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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.
How Familiar were they with Jacob, in his Travels, and his Return; when he saw them as by a Ladder, ascending and descending; And when one of them wrestled with him, and Blessed him, though he made him halt?
How Familiar were they with Iacob, in his Travels, and his Return; when he saw them as by a Ladder, ascending and descending; And when one of them wrestled with him, and Blessed him, though he made him halt?
I know that many excellent Divines do ⟨p. 230⟩that one of these called Angels, was Christ. To which I say, 1. If it were so, that doth not deny, but confirm what I am pleading for: If Christ appearing, made Angels his Companions, it was the more for their Honour.
2. But if this be true, either Christ had a Body, yea many Bodies before his Incarnation by Mary, or not. If not, what were all these Similitudes of Men that did eat and drink, and talk, and act? Were they mere shadows and Delusions? How then could they speak, and act so Potently? If yea, then was the pure God head Hypostatically united to these many appearing Bodies; Or not: Who can prove a difference save as to the Matter and Duration, between his union with these, and with his last assumed Flesh. And yet the Scripture appropriateth Christs Inca•••tion, and coming in the Body to the Fun••• of Time and to those last days. I am ••th to say without proof, that Christ […] Bodies, lest any should infer that there have been many Christs: But if this […] be held, it will introduce Peter Sterr• Doctrine as most probable, that Christ as the Eternal Word […], God first […] the Noblest reted Nature abe […] (or as Dr ore calleth it, an Eternal […], or as he and John Turner a prime Created e in the prie Matter) and did unite lf to this […]|