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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	cast_v	devil_n	divide_v	3,310	5	9.5405	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53393	The doctrine of devils proved to be the grand apostacy of these later times. An essay tending to rectifie those undue notions and apprehensions men have about dæmons and evil spirits.		1676 (1676)	Wing O366A; ESTC R19438	87,763	234

but subsisted meerly by and in the other Person as a Ciens ingrafted doth in the Tree But best of all is this the Hypostatical Union of the two Natures in Christ adumbrated by the Union of the spiritual and corporeal parts in Man For as the reasonable Soul and Flesh is one Man so God and Man is one Christ as the Athanasian Creed hath it There be many resemblances of this it seems but not any kind of adumbration as yet found in nature how to shadow out the consubstantiation of two perfect compleat and subsistent individuals in one person And yet which is considerable too 2. God thought it needful to send an Angel even one of his mightiest most honourable most eloquent and most powerful even the Angel Gabriel to the blessed Virgin her self To perswade her into the belief of the possibility of that whereas they say That the Union of Devils unto Man is easily credible and generally believed without half that trouble Strange That the stranger thing should be more easily believed than the easier 3. But yet further There was great ado and much trouble about it To unite Man to God the omnipotency of the holy Ghost and the power of the Almighty God were imployed and all needful for the effecting of it Where the Devil as the Ichneumon into the Crocodile can slip into mens mouths with ease as they gape and possess them wholly as their own members And yet again 4. In the Judgment of God himself It was needful That much time even Thirty years and more should be spent I will not say for the subjugating of the Manhood to an obediential subjection towards the Godhead but for the clearer manifestation of the reality of that Union yea and Three or four years of continual Miracles to boot Where the Devil can incarnate himself possess or enter into a Person make him subservient to his will beck or nodd and manifest himself unquestionably to be the Dominus fac totum in the Person and all that with the turn of a hand in an instant 5. I might add God never did that Miracle but once the Devil doth such as are parallel every way and Super-paramount to it every week and day for many Thousand years together so that in truth the Devil seems to be the greater Miracler as out-doing out-going out-stretching the Omnipotent God in that very particular that he counts his Master-piece God manifested in the flesh is no such great Mystery the Devil can and doth do as great or greater every day Oh intolerable opinion that yields such blasphemous results Devilmongers will no doubt disclaim this charge but they shall never be able to evade the guilt CHAP. VII It undervalues Christs Miracles in that it allows Ejection of evil Spirits to Devils and Witches BUt Secondly as this Doctrine in the point of possession undervalues the Mystery of Christs Incarnation So doth it more abuse Christ in the crotchet of Dispossession A Devil nay a Witch say they by the Devils power can eject or cast out Devils out of any one possessed First out of a Person where there never was any Devil But Christ saith Satan casts not out Satan else his house should be divided and his Kingdom could not stand And yet hath and doth it stand ever since though at least as the doctrines of Devils assert Satan hath cast out Devils or Satan all the World over for these Sixteen hundred years Thus therefore this doctrine makes Christ a lyer And which is as bad it attributes more power to the Devil than ever Christ though he appeal to his stupend works for the justification of his Godhead ever exerted while here on earth Christ never so much as cast out one Devil I know men generally run away with this conceit because of these notions cast out Devils or cured a Demoniack or one possessed as we render it But if we consider That the Scripture speaketh but according to the mode and phrase of times then wherein according to the conceit of Platonizing Pharisees all great diseases afflictions or distempers wherein they thought as they did in all almost That there was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some extraordinary and supernatural agency we may and will be easily satisfied That when Christ is said to cast out Devils they were but dangerous diseases uncommon maladies or extraordinary distempers or else sometimes sins that are meant CHAP. VIII Christ cast not out Devils What is meant by Devils where Christ is said to cast them out CHrist himself in his return to John's Message or Quaery Art thou he that should come or do we look for another speaks nothing but of curing Diseases and Preaching the Gospel Not a word of casting out Devils though in the same hour he had cast out one Luk. 7.19 Whatever is meant by it But could he have satisfied John better than by saying Devils also are cast out if he had cast out any Devil really And yet not a word of this in his Answer unto John Baptist nor which is as remarkable doth St. John though he set himself upon that point especially to prove the Godhead of Christ producing many yea very many very great and stupend Miracles done by Christ yet doth he not so much as hint at that of ejecting Devils A great oversight in such a Person in such a business to neglect such an Argument if any such thing had ever been This would have proved him to be God indeed and his Power paramount above all Principalities and Powers and Thrones and Dominions and so God without controversie or dispute But he urgeth it not and therefore we may well conclude if we will not think that he betrayed the Cause That there was no such thing Besides Demonium habere vel Demoniacum esse are most properly and most fitly rendered Madmen When some said In furorem versus est or he is mad others said he hath Beelzebub or a Devil as being in their conceit but one and the self-same thing Mark 3.30 21 He hath a Devil or is mad seem to be Synonimies and to interpret one the other John 10.20 So because of that mad wild frantick speech of his as they accounted it If any man keep my saying he shall never see death Now say they We know that thou hast a Devil and art mad For none thought they but a Madman would have vented such a wild word John 8.51 52. And therefore Maldonat a Jesuite and one that upheld the doctrine of Devils and possession as much as any Man for the maintenance of Purgatory Alii putant Alii in the Plural number 't was not one single Doctors Fathers Schoolmans opinion but a number of them Some think That this word Demonium habere or Demoniacum esse modum suisse loquend● quo non significarent eum vere habere Demonium sed motae esse mentis delirare insanire To have a Devil was a kind of phrase or form of speech by which they did not