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A26888	The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the malice and misery of the devils and the damned : and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices &c. / written, as an addition to many other treatises for the conviction of Sadduces and infidels, by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing B1214; ESTC R13061	111,630	274

whether it be such a real Gift of Healing or not For if it be I will not be so bold as to ask God a Reason of it Or why he giveth it to these Kings rather than to others Nor will I dishonour his Gift as if it were not his because I know not his Reason no more than Christ did the Miracle done at the Pool in Ierusalem upon the Angel's moving the Water or with Naaman say Are not Abanah and Pharphar as good Water as Jordan I have long enquired of all the Physicians and others that I could of the Reality of the Success whether it be not the Gold the Change of Air or the Conceit And I never heard so much as to put me past all doubt But many credible Physicians say as Mr. Wiseman a Chirurgeon that had much Opportunity of knowing doth in his Book of Chirurgery That though all are not cured yet more are cured by it than by all the Physicians in England I know the true Original of it also and its Occasion is much in the dark but I leave this to other Men's Enquiry Only I say if the Matter of Fact prove certain there can be no great doubt but it proveth the Governing Agency of Invisible Intellectual Powers If it be miraculous it seemeth to be entailed on the Kingdoms of England and France rather than to be any Approbation of the Religion or Piety of the Kings because if any have this Gift Kings of contraery Religions have it and the worst as well as the best and Usurpers as well as Rightful Kings And I hear of no other that pretend to it but the kings of England and France And will the King of France take it for his Glory to heal a few Persons of a Sore and to kill many thousand Innocents by the Sword and burn their Cities CHAP. XI MR. Emlin before mentioned about Mr. Pacy's Sisters now a worthy Preacher in Dublin having told me this by Word of Mouth I desired him to send it sufficiently attested which he doth as followeth Mr. Emlin's Letter concerning an Apparition at Belfast in Ireland Reverend Sir I Have been very uneasie to think that I should so long delay the Answer of your Desire about the Affair related underneath The distance of the Place in which it was transacted with the slowness of my Correspondent in Replies hath made me uncapable of giving you so full and quick Satisfaction as might else have been All that I can relate at present is briefly this viz. There having been a long Contest between Lemuel Matthews Archdeacon in the County of Down and Claudius Gilbert Minister of Belfast about their Right to Drumbeg a small Parish within four Miles of Belfast it proved very troublesome to the Parishioners who generally paid their Dues to Mr. Gilbert the Incumbent in Possession but the Arch-deacon claimed the same to be paid to him also for which he procured a Warrant and in the Execution of it by his Servants at the House of one Charles Loftin one of the Parishioners they offered some Violence to his Wife who refused Entrance to them who died within a few Weeks after the Injury received but she being otherwise an infirm Woman little notice was taken of her Death till that some time after by her strange Appearance to one Thomas Donelson a Spectator of the Violence done to her she affrighted him into a Prosecution of Robert Eccleson the Criminal She appeared divers times but chiefly upon one Lord's Day-Evening when she fetch'd him with a strange Force out of his House into the Yard and Fields adjacent Before her last Coming for she did so three times that Day several Neighbours were called in to whom he gave notice that she was again coming and becken'd to him to come out upon which they went to shut the Door but he forbad it saying that she looked with a terrible Aspect upon him when they offered it But his Friends laid hold on him and embraced him that he might not again go out notwithstanding which a plain Evidence of some invisible Power he was drawn out of their Hands in a surprizing manner and carried abroad into the Field and Yard as before she charging him to prosecute Justice which Voice as also Donelson's Reply the People heard though they saw no shape There are many Witnesses of all this yet alive particularly Sarah the Wife of Charles Lof●in Son to the deceased Woman and one William Holyday and his Wife c. Upon this the said Donelson deposed what he knew of the aforesaid Violence before Mr. Randal Brice a neighbour-Neighbour-Justice and confirmed all at the Assizes at Down in the Year 1685. as I remember where the several Witnesses were heard and sworn and their Examinations were entred into the Records of that Assizes to the Amazement and Satisfaction of all the Country and of the Judges whom I have heard speak of it at that time with much Wonder insomuch that the said Eccleson hardly escaped with his Life but was Burnt in the Hand The said Donelson is yet living in the same place with the other Witnesses I could learn many more Circumstances but that you are in haste and all this I heard spoken of my self with universal Amazement at the time when transacted living in Belfast at that time and I should not have been beholden to any to have believed this Relation that had been there and at the Trial at Down T. Em. With Mr. Bois's Respects I remain A Reverencer of you Tho. Emlin CHAP. XII A Dublin-Instance attested by Mr. Daniel Williams now in London ABout the Year 1678. I knew a young Woman who was Niece to Alderman Arundel in Dublin In her said Uncle's House she was pursued with very terrible Noises as by violent Stroaks on the Wainscots and Chests in what Chambers she frequented The Blows were heard throughout the House and were so troublesome as to occasion the Removal of the young Woman to an House near Smithfield in Dublin not without Hopes that the Disturbance might thereby cease But the Noise pursued her thither and was no more heard in her former Dwelling Here she continued as long as the Owner of that House would bear the Resort of People and Terrour of those sudden and frequent Claps From this place she was removed to a little House in Patrick-street near the Gate Here she met with the same Exercise and the Noise was generally about Two-a-Clock in the Morning greater than at other Times Several Nights were spent in Prayer with her by Ministers as Mr. Cox Dr. Roles Mr. Chambers Mr. Keys c. who all with many others assured me they heard the said Blows in the Room where they prayed sometimes on a great Chest there sometimes on the Wall c. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Keys were employed there the Night before I had promised to be with her The next Night Mr. Cox having oft heard the said Noises and oft prayed with the Woman was desirous to accompany

