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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.
X. The Case elsewhere mentioned; which convinced Hollerius, an extraordinary Physician, who before, derided it as Melancholy, is undeniable: Of a Girl, that while People looked on, would by somewhat invisible, be suddenly bound to a Post or Bed-stead, or her Hands tied together with Cords, Hemp, or Horse-hair: Which Hollerius seeing, and that the band could not be untied, but must be cut, he confessed it was by an invisible or supernatural Power. One can scarce name a Man unlikelier to be deceived, than Hollerius.
X. The Case elsewhere mentioned; which convinced Hollerius, an extraordinary Physitian, who before, derided it as Melancholy, is undeniable: Of a Girl, that while People looked on, would by somwhat invisible, be suddenly bound to a Post or Bed-stead, or her Hands tyed together with Cords, Hemp, or Horse-hair: Which Hollerius seeing, and that the band couldnot be untyed, but must be cut, he confessed it was by an invisible or supernatural Power. One can scarce name a Man unlikelier to be deceived, than Hollerius.
XI. The Histories that Pet. Forestus giveth us, of his own Patients and Knowledge, having mentioned elsewhere, I here forbear to recite, and many others mentioned in the second part of my Saints Rest.
XII. Scribonius, a Learned Pious Marpurg Doctor of Physic, saith in Physiol. ⟨p. 100⟩Sagarum, p. 53, &c. One of the Witches burnt at Lemgovia, confessed, that she made Lame one of the Citizens, (whom I will not name, being well known.) And another, with her own Mouth witnessed, that she killed the Consuls first Wife, by putting Poisonous things under the Door, on which she fell Sick the next day, and dyed.