News from the invisible world; a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living / Impartially compiled from the works of Baxter, Wesley, Simpson, etc.

  • Ottway, T.
Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: News from the invisible world; a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living / Impartially compiled from the works of Baxter, Wesley, Simpson, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in .NKWS FRDV THK dress, mentioned that ho luiu been bn?d at a charter fchool, from which he was taken, as an apprentic<^ servant, bj- William Iiod, Ksq., of the county of Kil- kenny. hrom this station he ran a wav on beinj^ cor- rected for some faults, and had been absent from Ire- land fix years. He confes.sed also, that he had several times intended to murder Hickey on the road between Waterford and I’ortlaw ; whiclt, though in general not a road much frequented, yet ]ieople at that time rontinually coming in sight, prevented him. Being frustrated in all his schemes, the sudden and total disappointment threw him probably into an in- difference for life. Some tempera are so stubborn and mgge<) that nothing can affect them hut immediate sensation. If to this be united the darkest ignorance, death to such characters will hardly seem terrible, be- cause they can form no conception what it is, and still less of the consequences that may follow. Ifectmbrr, 17B7. l.tUfT adtirrui ti to the TCditor of the Nno I'nirersul Mmjmine. Sir,—The belief in snpernatuml agency has been common to all ages and to all nations. A philosophi- cal investigation of the causes that prodiico this ilis- position to credit the invisible and spiritual o)>eratioiis. either of departed mortals, or of beinpi created with dUtinct and superior faculties, would lead to the de- velopement of some remarkable properties of the hu- man mind. Tlie universality of the sentiment has been considered, by some, as a proof of its correctness, or at least, as a reason why we should cautiously reject as illusory what is so generally credited. I )r. Johnson, without affirming in positive terms his belief of the exivteiico of spirits, yet did not hesitate to assert its probability. In what way disemliodied matter may