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Show Lhe first Booke of the first part reer - Curariin.§.s e( ‘ eiuerightlyoflikeeffeéts, they hap. beforethie rightly of caufes!conceiue comparinglike caufes'conc tehtimes byComparinglike sopepper a Diuell doubteth and would willingly keepe his creditjhe ener: more an{wereth by Riddles,as IfCrefus ouer Halysgoe, Great Kingdomeshe fhall overthrow. Whichan fer may be taken either vvay:eitherfor the ouerthravy of his own King. dome,or of his Enemies. And thus far we grantthe Diuell may. pr ceed in pre digtons which(otherwife ) belong to God -onely ; as itis in Efay: Shew. the things that aretty come hereafter, that we way know thatye are Gods;hew vs at alltimes and certainly wheris js tocome.Solius enim diuine intelligenti« acfapientie efecculta noffe cr.reuclares It 1s onlypri. per to Gods underftanding and wifedome,to know andreucale hidden things. §. VITI. That none was euer raifedfrom the dead by the power ofthe Diuell: andthat it was not the true Samuel which appeared to Saul. 40 conclude, it may be obiected that the Diuell hath that others byhis powerhaue done the i fwade,that the foules(yea cuen}ofinf men) werein his powers yetfo faiteis ic roan the promifes of the Scriptures,and from Gods tuft and mereifull nature,and fo. contraryto all diuine reafon,as Saint Augufline (or whofoe uer wrote that booke before citedmight rightly terme it a deteftable opinion fotothinke. For if Godhad te abfolutely forlaken Sant, that hee refufed to anfwerhim either by Dreames, byV7im, or byhis Prophets: it Croefus Halympenetrans magnamfubuertit opum vin, - oftheRilerneltala. Cuap.t.§u. were fottifh to conceiue,that he would pethit the Diuell,or a withed Witch, to raife a Prophet from the déadin Sauls refpect: it beingall Coritrary'to his Own divine Lawto1. askecoumfaile of the dead ; as in Deuteronemite-x 8.and cliewhere. Thereforeit veagtlic ° Diuelljand not thefoule of a deadbody. thar gaue anfwer and aduice: But becaufe Helicsand Helizeus had. fedfome from thedea thofe Diuels whiclS.' duga/live calleth ladifics of their owne vafjads,catting beforet i ab roe unanaelcs ere omnis founds to their eares like thevoyces of mensdoal{o perfwadetheir graceleffeanddccur. fed aveend that themfelues both poffet nd haue powér.ouer thefonles of MenvE Dhwi= ciem tum (peclantium, tum ec 6 the both of the bebolders, that fo icls power, whomif we will ‘un -avof Gods vet -ance,he cantouc Ds Thiet -thébounds retodinnesFor when heeis nthat-makes.not himfelfthis i d raifed from the'dead: andy like, as inthe exem ple giuen' of Samu raifed by the Witch of Endor :which w med$ that fome of the Diuels aéts exceeded all creittrue, then might it indeed beafit: the powers ofnature, falfe femblance,é ® otherillufions. /ufline Martyr was fometime ofthe opinion, thatit was Samuel indeede, 4and{ovvas Ambrofe, 1pra,and Burgenfis ; from - ftrength vvhich fo beleeue.But Martyr changed vvhich authorities thofe menborrow his opinion; & fo did S. Augufineswlo , atfirftfeemedto beindifferent: Forin his queftions vponthe OldandNew Teftamett, he accountethit deteftableto thinke thatit was Semye/ which appeared : & thefebe his vvords elfewhere to thefame effet: In requie [unt anime Plorum acorporefeparata,impiors impend lunut,donec iftarum ad vitam ehernaw, ilarum vero ad aternam mortem ques! fe cunda dicitur corpora reninifcapt ; Thefoules ofthe Lodlyfeparated from their bodies are t reft,but thofe ofthe wickedfuffer puzi pinent, till the bodies ofthe iuft rife ra cternalt lift, ais of the wicked toan eternall ana fecond death, nd(befides S, Auguftine)Iuftine Martyr, ; Helarius, Tertullian 5 Athanafiues, and others, beleened firmely,and Chryfofam, taught it: that the foule s of from their bodies,did not fet wander onthe earth atall:Credeve men being "A corpor thusfanclorumanime debemus({ait abierint, tanquain in manus charifsingj patris omar commenaari, Weenmuft beleene when the‘Soules ofhol,J nen are depart they be commended to the dini edfron th Z Ate ti ne they be in Heauen,the pow Goodueffe, as intethe hands ofamofl deare Father. Ib ero f the Diu ell ca nnot ftretch fo hich , 40 nulla cf redemptio. n Hell, Ae aFromhellth ere ts no redemption, Foy there * afterdeath 34! ‘ara faith are but two habita Auguttine) iz tone eterno 3 4lterum in régn0 eterno. teruallfire 3 $46otber in Gods eternal] The ont ine Kingdome. And thoughit fir ii be written in sare Pow! the deadhane againe appeared tothe li it ridiculous: »that many there are who beleeuethat yetthe Glof/é vpon the fame Text findes mata(laith the Gloffe) They beleeuc,and Credunt male ania funt Ph Or Apparitions. For whereas anyfuch they beleeue amilfe, becaufe they 7 but Phantafmt voice hath beene heard fayins| famthe lucha ONC: Hee oratio Soule o! a fraude 4t9, deceptione diabolica oft. That fp ay tionof the Diuell, faith Chryfoitome.Likewife aimed by the frame ofthe fame} faith ‘Tertullian? jit Ut animam miuflebet fancliwedum Prophete,a 4 demonig credamus entra binkthat the foule of ms; God fons any holy man auch leffe ¥4 Diacll, of4 Pros Het et {ponla thoula be drawkhY 4 ue thattheScriptures call that ‘appar ition Samuel.fo doe the i falfe brazen gods are y tl 1e woode gods, and thelike; And whereas thefe inion build Vpon th: on that place of the 26.of bin 1¢ Pre miortiss a Semiramis, andof otherof herete: §. I. ‘i 3 a Pier, sche ude Cc fthe magnificent building of Ninewe by Ninus : 4 tis ynce Asfor the City irfelfé Writers, and confirmed bytheScrij megs ; the vvals Ith astbree id fuch a bread gee front:theievvals ] ucrthrowof, Zonoester, reed byall. prophdtie atlitexbeededall athér Fort had incompafie uf y ie Hunde verean hundsedifoet Sabe i y Diod. : Charriots might pete én Fowrés he reft,and ftrengt 1 Hiftorians rey is Ninwsamplified he vvhereia | i 5 were | en Princes Woo lal to beinuaded : labouseople, without ¢i- res,as S. Aneu/fine him Ecclefiaflicns(a booke not felfein his Treatife. eda, confeffeth) Yet if ick Sir CanonicalSc "TAPtu sft, : Of tne Schipt urc; 3 Cuan XL Ofthe memorable buildings of Ninus, and ofbist‘afe acides following the lireral] fenfe proucth nothing atall : For tho ughthe Diuell would willingly: P iwa e- of Woods, Bryats,ButhBut Semirame living in |