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the ipa of the prince of demons, he replied, “¢ Hiw 
ca caft out Satan??? (Ma tth. xii. 26. Mark, iu. 
ae xi. 18.) If Satan, it is faid, who is confidered 
as he dame perfon with the devil, (Rev. ix. 12. compare 
fame fpirits as the dev i’s angels. 
cas be no other diiference between de 
devil, than that which fubfifts between a Bree and his 
fubje&s, who both partake of one common nature, though 
the prince, a iding over the reft, hath a pe 
‘or hi To this objection r. Sykes, who maintained 
that demons and their prince were a differen f 
fpivits from the devil and his angels, never replied: and Dr 
Lardner feems to admit its — or he fays, (Cafe of the 
Demoniacs, &c. Works, vol. . 448.) “© Vhe . vil ig 
often called Satan and Bee oan 7? For 
of Mr. Farmer’s reafoning on Bee fubjeét, fee che: article 
BEELZEBUB. fo Devry and Satan. 
Whether there ever were any real demoniacs, is a queftion 
that will be confidered under the article Damontacat Po/- 
é, Zs 
fire the Romifh church, there is a particular office for the 
exorcifm of demoniacs. 
If arty or branch of the Anabap- 
tilts, whofe citingoihieg tenet it is, that the devils fhall 
be faved at the end of the world. 
D/EMONIA ACAL Posstssion. Whether we allow 
that reputed demoniacs were eal poffeffed by demons or 
see it muft be acknowledged that they are ranked int 
w Teftament ee : 0 a ss fuffered the molt griev- 
ous a chenpere (See . iv. 24. vill. 16, I Hen 
it may be inferred, cae a flefions are Pomorie under 
infirmities and fickneffes ; and if they had not been included 
under ae ee ~ men ntion of them would not have been 
LG es coaequently, poffeffions imply fome 
he human frame, from whatever 
iz) 
a) 
laboured under a real diftemper, (fee Matt. iv. 24. vill, 16 
17. xv. 28, xvii, 16, 18. ke, 18. vii. Vill. 
2. ix. 42. Aéts, v. 16.) Whenever a miracle wrought 
upon moniac ‘is defcribed, the evangelift fays indiffer- 
ee “Cit expelled the demon, or that he healed the 
demon! fo that a real diforder was cured, whenever 
Chri is ene ted as ejecting ademon. Amongft the 
Greeks and Romans alfo, as hae as amonpgit the Jews, 
thofe perfons who were t ou ® o be pofleffed, fuffered 
grievous diftempers, Henc may es that damoniacs 
were afflicte at certain alae, whether the poffef- 
fion of demons was the real or reputed cdufe of them. 
Moreover, an perine feems to have very generally pree 
vailed, both amongft the Heathens and the Jews, that evi 
{pirits or nen (whether fallen angels or fouls of bad 
e inftruments or authors of many afflitions and 
adnefs, or diftraction, is one evil 
t e 
ancients aa aicakes epilepfy to poffeffion ; ; efkeeming this 
Oa this oe there - 
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au facred on account of the ent rance of demons | into 
the b 
» X. 20, 21, may 
ie as the pean ce a or madnefs 
are offeffion, 
The langnage of thie paflage is obvionfly grounded on the 
connection fuppofed to i betwen pofleflion a andinfanity. 
(See alfo John viii. 48, » 52. vil. 20.) Melancholy, as 
well as raving madnefs, was saforibed by the Jews todemons. 
ese Matt. xvii. rr. Luke vii See alfo the account 
i fark v. 2. 
cle vill. 27. ith regard to epil ae it is obferved 
by the fame writer, that if their diftemper was by the an- 
cients afcribed to poffeffion, it was becaule o was attended 
with a deprivation of the persia or lofs 7 o and 
the figns of Abel (See Matt. xvil. 25. oe 
e€ 1X. 33 the other hand, Dr. Totiner sare A 
iat . thofe faid to have he fpirits were not difcompofed 
in their minds,”’ in proof o ich he refers to the cafe of 
the pe youth above- entionee. that recorded in Mark 
1: 230% 7 iv. 33: y and t aks eae a Pl 
“Matthew 
: 2.) and Mat 14. 
fappos of his hypothe he lf appeals to ‘paralytic cafe 
wher: i ele . are nev 
fpoken ‘of i in the gol the 
idea ; but the evangelite, as bs as the ancients, aie 
guifhed b atics, the former bein 
niacs, and the latter Seal i ce fits of whofe difeafes were 
oe conftantly to return with every new and full moon. 
Accordingly Galen on ‘the moon governs the periods of 
ee afes.”” However, many reputed the fame perfom 
o be bo oniac and a] a demoniac, becanfe 
ie referred the epilepfy to-the poffe of demons, and 
a lunatic, be the fits of this diforder were thought to 
keep lunar periods. While fome afferted the natural in- 
fluence of i 
the patients were more fubje&t to the incurfions of demon 
at the elt of this planet than at any othertime. Such, 
perhaps, was the cafe of the youth defcribed in the gofpel ; 
for his father di seagrae oe both as lunatic and fore vexed 
with a dem t have been what fome modern 
The 
phyficians call « epile nH ic at ” (Mead, p. 46, 47.) 
feribe dzmoniacs as 
ancient Chriftian writers are faid to de 
pefons difordered in their-mind; and confidered Ana as 
mad, ncholy, or epileptic perfons (See Mr. Jof, 
Maat . ae Wetftein, vol. i. p. 283.) 
and 
prejudices againft the gate repelentig it as foniewhat ex. 
traordinary, that the devil fhou 
