A Review of the "Spiritual Manifestations"Thomas Bosworth, 1853 - 93 pages |
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Page 58 - And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, Let us alone ; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth ? art thou come to destroy us ? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Page 72 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Page 68 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 36 - She speaks to him, moves his furniture, touches his dress, his person ; all automatic action of some brain en rapport with that locality. She sings, plays the guitar or piano, takes a pencil and writes, and he sees the pencil in free space tracing his wife's autograph — automatic still. She shows him a cloudy hand, nay, a luminous form, and smiles and speaks as when in life — that is an optical illusion, or hallucination, or a particle exhaled from her body has impinged on his sensitive brain,...
Page 34 - Hume's oft-repeated sophism, that no testimony can establish an alleged fact which is at variance with common experience ; for it must not be denied that some few instances of the sort alluded to rest upon testimony, in itself, thoroughly unimpeachable; nor is the import of the evidence in these cases at all touched by the now well-understood doctrine concerning spectral illusions.
Page xiii - Will the spirit move the table back where it was before?' — and back it came, as though it were carried on the head of some one, who had not suited his position to a perfect equipoise, the balance being sometimes in favor of one side and then the other. But it regained its first position. In the meantime the ' demonstrations
Page x - On Sunday morning I wrote to my friend James Truman of Waterloo, stating that I should pass through that place on Monday following, in the capacity above stated — before I knew from Mr. Wiley what place he wanted me to fill, and he can probably testify to that fact. One month after I had been running on the cars...
Page viii - The sounds said that we had better go the next day and see if this was so, and said that we should not see the man until ten o'clock, though we might look for him as early as we pleased. " In the morning I looked in the Directory and there found the name spelled out to us, and went to his residence at seven o'clock and was informed that he had gone to a distant part of the city, and would not be home until twelve o'clock.
Page 72 - But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 50 - These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.