and Significations of future things Twelve Years ago there was a Woman in Saxony that never learnt Letters and yet when she was acted by the Devil after Torment she spake Greek and Latin of the future Saxon War Sixteen Years ago there was in the Marke a Girl that when she pull'd Hairs from Cloaths they were turned into Mark-Money which the Girl devoured with long and loud gnashing of Teeth and those Figures or Shapes of Money sometimes suddenly snatcht out of her Hands were true Money which are yet kept by some and after the Girl felt great Torment But she was delivered from all that Disease after some Months and yet liveth in Health But frequent Prayers of Godly Persons were made for her and other Ceremonies were purposely omitted Thus Melanchthon CHAP. VI. Mr. Jo. Lewis a Learned Iustice of Peace in Cardigan-shire with the Testimony of Dr. Ellis and Mr. John Davis about the Dead Mens Lights the Knockers and Apparitions MR. I. Lewis being a Justice of Peace and a Man of Learning at the time when under Cromwell and Harrison the Reading and weak Parsons were cast out and Itinerant Preachers set up that turned four or five Parishes into one of their Circuits and did little but Preach and shut up the Doors where they came not and by ignorant decrying Superstition Forms and Ceremonies set up Error Anabaptistry and unjust Separations He being greatly grieved for these Confusions wrote largely to me about them whereupon and on more such Instances I wrote my five Disputations of Church Government Liturgy and Ceremonies And Mr. Lewis joined with me in a design to have begg'd Money in Pity to Wales to have set up a Welch Colledge at Shrewsbury and his Notices about Apparitions came in but on the by at my request But tho' I dismember his Letters with regret by casting away the main part that was well worth the reading and all my Answers to them yet it would be so unsuitable to insert such Matters in a History of Spirits that if any of his acquaintance blame me for it they must accept of this Excuse He is known by published Books of his own Part of Mr. John Lewis's First Letter relating to Spirits and Witches Most Worthy Sir I Have now another Motion to you as to that passage in your Vureasonablenese of Infidelity where you shew the meaning of the Spirit as to Humane Learning c. and those 29 Considerations for the page I cannot cite because I have not the Book at this very instant because it is in the midst of the Book and not so discernable to all Readers I could humbly beg of you to get your Printer and Stationer to print them apart in a few small Leaves for there is nothing generally that is more mistaken among us than that and I see the publishing here but so much of them in this kind would do infinite good here and I would my self be at charge of buying and dispersing many scores of them And because of that Copious Satisfaction you give of Spirits than which there cannot be greater convincements against Infidelity and Atheism I could afford you several strange Instances from these parts but I shall trouble you only with two Since the time I received your Letter there happened in my Neighbourhood this following A Man and his Family being all in Bed about after Midnight awake in Bed he could perceive a Light entring a little Room where he lay and one after another of some a Dozen in the shape of Men and two or three Women with small Children in their Arms entring in and they seemed to Dance and the Room to be far lighter and wider than formerly they did seem to eat Bread and Cheese all about a kind of a Tick upon the Ground they offered him Meat and would smile upon him he could perceive no Voice but he once calling to God to bless him he could perceive the whisper of a Voice in Welch bidding him hold his peace being about four Hours thus he did what he could to awake his Wife and could not ● they went out into another Room and after some Dancing departed and then he arose yet being but a very small Room he could not find the Door nor the way to Bed until crying out his Wife and Family awaked Being within about two Miles of me I sent for the Man who is an honest poor Husbandman and of good Report And I made him believe I would put him to his Oath for the truth of this Relation who was very ready to take it 2. The Second if you have not formerly heard the strange and usual appearance of Lights called in Welch Dead Mens Candles before Mortality This is ordinary in most of our Counties that I never scarce heard of any sort Young or Old but this is seen before Death and often observed to part from the very Bodies of the persons all along the way to the place of Burial and infallibly Death will ensue Now Sir it is worth your Resolution whether this may proceed from God or no it is commonly imputed to the Igneous Air of the Counties But that Evil Spirits can come by so much Knowledge as to be always so Infallible though herein I confess them very vast and be so favourable and officious unto Man as to be such seasonable Monitors of his Dissolution and to give so much discovery of Spiritual Essences and the Immortality I doubt whether they mind us so much good as this Some Wiles I confess they may have by such Appearances but it carries the Benefits mentioned with it whereas their Disappearance makes more for Infidelity and Atheism But this I leave to your Judgment begging Pardon for this Boldness in diverting you from your far better Thoughts and seeing it is my Happiness to have this little Invisible Acquaintance with you I shall omit no Opportunity of troubling you with such poor Thoughts as the Lord shall give unto me of the best Things humbly wishing as for the making up the sad Differences of Religion among us the Lord would give those in Authority to weigh that Pious and Wise Course you have proposed as to those four great Parties in the Dedication of your Saints Rest with my unfeigned Prayers for your Health and Happiness Sir Your very thankful Friend and Servant in Christ John Lewis Glaskerigg near ●laubadarnevour or Aberystwith in Gardiganshire Octob. 20. 1656. Mr. John Lewis's Second Letter AS for Apparitions I am stored with so many Instances that require rather a Volume There is that Evidence for the Candles that scarce I know any of Age but hath seen them and will depose it There is here a talk whereof yet I have not certainty that a Daughter of the Man mentioned in the last fetching Water at a Well had a blow given her and a Boy coming towards her she charged him with the blow who denyed he was so near her but bid her look upon her Father that stood not far