Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 16:18
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Acts16:18
18 And this she did many days. Bu[illegible: 1 letter] Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit , I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
St. Paul was grieved; either, for the Maids sake, who suffered so much by her being possessed with this spirit; or, for their sakes who were seduced by him.
St. Paul (as our Saviour had done, Mark 1.25.) refuseth the testimony of the Devil; for he being the Father of Lyes, Ioh. 8.44. makes every thing he says to be suspected▪ as 'tis an usual punishment of Lyars, that they are not believed when they speak the truth; and the Devil never speaks any truth, but with an intention to deceive.
By the Authority and Power of Christ.
Marginal references: Mark 16.17.
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