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Version will generally be found lo agree , I . Passages which merely allude to the existence of the devil .
These are very few . INiatt . xxv . 41 . Then will he say to them on the left hand : away from me , ye cursed , into that everlasting fire , prepared for the devil and his angels . John viii . 44 . The devil is your father , and ye willingly perform the lusts of your father * He was a man-slater from the first , and continued not in the truth , because there is no truth in him . When any one spcaketh a lie he speaketh according to his own kindred ; for his father also is a liar .
Jude , ver . 9 . Whereas Michael , the archangel , when he was contending in dispute with the devil , a ^ out the body of Moses , did not presume to bring against him a railing sentence ^ but said , The Lord rebuke thee . The most that can . be said of these , passages is , that a notion of the existence of an evil being was
prevalent among the Jews , which will not be controverted . The paint to be ascertained is , how far the writers of the New Test , assert , that such a being hath access to the human mind , and any influence , over it . II . Passages of tins description fall under the second division into
iwbich we have distributed the subject . Alatt . iv- I . Then was Jesus carried away by the spir it , into ihtf wilderness , u > be tried by the devi M l . att . iv . 5 . The devil taketh Je&as with him to the holy city , &c ' . Matt , iv , 8 . Again the devil
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taketh Jesus with him into a very high mountain * &c . Matt . iv . ll . Then the devil leaveth him , and behold angels came up and ministered to htm
To which add the corresponding passages . Luke iv . 2 , 3 , 5 . 6 , 13 . Matt . xiii . 39 . The enemy , who sowed the weeds , is the devil . Luke viii . 12 . Those by the road-side , are the hearers to whom the devil cometh , and taketh away the word out of their hearts .
John xiii . 2 . So Jesus , when supper time was come , ( the devil having already entered the heart of Judas Iscariot , that he might deliver him up ) , knowing , &c . Acts x . 38 . How God anointed
this Jesus with the Holy Spirit , and with power , and how he went through the country doing good , and healing all that w ere oppressed by the devil , for God was with him .
Acts xiii . 10 . O ! full of all guile , and of all craftiness ! son of the devil ! Heb . ii . 14 , That he might destroy , through death , him , who hath tne power of death j that is , the devil .
James iv . 7 . Withstand the devil and he will flee from yon . 1 John , iii . 8 . Whoso commitcth sin is of the devil ; for the devil sinneth from the first : atnd for this end did the Son of God appear , that he might destroy the works of the devil .
1 John , iii . 10 . Hereby are discovered the children of God and the children of the devil . These axe the only passages
which can be supposed to assert , that the devil has any influence over the human mind . Many of these may be considered as tloubu
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436 0 / 1 the Existence of the Devil .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 436, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/22/
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