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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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XXXIII. I have before mentioned Zanchy's Judgment, and his excellent Books, de Deo, de Angelis, & de potentia Daemonum; than whom no Man hath given us a more full Testimony in general, of Diabolical Operations: I shall here only repeat his Opinion of the Manner of Satan's Working. He thinketh (Tom. 3. l 4. c. 10. p. 188.) that it is the very Substance of the Devil that entereth into Men, and that they have Bodies more Subtle than the Air.
XXXIII. I have before mentioned Zanchy's Judgment, and his excellent Books, de Deo, de Angelis, & de potentia Daemonum; than whom no Man hath given us a more full Testimony in general, of Diabolical Operations: I shall here only repeat his Opinion of the Manner of Satan's Working. He thinketh (Tom. 3. l 4. c. 10. p. 188.) that it is the very Substance of the Devil that entereth into Men, and that they have Bodies more Subtile than the Air.
The doubt is, 1. Whether it be only other Causes that enter by this moving of them by Devils: 2. Or whether they Operate and enter only Virtute, by some force sent from their Substance; 3. Or Operate by Contiguity of their Substance it self in Men.
1. The first way, no doubt they work as by moving Winds, and Fire, and Water, and our Blood and Humours, and our Tempters and Enemies, &c. but not that way alone.