CHAP. VI.

AND this spirit of wisdom, knowledge and power, which is produced by the revelation as aforesaid, it hath motional voices in the conscience, as the familiar spirit hath in the evil conscience; but the motional voices in a good conscience speaketh peace. Likewise this motional voice in prophets, high priests, apostles and others, is that by which they do foretel things by, whether it be good or bad, that shall befal those that shall enquire.

Also the spirit of revelation hath a standing rule to enquire by, as those have that doth tell things by a familiar spirit as I said before; for the witches doth imitate the way of the prophets, and the devil's way is as like God's way as he can.

Now let the reader mind, and he may see how men have enquired of the Lord by motional voices in the mind, by that spirit of faith which is gotten by revelation, which is called the Spirit of God.

In the time of the law of Moses, the Ephod was a standing rule, for to enquire of God for good or bad success. Now there was no man could tell what the event would be that looked upon the Ephod but such men as had the spirit of revelation or prophecy in them; as David and the high priest, as soon as ever they looked upon the Ephod, they could tell whether they should prosper in battle or not; but if any other man which had not the spirit of revelation and prophecy should look upon the Ephod they could tell nothing by it.

Though the Ephod was appointed of God, on purpose

to enquire of God, yet none could find out God's mind, but such men as aforesaid; for as soon as ever David or the high priest looked upon the Ephod, they could tell what the event would be, as may be seen, 1 Sam. xxiii. 6. 9. how David called for the Ephod and Abiathar the priest to bring it to enquire of the Lord.

Yet God never spake to them by voice, yet they had motional voices in themselves in their hearts, assuring them that they prosper or not prosper; yet God never appeared himself, nor any angel, neither did God spake by any voice, yet they are bid to go and prosper, as if they had heard some voice by looking upon the ephod, so that those voices that bid them go and prosper, they

were motional voices that did arise from the revelation and spirit of prophecy within them by that skill they had in the ephod, which was appointed of God for that purpose. So that all David's voices, and the high priest's voices, that were motional voices, yet called the voice of God, because they did arise from the seed of faith in David and others, which is the divine nature of God, therefore called the Spirit of God.

For this I say, if Saul had not lost that Spirit of Prophecy by his disobedience, as he once had, when the good spirit departed from him, he might have enquired of the ephod, and have heen answered with a motional voice by the ephod, as he was by enquiring of a witch.

For the spirit of Samuel did speak no more to Saul, than the Spirit of God did speak to David, they were both motional voices that did arise from their two seeds, the one voice spake peace and deliverance, and the other spake wrath and destruction; the one did enquire in the way that God did appoint, even of the ephod, or of the Lord's prophets; the other did enquire of that which was forbidden, and forsook the Lord and his prophets, and went to a witch to enquire: it was

because one was the seed of Adam, which is the seed of God, and so chosen of God in mercy, even David; and the other was the seed of the serpent even the devil, who was chosen king in God's wrath even Saul.

This is the true interpretation of those voices that Samuel spake to Saul, and of his being raised by the witch of Endor.

Therefore you that can understand these things as aforementioned, you may see how the whole world lieth in darkness, and are cheated of their sense and reason by this lying and vain imagination, to believe that spirits can be without bodies, or that spirits can be raised without bodies, or that spirits can speak without bodies, or that spirits departed can assume any shapes afterwards; these things and many more are produced by the dark imagination of the heart of man; and if the reader hath any true light of faith in him, he may understand the interpretation I have given of the Witch of Endor, and how a familiar spirit is produced or begotten in them, and be satisfied in his mind as to that matter; so much concerning those words in Samuel, aforementioned.

CHAP. VII.

AGAIN, it is said, Isa. viii. 29. the prophet speaking there to unbelieving Israelites that did not believe the word of the Lord through the prophet's mouths, concerning the destruction that should come upon Israel; this judgment did the Lord threaten by the mouth of his prophet Isaiah to bring upon Israel for their unbelief; and this prophet seeing the people would not harken unto the voice of the Lord's prophets, nor enquire of them, but altogether persecuted them as false prophets, deceivers, and liars, and the inclination of their hearts was more willing and desirous to enquire of a witch or wizard, who had a familiar spirit, than of the prophet of the Lord, as you may see chapter and verse above written; the words are these as followeth.

And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter, should not a people seek unto their God for the living to the dead.' The meaning of these words is this, that unbelieving men do think and believe that witches and wizards who hath a familiar spirit, can rise out of the ground where dead men were buried, living spirits without bodies that can reveal things unto them, by that motional voice that doth proceed from these familiar spirits, which doth peep and

mutter.

That is, the whisperings that proceeds from this familiar spirit, that is begotten by the imagination of reason the father, and the seed of reason the mother as I said before, is that motional voice all witches and wizards have, whereby they peep and mutter in themselves, as if they did hear voices and see shapes, and living spirits arise out of the ground, as the Witch of

Endor said to king Saul, she saw Gods ascend out of the earth.' When as there was no spirit nor shape came out of the ground at all, but the Gods she saw ascend out of the earth came out of her own imagination, even that familiar spirit begotten in her, it seemed unto her as if it did ascend out of the earth, but those Gods she said she saw ascend out of the earth, they ascended out of her own imagination, and Saul believed her and so was partakers with her and he did believe that she had raised Samuel's spirit out of the earth, as the witch had said.

And this is to be minded by the reader, that when spirits are to be raised by witches, her familiar spirit always ariseth out of her own self, even from the seed of reason and imagination of her own heart, whereby she doth hear voices within her, whispering low voices, as if some other spirits without her did spake with a low voice unto her, and present shapes unto her dazzled eyes, which seemeth to the witch to be real voices of a spirit without her and a real shape without her; when as in deed and in truth, it ariseth out of her own self, even from the seed of reason, and imagination of her own heart, whereby she doth hear voices within her, whispering low voices, as if some other spirit without her did speak with a low voice to her, and present shapes to her dazzled eyes, which seemeth to the witch to be a real voice of a spirit without her and a real shape without her, when as in deed and in truth it is nothing else but a motional voice begotten in herself, by the imagination in the womb of reason as aforesaid, which is that familiar spirit.

Which is that familiar spirit she doth deal with, she thinking it is from some spirit without her, she not knowing it is begotten in her; and this familiar spirit begotten in her, it whispers within her with a low motional voice, as if some spirit did whisper out of the ground.