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how Jesus adapted his Discourses to his hearers , without intending to instruct them in wordly knowledge , or remove their innocent prejudices ; what he taught of himself , that he was a man , sent from God , mentioning not
even a Word of Atonemejafef Election , Hereditary Sin , &c . ( John , ix . 2 , 3 , on the hypothesis oft he { JsBTey . ^/ V ^ oucriz , ) not even of his ownperson , Lukexxiv . 19- ; not of the existence of Angels , Acts xxiii . 8 ; Matt . xii . 27 , comp . with x . £ 5 ; not of our Planetary System , Matt . v . 44 .
28 , 29 . Examination of different Passages of the Scriptures of the Expulsion of Daemons by Jesus , of Matt , xvii . 14—21 . Mark ix . 17—29 . JLuke ix . 37—43 .
SO . Passages of the Scriptures applied to the Devil , to be explained of bad men . 31 . The Devil has no power to make Apparitions , or to appear in dreams .
32 , S 3 . Fresh prooft of the annihilation of the mastership and power of the Devil and his imaginary realm . 34 and 35 . Conclusion . It is repugnant with the Christian Creed . It is injurious to real Piety . Additional Remark .
Book III . Continuation of the Subject . Preface—Relating- the Persecutions against the Doctor for the two preceding volumes . Chap . l . Necessity of an accurate understanding of the words and definitions , to agree on the point in question .
2 . Intercourse with Spirits , principally bad , is repugnant to reason . 3 . So too any compact of Sorceyers with them } Proofs and Arguments of Glanville and Danaeus examined ; those' Hornman , Carpzovius , Remigius .
4—7- Examination of passages of the Scriptures with regard to
Sorcerers . 8 and 9 . Jewish Laws relating to them . 10 and 11 . Warnings against Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Scriptures . 18 . The possibility of such an intercourse is contradictory to God ' s intentions to save Man .
13—16 . Further examination of passages in the Scriptures . 17 . In what consists the mischief of pretended * Sorcerers , and why they
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are reprobated in the Scriptures , and on what ground punished by civil laws . IS . Whether the Devil ha-ve power to perplex the mind of a good Man .
19 . Conclusion ; R . Scot ; his Works hurned in . England , answered by the King ; * G . Voetius' Positions examined . 20 . The common prejudice is contrary to the doctrine of the Reformed
Church and its Formularies . 21 . It is contrary to Piety . 22 . It is a mere Fiction . 23 . The refutation of Errors promotes Piety . Book IV . Examination of the Proofs from experience . Preface—Chap . 1 . Evidences of
Man ' s own Experience ; its Requisites , without prejudice , without terror . 2 . It requires to be well acquainted with the Laws of Nature and their limits . 3 . Distinction between Realities and Phantoms .
4 . Attention paid , whether no Art or Artifices could have been employed . 5 . Besides above-mentioned Requisites , other means , opportunity , diligence are required . 6 . Examination of Possessed and Bewitched .
7 . Examination of Sir Wm . Temple ' s account of a Story related to him by Count Mauritz , of Nassau , in his Mem . Tom . II . f * This first Work , published in the English language , against the common notions of diabolical agency , was printed
in 1584 , in black letter , 4 to ., and entitled The Diseoverie of Witchcraft , &c ; to which is added , iC A Treatise upon the nature of Spirits and Divels , &c , all lately written by Reginald Scot , Esq . " This was reprinted with additions and some
variation in the title-page , in 1665 , folio . See Scot Reynolde , in the catalogue of printed books , British Museum . Reginald Scot was a gentleman of Kent , who had been educated at Oxford , and of whom Wood
gives some account . He died in 1599 . King * James wrote against him in his Demonology , first printed at Edinburgh in 1597 . See . A then . Oxon . I . 257 . Voetius , JJisput . Theolog . III . 564 , says that his book was burned . On this circumstance
Wood is silent . t " Memoires , &c , from 1672 to 1679 . " 1692 , 8 vo ., p . 57 , or Locke ' s Essay , B . II . Ch . xxvii .. S . 8 . This is the story of the Parrot supposed to be possessed .
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452 Some Account of Dr . Ealthasar JBekker and of the Memionite Baptists *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/4/
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