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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.
He that chaineth up these Devils, that they molest us no more as their Malice doth desire, will make our passage safe through all their envy and defiled Regions.
But seeing it is the free will of Man that giveth the Devils their hurting power, and they can do us no harm, nor ma•e us sin, without our own consent or yielding: O! With how careful and constant and resolved watchfulness should we live? And how deservedly may every prayerless ungodly Family and person, b• left for a prey to this devourer. And indeed he hath already hurt them more by blinding and hardening their Hearts, than a thousand haunting Apparitions could of themselves have done.
But seeing it is the free will of Man that giveth the Devils their hurting power, and they can do us no harm, nor ma•e us sin, without our own consent or yielding: O! With how careful and constant and resolved watchfulness should we live? And how deservedly may every prayerless ungodly Family and person, b• left for a prey to this devourer. And indeed he hath already hurt them more by blind•ng and hardening their Hearts, than a thousand haunting Apparitions could of themselves have done.
And when Excellent Zanchy hath said so much to pro•e, that it is by h•s very contiguous Substance, that the Devil doth work on Soul and Body, how dreadful should Temptations and Sin be to us, if we would not have the very substance of Devils dwell in us? And why do any think ⟨image 8⟩