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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

know and that that Prince of Darkness lurking under the thick Cloudiness of that black Humour immixeth himself in divers Diseases and that he exciteth cruel Troubles or Storms in divers Subjects I HAVE BY MANIFOLD EXPERIENCE FOUND but I am not of so facile a Mind as to be struck at the meeting of every Phantasm though portentous nor is my Reason like Wax to receive every Impression By two signs I can know Demoniacks If a person untaught and without Philosophy speak in divers and strange Tongues and nervously and solidly dispute of Sciences and Arts never studied And if a weighty Body rapt up on high hang long in the Air and fall not with their weight Black Choler in the Spleen Brain Womb may move a thousand Symptoms which by the Ignorant pass for Miracles There liveth in this City an Irish-man who with unmoved Lips maketh a long Oration and deceiveth those near him as if one spoke to them far of I my self discovered a notable Cheat in a Servant in my own House and many such are detected by which the Ignorant Undiscerning and Incredulous are drawn to disbelieve those that are most fully proved Read of Cheats De Loier a Frenchman XXVIII The Learned and Judicious Gerh. Vossius saith de Samuele in Beverovicii Epist. Pag 203. I know there were many fabulous stories and of Fraud c. but by Men both Learned and Quick-sighted and Grave and Honest in many Ages past there are reported and at this Day remembred and told innumerable Instances in which it is not possible but that with the endeavour of man there concurred the Illusion or Force of the Devil a malignant Spirit supplying that which was beyond the power of Man XXIX Lavater de Spectris is a Book so common and well known by him a Learned Godly Protestant Divines that I will suppose the Learned Reader to have read it and will not recite what is therein XXX Pious and Peaceable Bishop Ios. Hall saith Soliloq 15. P. 53 54. Satan's Prevalency in this Age is most clear in the marvelous number of Witches abounding in all places Now hundreds are discovered in one Shire and if Fame deceive us not in a Village of 14 Houses in the North are found so many of this Damned brood Heretofore only barbarous deserts had them but now the Civilest and Religious Parts are frequently pestered with them Heretofore some silly ignorant old Women c. now we have known those of both Sexes who professed much Knowledge Holiness and Devotion drawn into this damnable Practice XXXI I have elsewhere cited divers Passages to this use out of Holy Cyprian but that in the Epistle of Finnilianus to Cyprian Ep. 75. Pag. 238. seemeth strange like that of Magdalena Crucia and others among the Papists A Woman pretending to have the Holy Ghost proved a Witch and did many Wonders She had a Gift of Prayer and did Baptize and Administer the Lords Supper in the ordinary way c. XXXII This is so like to the well known Case of Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Dyer in New England with Mr. Wheeler and the rest in the time of Sir Henry Vane's Government detected by the Wondrous Monsters that I intreat the Reader to get the History of all in Mr. Tho. Weld's Book one of their Ministers called The rise and fall of Antinomianism and Familism in New England Though I find no proof of Witchcraft in their Case there is much of Satanical Delusion joined with Humane Self-conceit and Pride XXXIII I have before mentioned Zanchy's Judgment and his excellent Books de Deo de Angelis de potentia Daemonum than whom no Man hath given us a more full Testimony in general of Diabolical Operations I shall here only repeat his Opinion of the Manner of Satan's Working He thinketh Tom. 3. l 4. c. 10. p. 188. that it is the very Substance of the Devil that entereth into Men and that they have Bodies more Subtile than the Air. The doubt is 1. Whether it be only other Causes that enter by this moving of them by Devils 2. Or whether they Operate and enter only Virtute by some force sent from their Substance 3. Or Operate by Contiguity of their Substance it self in Men. 1. The first way no doubt they work as by moving Winds and Fire and Water and our Blood and Humours and our Tempters and Enemies c. but not that way alone 2. What Energy or Force he can send that is neither his own Substance nor any other Substance I cannot conceive 3. That his very Substance entereth into the Possessed I see no cause to doubt for he can penetrate any part of our Bodies as he is a Spirit And if we knew that he Operate only in some Body or Vehicle Air or Air and Fire mixt yet what part of our Bodies cannot Air and Fire penetrate And this Supposition would countenance Dr. More 's Opinion that all Spirits are the the Souls of some Bodies And Scripture saith so much of Devils entring into Men and being in them and being cast out of them that I see not how we can deny it to be their Substance And how else should they move us besides by Instruments Is it any more wonder that Devils permitted can enter than Air Or how else work they on Mens Souls I must say it to humble us that I fear that in most Temptations that sollicit our Thoughts and our Wills and Affections and Passions if not sometimes our Tongues and Hands it is the very present Substance of Evil Spirits that by Contiguity move us even true Christians when they Sin And that it is no unseemly thing to pray God to cast Satan out of our Thoughts and Hearts Oh that we better knew what cause we have to fear letting him in and by yielding and custom to give him advantages to tempt and rule us But yet his Substantial Presence and his Operations are to be distinguished He hurteth not all that he is present with but those that he hath Power to work upon and that are prepared to receive his Operations God himself doth not work Life or Grace on all that he is present with and that what he doth he doth it by his Substantial Presence or his Essence XXXIV I have elsewhere cited Luther's Testimony and how the Devil appeared to himself at Coburge And Melancthon's and Peter Martyr's I have cited here and elsewhere See Pet. Martyr Loc. Com. Clas I. c. 9. and cap. 8. § 8. pag. 39 40. XXXV The most Judicious Credible Melanchthon in his Epistle to Hubert Languetus the Author of Iunius Brutu's Vind. con Tyran Epistolar l. 2. p. 550 551. saith Though there be sometimes Natural Causes of Madness yet it is most certain that Devils enter into the Bodies of some and cause Madness and Torments to them either with Natural Causes or without them for it is manifest that such persons are oft delivered without Natural Remedies And these Diabolical Spectacles are oft Prodigies