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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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§ 2. And I have had convincing Testimony of Apparitions, besides that famous one, The Devil of Mascon, and that in the shape of Lieutenant Colonel Bowen in Wales, mentioned elsewhere: And besides, ⟨p. 46⟩many* Testimonies of haunted Houses (however many, or most such reports are but deceits.)
§ 2. And I have had convincing Testimony of Apparitions, besides that famous one, The Devil of Mascon, and that in the shape of Lieutenant Collonel Bowen in Wales, mentioned elsewhere: And besides, ⟨p. 46⟩many* Testimonies of haunted Houses (however many, or most such reports are but deceits.)
- *See what I have said of particular Testimonies in my Saints Rest, and unreasonableness of Infidelity.
§ 3. From both these I gather, 1. that there are Individual Inhabitants of the Invisible World, and that Spirits have their numerical differences, whatever Unity is among them: and therefore we have reason to judge the same of separated Souls. 2. That our Souls are designed to future happiness or misery; which is implied in the foresaid contracts and endeavours of Devils for our ruin: 3. That Faith and Holiness are the way of Life, and Unbelief and Sin the way to misery; which also is in these implied.
§ 3. From both these I gather, 1. that there are Individual Inhabitants of the Invisible World, and that Spirits have their numerical differences, whatever Unity is among them: and therefore we have reason to judge the same of separated Souls. 2. That our Souls are designed to future happiness or misery; which is implied in the foresaid contracts and endeavours of Devils for our ruine: 3. That Faith and Holiness are the way of Life, and Unbelief and Sin the way to misery; which also is in these implied.