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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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CHAP. II. Several Historical Instances of Apparitions, Witches, and marvellous convincing Works of God's Providence.
§. 1. There are in this City of London, many Persons that profess their great unbelief, or doubt of the Life to come, the Immortality of the Soul, and therefore much more of the truth of the Gospel, and Christian Faith, and Supernatural Revelations. But they say, that could they be certain of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcraft and Miracles, it would do more to convince them than the Assertions of the Scriptures: But they take all such Reports to be but the effects of Error, Deceit, and easy Credulity: For the sake of such, I have recited many Credible Instances in this Book, and my Saints Rest, and in my Unreasonableness of Infidelity; and I shall here add some more. I doubt not but abundance of Reports of such matters have no better causes than are here mentioned, even the mistake of the Ignorant; but that there are true as well as false Reports ⟨p. 18⟩of such things, is past all reasonable cause of doubting.
§. 1. THere are in this City of London, many Persons that prosess their great unbelief, or doubt of the Life to come, the Immortality of the Soul, and therefore much more of the truth of the Gospel, and Christian Faith, and Supernatural Revelations. But they say, that could they be certain of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcraft and Miracles, it would do more to convince them than the Assertions of the Scriptures: But they take all such Reports to be but the effects of Error, Deceit, and easie Credulity: For the sake of such, I have recited many Credible Instances in this Book, and my Saints Rest, and in my Vnreasonableness of Infidelity; and I shall here add some more. I doubt not but abundance of Reports of such matters have no better causes than are here mentioned, even the mistake of the Ignorant; but that there are true as well as false Reports ⟨p. 18⟩of such things, is past all reasonable cause of doubting.