An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1705
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Credit: An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Eumenidum Veluti demens videt agmlm (Pentheut, Et folem gerntmm, O'1 duplices fe oftendere Tbeb as. s As Penthens maz’d whole Troops of , Furies Spyes, Two Suns, two Thebes prefented to his Eyes. Now this Fable, as the Lord ©4s con tells us, relates to Divine Secrets; for thofe who forgetting frail Mor* tality, ralhly afpire to Divine My« fteries by high Flights in the Study of Nature and Philofophy, as tho’ they were mounted on a Tree, have this for their Punilhment, that they are perplext with a perpetual incorn ftmcy and wavering in Judgment; for the Light oi Nature being one thing, and the Divine Light another, it happens with them as though they faw two Suns; and lince the Acti¬ ons of Life, and the Decrees of the : !' v' , ' Will