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Title: Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by Mr. Frederick Calvert, engraved on steel by Mr. T. Radclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: West, William, 1770-1854 Calvert, Frederick Radclyffe, T
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e, and the practice of virtue, being a work much read and approved of by thatincreasing class of christians. In 1771 appeared Mr. Farmers Dissertation on the Miracles, designed to show, thatthey are arguments of a Divine interposition, and absolute proofs of the ?nission and doctrineof a Prophet. This was a better and a much more useful work than the former; and hasrendered considerable service to the cause of virtue and religion. It has also been reprintedby the society above mentioned, in a cheap and correct edition. Aware of the objectionsto the general principles of his Dissertation on the Miracles, arising from the cure of thegospel demoniacs, Mr. Farmer, in 1775, endeavoured entirely to remove the difficulty, in Gentleir.aas Magazine, Vol. lvi., p. 184.—Urwicks Funeral Sermon for Mr. Farmer, p. 33. f Monthly Review, Vol. xxvii., p. 8. ( In the Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature for 1810, are several we!!-writteD and curious letterson this mysterious subject.
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n; . < 2 £ v - OF SHROPSHIRE. 81 An Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament whose afflictions, he maintains, werenatural diseases. This is a curious and well-written performance: but it gave muchoffence, at the time of its appearance, to the advocates for supernatural possessions; andgreatly enraged the exorcists, who were justly zealous for the safety of their craft. Thiswork was answered in 1777 somewhat roughly, by the learned and pious Dr. Worthington;and again in 1779, by the Rev. Mr. Fell, a dissenting minister of various literaryacquirements. To the former of these antagonists Mr. Farmer gave a temperate andlearned reply; but toward Mr. Fell he was not quite so gentle. Mr. Farmers last workappeared in 1783, and was entitled TJie General Prevalence of the Worship of HumanSpirits in the Ancient Heathen Nations asserted and proved which was also attacked byMr. Fell, who had been rather disingenuously treated in Mr. Farmers notes, interspersedthroughout his last work.* In t

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