An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.

Title

An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.

Author

Bromhall, Thomas.

Publication

London :: Printed by John Streater ...,

1658.

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Subject terms

Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.

Supernatural.

Prophecies.

Spirits.

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"An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69640.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE HONOURABLE, THE Lord Cholmley, Lord Viscount Kell, &c.
• A Catalogue of the Authors out of which these Stories and Examples are selected.
• history
  • AN HISTORY OF Most strange Phantasies and Apparitions, with the various sleights and cunning delusions of Devils.
  • THE VVonderfull History OF SPECTRALS; AND The several Devices and Delusions of Devils and Evil Spirits. The Second Book.
    • Of Oracles, Prophecies, and Predictions of Devils.
    • Of the Dreams, Visions, Revelations, and other such kind of Legerdemanes and mockeries of Evil Spirits.
    • Of Miracles of Devils, or of divers deceits and mocks of evil Daemons, to strengthen the Idolatry of the Gentiles.
    • Of Sathan's wonderful Legerdemains, De∣ceits, and Impostures, used, for the setting up, and establishing Idolatry, by Invoca∣tion of Saints departed this life, worship∣ing of Statues and Images, and for con∣firmation of the doctrine of Purgatory, contrary to the preaching of St. Paul, 2 Thess. 2.
• The Opinions and Arguments of the Sad∣duces, and Epicures; by which they would prove, that the Angels and Devils do not appear unto Men; Confuted.
• The Arguments of those which deny that the Angells and Devils can take unto them a body; Confuted.
• table of contents
  • A Table of the first Part of this Book, being the Apparitions of Devills, and Evill Spi∣rits.
  • The Table to the Second Book, being of Oracles, Prophecies, &c.
  • The Table of Dreams, Visions, Reve∣lations, &c.
  • The Table of Mocks of the Devil, to streng∣then the Idolatry of the Gentiles.
  • A Table of Satan's wonderfull impostures for establishing of the Idolatrous invocations of Saints departed this life; contrary to the prea∣ching of St. Paul, 2 Thess. 2.