This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Old Testament, many intimations were given that this should be the great object of his coming, and there were striking indications throughout the whole of his public life, that to this his plans and efforts were directed. During Christ's appearance on earth, Satan was permitted to exercise a peculiar ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Old Testament, many intimations were given that this should be the great object of his coming, and there were striking indications throughout the whole of his public life, that to this his plans and efforts were directed. During Christ's appearance on earth, Satan was permitted to exercise a peculiar influence, not only over the souls, but over the bodies of men, that our Lord might, in expelling him, give a pledge of his final victory over all the powers of darkness. In this light were those miracles viewed by the more enlightened among his disciples, and in his own mind they awakened the joyful anticipations expressed in these words, --" I beheld Satan fall like lightning from heaven." On the occasion to which our text refers, two demoniacs were relieved by our Lord, but one only is noticed by Mark, on account of the uncommon violence of his malady. The case of this poor man seems to have been peculiarly afflictive. He was an object of terror to all around, by his fierceness and strength, his horrible cries, and the tortures which he inflicted on himself; but Jesus beheld him with pity, and did great things for him; freed him from this oppression of the devil, and formed a meek and pure spirit within him. There were miracles of Christ in which the cure of the body was not accompanied with any sanctifying operation on the soul. The nine lepers who were cleansed still remained in that moral impurity which they never felt as an evil, and from which they expressed no wish to be freed; but this child of the devil was made a child of wisdom, and was translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son. He formed in him a reverence for God, and a submission to his will, against whom he had poured out such hideous blasphemy, ...
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