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Original Letters fromthe Mjjktier Manuscripts in Dr. Williams'sIMrary From Bates to Baxter; Story of a DiabolicalPossession.
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Original Letters Fromthe Mjjktier Manuscripts In Dr. Williams'simrary From Bates To Baxter; Story Of A Diabolicalpossession.
Original Letters fromthe Mjjktier Manuscripts in Dr . Williams ' sIMrary From Bates to Baxter ; Story of a DiabolicalPossession .
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[ Tliis letter is without date ; it wag probably written before Baxter printed his " Unreasonableness of Infidelity . ** In his second edition of " The Saints * Everlasting Riest /* published 1651 „ jis well as it ^ the former work
published 1655 , he refers to some of the authors pointed out by his learned correspondent . From those and others of his works , Baxter appears to have beea quite prepared to receive the mar- * vellous tale that Bates relates . He
expresses himself as folldMrs , in The Saiats' Everlasting Rest : " '** I knpvv iriaay are very incredulous herein , and will hardly believe that there have been jsuch apparitions . For my own party though I am as suspicious as most in such reports , and do believe that most of them are conceits or delusions ,
ye t ^ having been very diligently inquisitive in all such cases , I have received undoubted testimony of the truth of such apparitions , some from the mouths of men of undoubted honesty and godliness , and some from the report of multitudes of persons who heard or saw . Were it fit here to
name the persons , I could send them to you yet living , by whom you would be as fully satisfied as I : houses that have been so frequently haunted with such terrors , that the inhabitants successively have been witnesses of it . " ( Practical Works , Folio , Vol . III . p . 103 . ) Again he says , The history
of the Dispossession of the Devil out of many persons together in a room in Lancashire , at the prayer of some godly ministers , is very famous . " Ib « p . 104 . Once more , in his Dying Thoughts , " he says , " Satan himself , though unwillingly , hath many ways helped my belief of our immortality and future hopes . I have had many
convincing proofs of witches , the contracts they have made with Devils , and the power which they have received from them . Besides the vo ^ luines of Remigius and Bodin , and
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the Mallei Maleficoruna , Dan&us aiid others , we had many score of them detected , and many executed in one year in Suffolk and Essex ( for the truth of this read Mr , Fgdbrclottgh ^| lp 0 > about 1644 . And I have at t ^|^ es ^ ^ flint-stone , which was 6 Me ; <* £ about
160 , which was voidM by the urii&fy passage by a bewitched child in Eveshanrvyet living , some of near an' " ounce weight ; which was fully proved , t | ie witeh executed , and th £ ohifcU upon her imprisonment , freed : to pass by
many others . And I have had convincing testimony of apparitions , Reside that famous one , The Devil of Mascon , and that in the shape of Lieutenant-Colonel B ^^ fcen in Wa , legi
mentioned elsewhere : and besides , many testimonies of haunted houses ; however many , or most such reports are but deceits /* Id . p . ® 70 <^' Deceits / 5 indeed , all such " reports" are How known to have been , but With
such deceits were filled the minds of those divines to whom the religious world has looked up for a century bnd a half as authorities in matters of faith ! Ed . ]
Deare Sir , 44 ^^ k TOUtlS Ireceived , and am hearjL tily sorry for the spreading of infidelity w you mention . Concerning the authors who have writ de spectris , I made inquiry . There are Lavaterua de Spectris . Remigius-Demonolatria , Thvrseus de ObaessiS , Boissardus de
Divinatione Pererius— -Disquisitiones Magics * But , above all , I esteem a late Collection printed in Holland , entitled Magica— -de Apparitionibus . ** Upon this occasion I will relate
you a story of a maid in Canterbury , who about 9 years since was an eminent inatance of God ' s disgjeasurev &c . She had promised marriage to one of ft mean calling , whom sue cast off upon an ofier made by another who was better provided in estate . , 1 % e-first ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/1/
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