An essay on the demoniacs of the New Testament / by Hugh Farmer.

  • Farmer, Hugh, 1714-1787.
Date:
1775
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Credit: An essay on the demoniacs of the New Testament / by Hugh Farmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which could not be taken notice of by thofe learned writers. If I fhould happen to contribute any thing, be it ever fo little, towards fupplying their defects, or cor- reCting their miftakes, or giving a fatif- factory folution of the difficulties they have not removed, I fhall not regret my labour, or think that it requires any apo- logy. Indeed, the difcuffion of this fub- ject was neceflary to complete the defign of a former publication. Of all the objections againft the mira- cles of Scripture, there are none that unbelievers urge with greater triumph, than that drawn from the common ex- plication of the gof{pel-demoniacs*. Now, fhip, as fervice to the caufe he undertook to de- fend, * Thus Mr. Roufleau (in his Troifieme Let- tre écrite de la Montagne) exclaims upon the fub- ject: Il y en a dans |’Evangile qu’il n’eft pas méme poilible de prendre au pied de la lettre fans re- noncer au bon fens. Tels font, par exemple, ceux des pofledés,——Jéfus demande 4 un grouppe de demons comment il s’appelle, Quoi! Les dé- though