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
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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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    • The conclufion is confirmed by the follow- ing variety of fa6i:s, collected from the moft refpefkable authority and fcrupulous veracity, founded upon that perfuafion of St.'Paul, that the air is full of fpirits, called by him the frinces of the power of the alr^ and rulers'.of the darknefs of this worlds the head of whom is' ftiled in the Gofpel the Prince of this World* We may farther learn, that the power of thefc fpirits would be much more extenfive than it is, if it were not limited by the power of him who has faid, thus far Jhalt thou gOj and no far^ iher ; and the mercy of Jefus Chrift, who af- fures us in his Gofpel, that he has overcome Satan, and made him fall from heaven, and commands us perpetually to pray, that we may refift temptation, and be fecure from the ma- lice of the Devil, who, in the Apoftle’s phrafe, like a roaring lion^ walketh about^ fecking whom to devour^ if we give him any opportunity of doing it by our own negligence and prefump- tion, in expofing ourfelves needlefsiy to the danger of his temptations.