The world bewitch'd; or, an examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power administration, and operations. As also the effects men are able to produce by their communication / Divided into IV parts. By Balthazar Bekker ... Vol. I. Translated from a French copy. Approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand.

  • Balthasar Bekker
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1695
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Credit: The world bewitch'd; or, an examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power administration, and operations. As also the effects men are able to produce by their communication / Divided into IV parts. By Balthazar Bekker ... Vol. I. Translated from a French copy. Approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AND THE Firft Book in particular. publifhing, needed’ an Introduction, methinks ! that I may’not'only have the! fame Opinion of | this ; but even that l'cannot forbear it, Two par- | ticular Reafons oblige me:r0 it, one of which con: | cerns the eircumftances of what happened during the impreffion of thiswork, and the other, has re= : Q lation to it'scontents, - Both thefe Reafons has fome- | thing extraordinary; but the latter efpecially appears ftill more ftrange, becaufe of the former; and | therefore I intend to give the Reader fome expla- nation upon both, | Having form’d a defign to write upon the mat- | ter treated of in this Book, I begun Eight Years } ago in my Preface to the Book of Comers, to give fome hints of what I intend to explain. here mora | Particularly. I had chofen for the fubject of my | publick Sermons, the Prophecy of Daniel, when | I was come tothe rith v. of the 2 Chapter, in | Which the Magicians confefs, they were not capable | Por]. . b of
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