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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Page 412 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah : for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church ; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Page 158 - be satisfied ; you will all see this great and sublime revolution, which you so much desire. You know that I am a little inclined to prophesy; I repeat, you will see it.
Page 404 - All these phantasms appeared to me in their natural size, and as distinct as if alive, exhibiting different shades of carnation in the uncovered parts, as well as different colours and fashions in their dresses, though the colours seemed somewhat paler than in real nature.
Page 393 - Mother, I am going a long journey, and am come to bid you good-bye.
Page 438 - It is true there are several of them which I do not comprehend ; but this is, with me, a very slender objection : for what is it which I do comprehend, even of the things I see daily ? Truly not The smallest grain of sand, or spire of grass.
Page 401 - At four in the afternoon, the form which I had seen in the morning re-appeared. I was by myself when this happened, and being rather uneasy at the incident, went to my wife's apartment, but there likewise I was persecuted by the apparition, which, however, at intervals disappeared, and always presented itself in a standing posture.
Page 403 - ... many other phantasms, sometimes representing acquaintances, but mostly strangers: those whom I knew were composed of living and deceased persons, but the number of the latter was comparatively small. I observed the persons with whom I daily conversed did not appear as phantasms, these representing chiefly persons who lived at some distance from me.
Page 393 - I re. ceived one by post from my father, upon the receipt of which I was a little surprised, and concluded something extraordinary must have happened, as it was but a little before I had a letter from my friends, and all were well.
Page 408 - Therefore hell 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.
Page 438 - They well know (whether Christians know it or not) that the giving up witchcraft is in effect giving up the Bible.