Spiritualism Tested, Or, the Facts of Its History Classified: And Their Cause in Nature Verified from Ancient and Modern TestimoniesGould and Lincoln, 1860 - 185 ページ |
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132 ページ - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons *, which is a science useful and sanative to men. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return ; and this method of cure is of great force unto this day...
126 ページ - If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand ? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. 19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out ? therefore shall they be your judges.
130 ページ - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
131 ページ - No man hath seen God at any time ; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
133 ページ - ... him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed. And when Eleazar would persuade and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and commanded the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man; and when this was done, the skill and wisdom of Solomon was shown very manifestly...
132 ページ - I have seen a certain man of my own country whose name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers. The manner of the cure was this: — He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils; and when the man fell down immediately, he adjured him to return into him no more, making still...
145 ページ - But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
126 ページ - And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men ; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
126 ページ - no man knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son revealeth him...
45 ページ - In all the Witchcraft which now Grievously Vexes us, I know not whether anything be more unaccountable, than the Trick which the Witches have to render themselves, and their Tools Invisible. Witchcraft seems to be the Skill of Applying the Plastic Spirit of the World, unto some unlawful purposes, by means of a Confederacy with Evil Spirits.