The Anti-universalist, or history of the fallen angels of the Scriptures; proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits: intended as a refutation of the three main points of universalism, namely, that there is no hell after death; no devil or Satan as a being; and no future day of final judgment / by Josiah Priest ; embellished with twenty-two engravings. Part I.

  • Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The Anti-universalist, or history of the fallen angels of the Scriptures; proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits: intended as a refutation of the three main points of universalism, namely, that there is no hell after death; no devil or Satan as a being; and no future day of final judgment / by Josiah Priest ; embellished with twenty-two engravings. Part I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ever : And yet his Knowledge was not more extenfive, than ’twas ufeful and ferviceable to Religion. With what Piety does he reflect, in all his Recherches; adoring that infinite Spirit that once moved upon thelFaters-^ confeffing the Myjlery, how God, the moft fimple and pure Spirit can ad: upon Matter ^ and how the Soul Body work upon and affed: each other ? This learned Gentleman was well known to be a Perfon, by no Means credulous in the Affair o^ Apparitions ^ and yet a Co-temporary of his^ M eminent Author, Dn Henry More in bis Collection oj^ PhiloJ'ophical IVritin^s^ aflurcs , Boyle^ v/hilft at was thoiough- the Truth of that Reiation which he there had of a Houfe at Mafion in Burgundy haunted in a very terrible Manner. Mr. Perreand^ whofe Houfe it was, gave Mr, Boyle^ at Geneva^ a Copy of his Book, which he was going to print concerning the Affiiir. The learned du Moidin^ in his Preface to Mr. /2:Ws Book, fays, That this familiar Conver- fation of the Devil was not in a Corner, or in a Defart (where the Melancholly of Witch- es is fuppofed to make them fancy they con- verfe with him) but in the midft of a great City, in a Houfe where there was daily a great Refort to hear him fpeak, and where Men of contrary Beligions met together * whofe Pronenefs to caft a Difgrace upon the diffenting Parties did occafion the narrow ex- amining and fiill conjirining^ the Truth there- “ of, both by the Magiftrate and by the Dio- O 2 “ cefan.