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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

was stopt and held by somewhat invisible till he resolved under Gods Protection to rush through it and go on Another time in a clear Moon-shine Night their Mastiff Dog made such a howling as raised up the House He looked out at the Window and beyond a pale that compassed the Court there stood something like a headless Man but taller He long gazed on it and trusting God returned to Bed And presently the Hall Door fast lockt and Barr'd using to make a great noise in the opening having much Iron seemed to them all to open as it used and somewhat came in and gave three great slams as with a Staff upon the Hall Table and departed They went down to see and found the Door lockt and fast as they left it Mr. Sommerfield who since lived in the same House said that he saw nothing there IV. A Pious Credible Woman yet living in London lately told me oftimes being sometime under Temptation by some Discontent of Mind one day as she passed through a Room at Mid-day the Devil stood before her in the shape of a Big Black Man and pointed to the top of the Door Tempting her there to hang her self and so stood near a quarter of an hour and then Vanished away Which was so far from dismaying her that it much confirmed her against Unbelief and her Temptations Any one that will go to her here in London may hear her Credible and Confident Report of it V. The Elder Countess of Donagal a Lady Pious Discreet and Credible told me that one of her Husbands Tenants near Belfast or Carickfergus where he was Lord agreed with him for to put his Sons Life with his own in a renewed Lease of a Farm and he paid part of the Money and dyed before the Lease was made and Sealed His Wife Marryed another Man and paid the rest of the Money out of her second Husbands Purse and therefore put in his Sons Life in stead of her Son by the former Husband into the Lease The Earl of Donagall going into England and being then in the West a Servant of his in Ireland his Porter a stout lusty Man was haunted with the Apparition of the Woman's first Husband telling him that he must go to his Wife and tell her that she should have no rest till his Sons Life were put in the altered Lease He askt why he spake to him and what he had to do to meddle in it It Answered him thou art a Man fit for it and thou shalt have no rest till thou do it The Man delayed and was still Haunted with this Apparition He went to the Minister of the Town and told him of it who counselled him to tell the Woman She told him that she took it to be just that her Husband that paid most of the Money should have the benefit of the Lease and perhaps not believing the Man delayed This Apparition came to the po●ter again and said that she may believe thee go tell her of such and such Discourse and Actions that were between her and me in secret which none else knowe●● of● The Man went and told her all that he was bid She confessed that it was all true and Secret between them but still delayed till some trouble I remember not what modested her self In short the Porter and she had no rest till she had drawn a new Lease with the Name of the first Husbands Son and sent it into England to the Earl of Donagal who Sealed it and so altered accordingly VI. An Ancient understanding Pious and Credible Man of Ilchester in Somersetshire is now in London who the last week told me that he was heretofore in Melancholy Doubts and Trouble of Mind and in that Condition had divers sensible Molestations by the Devil as he lay awake in his Bed his feet have bin lifted higher than his Head I told him that a Melancholy fancy might make him think so He added to the confident Assertion of it that he hath in the open day-time as he hath gone about his Hoose had a blow struck on his face as hard and plain as any Mans hand could strike and once so hard that where his Nose and Cheek joyn it left the place black and blew as they call it to the sight of all in the same manner as any other would have done with much more VII The Story of the Haunting of Mr. Mompesson's House in Wiltshire is Famous and printed in part by Mr. Ioseph Glanvil Mr. Mompesson is yet living no Melancholy nor Conceited Man The truth not doubted of by his Neighbours within this Month I spake with one of them an Atturney who said that the noises heard the visible moving about of the Boards before their faces and such like were all undoubtedly true And the thing unquestioned by Mr. Mompesson who to his great Cost and trouble was long molested by it and his Neighbours and those that purposely went thither to see it Notwithstanding that when some unbelievers went from London to be satisfied nothing was done when they were there For as God oweth not such Remedies to Unbelievers so Satan hath no desire to cure them And it is likely doth more in Apparitions