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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

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

their justling with it A Subordination will not serve but it ariseth to a Co-ordination and Competition yea a Prelation But that I speak of is the Nobilitating of an uncertain Day upon insufficient Evidence If I should say the Thorn might so blossom by Providence as a just Hardening of the wilfully superstitious a great part of whose Religion it is to put a Crown upon Christmass-Day caring little for Christ or as a Trial of the truly Consciencious to see whether they will build their Religion upon a famous Thorn and be so tamed by it as to close with the Superstition and Profaneness of that time I say if I should speak thus it might be thought a Paradox and yet I remember your Lights in Wales which shew I think what God gives the Devil leave to do I shall content my self therefore with sending you the Relation and leave you and others better able than my self to consider of it Only this I may say that such a Providential Rarity is too low a thing to put a Divinity upon that Day And yet to make it a Divine Testimony is I think the meaning of those that are willing to make the most of it I do not say the best of it Sir I am much engaged to you for your great Pains with my Son having lately received from him your good Answers to his Assembly-Queries with his Replies For Reason is restless and it is the Misery of those who set it up too high that it can so far I do not say so well f●r ●is all naugh● as far as Scripture and it j●rr thist for it self and they are apt to think they are sound if they be not silenced when E●●our in Practice hath much to s●y for it self and Errour in Opinion mu●●●ore Having betaken himself to Dr. Hammond I did not command him thence thinking he being a learned Man he might get something from him especially in the matter of Original Sin about which the Doctor hath given him good Animadversions though something in them hath not so good an Aspect and he answers them also and so there is no End till God humble the Heart 'T is one Symptom of the Hereditary Disease of Original Sin that that Sin is no more acknowledged and lamented God that raiseth such Alterations in Nations and hath done so strange things of late can alter our Relations and make them contrary to themselves that they may be conformable to him And upon that Ground alone I can build that To God all things are possible With all loving and thankful Respects I Rest Your obliged Friend and Brother Will. Thomas Obley Feb. 29. 1659. Mr. John Chetwind's enclosed Letter Reverend and much Honoured Sir IN answer to your Letter these are to inform you That the old Thorn in the times of the War was rooted up and is utterly gone and as for Mr. Gallop's Graff I have enquired of a Gentleman that was his Patient and lived divers Years in Mr. Gallop's House and observed the Budding and blossoming of it who informed me that it doth shoot forth and Bud and Blossom near about that time but not upon the day but in some space after it much rather than other Thorns usually do This is all the Account I can give you of it I have no more to add but mine and my Wife's kindest Respects to your self and good Wife and that I am Your most respectful Friend John Chetwind Wells Feb. 25. 1659. Mr. Winney's Inclos'd Letter concerning the Glaston-Thorn Worthy Sir REal Love and Thanks prescribed c. These are to acquaint you that I Received a Letter from you wherein Mr. Thomas's Request to you is that the exactest and most punctual Account of the usual Story of the Blossoming of GlastonburyThorn on Christmas-day might be found out I have upon your Request searched more of it than ever I thought to trouble my self to do and have conversed with the most Ancient that I knew and was directed to and think those that are Credible they offer to aver it upon Oath what they tell me Thus one Ancient Man tells me that he hath gone on the Eve to it and he hath found it like another dead Thorn without any Blossom or likelihood to have a sudden forwardness to it only some Evidence of the Appearance of the breaking out the Buds and but an Appearance perceivable and he hath gone on Christmas-day and found the Blossoms as though it was the midst of May and gathered them and sent them many Miles and had good Rewards this the Man will depose upon his Oath At the same time this Man was at my House there came occasionally an ancient Woman a Neighbour whose Testimony I believe fit to be received who earnestly affirmed this that in the time of Queen Ann she lived with one Sir Tho. Hughes in Wells a Justice of Peace who purposely sent his men two of them to know the Truth that he might satisfie any that might make enquiry and on the Eve towards Night they found it as another Thorn only the breaking out of the beginning of Buds and staying in Glastonbury all Night to observe as near as might be the time when they began to sprout forth into a perfect Blossom they have gone again toward the turn of the Night and have found the perfect Blossom about two or three of the Clock so that at Morning they have returned to their Master with them which she told me she saw when they brought it home And another Man tells me the same Story as the first only with this variation His Father and Godfather living at Bath went the Eve's Eve and found nothing but Buds and on Christmas-day in the Morning found the Blossoms and his Father sent them to Bath to his Godfather because he went thither home to keep his Christmas And a Woman at the same time told me something much like the Second that she hath gone the Eve late at Night and wit● a Lanthorn and Candle with her Company stayed four Hours to see if it might be the manner of the sprouting out of it and in that space saw that it Blossomed the Green-boughs the length of half the Fore-finger to the middle Joint what Mr. Gallop's Graft of this old Tree doth I shall leave you to him to be certified Both our Loves to your self and good Wife Mr. Stuks and his Wife desiring one Favour in the Close that you would be pleased to take pains to begin our Lecture the next Tuesday I have not had but one Assistant I think this seven or eight Weeks I shall be absent my self I intend if please God to be at Bristol Fair where I have some Business and pray send the word of it that I may be assured I rest Yours In all Bonds of Love Sam. Winney Glaston Ian. 21. 16●● I have oft wonder'd at the commonly believed Gift of the Kings of England and France to heal the Struma All my doubt hath still been of the Matter of Fact

