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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
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.
VIII. Honest Fabritius Hildanus, l. 2. Obs. 43. p. 202. tells us of a young Man that none of the Physicians could cure, or find out his Disease; and his Parents going to a Conjurer, he gave him a Vomit, which brought up Pins, Nails. Points of Knives, and many other pieces of Iron, which Hildanus himself saw with Admiration, and the young Man presently recovered: (In pago quodam prope Urbem Metim.)
IX. Faelix Platerus, an excellent pious Protestant Doctor at Basil, in his Observations, lib. 1. p. 20. saith, [A certain Exorcist Priest, 1560. got wealth by exorcising, by conjuring the Possessed, in a City of Helvetia; into whose House coming on some Business, I was desired by a Parent, that was his Country-man, to turn him from this ungodly practice: And even then one was brought in, a robust Man, with torn Hose, who they said was possessed of a Devil, and carried on their Shoulders; they cast him down on the Pavement of the Chamber, who prostrate on the Ground, his Feet drawn together, his Hands contorted, and, which is strange, his Neck turned about, so that his Face looked to his back, he lay dumb and deaf like a Block. They told me that he had remained in this posture and form, without Meat, Drink, o• any Excretion many Days. I being struck with this terribly, went my ways. Bu• this same Exorcist (Priest) that same Yea• was brought to me, to Basil, to be cured having a pain in his Hip, that he could no• walk, and he lodged with us. But wh•• many things were used in Vain, at last h• confessed to me, that this befell him. by the Devil: Whom when he by his Exorcisms would have cast out of one possest, the Devil then, as he had done oft before threatened him in these words, in the German, ⟨p. 99⟩Tongue [Psaff ich will dir noch den thou geben dase du mich alses verit eist.] And at once, thrust him so violently up to the Chimney, that his Hip hurt, hath been in this Case ever since.