Theory of Pneumatology: In Reply to the Question, what Ought to be Believed Or Disbelieved Concerning Presentiments, Visions, and Apparitions, According to Nature, Reason, and Scripture

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J. S. Redfield, 1851 - 286 pagina's
 

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Pagina 213 - not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes ; there was silence ; and I heard a voice, saying, " ' Shall mortal man be more just than God ; shall a man be more pure than his Maker ?'
Pagina 248 - of the wisest and best of men in all ages and nations. They well know (whether Christians know it or not), that the giving up of witchcraft* is, in effect, giving up the Bible; and they know, on the other hand, that if but one account of the intercourse of men with separate spirits be admitted, their
Pagina 231 - Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.
Pagina 222 - pointed at it, asking my wife whether she did not see it. It was but natural that she should not see anything: my question, therefore, alarmed her much, and she sent directly for a physician. The phantasm continued about eight minutes. I grew at length more calm, and, being extremely exhausted, fell into a restless
Pagina 222 - continued about eight minutes. I grew at length more calm, and, being extremely exhausted, fell into a restless slumber, which lasted about half an hour. The physician ascribed the apparition to violent mental excitement, and hoped there would be no return ; but the violent agitation of my mind had in some way disordered my nerves
Pagina 228 - hades] hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure ; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it.*
Pagina 224 - shorter period, either singly or in company : the latter, however, was most often the case. "I generally saw human forms of both sexes; but they usually seemed not to take the smallest notice of each other, moving as in a market-place, where all are eager to press through
Pagina 222 - February, by a most violent altercation. My wife and another person came into my apartment, at ten o'clock in the morning, in order to console me ; but I was too much agitated, by a series of incidents which had most powerfully affected my moral feelings, to be capable of attending to them. On a sudden I perceived, at
Pagina 240 - said, that he had galloped out from Truro (from which Scorrier is distant seven miles), having seen a gentleman there who had come by that evening's mail from London, who said that he was in the lobby of the house of commons on the evening of the llth, when a man called
Pagina 54 - But I must now add a. fourth experimental proof, which has never been previously made public, and is fully as important as any one of the foregoing. I can vouch for the truth of it with the greatest confidence. About the year 1770, there was a merchant in Elberfeld with whom, during seven years of

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