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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
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XXVII. The greatest Physician of England to divers Kings (and the chief that I have my self used, and knew him to be an Honest Credible Man.) Sir Theodore ⟨p. 121⟩Meyerne, confirmeth the thing in question, but goeth the true middle way between Ignorant Credulity and Incredulity, in his late published Praxis, Pag. 57. in a Letter to Dr. Castle, about one seeming possessed, saying, [That Melancholy is the Seat, the Bath, and the Kingdom of the Devil, I well know; and that that Prince of Darkness lurking under the thick Cloudiness of that black Humour, immixeth himself in divers Diseases, and that he exciteth cruel Troubles (or Storms) in divers Subjects, I HAVE BY MANIFOLD EXPERIENCE FOUND; but I am not of so facile a Mind, as to be struck at the meeting of every Phantasm, though portentous; nor is my Reason like Wax to receive every Impression. By two signs I can know Demoniacs. *If a person untaught, and without Philosophy, speak in divers and strange Tongues, and nervously and solidly dispute of Sciences and Arts never studied: And if a weighty Body rapt up on high, hang long in the Air, *and fall not with their weight. Black Choler in the Spleen, Brain, Womb, may move a thousand Symptoms, which by the Ignorant, pass for Miracles.] There liveth in this City, an Irish-man, who with unmoved Lips maketh a long Oration, ⟨p. 122⟩and deceiveth those near him, as if one spoke to them far of.]
XXVII. The greatest Physician of England to divers Kings (and the chief that I have my self used, and knew him to be an Honest Credible Man.) Sir Theodore ⟨p. 121⟩Meyerne, confirmeth the thing in question, but goeth the true middle way between Ignorant Credulity and Incredulity, in his late published Praxis, Pag. 57. in a Letter to Dr. Castle, about one seeming possess'd, saying, [That Melancholy is the Seat, the Bath, and the Kingdom of the Devil, I well know; and that that Prince of Darkness lurking under the thick Cloudiness of that black Humour, immixeth himself in divers Diseases, and that he exciteth cruel Troubles (or Storms) in divers Subjects, I HAVE BY MANIFOLD EXPERIENCE FOUND; but I am not of so facile a Mind, as to be struck at the meeting of every Phantasm, though portentous; nor is my Reason like Wax to receive every Impression. By two signs I can know Demoniacks.