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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![[ ^'3 ] not in the leafl, teriified, and therefore perfifled, until it fpake again, and gave me fatisfaflion. But the work could not be finifhy at this time; wherefore the fame evening an hour after funfet, it met me again near the fame place, and after few words of each fide it quietly vanifhed, and neither doth appear fince, nor ever will more, to any man’s difiurbance. The difcourfe in the morning lafled about a quarter of an hour. Thefe things are true, and I know them to be fo with as much certainty as eyes and ears can give me ; and until I can be perfuaded that my fenfes do deceive me about their proper objefl; and by that perfualion deprive myfelf of the ftrongeft in- ducement to believe the chriftian religion, I mull and will affert, that thefe things in this paper are true. As for the manner of my proceeding, 1 find no reafon to be alhamed of it, for I can jufiify it, to men of good principles, difcretion, and recondite learning, though in this cafe I chofe to content myfelf in the aflurance of the thing, rather than be at the unprofitable trouble to perfiiade others to believe it. For I know full well with what diffi- culty, relations of fo uncommon a nature and praftice, obtain belief. He that tells fuch a llory^ may expeft to be dealt witha), as a traveller in Poland by the robbers, viz. firft murdered and then fearched, firft condemned for a liar, or fuperftitious, and then (when ’tis too late] have his reafons and proofs examined. This incredu- lity may be attributed, Firft. To the infinite abufes of the people, and, impofitions upon their faith by the cunning monks and'friars, &c. in the days of darknefs and popeYy. For they made aparitions as often as they pleafed,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
