A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

It was remarked by both Heathen and Christian writers in those days, that the famous Heathen oracles in their temples, where princes and others for many past ages had been wont to inquire and receive answers with an audible voice from their gods, which were indeed answers from the devil; I say, those oracles were now ⟨p. 204⟩silenced and struck dumb, and gave no more answers: and particularly the oracle at Delphos, which was the most famous Heathen oracle in the whole world, which both Greeks and Romans used to consult, began to cease to give any answers, even from the birth of Christ; and the false deity who was worshipped, and used to give answers from his oracle in that temple, being once inquired of, why he did now give answers as he was won• to do? made this reply, as several Heathen historians who lived about those times relate, There is an Hebrew boy, says he, who is king of the gods, who has commanded me to leave this house, and be gone to hell, and therefore you are to expect no more answers Many of the Heathen writers who lived about that time, speak much of the oracles being silenced, as a thing at which they wondered, not knowing what the cause should be. Plutarch, a Heathen writer of those times, wrote a particular treatise about it, which is still extant. And Porphyry, one of the Heathen writers before-mentioned, who opposed the Christian religion, in his writings has these words: It is no wonder if the city for these so many years has been over-run with sickness; Aesculapius, and the rest of the gods, having withdrawn their converse with men "for since Jesus began to be worshipped, no man has received any public help or benefit by the gods."

It was remarked by both Heathen and Christian writers in those days, that the famous Heathen oracles in their temples, where princes and others for many past ages had been wont to inquire and receive answers with an audible voice from their gods, which were indeed answers from the devil; I say, those oracles were now ⟨p. 204⟩silenced and struck dumb, and gave no more answers: and particularly the oracle at Delphos, which was the most famous Heathen oracle in the whole world, which both Greeks and Romans used to consult, began to cease to give any answers, even from the birth of Christ; and the false deity who was worshipped, and used to give answers from his oracle in that temple, being once inquired of, why he did now give answers as he was won to do? made this reply, as several Heathen historians who lived about those times relate, There is an Hebrew boy, says he, who is king of the gods, who has commanded me to leave this house, and be gone to hell, and therefore you are to expect no more answers Many of the Heathen writers who lived about that time, speak much of the oracles being silenced, as a thing at which they wondered, not knowing what the cause should be. Plutarch, a Heathen writer of those times, wrote a particular treatise about it, which is still extant. And Porphyry, one of the Heathen writers before-mentioned, who opposed the Christian religion, in his writings has these words: It is no wonder if the city for these so many years has been over-run with sickness; Esculapius, and the rest of the gods, having withdrawn their converse with men "for since Jesus began to be worshipped, no man has received any public help or benefit by the gods."