Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    both feen and heard Specters; concerning which the Gentiles faid. Sunt a liquid Manes, Lethum non omnia finit, Melanclhon, L. de Animd, tells us, he had feen Spe&ers, and knew many Men worthy of Credit, who affirm’d they had both feen, and difcourfed with them. Campanella, L. 4. de Senfu Rerum, writes thus : Plo¬ tinus and Porphyrins fay there areAngels both good and bad, as daily Experience teaches, and my felf alfo have found by manifed Experience, not when I ear- nedly endeavour’d it, but when I was minding ano¬ ther thing ; and therefore it's no wonder if they did not appear to curious Nero. The fame Author in the fame Work, L. 2. c. 25. tells us, he knew many other Perfons, who from Disbelievers, became af¬ terwards convinc’d of the Reality of fuch Appa¬ ritions by their Sight, and a Converfe with them. The fame Author again, Met. p. 2. c. 6. Art. 3 writes thus : We know there are both good and evil Spi¬ rits, from Perfons being tormented by the latter, and vifited by the former ; and my felf, when I was upon a long Enquiry after them, found nothing of them, but only when I thought not of them. Therefore let Pliny, Ariftotle, and their Followers be blent; for, it’s mod: certain there are Damons in the World, and it’s a foolifh thing, not to fay im¬ pious, to deny it: for there are many of the bed of Men, and of the mod learned, who certify this from their own Experience, Men not Deceived nor De¬ ceivers : And I know this now my felf. and am not led by the Credulity of others. So far Campa- nella ; and here you may read much more for con¬ firming this Truth. See alfo the fame Author, Met. p. 3. /. 12. c. 2. where he proves the Exidence of Angels and Damons, by Reafon, Experiences, Wit- 11 effes.