and utter such a great truth, which our Saviour did not presently publish, that he was the Son of God? Did any come near to whisper this in their Ear? Or was this a raving fancy only? St. Mark writes (who speaks but of a single Demoniack) that when he saw Jesus afar off, he came and worshipped him, He knew him presently and understood his true condition before most of the Jews about him; and even some of his own Disciples did. Could a meer Mad-man have done so? But further they expected torment, and from him, in the time to come, though they looked not for it so soon. Art thou come to torment us before the time? How applicable is this to the condition of evil Spirits and their expectations?
We have a like acknowledgment of our Saviour from another unclean Spirit, Mark 1. 24. I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And our Saviour in what he saith, in answer plainly, implies it was the Evil Spirit, not the Mad-man that spake, or at least caused the confession. Hold thy peace and come out of him, v. 25. And that the Demoniacks did things beyond the force of meer Mad-men is further sufficiently declared in the History, Mark 5. No Man could bind him, no not with Chains; because he had been often bound with Fetters and Chains, and the Chains had been pluckt in sunder by him. I would fain know, whether this be not beyond the force of meer natural madness?
ADVERTISEMENT.
Hitherto the Paper was the same, and the Hand the same, and so far of the Copy transcribed. Afterward the Hand alters, and is Mr. Glanvil's own Hand, but with an Hiatus of above half a Sheet of unwrit Paper between, but the Number of the Pages is continued. Something there was to intervene, to make a more full Connexion; but yet what follows, is of the same suit, and produced to puove out of Scripture the Negotiation of Evil Spirits with their Clients.