by Divine Constraint than he is willing to do because he is most successful w hen he is least known Any one that doubts of the truth of this Story may yet have full satisfaction the Witness being alive But this partly belongeth to the instances of Witchcrafts being Credibly supposed to be done by Witchcraft of a Drummer as you may see described in the printed Story I knew Ioseph Glanvile to be far enough from Fanatick Credulity who himself saw much of it and publisht it VIII In February 1646. falling into great Debility by Bleeding at the Lady Cook 's House at Milbóurne in Darby-shire I removed to Mr. Noels House at Kirkby Malory in Leicester-shire where I lay weak three weeks in March in which time the Neighbours went to see a House in Lutterworth reported to be haunted Multitudes flocks to see it and affirmed that at cert●●n hour of the day stones were thrown at those that were present which hit them but hurt them not And that what ever time any one would whistle it was answered by a whistle in the Room And no search could discover any Fraud What became of it after I heard not but it continued believed commonly by the hearers those three weeks that I staid in that County IX But the certainest and fullest Instance of Witchcraft that ever I knew I shall here give you in the words of others Only adding that about twenty years ago the time whem it was doing my worthy and dear Friend Mr. George Hopkins the then Faithful Minister of the Gospel at Evesham told it me himself and told me of their Care and Watchfulness to see that there were no Fraud committed in it And the Witch was hanged at Worcester and the Woman her self is yet living in Evesham and the

convince them than the Assertions of the Scriptures But they take all such Reports to be but the effects of Error Deceit and easie Credulity For the sake of such I have recited many Credible Instances in this Book and my Saints Rest and in my Vnreasonableness of Infidelity and I shall here add some more I doubt not but abundance of Reports of such matters have no better causes than are here mentioned even the mistake of the Ignorant but that there are true as well as false Reports of such things is past all reasonable cause of doubting I. I will begin with that most convincing Instance which you may read in a Book called The Devil of Mascon Above twenty Years ago the now Earl Orery then Lord Broghil a Person of well known Understanding and not inclined to weak Cre●ulity told me much of what is written in that Book and more and said That he was familiar with Mr. Perreaud a Reverend Worthy Protestant Minister in whose House all was done and had his Son for his Servant in his Chamber many years and from Mr. Perreaud had the Narrative Not long after Dr. Peter Moulin Prebend of Canterbury and Son to the famous Peter Moulin Printed the Book as having it from his Father who had it of Mr. Perreaud And Mr. Robert Boyle Brother to the Earl of Orery a Man famous for Learning Honesty and Charity and far also from weak Credulity prefixeth an Epistle to it owning it as undoubted Truth being acquainted with the Author Mr. Perreaud as his Brother was All these three worthy Persons the E. of Orery Mr. Boyle and Dr. Pet. Moulin through God's Mercy are yet living I hear some report that this History of Mascon is denyed by some that say they have spoken with some that have been at Mascon and knew nothing of it And what wonder if such things that are talkt of but a few days be forgotten after fifty or sixty Years They that will not believe the Narrative from such Men as the Famous Peter Moulin Senior and Dr. Peter Moulin Junior that Printed it and from the Earl of Orery that told me he was Familiar with Mr. Perreaud and had his Son many years his Chamber-Servant and his Brother Mr. Robert Boyle yet living that hath attested it by a Preface may read all the History with many more of Witchcraft printed in French and Published by Mr. Perreaud himself And if they cannot get it they may go to my Kinsman William Baxter now Schoolmaster at Newington where they may see it Could it be Counterfeit and never Contradicted in fifty or sixty years I remember not just the year that in a City so many of both Religions for so many Months together might croud at a certain hour into the Room and hear a Voice answering their questions and telling them things far off and to them unknown and Disputing with a Papist Officer of the City and the Whirling him oft about and casting him on the ground and sending him home Distracted I say if this and all the rest there written so attested be not sufficient Evidence I know not what is The said Earl of Orery told me of many effects of Witchcraft or Devils Men carryed about near him in Ireland which I shall not particularly recite though many Witnesses were named This was written while they lived Now only Mr. Boyle Surviveth II. My next History shall be