hardly any of her Cloths being on with with her two Maids got upon their Knees by the Bedside to seek the Lord but extreamly assaulted oftentimes she would by somewhat which felt like a Dog under her Knees be lifted a Foot or more high from the Ground some were heard to talk on the other side of the Bed which one of the Maids hearkening to she had a blow upon the Back Divers assaults would be made by fits it would come with a cold breath of Wind the Candles burn Blew and almost out horrible Screekings Yellings and Roarings within and without the House sad smells of Brimstone and Powder and this continued from some nine at Night to some three the next Morning so that the poor Gentlewoman and her Servants were in a sad case the next Morning smelling of Brimstone and Powder and as I remember Black with it but the Lord was good Fires have been seen upon the House and in the Fields his Voice hath been heard luring his Haukes a Game he delights in as also the Bills of the Hauks These are the chief things which I dare recommend upon Credit and I could with that they who question the Existency of Spirits had been but one Night at Lannelin to receive Satisfaction to their Objections This continued so violent that the Gentlewoman was fain to withdraw to her Mothers House but her Husband coming over about some four Months since his Confidence did not serve him to lodge at Lannelin although we have heard nothing of trouble to the House since his coming over Sir the Dispensation as it was exceeding terrible so very remarkable and what the Voice of God might be in such a thing 't is not known clearly yet He is as Atheistical as ever all his Religion if I may call it so being comprised in the acknowledging a Power which we as he faith may call God and waiting for some infallible miraculous Business to verifie to him all the rest we own as our Religion Sure Sir if ever a Blasphemer was unworthy to live this is the Man and certainly his Sin will find him out He is now gone to Ireland let these things be divulged only as to the matter without names Assure the Gentleman your Friend they are very Truths I have somewhat more than ordinary for what I say At the first we concluded the Wretch had been dead but 't was otherwise and therefore the more remarkable Your affectionate Brother to Love and Serve you Maur. Bedwell Swansy Octob. 16. 56. Mr. Daniel Higgs his Letter concerning the Apparition in Lieutenant Colonel Bowen's House Dear Sir AS to the Concern you commit to me about Collonel Bowen accept of this Account I have discoursed with Brother Samuel Iones who gave you the first Narrative which if you have lost he hopes he may find the Copy of the Letter and I shall send it 'T was one Mr. Miles an Anabaptist Minister that wrote the Letter to one Mr. Bedwell Minister of Swansey who sent ●t Mr. Samuel Iones This Miles who spent a Night in Prayer in Colonel Bowen's House ●n the time of the disturbance is gone for New England Two Ministers more with my self went to spend another Night in the House but Mrs. Bowen was gone with her Family and we stayed not but went ●o give her a Visit who related strange ●hings but I cannot remember Circumstances The two Ministers are also gone But since I received yours I have discoursed Mr. Bowen's Maid who was in the House and I judge her throughly Godly who doth attest the Truth of these Apparitions Noises c. which I suppose you had fully in your Narrative but Time hath somewhat obliterated Circumstances wit● her I know not well Sir how to get greater light and I must assure you I fin● not any thing out to invalidate that Report you have had but much that confirms it I shall proceed according to your further Direction in this or any other Concern of your and that with much Chearfulness and Complacency I commit you and your huge Labours to our mighty and merciful Lord b● Prayer and all well Wishes And if yo● can think of any thing farther for me o● gather any thing by Discourse with learne● Men vouchsafe to impart it and impri● me poor Worm on your Soul before o● Father I have somewhat trespassed b● Prolixity which becomes me not to s●d a Person in such a Sphere But excuse hi● who is Your afflicted poor Brother Daniel Higgs Captain Samuel Foley's Letter concerning Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Worthy Sir THE best Account I can get of Colonel Bowen is this viz. That he is little sensible of his sad Condition He lives in the County of Cork in a beggarly way though he hath a fair Estate Some Months since he turned his Wife and Children from him in that sad unkind manner that they were forced to seek Relief from some Friends in Younghall to help them in their Return to Wales where they continue Not long since in Discourse with Baronet Ingolsby and Mr. Gilbert Minister of Limrick from whom I have the most part of this Relation he said he would give Ten Thousand Pounds to know the Truth about God 'T is reported he is haunted with ghastly Ghosts and Apparitions which frequent him I have written to the neighbouring Ministers and Gentlemen of my Acquaintance as effectually as I could enclosing a Copy of your Letter and from ●hem I hope to have a more full Account concerning this poor Man Your Letter ●ndeed came safe but not till August though dated in May. Sir in any thing wherein I may serve you you may freely command me But wherein I may serve the Church of God the best and utmost of my Endeavours through the Lord's Assistance shall not be wanting What farther shall come to my Hands shall carefully be reported to you by him who begs your Prayers and subscribes SIR Your very Affectionate Servant Samuel Foley Clonmell Octob. 6. 1658. After this Collonel Iohn Bridges wrote to me out of Ireland that Bowen immured himself in a small Castle with one Boy who said he oft rose in the Night and talked as if some were talking with him R. B. III. Colonel Iohn Bridges before named was Governour of Warwick Castle the Lord Brooks almost all the time of the Wars Afterwards he lived with us near Kederminster being Patron of the Church a Justice of Peace a Parliament Man And after lived in Ireland where he surprized with others Dublin Castle and Sir Hardress Waller for the King before he was called home He was an Understanding Prudent Man of Sound Judgment in Religion Just and Honest and Credible He and his Pious Wife have oft told me as followeth They formerly lived in Edson Hall near Alcester where Warwickshire and Worcestershire joyns a House famed to be haunted And being used to go into a Parlour alone for Meditation Prayer and to play on his Lute once as he went in at the Portal he

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