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True RELATION

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APPARITION

OF ONE

Mrs. VE A L,

The next Day after her DEATH,

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Mrs. BARGRAVE,

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CANTERBURY,

The 8th of September 1705.

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

The Tenth EDITION.

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HIS Relation is Matter of Fact, and attended with fuch Circumftances, as may induce any reasonable Man to believe it. It was fent by a Gentleman, a Fuftice of Peace at Maidstone in Kent, and a very intelligent Perfon, to his Friend in London, as it is here worded: Which Difcourfe is attefted by a very fober and underStanding Gentlewoman, a Kinfwoman of the faid Gentleman's, who lives in Canterbury, within a few Doors of the Houfe in which the within nam'd Mrs. Bargrave lives; who believes his Kinf woman to be of fo difcerning a Spirit, as not to be put upon by any Fallacy; and who pofitively af fur'd him, that the whole Matter, as it is related and laid down, is what is really true; and what She her felf had in the fame Words (as near as may be) from Mrs. Bargrave's own Mouth, who, fhe knows, had no Reason to invent and publish fuch a Story, or any Defign 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 Ufe which we ought to make of it, is, to confider, That there is a Life to come after this, and a juft 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 laying hold of eternal Life, we ought for the time to come, to turn to God by a speedy Repentance, ceafing 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 pleafing in his Sight.

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

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

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