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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    These Apparitions of Angels, in the Shape of Men, are undeniable on other Occafions; but when < they appear as Angels, it is faid fo plainly, and in fo many Words; as in the Cafe of Abraham, when he was going to offer his Son Ifaac, Gen. xxii. u. The Angel of the Lord called to Abraha?n out of Hea¬ ven ; and again yen 15. The Angel of the Lord called the fecond time. There are innumerable. Examples of Angels appearing as Angels; but we are upon the Ap¬ pearance of Angels as Men, and in the Shape and Habit of Men. The next Inflance is, of an Angel appearing to JoJhua, and who is called the Captain of the Lord’s Hoft, Jojh. v. 13. JoJhua looked, ayd behold there food a Man over-againft him, with a Sword drawn in his Hand. Immediately JoJhua, Sol- dier-like, gives him the qni vive, or in Englijh, who are you for? art thou for us, or for our Adversaries ? and the Spedire or Apparition fpoke immediately again, ver. 14. and then JoJhua perceived that it was not a Man, but an Angel in Apparition ; and in the Heads or Contents of the Chapter, ’tis ex¬ prefly faid, an Angel appears to Joihua. Another Example is, of the Angel that ap¬ pear’d to Manoah the Father of Sampfon ; his Wife indeed calls him a Man of God, and that he ap¬ pear’d to her ; but fays, that his Countenance was like an Angel of God, very terrible; Judges xiii. 6n But fliil when he appear’d a fecond time, it was in the Shape of a Man, or elfe why did Manoah de¬ fire him to ftay ’till he could drefs a Kid for him ? and the Words are exprefs, ver, 16. He knew not that it was an Angel of the Lord. There are other Examples in Scripture, where the Angels have appeared in Human Shape, and convers’d with Men upon Earth, befides fuch as have appear’d in their real Angelick Form as An¬ gels. How and in what they were known to be Q 2' Angelsy