that of Lieutenant Colonel Bowen which I will give only in the words of others as I received it Only telling you what they are 1. Mr. Samuel Iones is a Man of known Learning Piety and Honesty though a Silenced Minister now living in Glamorganshire by whose Mediation I had the other 2. Mr. Bedwell was also a Credible Faithful Minister 3. Mrs. Bowen her self either is or lately was living a Woman very much praised for True Piety and Courage Sister to Colonel Philip Iones once one of Cromwells Council 4. Here is a Letter also from Colonel Wroth Rogers late Governour of Here●ord I think yet living and a Credible person though then not willing the Story should be published I suppose his Reasons are now over 5. I sent into Ireland in his Life-time to enquire what effect it had upon him of which I had the Letter of Mr. Samuel Foley and Credible Persons yet living 6. And Colonel Iohn Bridges then in Ireland purposely enquired and could learn no more but that he immured himself privately with one Servant in a Castle who reported that he used to rise in the Night and walk about the Room talking as to some one with him and more I could not hear 7. I desired lately a Worthy Minister in Swansey to enquire whether ever since any thing had abated ●the Belief of the Fact who tells me as others do that it is as fully believed by those that were in the House and others as ever Several Letters to Mr. Richard Baxter in relation to an Apparition in the House of Lieutenant Colonel Bowen in Glamorganshire in Wales in the Year 1655. Colonel Rogers the Governor of Hereford his Letter Together with an enclosed Relation of an Apparition c. Dear Sir BY the Enclosed you will find something of the Business you expected from me It is certain and true I have received it from very good Hands More there was but they did not think it convenient to put it in Paper My Request is that you will not expose it to publick View it may rather do harm than good I know that God hath given you Wisdom and you will make good use of such things It may harden others This with the Enclosed is all at present from Your Cordial Friend and Servant W. Rogers Hereford Aug. 23. 1656. The enclosed Relation of the late strange Apparition in the County of Glamorgan IN the beginning of the late War a Gentleman of that County being oppressed by the King's Party took Arms under the Earl of Essex and by his Valour obtained a good Repute in the Army so that in a short time he got the Command of Lieutenant Colonel But as soon as the heat of the War was abated his Ease and Preferment led him to a careless and sensual Life insomuch that the godly Commanders judged him unfit to continue in England and thereupon sent him to Ireland where he grew so vain and notional that he was cashiered the Army and being then at liberty to sin without any Restraint he became an absolute Atheist denying Heaven or Hell God or Devil acknowledging only a Power as the antient Heathens did Fate accounting Temporal Pleasures all his expected Heaven So that at last he became hateful and hating all civil Society and his nearest Relations About December last he being in Ireland and his Wife a Godly Gentlewoman of a good Family and concluded by all the Godly People that knew her to be one of the most sincere and upright Christians in those Parts as being for many Years under great Afflictions and always

Floor at some distance from the Bed by the side of a Table the Bed-Cloaths and his own Wearing Cloaths all upon him just in the same manner as he laid them when going to Bed having nothing at all under him by which he got an extream Cold and besides his Leg and Arm next the Table were sorely bruised Being awake he began to think where he was but soon recollected himself and by the Light of the Moon which then shone very bright he discerned the Bed and putting on the Cloaths upon the Bed laid him down again and slept the remaining part of the Night very quietly Soon after his being in Bed this second time the Town-Clock struck Twelve He never was out of his Bed in his Sleep before or since and soon after he came to understand that the Chamber was reputed to be haunted Mr. Charles Hatt's Letter concerning an House being haunted at Kinton in Worcestershire in the Year 1667. Worthy Sir ACcording to your Desire and my Promise when I was with you about a Fortnight since with Mrs. Wilson concerning a Man's House in Kinton six Miles from Worcester being sorely troubled about the latter end of the Year 1667. to the best of my Remembrance viz. I living at Benington near Auster in Warwickshire Workmen come from Kinton acquainted me of an House sorely haunted naming the Person to me which I have now forgot I being desirous to see or hear such things went to the said House but finding only a Maid there a spinning I asked for her Master She told me the Spirit to the best of my remembrance she called it so had