The Preface.

and the Devil to exert his Power among fyjien on me

Earth ? Hath Tod ever engaged his Word to the an

contrary ? Or is it againfi trie nature of Spirits tn,

t o fc rrn themselves new Vsides and visible so apes, of Ki

to animate grojjtr substances to [hew themselves to mi

lAntals upon certain occasions ? ■ Ch

I am Jo much a Prophet, as to foresee what wi& na,he the fate of the ensuing story , nor can 1 suppose ' whthat upon the reading of it, M.ens verdicts will prt.

he much changed jrorn what they were , if they str

have. set up this resolution., to believe nothing mi

that looks like the shadow of an Apparition, thoughthe things mentioned here, cannot he unknown to anythat have been conversant with foreign Affairs of inLite years. And though there cannot he a greater daevidence, than the testimony of a whole Kjngdom , an

yet your nicer Men wilt think it a disparagement Co

to them to believe it ; nor will it ever extort As' de

sent from any, that build the reputation of their Bt

wit upon contradicting what hath been received by Cr

the vulgar. up

The paj]ages here related wrought Jo great a Con- heft er nation, not onely on the Natives , but Strati' ofg/rs too, that the Heer Christian Rumps, the# st,R fident for the States Generals Stockholm/ to

tho to ht himself obliged to fend away his lift I? d<

Son for Holland , lest he should be endangered bj Lthose v.llanotis practices, which feemd to threaten ot

all the Inhabitants of the If ingdcm. And he that pi

idoubtsof it, may be fat is fed at Dr. Harrel 'sin N- pt

James’s Par k,to whom the Letter was written. An a * . f (

friend of mine in Town, being then in Holstein, rC '

, menses* °j