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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![[ «4 ] and got both money and credit by quieting the Terticulamenta Vulgi, which their own artifice had raifed. Secondly. To the prevailing of Somatifm and Hobbcan principles in thefe times; which is a revival of the do6lrine of the Sadduces, and as it denies the nature, fo cannot confifl with the ap- paritions of fpirits^ of which fee, Leviath. p. i. C. 12. Thirdly. To the ignorance of men in our age, in this peculiar and myfterious part of philofophy and religion, namely the communication between fpirits and men. Not one fcholar of ten thoufand (though othcrwife of excellent learning) knows any thing of it, or the way how to manage it. This ignorance breeds fear, and abhorrence of that, which otherwife might be of incomparable benefit to mankind. But I being a clergyman, and young, and a ftranger in thefe parts, do apprehend filence and fecrecy to be my beftTecurity. In rebus abjlrujtjjimis abundans cant ela non nocet* Mtfs Pringle's, appearance at two places at the fame time* Mrs. Jane Lowe,'^houfe-keeper to Mr. Pringlcj of Clifton Park, in the fouth of Scotland, one morning in the fummer of 1745, beheld the appa- rition of a lady walking in the avenue, on the margin of a rivulet, which runs into Kale water.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
