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Likeness of living absent persons is a thing abundantly confirmed in History. (1) Austin [underlined] tells us of [crossed out] one that went ^to a philosopher for resolution in some intricate Questions, [crossed out] of whome he could gett no answer, but in the night the philosopher comes to him and resolves all his Doubts: not Long after he demanded why he could not answer him in the day as well as in the night, the philosopher professed that he was not with him in the night but that he dreamed of his having such conversation w^th his friend, but he was all the time at home asleep. Paulus and Palladias [underlined] did both of them profess to Austin that one in his Shape at Diverse times & in Diverse places had appeared to them. (K) Shyrenus [?] mentions severall apparitions of [Severall crossed out] absent living persons. which hapened in his time and which he had the certain knowledge of A man that is in one place cannot (Greek letters) at the same time be in another. It remains[ing crossed out] then that such Spectres [underlined] are prodigious and Supernaturall and not w^thout Diabolicall Operations, It has been controverted among Learned men whether inocent persons by the deluding power and malice of the Divel may not be represented as present among witches at their dark assemblyes. The mentioned Thyreas [? underlined] sayes that the Divel may and often does represent the

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4) de avit. Ibi.

(k) de spirituum apparitionily lib. 2. c. 7