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    This might have seemed to , be the more necessary , inasmuch a * the prevalent opinions on the subject of evil spirits , and indeed €€ the interference in human affairs of inferior orders of spiritual beings of any description or character , were likely to affect tW * validity , or at least the influence , of the argument from miiadesa As long as it was allowed that any other beings , demons , angel : ! :

    or devils , were permitted of their own accord to intermeddle m the concerns of this world , —to produce disorders in one place on to heal them in another , —to produce effects of any kind in amaof ner which could not be explained by the ordinary laws and princitples of human nature and the coarse of Providence . —it was

    evi-i-dent that the exhibition of works which no man could do by mem human power or knowledge , would be no sufficient proof that Godd was with him . And accordingly we find that this was in fact th& ground upon which many , both Jews and Gentiles , attempted tea evade the just and obvious inference from those mighty works * * He casteth out demons by Beelzebub the prince of the demons , " and the above remark will enable us the more fully to understand

    the indignation which our Lord expresses at so unworthy and injurious an insinuation . If therefore our Lord was himself folly enlightened as to the real cause of these disorders , and saw through the absurdity of the prevailing superstitions , it is difficult to conceive why he did not take care to give the people , or at least his own disciples , more correct information . With us Unitarians it is sufficient to reply that he had it not to give ;—it is a reply which

    puts us to no difficulty , but rather , as I have already hinted , tends to strengthen the evidence of his divine commission as derived from the exercise of supernatural and consequently divine power , in the cure of these disorders ; because this power was exerted at the command of one who appears to have been himself utterly ignorant of the real nature and causes of the diseases which were thus removed .

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    A Sermon , preached June 24 / A , 1832 , in the C ^ nerai Baptist JfeeftF / t ^ House , Deptfbrdy on occasion of Quitting the Posfora / CA&rge of the Congregation assembling in that ptace . By Edwin Chapman * This valedictory discourse is characterized by an tugenuous * Kumbte , pious , kind , and xeaious spirit * and is alike honourable to the

    judgement and feelings of the preacher * Mr . Chapman and his late eoagpregat ion have parted on account of a change in his opinions on the sub ject of baptism . Not , we believe * that they would-not have been 'delighted , nevertheless , with the continuance of his pulpit and pastovml service * amongst them , but the trust-deed ^ it seems * preeto * k ** s * ch an arrangement . We take such truat * deeds to b * tibeb * and stattM be glad if all attempts , by the bequest of « u > oe >\ H > iutttteure Ihe ^ yuww *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/69/