Chap. VIII. jus posed Witchcraft.

man told him. Now let Mr. Glanvil consider and answer, Whetherit be not only intimated, but clearly holden forth in the Text thateither they were in two distinct: rooms, or that nothing visible didappear before Saul. 7 . Now after all this the Text faith, andSaul perceived that it was Samuel , the Hebrew word doth signifieto know or to perceive, and relates to the understanding: but howdid he know, or perceive that it was Samuel} not by the sight ofhis eyes, for we have made it plain that he was either in anotherroom, or that no visible apparition presented ft self before his eyes,but he only perceived it by the description of the crafty Woman,who knew well enough what habit or garments Samuel wore inhis life time, as one that was the most publickly known Man inIsrael : and therefore the sobtil and crafty quean, knowing thatSaul only required Samuel to be brought up and do other, dothat the last frame her tale agreeable to Sauls desire, and so describeshim an old Man, covered with a mantle, and such an one Saul hadknown him to be, while he was living. But if Saul had seen anysuch thing as the shape or form of Samuel, then the Hebrew Verbthrice used in that action, that properly signifieth to see with theeyes, would have been used in this place ("as well as when it relat-eth what (he saw) and not the verb for knowing or perceiving thatrelateth to the mind, and SamueVaR saw not, but only believed thelies she told him. For otherwise it would have been, And Saulsaw Samuel , and not, Saul perceived that it was Samuel, which hecould not do but only by her relation, and forged tales. 8 . Thelast thing in this action, is, that Saul stooped with hfc face to theground , and bowed himself: now to what did he stoop and bow,feeing he had seen nothing with his own eyes, neither knew anything that appeared, but as the Wofflan told him ? Gould it be toany thing but to an imaginary Samuel and such an one as (he haddescribed, whom he conceited in his Fhantasie to be him-

self? Surely in rational consequence it could be nothing else. Forall that she had done and said before, being undeniably lies andcheats, this also in just and right reason, must be judged to be soalso. So that it was either the Woman, that being in another room,did change and alter her voice, and so plaid the part of Samuel ,or else that she had a confederate knave, whom she turned out toact the part of dead Samuel.

6 . The last thing that we shall handle concerning this controver-ted subject, is the examination of the grounds and reasons of thosethat are of a different judgment, which may be comprised in thesethree several heads. 1. Some do conceive that it was the Body ofSamuel that was raised up, and acted by his soul or by Satan. 2. Somehold chat it was Samuels Soul that appeared in the shape and habit,that he had living- Z- Others do positively affirm that it was theDevil that assumed the shape of Samuel, and so acted the whosebusiness, by a co mpact betwixt him and the Woman. These wSshssl confute in order.

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