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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.
And, ibid. Bodin saith of Men, [One Benet, a Witch at Berne, a Priest of Eighty Years old, said, that for Forty Years he had been unclean with the Devil in the shape of a Woman, and that unseen she was his Companion, and named her Hermione; and so he was burnt.
And another Priest of Seventy Years old confessed, that he had used Venery with the Devil in the shape of a Woman Fifty Years, and so he was burnt.
And, Anno 1573. Novemb. 14. in our Neighbourhood, the Duchy of Brunswick, Stephen Ralen (before-mentioned) confessed, ⟨p. 104⟩that he had for Seven Years been unclean with the Devil, whom he took for his Miss, named Rolstruchse.
And, Anno 1573. Novemb. 14. in our Neighbourhood, the Dutchy of Brunswick, Stephen Ralen (before-mentioned) confessed, ⟨p. 104⟩that he had for Seven Years been unclean with the Devil, whom he took for his Miss, named Rolstruchse.