N01982:40
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
XIX. IN the Indisputable and Indubitable Occurrences of Witchcrafts (and Possessions) ⟨p. 12⟩there are many things, which, because they are Hard to be Understood▪ the Epicurean-Sadducees content themselves, in their Swinish Manner, only to Laugh at. But the Nishmath-Chajim well understood, would give us a marvellous Key to let us into the Philosophy of them.
XIX. IN the Indisputable and Indubitable Occurrences of Witchcrafts (and Possessions) ⟨p. 12⟩there are many things, which, because they are Hard to be Understood▪ the Epicurian-Sadducees content themselves, in their Swinish Manner, only to Laugh at. But the Nishmath-Chajim well understood, would give us a marvellous Key to let us into the Philosophy of them.
XX. AND now, for some Important Consequences.