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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

off and with that he could see her Father fling a Stone at her which passed with a mighty Violence by her Face and the Stone was found with prints of Fingers in it but no such thing is the Father there neither was he at home ●ince the Night before but certain it is that Living Men's Ghosts are Ordinarily seen in these parts and unawares to the parties We have in this County several ●ilver and Leaden Mines and nothing more ●rdinary than some Subterranean Spirits ●alled Knockers where a good Vein is ●oth heard and after seen little Statured ●bout half a yard long this very instant ●ere are Miners upon a Discovery of a Vein upon my own Lands upon this score and two offered Oath they heard them in the Day-time Lieutenant Colonel Bowen I hear is upon Discovery that what you heard was Witchcraft but he holds canting Tenents all which minds us the more to admire the King of Spirits our Lord God Almighty and that our Eyes behold but the least part of his Secrets and Marvels to whose Arms and Blessings I commit and leave you Sir I pray Pardon this Trouble of Your very Thankful Servant John Lewis Glaskerigg the 28 of November 1656. Mr. John Lewis Third Letter AS for the Candles all the parts I know of Wales as our Neighbouring Counties as I hear have Experience of them but whether so frequently as here I will learn I scarce know any Gentleman or Minister of any standing but hath seen them and a Neighbour of mine will shortly be at Worcester abiding who hath seen them often and I will direct some to acquaint you and upon Oath if need be a very Credible Aged person For my part I never saw the Candles but those of my House have and on a Time some years past it was told me by them that two Candles was seen one little and a great one passing the Church way under my House my Wife was then great with Child and near her time and she feared of it and it begot some fear in us about her but just about a week after her self first came to me as something joyed that the fear might be over and said as true it was an old Man and a Child of the Neighbour-hood passed that same way to be Buried This she and I can depose and truly my self especially heard some uncouth warning before my first Childs Death new Born which is too large to relate Such warnings and noises are also here very common and I do think there is scarce any and I know it by my self but before some Remarkable Occurrences of Life will have some warnings at least by Dreams of which there is a kind that may be ranked with these Apparitions and it was not for nought that the Stoicks of old held Sleep familiare domesticum or aculum You shall learn more of me hereafter about the certainty of Candles and the Knockers Sir I put you to your Penance by these under Lines they shew I can hardly part with you I pray God continue and grant you Health and Happiness answerable to the use you are of for his Glory among us Sir Your very Thankful Servant John Lewis The 14 of Feb. 1656. Mr. Davis's Letter concerning the Corps-Candles in Wales Venerable Sir FOr your Worth hath purchased you that Stile With all due Respects you shall hereby understand that I am one who sincerely blesseth himself to have been much Edified by you as being Confirm'd in some points and informed in others by a piece of your Learned and Judicious Works Termed by your self a Supplement which proved to me a Complement and which was Communicated to be by my Worthy Friend and special Encourager Iohn Lewis Esq at whose Request I am to give you the best Satisfaction I can touching those fiery Apparitions which do as it were mark out the way for Corpses to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that sometimes before the parties themselves fall sick and sometimes in their sickness of these I could never hear in England they are common in these three Counties Cardigan Caermarthen and Pembrook and as I hear in some other part of Wales These 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our Language we call Canhwyllau Cyrth i Corps-Candles and Candles we call them not that we do see any thing else besides the Light But because that Light doth as much Resemble a Material Candle-light as Eggs do Eggs saving that in their Journey these Candles be modo apparentes modo disparentes especially when one comes near them and if one come on the way against them unto him they vanish but presently appear behind him and hold on their Course If it be a little Candle pale or blewish then follows the Corps either of an Abortive or some Infant if a big one then the Corps of some one come to Age if there be seen two or three or more some big some small together then so many and such Corpses together If two Candles come from Diverse places and be seen to meet the Corpses will the like if any of these Candles be seen to turn sometimes a little out of the way or Path that leadeth unto the Church the following Corps will be found to turn in that very place for the avoiding of some dirty Lane or Plash c. Now let us fall to Evidence Being about the Age of fifteen dwelling at Lanylar late at Night some Neighbours saw one of these Candles hovering up and down along the River bank until they were weary in beholding at last they left it so and went to Bed a few Weeks after came a proper Damsel from Montgomery Shire to see her Friends who dwelleth on the other side of that River ●●twyth and thought to Ford the River at that very place where the Light was seen but being disswaded by some lookers on some it's most like of those that saw the Light to adventure on the Water which was high by reason of a Flood She walked up and down along the River Bank even where and even as the foresaid Candle did waiting for the falling of the Water which at last she took but too soon for her for she was drown'd therein Of late my Sextons Wife an Aged Understanding Woman saw from her Bed a little blewish Candle upon her Tables end Within two or three days after comes a fellow in enquiring for her Husband and taking something from under his Cloak claps it down directly upon the Tables end where she had seen the Candle and what was it but a Dead-born Child Another time the same Woman saw such another Candle upon the other end of the self same Table within few days after a weak Child by my self newly Christned was brought into the Sextons House where presently he died And when the Sextons Wife who was then abroad came home she found the Woman shrouding of the Child on that other end of the Table where she had seen the Candle On a time my self and