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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
Treatise › Chapter 8: Of good Angels, and some doubtful Spirits, and their notable Actions.
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CHAP. VIII. Of good Angels, and some doubtful Spirits, and their notable Actions.
This sort of Operations is of more pleasant Consideration than the Diabolical, and as convincing of the Agency of Superior Spirits on things below; but so many have written of it, as maketh my farther Labour needless. Let them that would see more, read Mr. Isaac Ambrose of our Communion with Angels, the Lord Lawrence, Mr. Samuel Clark's Mirrour, Zanchy de Angelis, &c.
THis sort of Operations is of more pleasant Consideration than the Diabolical, and as convincing of the Agency of Superior Spirits on things below; but so many have written of it, as maketh my farther Labour needless. Let them that would see more, read Mr. Isaac Ambrose of our Communion with Angels, the Lord Lawrence, Mr. Samuel Clark's Mirrour, Zanchy de Angelis, &c.
Bodin tells us of one of his Acquaintance, that had a good Genius that would always give him notice when he did ill, by a stroke; and what he should do when he omitted it. I pass by old Writers.
I will mention now but these few.