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is, Howbeir, Jeſas ſuffered him not, but faith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how ercat things the Lord hath dove for thee, and hath -2d comnalhion on thee.
20 And he departec, 2nd began to publiſh in De- capolis how great things Jeſus had done for him : and 2:| Men uid marvel,
This famous pjece of Hiſtory hath the Teſtimony of three Evangeliits, Mfc, Mirb, and Lube. - We mcering with it in Matthew, dil not only largely open what Paiſages Matthew hath about if, but what both Mah and Lube have, Sce the Notes on Mat. e. 23, :e, go, &c. We lhall only anzex here ſome ſhort Notes, Interpreters judge the Country of the Gergaſenes, 2nd of the Gaturencs mentioned hore, to have been the tame lometimes receiving the Lopountnation from one Cty,
tames from anther y the Devils are called Unclean Spirits. in oppotition to the Huy Spirit, fc we have formerly Ihcucd ; 25 aifo, why they Eelght to be abuut Thmbs, We have alto ſhened the Devi's Power, which (oy God's permifſion) he excrciſeth vpon Men; ſore le piſofferh, and ateth the part of the Sow; in them fefpecially as to the /comatzue Faculty) theſe are properly call'd Demmachs, Frgoy uct tf others he apfiitteth more, as 3 firetgn Agent, ofncring Viv cace fo them: others he more fecre*\ intlucnceth by {ipreſiions avd Suggeſtions ; Thus he ſti'l rarrurels workerh mm the Children of Dijobedience, Eph. 2. 2. Nor arc thc Feopite of God free trom tnis zpetus, though being ſuccoured by Chriſt, they arc not ſo ordinarily overcome, Of the mighty Power of the Evil Ang-!s, to break Chains and Fet- ters, we necd n-t doubr, conſidering, that though falſen from their firft Righteouſncſs, they yet have their natural Power as Spirits. | T adjure thee by Gad, | is no more than, 1 ſulemnly en- treat (hee; 1t hath not the force of, Swear unto me by God, (as ſome weuld have it.) Matthew mentioneth two of theſe Demz- macks; :lark and Luke but one. There were doubtleſs two, but protably one of tiem was not ſo raging as the other, and therefore icſs taien notice of, Some think one of theſe Men was an Heathen, the other a Few : Becauſe the term Legion, which the Demonack gives himſelf, is an Heathen term, figni- fiving 4 Squadron of Soldiers, about Six thouſand, or more, as ſome reckon. 2. Chriſt was nw in a Countrey fall of Henthens, 3. ihe Woman of whole Cure we ncxt read, was a Syropheni-
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24 And Jeſws went with him, and much People followed him, and thronged him.