Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… he accepts from any: The same day I saw him touch 60’. 1 The richly symbolic gestures of the laying on of hands, with its ready-made power to evoke the heavier emotional moods of awe, pathos, melancholy, terror and horror, proved to … not addicted to any Vice, nor to any Sect, or Party, but is, I believe, a sincere Protestant. I was three weeks together with him at my Lord Conwayes, and saw him, I think, lay his hands upon a thousand persons; and really there is some thing … [ was ] Believed in by Boyle‘, 7 the celebrated President of the newly founded Royal Society , and he puzzled and bewitched English society. Even the King, Charles II, 8 as well as other eminent figures at court and in the various …
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