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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART II. › Chapter 7 › Section 2
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.
Lavater also himself, who hath writ a Book wholly of Apparitions, a Learned, Godly, Protestant Divine, tells us, that it was then an undeniable thing, confirmed by the Testimonies of many honest and credible persons, both men and women, some alive, and some dead, that sometime by night, and sometime by day have both seen and heard such things: some that going to bed had the clothes plucked off them; others had somewhat lying down in the bed with them; others hear it walking in the Chamber by them, spiting, groaning, saying they were the souls of such or such persons lately departed; that they were in grievous torments, and if so many Masses were but said for them, or so many Pilgrimages undertaken to the shrine of some Saint, they should be delivered. These things with many such more, saith Lavater, were then frequently and undoubtedly done, and that where the doors were fast locked and the room searched, that there could be no deceit.
Lavater also himself, who hath writ a Book wholly of Apparitions, a Learned, Godly, Protestant Divine, tels us, that it was then an undeniable thing, confirmed by the Testimonies of many honest and credible persons, both men and women, some alive, and some dead, that sometime by night, and sometime by day have both seen and heard such things: some that going to bed had the cloathes plucked off them; others had somewhat lying down in the bed with them; others hear it walking in the Chamber by them, spiting, groaning, saying they were the souls of such or such persons lately departed; that they were in grievous torments, and if so many Masses were but said for them, or so many Pilgrimages undertaken to the shrine of some Saint, they should be delivered. These things with meny such more, saith Lavater, were then frequently and undoubtedly done, and that where the doors were fast locked and the room searched, that there could be no deceit.
So Sleidan relates the Story of Crescentius the Popes Legate, feared into a deadly sickness by a fearful Apparition in his Chamber. Most credible and godly Writers tell us, That on June 20. 1484 at a Town called Hammell in Germany, the devil took away one hundred and thirty children that were never seen again.