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Dæmoniaques, that is, possessed by the Devill, such as we call
Madmen or Lunatiques; or such as had the Falling Sicknesse;
or that spoke any thing, which they for want of understanding,
thought absurd: As also of an Unclean person in a notorious
degree, they used to say he had an Unclean Spirit; of a Dumbe
man, that he had a Dumbe Devill; and of John Baptist
( Math. 11. 18.) for the singularity of his fasting, that he had
a Devill; and of our Saviour, because he said, hee that keepeth
his sayings should not see Death in æternum,
Now we know thou hast a Devill; Abrahamis dead,
and the Prophets are dead: And again, because he said ( John
7. 20.) They went about to kill him, the people answered, Thou
hast a Devill, who goeth about to kill thee? Whereby it is
manifest, that the Jewes had the same opinions concerning
Phantasmes, namely, that they were not Phantasmes, that
is, Idols of the braine, but things reall, and independent on
the Fancy.

John 8. 52.

Which doctrine if it be not true, why (may some say) did
not our Saviour contradict it, and teach the
contrary? nay why does he use on diverse
occasions, such forms of speech as seem to
confirm it? To this I answer, that first, where Christ saith,
A spirit hath not flesh and bone, though hee shew that there be
Spirits, yet hee denies not that they are Bodies: And where
St. Paul saies, We shall rise spirituall Bodies, he acknowledgeth
the nature of Spirits, but that they are Bodily Spirits; which is
not difficult to understand. For Air and many other things
are Bodies, though not Flesh and Bone, or any other grosse
body, to bee [354] discerned by the eye. But when our
Saviour speaketh to the Devill, and commandeth him to go
out of a man, if by the Devill, be meant a Disease, as Phrenesy,
or Lunacy, or a corporeal Spirit, is not the speech improper?
can Diseases heare? or can there be a corporeall Spirit in a Body
of Flesh and Bone, full already of vitall and animall Spirits?
Are there not therefore Spirits, that neither have Bodies, nor
are meer Imaginations? To the first I answer, that the
addressing of our Saviours command to the Madnesse, or
Lunacy he cureth, is no more improper, than was his rebuking
of the Fever, or of the Wind, and Sea; for neither do these
hear; Or than was the command of God, to the Light, to the

Why our
Saviour con-
trolled it not.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Contributors: Thomas Hobbes - author, A. R. Waller - editor. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of Publication: Cambridge, England. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 474.
    
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