the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Charm
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
or A kind of spell, supposed by the ignorant to have an irresistible influence, by means of the concurrence of some infernal power, both on the minds, lives, and properties of those whom it has for its object. "Certain vain ceremonies, " says Dr. Doddridge, "which are commonly called charms, and seem to have no efficacy at all for producing the effects proposed by them, are to be avoided; seeing if there be indeed any real efficacy in them, it is generally probable they owe it to some bad cause; for one can hardly imagine that God should permit good angels in any extraordinary manner to interpose, or should immediately exert his own miraculous power on trifling occasions, and upon the performance of such idle tricks as are generally made the condition of receiving such benefits."
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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Charm'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/c/charm.html. 1802.
