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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.
I hear some report, that this History of Mascon is denied by some, that say, they ⟨p. 19⟩have spoken with some that have been at Mascon, and knew nothing of it. And what wonder if such things that are talked of but a few days, be forgotten after fifty or sixty Years: They that will not believe the Narrative from such Men as the Famous Peter Moulin Senior, and Dr. Peter Moulin Junior, that Printed it, and from the Earl of Orery, that told me he was Familiar with Mr. Perreaud, and had his Son many years his Chamber-Servant; and his Brother Mr. Robert Boyle yet living, that hath attested it by a Preface, may read all the History (with many more of Witchcraft printed in French, and Published by Mr. Perreaud himself: And if they cannot get it, they may go to my Kinsman, William Baxter, now Schoolmaster at Newington, where they may see it.
I hear some report, that this History of Mascon is denyed by some, that say, they ⟨p. 19⟩have spoken with some that have been at Mascon, and knew nothing of it. And what wonder if such things that are talkt of but a few days, be forgotten after fifty or sixty Years: They that will not believe the Narrative from such Men as the Famous Peter Moulin Senior, and Dr. Peter Moulin Junior, that Printed it, and from the Earl of Orery, that told me he was Familiar with Mr. Perreaud, and had his Son many years his Chamber-Servant; and his Brother Mr. Robert Boyle yet living, that hath attested it by a Preface, may read all the History (with many more of Witchcraft printed in French, and Published by Mr. Perreaud himself: And if they cannot get it, they may go to my Kinsman, William Baxter, now Schoolmaster at Newington, where they may see it.
Could it be Counterfeit, and never Contradicted in fifty or sixty years (I remember not just the year) that in a City, so many of both Religions for so many Months together, might crowd at a certain hour into the Room, and hear a Voice answering their questions, and telling them things far off, and to them unknown; and Disputing with a Papist Officer of the City, and the Whirling him oft about, and casting him on the ground, and sending him home Distracted, I say, if this, and all the rest there written, so attested, be not