Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor.
- Date:
- 1791
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t vli ] the frequency of perfons that had familiar fpi- rits by necromancy, and other unlawful and fuperftitious methods. The book of Job, whofe antiquity is fup« pofed by fome coeval with Mofes himfelf, is full to the purpofe, who had read particularly the thirty-third chapter, where Eliphaz ob- ferves, that God oftentimes calls man to 're- pentance by vihons and dreams. If it were neceffary, an innumerable col- le6lion of quotations might be broughf from the books of the Bible to ferve the prefent purpofe ; but a few will ferve as well as many. When our Saviour walked upon the fea, the apoftles cried out for fear, faying, it is a fpirit. When the rich man defired Abraham to fend Lazarus to teftify unto his brethren, the fatal fituation his imprudence had brought him into, and to warn them, left they alfoJhould come into that place of torment^ he evidently fuppofed it poffible for the dead to return, and converfe with the living. Our Saviour in the Gofpei exprefsly refutes the error of the Sadducees, and proves the exiftence of the foul after the death of the body. The doubting apoflle, St. Thomas, did not hefttate at the poffibility of of Chrift’s fecond appearance, he only quef- tioned the a6fual reality of his refurreflion in the fame body ; and this feems to have been the opinion alfo of others of his difciples after ])i3 refurrection, for they at firft fuppofed that tliey iiad feen a fpirit ; but Jefus affured them of the contrary, faying, Behold my hands and feet; handle me and feel, for a fpirit hath not flefh and bones as ye fee me have.’^ A 5 In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
