A Dissertation On Miracles Designed to Shew That They Are Arguments of a Divi
A Dissertation On Miracles Designed to Shew That They Are Arguments of a Divi
Hugh Farmer
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Malmou, Mor. Ne- voc. 1. 3. C. 37. X They a«51ed cKca coa^torum numinum violcntia. Enchpn- treffes boafted that they had power over the gods. Lncan. 1. 6, V. 606, 742. Ovid. Metamor. 1. 7. 192. II I have taken no notice of that fpecies of magic, called the- ^-^''Sy (^*»§V'^)) becaufe it principally confided in a fanatical jtretcnce to communion with demons, and a vifion of their ef- f-nce. So far as it was thought, to invefl thofe who pra6lifed it, J 82 Proofs from Revelation y that Miracles th...er thofe pretences were carried on by the prieft, under the protedion, and for the fervice of the ftate * ; or for the purpofes of private gain, by the lowed orders of magicians t, conjurers and witches, generally (though feldom efFe£lualIy) profcribed or prohibited by law %» Whatever difference there might be between them, the Scripture brands them all as (hamelefs impoftors ; and reproaches them with an utter inability of difcovering or accomplifhing any thing fupernatural. The prophet Ifaiah having fore- told the deftrudion of Babylon, fo famous all over the it, with the power of the gods j it differed in one refpeft from that fort of magic called forcery ('/o)jT«o£i) theurgy invoking only the benevolent divinities j forcery the mfchievous ones^ •vvhofe operations were fuitable to their nature.
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