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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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XXIX. Lavater de Spectris, is a Book so common and well known, (by him a Learned Godly Protestant Divines) that I will suppose the Learned Reader to have read it, and will not recite what is therein.
XXX. Pious and Peaceable Bishop Jos. Hall saith, Soliloq. 15. P. 53, 54. [Satan's Prevalency ⟨p. 123⟩in this Age is most clear in the marvellous number of Witches abounding in all places. Now hundreds are discovered in one Shire; *and if Fame deceive us not, in a Village of 14 Houses in the North, are found so many of this Damned brood. Heretofore only barbarous deserts had them, but now the Civilest and Religious Parts are frequently pestered with them: Heretofore some silly ignorant old Women, &c. now we have known those of both Sexes, who professed much Knowledge, Holiness and Devotion drawn into this damnable Practice.
XXX. Pious and Peaceable Bishop Ios. Hall saith, Soliloq. 15. P. 53, 54. [Satan's Prevalency ⟨p. 123⟩in this Age is most clear in the marvelous number of Witches abounding in all places. Now hundreds are discovered in one Shire; *and if Fame deceive us not, in a Village of 14 Houses in the North, are found so many of this Damned brood. Heretofore only barbarous deserts had them, but now the Civilest and Religious Parts are frequently pestered with them: Heretofore some silly ignorant old Women, &c. now we have known those of both Sexes, who professed much Knowledge, Holiness and Devotion drawn into this damnable Practice.
- *Suffolk and Essex.