Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... Cock - crow : Whether evil Spirits wander about in the time of Night ; and whether they fly away at the Time of Cock - crow : Reflections upon this encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in GOD . 59 CHAP . CHAP . VII . Of Church - Yards ...
... Cock - crow : Whether evil Spirits wander about in the time of Night ; and whether they fly away at the Time of Cock - crow : Reflections upon this encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in GOD . 59 CHAP . CHAP . VII . Of Church - Yards ...
Page 59
... Cock - crow . Reflections upon this , encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in God , IT is a received Tradition among the Vulgar , That at the Time of Cock - crowing , the Mid- night Spirits forsake these lower Regions , and go to ...
... Cock - crow . Reflections upon this , encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in God , IT is a received Tradition among the Vulgar , That at the Time of Cock - crowing , the Mid- night Spirits forsake these lower Regions , and go to ...
Page 60
... Cock - crow . I believe none who assent to the Truth of Divine Revelation , deny that there are good and evil Angels attending upon Men ; the one to guard and protect them , and the other to harm and work their Ruin ; that the one are ...
... Cock - crow . I believe none who assent to the Truth of Divine Revelation , deny that there are good and evil Angels attending upon Men ; the one to guard and protect them , and the other to harm and work their Ruin ; that the one are ...
Page 67
... Cock - crow . This opinion , whatever Truth there may be in it , is certainly very ancient . We F 2 be THE COMMON PEOPLE . 67.
... Cock - crow . This opinion , whatever Truth there may be in it , is certainly very ancient . We F 2 be THE COMMON PEOPLE . 67.
Page 69
... Cock - crow- ing when our Saviour was born , and the An- gels sung the first Christmas - Carrol to the poor Shepherds , in the Fields of Bethlehem . Now it may be presum'd , that as the Saviour of the World was then born , and the ...
... Cock - crow- ing when our Saviour was born , and the An- gels sung the first Christmas - Carrol to the poor Shepherds , in the Fields of Bethlehem . Now it may be presum'd , that as the Saviour of the World was then born , and the ...
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