The secrets of the invisible world disclos'd: or, an universal history of apparitions. Sacred and profane under all denominations, whether angelical, diabolical, or human souls departed. With a great variety of surprising and diverting examples, never publish'd before. Also shewing how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits, and how we ought to behave to them / by Andrew Moreton [pseud] [Anon].

  • Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Date:
1735
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Credit: The secrets of the invisible world disclos'd: or, an universal history of apparitions. Sacred and profane under all denominations, whether angelical, diabolical, or human souls departed. With a great variety of surprising and diverting examples, never publish'd before. Also shewing how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits, and how we ought to behave to them / by Andrew Moreton [pseud] [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE O T E N T S. Introduction. Of Apparitions in general * the Certainty and Nature of them. Page X Chap. I. Of Apparitions in particular, the Reality of them, their Antiquity, the Difference between the Apparitions of former 'Times, and thofe which we may call Modern ; with fomething of the Reafon and Occajion of all that Difference. p, $ Chap. II 0/ the Appearance of Angels immediately m Mffion as prom Heaven % and why we are to fuppofe thofe kinds of Apparitions are at an end. p. 18 Chap. III. Of the Appearance of the Devil in Hu¬ man Shape. p 2I Chap. IV. Of the Apparition of Spirits Unembodied, and which never were Embodied ; not fuch as are vulgarly call'd Ghojls, that is to fay,, departed Souls returning again and -appearing vifibly on Earth, but Spirits of a fuperior and angelick Nature • with an Opinion of another Species. P* 25