Still another argument used in trying to save this part of the theological theory was that the bells were consecrated instruments for this purpose, "like the horns at whose blowing the walls of Jericho fell."(260) (260) For Koken, see his Offenbarung Gottes in Wetter, Hildesheim, c1756; and for the answer to Bacon, see Gretser's De Benedictionibus, lib.

ii, cap.

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But these compromises were of little avail.

In 1766 Father Sterzinger attacked the very groundwork of the whole diabolic theory.

He was, of course, bitterly assailed, insulted, and hated; but the Church thought it best not to condemn him.