The certainty of the world of spirits fully evinced. By Richard Baxter. To which is added The wonders of the invisible world by Cotton Mather. The former taken from the edition published by Mr. Baxter, 1691 ... The latter from the 'Ecclesiastical history of New England', published 1702 / [Richard Baxter].

  • Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
Date:
1834
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Credit: The certainty of the world of spirits fully evinced. By Richard Baxter. To which is added The wonders of the invisible world by Cotton Mather. The former taken from the edition published by Mr. Baxter, 1691 ... The latter from the 'Ecclesiastical history of New England', published 1702 / [Richard Baxter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    knowledge of the truth may seem a weighty oc- casion to expect from God the gift of miracles ?” Behold, reader, the expectation remarkably ac- commodated ! A Dream. Header, pass thy judgment on a thing that has newly happened. The story is published among us, and no body doth, or can, doubt the truth of it. In Barwick, of our New England, there dwelt one Ephraim Joy, as infamous a drunkard as, per- haps, any in the world. By his drunkenness he not only wasted his estate, but ruined his body too. At last, being both poor and sick, and therewithal hurried by sore temptations, a gentleman of Ports- mouth, out of pure charity and compassion, took him into his house. While he lay ill there, the approaches of death and hell, under his convictions of his debauched life, exceedingly terrified him. Amidst these terrors, he dreamt that he made his appearance before the tribunal of the Lord Jesus Christ, the judge of the world, by whom he was condemned; whereupon he had a sight of the horrors in the state of damnation which was now arresting of him. He cried with an anguish of importunity unto the Judge for a pardon ; but his Eternal Judge answered him, that he would not yet give him an absolute pardon, but allow him fourteen days to repent: in which time, if he did repent, he should have a pardon. He dreamt, that accordingly he repented, and was pardoned, and at the fourteen days end was received into heaven. The poor man declared his dream to the people of the house, and sent for the help of ministers, and other Christians, and expressed the humiliations