Still our Lord goes about doing good; before, he healed the diseased, here he helps the possessed.

Learn, 1. That amongst the many calamities which sin has rendered human nature liable and obnoxious to, this is one, to be bodily possessed by Satan. This man's dumbness was caused by the devil's possession.

Learn, 2. That one demonstration of Christ's divine power, and. convincing evidence of his being truly and really God, was, his casting out devils by the word of his power.

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