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The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…
The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of quotations] / By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
printed by Timothy Green, 1722
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XVIII. IT is Probable, that when we Die, the Nishmath-Chajim, goes away, as a Vehicle to the Rational Soul; and continues unto it an Instrument of many Operations. Here we have some Solution for the Difficulties, about Place, and the Change of it, for such an Immaterial Spirit as the Rational Soul; And some Account for Apparitions of the Dead: The Spectres, which are called both, Spirits, and Phantasms, in our Gospel. Yea, We are certain of it, That Persons before they have Died, upon strong Desires to Visit and Behold some Objects at a Distance from the Place to which they were now Confined, have been thrown into a Trance, wherein they have lain some Considerable. While without Sense or Breath; and then Returning, have reported what they have seen. But incontestable Witnesses have deposed, that in This Time, they were actually Seen at the Place, which they affirmed they had gone unto.
XVIII. IT is Probable, that when we Dy, the Nishmath-Chajim, goes away, as a Vehicle to the Rational Soul; and continues unto it an Instrument of many Operations. Here we have some Solution for the Difficulties, about Place, and the Change of it, for such an Immaterial Spirit as the Rational Soul; And some Account for Apparitions of the Dead: The Spectres, which are called both, Spirits, and Phantasms, in our Gospel. Yea, We are certain of it, That Persons before they have Died, upon strong Desires to Visit and Behold some Objects at a Distance from the Place to which they were now Confined, have been thrown into a Trance, wherein they have lain some Considerable. While without Sense or Breath; and then Returning, have reported what they have seen. But incontestible Witnesses have deposed, that in This Time, they were actually Seen at the Place, which they affirmed they had gone unto.
AND here also we do a little understand, how our Apostle in the Raptures (which the Scoffing Lucian derides him for) wherein he supposes he might be Out of the Body, yet he heard Words; he was yet Sensible of Occurrences.