Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

-) 1 THE C50DS OF TIIK NATIONSeye-witnesses give us many derails. Takeagain the oracles -which existed throughout theheal hen world, ft and, as dealing O with the same subject-matter,divination in all its forms. Howevermuch of deceit there miidit O be, here, * was ihcre notalso, in many instances, an exhibition of powerand knowledge beyond that of man, which no meredeceit could produce I ? Take a^ain £j maufic, C7 ' the invocation,adjuration, and compacting with spirits,which ran through heathen society in numberlessshapes; and take lastly the fact of spirits sei/ingupon and possessing the bodies of men, speakingby their voice, and controlling their minds. The(our classes which we have jusl given comprehendin themselves nn innumerable multitude of factswhich are apparent in pagan history, in all whichthe corruption of the human soul is an agent orpatient, but for which that corruption by itselfsupplies no adequate cause. A spiritual power isbehind, laying hold of and acting upon this corruption,and by limit of the human will making aninroad into the visible world, and partially masteringit, bending it to an evil purpose, and makingit serve as an agent to man's captivity. Let usbriefly cite as to the reality of this spiritual powerthe witness of its victims and ihe witness of itsopponents.Dtl In