boxed him about the Ears as he sate by the Fire● 〈◊〉 against her upon which he cried out and went away to a Son 's of his in the 〈◊〉 Town a little before I came I 〈◊〉 to the said Man desired him to come home He seemed unwilling telling me how he was abused by it and that in the Night it would often pull him out of the Bed and did so torment him that he was a weary of his Life But getting him home he sate him down about the same place near the Fire and I sate over against him discoursing how he was troubled He told me several had been with him as the Minister of the place to my best remembrance They bid him pray pray But he found no Relief I told him I knew no other way than by seeking to the Lord and not to speak slightly of Prayer He told me I might hear it before I went I had not been long but there was a great Noise in the said Room of Groaning or rather Gruntling like a Hog and then gave a lowd Shriek Here it is saith the Man I was much concerned upon the hearing of it so recalling my self I desired to go to Prayer in the next Room where the Man used to lie By this time many of the Towns-People came in and were at Duty About the middle of Duty the aforesaid Noise came as I thought lowder and just by me however I then was not concerned Afterward having some Discourse with the Man about a Month after I heard from him that it did no more trouble him nor to his Death He lived as I remember two Years after This is the best and truest Account I can give I rest SIR Your Christian Friend to command Charles Hatt's Gingraff May 16. 1691. POSTSCRIPT SIR I Spake to my Lady Rich concerning a Voice that Mr. Tiro heard acquainting him of his Death If you remember I told you of him and you desired an Account of it He was a Nonconformist Minister of Vnger in Essex My Lady will send you the Account of it This Mr. Tiro had an extraordinary Love for you Vale C.H. CHAP. III. MR. Iohn Humphreys brought Mr. May Hill to me with a Bag of Irons Nails and Brass vomited by the Girl I keep some of them to shew Nails about three or four inches long doubled crooked at the end and pieces of old Brass doubled about an Inch broad and two or three Inches long with crooked edges I desired him to give me the Case in Writing which he hath done as followeth Any one that is incredulous may now at Beckington receive Satisfaction from him and from the Maid her self In the Town of Beckington by Froome in Somerset-Shire liveth Mary Hill a Maid of about Eighteen years of Age who having lived very much in the Neglect of her Duty to God was some time before Michaelmas last past was Twelve-Month taken very ill and being seized with violent Fits began to Vomit up about two hundred crooked Pins This so Stupendous an Accident drew a numerous Concourse of People to see her To whom when in her Fits she did constantly affirm that she saw against the Wall of the Room Wherein she lay an old Woman named Elizabeth Carrier who thereupon being Apprehended by a Warrant from a Justice of Peace and Convicted by the Oaths of two Persons was committed to the County Goal About a Fortnight after she began to Vomit up Nails Pieces of Nails Pieces of Brass Handles of Spoons and so continued to do for the space of six Months and upwards And in her fits she said there did appear to her an old Woman Named Margery Coombes and one Ann More who also by a Warrant from two Justices of the Peace were Apprehended and brought to the Sessions held at Brewton for the County and by the Bench committed to the County Goal The former of these dyed as soon as she came into Prison the other two were Tryed at Taunton Assizes by my Lord Chief Justice Holt and for want of Evidence were acquitted by the Jury The Persons bound over to give Evidence were Susanna Belton and Ann Holland who upon their Oaths Deposited that they hookt out of the Navel of the said Mary Hill as she lay in a dead fit crooked Pins small Nails and small pieces of Brass which were produced in Court before the Judge and from him handed to the Jury to look upon them Whereupon Mr. Francis Iesse and Mr. Christopher Brewer declared that they had seen the said Mary Hill to Vomit up at several times Crooked Pins Nails and Pieces of Brass which they also produced in open Court and to the end they might be ascertained it was no Imposture they declared they had searched her Mouth with their Fingers before she did Vomit Upon which the Court thought fit to call for me who am the Minister of the Parish to testifie the Knowledge of the matter which I did to this Effect that I had seen her at several times after having given her alittle small Beer Vomit up Crooked Pins Nails and Pieces of Brass That to prevent the Supposition of a Cheat I had caused her to be brought to a Window and having lookt into her Mouth I searcht it with my Finger as I did the Beer before she drank it This I did that I might not be wanting in Circumstantial