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True RELATION

OF THE

APPARITION

OF ONE

Mrs. VEA L,

The next Day after her DEATH,

TO ONE

Mrs. BARGRAVE,

AT

CANTERBURY,

The 8th of September 1705.

Which APPARITION recommends the Perufal of DRELINCOURT's Book of Confolations against the Fears of Death.

The Tenth EDITION.

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HIS Relation is Matter of Fact, and attended with such Circumstances, as may induce any reasonable Man to believe it. It was sent by a Gentleman, a Justice of Peace at Maidstone in Kent, and a very intelligent Person, to his Friend in London, as it is here worded: Which Discourse is attested by a very fober and underStanding Gentlewoman, a Kinswoman of the said Gentleman's, who lives in Canterbury, within a few Doors of the House in which the within nam'd Mrs. Bargrave lives; who believes his Kinfwoman to be of so difcerning a Spirit, as not to be put upon by any Fallacy; and who positively afSur'd him, that the whole Matter, as it is related and laid down, is what is really true; and what She her self had in the same Words (as near as may be) from Mrs. Bargrave's own Mouth, who, She knows, had no Reason to invent and publish fuch a Story, or any Design to forge and tell a Lye, being a Woman of much Honesty and Vir

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tue, and her whole Life a Course, as it were, of Piety. The Use which we ought to make of it, is, to confider, That there is a Life to come after this, and a just God, who will retribute to every one according to the Deeds done in the Body; and therefore, to reflect upon our past Course of Life we have led in the World; That our Time is fhort and uncertain; and that if we would efcape the Punishment of the Ungodly, and receive the Reward of the Righteous, which is the lay?ing hold of eternal Life, we ought for the time to come, to turn to God by a speedy Repentance, ceasing to do evil, and learning to do well: To feek after God early, if happily he may be found of us, and lead fuch Lives for the future, as may be well pleasing in his Sight.

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Mrs. VEA L.

HIS thing is so rare in all its Circumstances, and on fo good Authority, that my Reading and Conversation has not given me any thing

like it; It is fit to gratify the most ingenuous and ferious Enquirer. Mrs. Bargrave is the Person to whom Mrs. Veal appeared after her Death; the is my intimate Friend, and I can avouch for her Reputation, for these laft fifteen or fixteen Years, on my own Knowledge; and I can confirm the good Character she had from her Youth, to the Time of my Acquaintance. Tho' fince this Relation, she is calumniated by fome People, that are Friends to the Brother of Mrs. Veal who appeared; who think the Relation

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