Essays On Partial Derangement of the Mind in Supposed Connexion With Religion
Essays On Partial Derangement of the Mind in Supposed Connexion With Religion
Cheyne, John, 1777-1836. [from Old Catalog]
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It is one of the devices of man's great enemy, to have his power, nay, his existence, denied by those who are his subjects ; and we only play his game, and confirm Sadducean principles, when we allege of Satan what we cannot prove. Probably, nothing so much weakened the influence of Luther as his accovmt of his conflicts with the devil. The mind of the reformer yielded to delusions practised upon it by his senses; and consequently maiiy who are unwilling to admit the power of his judg- ment and... the rectitude of his principles, especially the minions of superstition and the abettors of Digitized by Google FALSE PERCEPTIONS. 69 infidelity, have persuaded themselves that the master spirit of his age — with whom the Charleses, the Hemys, and the Francises, were no more to be compared than Ahab was with Elijah — was a dreaming and credulous enthusiast. Those who admit the authority of Scripture are not permitted to doubt that when oiu* Lord cured the demoniacs he actually dispossessed them.
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