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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    emotion, which Sir Ralph tlie more easily observed and perceived, because he kept his e.ve always fixed n|ion the duke: having procured the conference, somewhat, he knew, was up very eitraonlinary. Tlie nuiii told him, in his return over the water, that when he mentioned tlmse (urticulars that would gain him credit, (the substance whereof he said he durst not impart unto him), the duke’s colour changed, and he swore tliat he could come at that knowledge only by the devil ; for that those particulars were only known to liiniaelf and to one person more, who, he was sure, would never spouk of it. How strongly does this confirm the opinion, that tlie soul, when departed, has a knowledge of the ac- tions of the living, and willing to do any otlice for their good, if permitted. 'llie duke pursued his purfioso of hunting, but was observed to ride all the inoridng with great ]>ensive- iteaa, in deep thought, without any delight in the exercise he was ujion ; and before the moniing was spent, left the field, and alighted at his mother's lodg- ings in Whito-luill, with whom he was sliut up for the sjioce of two or three hours! the noise of tlicii discourse frequently reaching tho oars of those who attended in the next room.s. And w hen tho duke left her, his countenance appeared full of trouble, with u mixture of anger : a countenance tluit was never befoie observed in him in any conversation with her, towards whom he liad a profound revenmee ; and tlie cuuutc.->s herself (for though site was married to a private gen- tleman, Sir Thomas Compton, she had ta>en created Countess of liuckingluun sliortlv after licr son lutd first assumed tliat title) was, at the duke's leaving her, found overwhelmed in tears, and in the highest agony imaginable. Whatever there was of all this, it is a notorious truth, that when the news of the duke's murder (which happened a few mouths after) was brought to his mother, she seeuied not in Uie least degree sur-
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