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The History And Reality Of Apparitions

CONTENTS. Introduction. Of apparitions in general : the certainty and nature of them 1 Chap. I. Of apparitions in particular ; the reality of them, their antiquity, and the difference between the apparitions of former times and those which we may call modern ; with something of the reason and occasion of all that difference 8 Chap. II. Of the appearance of angels immediately in mission as from heaven; and why we are to suppose those kinds of apparitions are at an end IS Chap. III. Of the appearance of the Devil in human shape 22 Chap. IV. Of the apparition of spirits unembodied, and which never were embodied ; not such as are vulgarly called ghosts, that is to say, departed souls returning again and appearing visibly on earth, but spirits of a superior and angelic nature ; with an opinion of another species 26 Chap. V. Of the appearance of departed unembodied soul 45 Chap. VI. Of the manner how the spirits of every kind, which can or do appear among us, manage their appearance, and how they proceed 59 Chap. VII. Of the many strange inconveniences and ill consequences which would attend us in this world, if the souls of men and women, unembodied and departed, were at liberty to visi

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