The Latest Heresy; Or, Modern Pretensions to the Miraculous Gifts of Healing and of Tongues, Condemned [2 Sermons]

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 - 66 páginas
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. 1832. Excerpt: ... imperfectly acquainted. Esculapius, the father of medicine, was considered a deity, and his successors were elevated to the rank of his hierophants. His temples were crowded with the grateful offerings of those he was supposed to have benefited.--Vide Celsus de Medecina. Lib. i. pref. Diodorus Siculus says of the Egyptian Isis, that " many have been strangely cured by her help, who have been given over by physicians, and many blind and lame have been healed by her." Hut. 1.1, p. 22. Strabo and Cicero ascribe similar miraculous cures to other deities. Ths North American Indians retain the practice of attempting cures by supernatural means. For a very singular instance, the subject of which, a Huron woman, was wonderfully recruited, but not entirely cured, see Father Charlevoix's Travels in North America, Letter ziv. (33.) Horne'slntrod. to the Study of Scrip, vol. i. p. 222. (34.) "As no impostors ever pretended to perform a great number of miracles, so they always or usually limited themselves to one species of them."--Home's Introd. to thi Scrip, vol. i. p. 243. (35.) Bacon, in his Essays, informs us, that " in Vespasian's time, there went a prophecy in the East, that those that should come forth of Judea should reign over the world, which, though it may be meant of our Saviour, yet Tacitus expounds it of Vespasian."--Bacon's Essays. Of Prophecies, sxxv. This ambitious emperor, not content with pleading visions, and presages, and auguries, in Ms favour, aspired to work miracles; and accordingly, as Tacitus reports, cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot, in obedience to a vision of the God Serapis. But Tacitus also informs us, that when Vespasian consulted the physicians, whether such maladi...

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