Daemoniacs An Enquiry Into The Heathen And The Scripture Doctrine Of Daemons In Which The Hypotheses Of The Rev Mr Farmer And Others On This Subject Are Particularly Considered PDF Download

Excerpt from Deamoniacs an Enquiry Into the Heathen and the Scripture Doctrine of Daemons; In Which the Hypotheses of the Rev. Mr. Farmer, and Others on This Subject, Are Particularly Considered It hath been affirmed by several learned writers, that the Daemoniacs mentioned in the Gospel were persons labouring only under natural diseases such as a deep melancholy, madness or epilepsy, and not at all affected by any evil spirits. This opinion was intimated above an hundred years ago, by Mr. Joseph Mede, and, about forty years since, urged with great vehemence by Dr. Sykes; when it was as warmly opposed by some other divines. The same hypothesis was afterwards taken up by Dr. Lardner in his Cafe of the Demoniacs of the New Testament; and is now revived again and inforced by the Reverend Hugh Farmer, in his Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament; the design of which work is to shew, "that the disorders, imputed to supernatural possessions, proceed from natural causes, not from the agency of any evil spirits." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."