(Juan 8. 52.), «Ahora sabemos que tienes demonio; Abraham ha muerto, y los profetas han muerto»; y de nuevo, porque dijo (Juan 7. 20.) que «procuraban matarle», el pueblo respondió: «¿Tienes demonio?, ¿quién procura matarte?». Por lo cual es manifiesto que los judíos tenían las mismas opiniones acerca de los fantasmas, a saber, que no eran fantasmas, es decir, ídolos del cerebro, sino cosas reales e independientes de la fantasía.
# Por qué Nuestro Salvador no lo reprimió
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 he denies not that they are Bodies: And where St. Paul sais, “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 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, then 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 Firmament, to