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Show 611412.44. OF THE KINGDOME C HAP. XLV. quc: oft/1e 0f D E M o N o L o G Y, and other Ke/i Religion of the Gentiles. Ike Origin!!! of Dtmmclo- E!- ' . de BOt ,_ b Y luci V [llfi organs .Of Slgll H . H meOn made on lCflCfth , llnCS y man n Of~l line, dlisn9 Either in one diree‘t throgghd Ritzliphitigpi from Opaque, or refraéted in the paihigel10m ?h~1cethg Imin w Bodies. produceth inlivmg Creatures, or; m . and é‘tt from11in fuch Organs, an Imagination of the Qbye is cale Bog ii {we ion inat Imag premon prOCCCdCtht, which butt rel ly {Fth feemeth not to bee a meet Imagination, 3? $13 vgdengcyopcrehfin' withoutus; inthe famemariner, aslwlhten A . , w mi ears to um a ' ' indeedr11150 is e ther aufe ‘bec ; filfe himi iiilsiiccli cherish; gawk but on in thhe ll'll:?10u1g)r:§.thc, fuch thing without him, but onel a moti t it; Oh'ea Mud] es him prefiing by refifiance outward, tiat malt g after. [100 ()1 Mm" inum cont motion made by this preifui‘e , y, ination, an caufed it is removed, is that we call Imag l) 7ans y ‘ ‘ org: the ot ' mper ‘ fleep, and fomctimcs 'in great difle and(in ipody alrea have I s thing h whic of Sidencffepr Violence ) a Dream l a mm . ken briefly, in the fecond and third Chapters vere y t 11e n {1. This nature of Sight haying never been difco bythoiet mt eon pretenders to NaturallKnowledge; much lefle 151 from tlieilr )EZiLlCliyt det not thinos {o remote(as that Kowledge oie Imagcls int lSVVIIII‘L‘: ufe; it was hard for men to conceiye otth really \ylit lou: up: h "A: ) s thing and in the Se=nfej otlicrwil‘e, than oi not t1 ult ninth-mi] 1;; fome (becaufe they vanilh away, they know y minutei1 W,‘ J will have tobe abiolutely lnCoypoi‘eall? that is toiaout any 80.0111 e with , re Formes without Matter-,Colour and Figu E3311"? 1 : ‘d or haul-ed Body -, and that they can put on Aiery d b Parbzt. 0F DARKNESSE. 664,43; harme; and confequently, giVen occafio‘n to the Governours of the Heathen Common-wealths to regulate this their fear, by enabliihing that Dannienotoer (in which the Poets , as Principall Priefis of the Heathen Religion, were fpecially employed, or revererice'd)to the Publique Peace , and t0 the Obedience of Subjeets necefl'ary thereunto 3. and to make fome of them Good Damon: , and others Evrll; the one as a Spurre to the Obfervance , the other , as Reines to withhold them from Violation of the Laws. 1 . What kind ofthings they were, to whom they attributed the name W734! were of D1mam,3ppearcth partly in the GeneaIOOie oftheir Gods Written 3 It Dlmo'" bythfloe/pne otthe mofl ancient Poets of t e Graecians; ahd part- m Ancients0f . ly in other Hiflories -, of which I have obferved fome few before in the 1 2.Chapter ofthis dii‘courfe. ) I The erCians, by their Colonies and Conquefis, communicated HOW t 1eir Language and Writings into Afia,Egypt,and Italy; and there- BMW""'4' ‘M in,by neeeilary confequence their Demanolagnor (as Sui-hm! calles it) JPMJ' their Doflrme: of Devil; : And by that meanes, the contaoion was derived alloto the jewes,b0th of 1min, and Alexandria arid other parts,t\'liereintothey \i'cre ditpei‘iEd. But the name of bimonthcy HWI'" Y" did not (as the ereians) attribute to Spirits both Good and Evill - mwd 51"" but to tlic‘Evillonely : And tothe Good Demon; they genie the name 7""pt :llC Epigit othod :1 and efleemed thoi‘e into whofe bodies they enret to e to rats. n lumin tr ' " v ‘ butedtOthe bgirit_ ot‘Cod; ancd :gIéLQfilllibtl , idrheGgfjda"my n gtttlut a "Hungry, an EVlll Demon, that is,a Dew/l. And therefo re ihey cal- led Dilmmildrlk'e')‘, tiiJK leflltfled 67:15: Dew/l, {rich as we (3'1" Mad< men or LUthlqucS; or hieh as had the Falling Sickneile- or that {poke any thing, which they for wtnt oftinderilandin", thohOht abfurd: As alto ot‘an tinclcane perfon in a notorious dettrieJheyDul'cd to fay he had an llnclean Spirit-,or' a Dumbe man,th;tt the had a Dumbe Devillgand or lab» Kept/fr (Mat/2.11. 18.) for the finaiilarityofhis faflrng,tliat he had a Divell -, and of our Saviour, becaiitiy‘e he {aid hec that keepeth his fayings ihould not fee Death 111 Her/mm Nor; we W3" 8- 53"withers/1.111.: lam/1H; Abra/211m if dud, Jfldlllt Prop/mi m dead: And agarn_,‘oecauie he laid (la/m 7.20.)"fbeywent11wutta lull blmfilic to our . 11, y\ eye»; ".0.mutt) to make them \iifible when they Will but mice it '1 ‘1 :1 , others {ay,are Bodies, andlivmg Lreaturesz h is , then, u :eii‘vayitlyl whic r? other more {ubtile and :tthereall Matte e on amt" 13:11.3: v agre eiii otth Both But . will be (Len, tondeni'ed people anlwercd, Thea 124/} a 0672!", who gm" about to hilt/m P whereby it is manitefl,that the ches had the fame opinions concer- appellation oftheinj DEM-ON s. SaViour contradiet it,and teach the contrar f nay why does he ufe on W" "mm" As it the IRead igthtéitirihcnhry' almhe ‘\"1[l:"}"[‘l is Dreamed, were notlnliabitants of their own 110:», 1" i It. wk- but es, tafm Phan not (11tochaVcn) or Hell; (shot 1111a ‘1'}. niuch reafon. asifoneil10r11dhty, he {aw his own or efall): itch; 1:: ebr; alliy in ingoGlafle, or the Glioils ofthe Stars oi , outa ta tityo qiian l ) fill'y apparition of the Sun, or the ' . the \\ ', tore ‘h t it encr h enlir 1' that Sun great "Wt 0t Ghoft 0tA that of hit; " i3 .15! ikm‘ ‘ cdtl ifiir H that mean_s l!.l\C‘ W by ‘ le "'mltl: And viiib . . 1 1,! 9 10.1. or an unlimitsd Wow ‘0 kl" ‘1‘" u‘ harm'flnunltnoWILtlILH15,01 _ , ., ning Phantafinesjnamelyahar they were not Phantalincs that is,ldols of the braine,but things reall,and independent on the l'ancy. Which doctrine if it be nottrue, why (may fome fay) did not our May our Sn- diverfc occafionsiize'; Forms of ipeech as teem to confirm it: Tothis M " U" I antwer,that firfl, where Chrifi faith, A [pint Int/2 not/Mb andlrme though hec thew that there be Spirits , yet hec denies not thatthc ' are Bodies: And where SLPaullitres,H"ej/1.tl/rife/primal!Bad/ex, hc acknowledgeth the nature of Spirits,biit that they are Bodil Spirits; which is not difficult to underftand. For Air and many other tlungs‘ arc Bodies,though not Fleih and Bone,or any other groffe body,to bcc YY 3 thiccrned |