A26888:191
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.
VI. Wolphius wrote to Skenkius, that near Zurick the Devil vexed a melancholy Woman, and solicited her to drown her self: She went and sate long on the Flood-gate of a Pond; at last, by his importunity, she yielded, saying, [If it must be so, on God's Name let it be so,] and cast her self into the Water, where she lay three Hours on her ⟨p. 97⟩Back, and could not sink; and being found, and brought home, her Body was as light as Straw, and she recovered her Health.
VI. Wolphius wrote to Skenkius, that near Zurick the Devil vexed a melancholy Woman, and sollicited her to drown her self: She went and sate long on the Flood-gate of a Pond; at last, by his importunity, she yielded, saying, [If it must be so, on God's Name let it be so,] and cast her self into the Water, where she lay three Hours on her ⟨p. 97⟩Back, and could not sink; and being found, and brought home, her Body was as light as Straw, and she recovered her Health.
VII. Sebastian Brand I.C. wrote to Skenkius, the Narrative of one, that after horrid Torments, vomited in one Year four hundred Earthen Chamber-pots full of Blood, besides what went by Stool, and fifty times let blood that Year; so that she lost a thousand Pounds of Blood, as this Man (a Councillor of State) professed he knew by true Report, and his own Eye-sight. And the Blood burst through the Skin, and with it she vomited a thousand and two hundred Worms, some as long as ones Finger, and some longer.
I have elsewhere cited out of Fernelius, the Narrative of such as had the like symptoms as some of these, and spoke Latin, Greek and Hebrew, which they never learnt.