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-X. The doctrine of demoniacal pof-

1 of being fupported by the Jewish or
ation, is utterly fubverted by both, p.
= doctrine was not originally founded
neither taught, nor feferred to, by
ophets, ib. Saul's evil fpirit, explain-
On what occafions the mention of
ght have been expected in the Old
ad this doctrine been revealed under
on, p. 175. It was generally enter-
the age of the gofpel, p. 179, but ne-
the fanction of Chrift or his Apostles,
t is inconfiftent with the fundamental

of the Jewish and Chriftian difpenfa-

with the evidence of miracles in gé-

ich they reft, p. 184, and with the

miracle in particular, which was per-

demoniacs, p. 185. III. The abfolute
ons, to whom poffeffions were afcribed,
the prophets of God, when profeffedly
eir divine meffages to mankind, p. 189.
foning on this fubject in his ft Epiftle
nians, examined at large, and that deala-
icular, We know that an idol is nothing in

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19. p. 211. Rev. ix. 20, ch. xvi. 14, ch. xviii 2,
p. 218, 219) from the occafion on which it is used
in the place in queftion, p. 220, and from the Sep-
tuagint, p. 223. 3. Thefe Heathen demons were
nothing in the world, p. 224. 4. As mere nullities
they were esteemed by St. Paul himself, as well as
by other Chriftians, p. 229. 5. This opinion a juft
inference from the fundamental articles of Chriftiani-
-ty, p. 232. Demons being mere nullities, there
never could be a real demoniac, p. 239.

0

e than human ftrength, p. 275. The
lemoniac at Ephesus, p. 276.

A

e objection drawn from the deftruction
f fwine, p. 280. The fwine were not
the fea by the two madmen, ib. but
the inftant the demoniacs were cured,
eir madness was not owing to the in-
emons, but to a divine agency, p. 291.
lous deftruction of the fwine vindicated,
It was a juft punishment of the owners,
2. To afcertain the reality, and to fpread
the miracle performed upon the demo-
6. 3. To correct the falfe notions of
ncerning the power of demons, p. 299:
vent feveral great inconveniencies that
wife have attended the perfonal miniftry
303. 5. To warn all, who, overlook-
ce of God, are in danger of abusing the
nfidered as a difpenfation of mercy,

The objection taken from the language
rift and his apoftles, in performing and
e cure of demoniacs, or in describing the
unhappy men, p. 307. This language
-ft introduced by Chrift or his apoftles,
common popular language of the age in
Gospel was first published, p. 314. The
ers of Christianity could not, without
fiftency, give their fanction to the opinion
hat language was originally founded, ib.

Nor

writers in particular, and our Saviour himself, to
speak on many subjects in the language of the vulgar,
though known and admitted to have been originally
grounded on a falfe philofophy, p. 315. II. They
all do this, the facred writers, and our Saviour him-
felf not excepted, when speaking on the very subject
in question, p. 323. III. The common phrafeology
was adopted by Chrift and his apoftles with good
reafon; for, though originally built upon a falfe philo
fophy, it was commonly employed to defcribe the
real cafe of the demoniacs, both the fymptoms of
their diforder and their cure, p. 339. The fymp-
toms of their diforder better defcribed by this lan-
guage, than by calling them madmen, p. 345. What
was meaned by the difpoffeffion of demons, p. 350.
Why demoniacs are distinguished from the diseased,
and their cure from the healing of difeafes, p. 354.
Why demons were commanded to come out, p. 355.
IV. It doth not appear, that either Chrift or his
apoftles were commifhoned by God to inftruct man
kind in the fecret caufes of thofe difeafes which were
imputed to poffeffion, any more than of other dif
eafes; or to change the vulgar language in defcribing
the cafe of the demoniacs, p. 358. V. As the first
publishers of the Gospel were not, so they could not,
with any propriety, be commiffioned by God to in-
struct mankind in the phyfical caufes of thofe dif-

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dvantages fuppofed to be derived from
fyftem, and particularly of the argu-
ofhew the expediency and neceffity of
oying an unusual liberty in the firft
pel, and of Chrift's gaining a public
im, ib. In anfwer to this reafoning
1. That it is not fupported by the testi-

ure, p. 382. 2. It is built upon this false

z. that poffeffing demons were devils

$, p. 385. 3. It farther fuppofes, that

re more frequent in the age of the

any other time; which is alfo a false

-386. 4. The cafes of reputed de-

bed in the Gofpel, do not furnifh any

nce of the agency of the devil or any

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