, and next Morning went to see the VVoman. They found her a poor ignorant Creature, and seeing nothing extraordinary, the Minister says in Latin to the Knight, Nondum audivimus Spiritum loquentem; presently a Voice comes out of the VVomans Mouth, Aud• loquentem, audis loquentem: This put the Minister into some amazement (which I think made him not mind his own Latin) he took off his Hat, and said, Misereatur Deus peccatoris; the Voice presently out of the VVomans Mouth said, Dic peccatricis, dic peccatricis; whereupon both of them came ou of the House fully satisfied, took Horse immediately and returned to my Father House at Thirlestane Castle in Lauderdal