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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
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It is no small number of Writers on such Subjects that I have read, it's near threescore years time from the fi•st occasion: And finding that almost all the Atheists, Sadducees and Infidels, did seem to profess, that were they but sure of the Reality of the Apparitions and Operations of Spirits, it would cure them, I thought this the most suitable help for them, ⟨image 6⟩that have sinned themselves into an incapacity of more Rational and Excellent Arguments. And I have long feared, lest secret unobserved defectiveness in their Belief of the Immortality of the Soul, •nd the truth of the Scripture, is the great cause of all Mens other defects: There lieth usually the unsoundness of Worldly Hypocrites, where it is prevailing, and thence is the weakness of Gra•e in the best, though it prevail not against their Sincerity.
It is no small number of Writers on such Subjects that I have read, it's near threescore years time from the fi•st occasion: And finding that almost all the Ath•ists, Sadduces and Infidels, did seem to profess, that were they but sure of the Reality of the Apparitions and Operations of Spirits, it would cure them, I thought this the most suitable help for them, ⟨image 6⟩that have sinned themselves into an incapacity of more Rational and Excellent Arguments. And I have long feared, lest secr•t unobserved defectiveness in their Belief of the Immortality of the Soul, •nd the truth of the Scripture, is the great cause of all Mens other defects: There lieth usually the unsoundness of Woridly Hypocrites, where it is prev•iling, and thence is the weakness of Gra•e in the best, though it prevail not against their Sincerity.