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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.
The CONTENTS.
Chap. I. Of the great and weighty Uses of the Histories of Spirits, and their unusual Apparitions and Actions. Ch. II. § I. Instance I. The Devil of Mascon. 2. Colonel Bowen's Story, in divers Letters. 3. My Friend and Neighbour Colonel John Bridge's Story. 4. One in London, yet living. 5. One at Belfast. 6. One at Ilchester. 7. Mr. Mompesson's Story. 8. At Lutterworth. 9. Mary Ellins of Evesham. 10. One in Dorsetshire. 11. Nathan Crab of Exeter. 12. The strange Story of the Devil of Genluce, in Dr. Sinclare. 13. The Witches hanged in Suffolk and Essex. 14. The Brightling Story. 15. Lord Breghill's Story of one at St. James's. 16. Simon Jones of Kidderminster. 17. Richard White of Wilden-Hall. 18. Mr. Hopkins of Bewdley. 19. An Instance now in London. 20. Another as strange. 21. Mr. White at Lambeth. 22. One from Cambridge. 23. One at Hunniton. 24. Another there. 25. Mr. Ch Hat's Story. ⟨image 9⟩Ch. III. The strange Story of Mr. May Hill, Minister of Beckington in Somersetshire. Mr. Increase and Mr. Cotton Mather's Instances. The Story of Mr. Pacy's Daughters at Lesto. Ch. IV. Many Histories sent me by Duke Lauderdale, and one that taught a Minister to speak true Latin, and his Detection of some Popish Frauds. Ch. V. Of Witchcraft. Inst. 1. Alexander Benedictus. 2. Benevenius. 3. Langius. 4. Cornelius Gemma. 5. Sidelicus, in Skenkius. 6. Wolphius. 7. Sebastian Brand. 8. Fabricius Hildanus. 9. Faelix Platerus. 10. Hollerius. 11. Petrus Forestus. 12. Scribonius,—Many Instances of the Concubitus of Daemons with Women. 13. Many struck by Daemons: Scribonius. 14. Witches raising Storms. 15. Erasmus's Story of an Apparition that burnt the Town. 16. The Selling of Winds in Lapland and Iceland. 17. The Bleeding o• murdered Bodies. 18. Scribonius•s strange Story. 19. Mr. Farmworth of an Indian Sacrifice to the Devil. ⟨image 9⟩20. Ludovicus Vives Testimony. 21. Zanchy's Testimony. 22. Melanchthon's Testimony. 23. A wonderful Story of Dr. Henric•ab Here. 24. Merik Causabone of Sir Theod Meyerne. 25. Divers Instances from Fernelius. 26. Sir Theod. Meyerne's prudent Judgment. 27. Gerh. Vossius's Testimony. 28. Lavater. 29. Bishop Jos. Hall. 30. Cyprian, and a strange Story in him from Firmilianus. 31. The New England Instances on Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Dyer, published by Mr. Thomas Weld. 32. Zanchy's Opinion that the Devil's Substance is in them that they move. 33.