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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.
Being informed that you are writing about Witchcraft and Apparitions, I take the freedom, though a Stranger, to send you this following Relation.
BEing informed that you are writing about Witchcraft and Apparitions, I take the freedom, though a Stranger, to send you this following Relation.
Mary, the Wife of John Goff of Rochester, being afflicted with a long Illness, removed to her Father's House at West Mulling, which is about nine Miles distant from her own: There she died; June the 4th, this present Year, 1691.
Mary, the Wife of Iohn Goffe of Rochester, being afflicted with a long Illness, removed to her Father's House at WestMulling, which is about nine Miles distan• from her own: There she died; Iune the 4th, this present Year, 1691.
The Day before her departure, she grew very impatiently desirous to see her two Children, whom she had left at home, to the Care of a Nurse. She prayed her Husband to hire a Horse, for she must go home, and die with the Children. When they persuaded her to the contrary, telling her she was not fit to be taken out of her Bed, nor able to sit on Horse back, she entreated them however to try: If I cannot sit, said she, I will lie all along upon the Horse, for I must go to see my poor Babes.
The Day before her departure, she grew very impatiently desirous to see her two Children, whom she had left at home, to the Care of a Nurse. She prayed her Husband to hire a Horse, for she must go home, and die with the Children. When they persuaded her to the contrary, telling her she was not fit to be taken out of her Bed, nor able to sit on Horse back, she intreated them however to try: If I cannot sit, said she, I will lie all along upon the Horse, for I must go to see my poor Babes.