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Show 17 6 Sever41 for~s of Di'Dination-forhidden. LIB. I V. A .a .J lj.- Such a Diviner was the Damofel, .AfJJ 16. J 6. in 0d oll".l 'cYb· ·· if't·, c":. t ( ) St .a · d d · b bl h h fJ ;/ .AHgu1~-ines JU gement, an ts pro a y t oug t 23. f~ liy moll: Expofitors, who are of opinion, that the ./Pirit of Python with which this Damofel was pofieffed, is the fame which the .fPirit of ob was amongft the Hebrewt. Hence the Witch of Endor, whom St~ul re· quefied to raife up Sm~uel, is fa.id in· Hehrew to -have confulted -with ob; but among-the Lattne Expofitors fhe is common I y ·uanfiated PJthonij]a,-One pojfejfed Wit II. thefpirit of P;thon. · The fixth is, )JU1~ Iiddegno.ni, a· Wizard; in the Greek._) he i~ tranOated fometirnes rvd~ra·, a. cunning~ man. In both Languag.es he had his name from -~now-· ledge,. which either the W-izard rrofefied himtelf to have, or the common peop!e thought him to have. The Babbies fay,he was fo called-in He·hrew. fromacer~ lain beaft named 6y,,them (p) J adua~itl {}.Jape refem6/ing a man, becaufe theft WizJtrds when they did utter their. PriJphe&iet, held a hoHe of thir Be aft' het~een their teeth. l'bis haply might be forne Diabolical Sacr.:ament o" CeremonJ, ufed for the Confirmation of. the league 'I·.P. F~tt.· Le· between_Sd.lan and the Wizard. (q) Prophane-.Hifi:or)14 ~',;,·~~~:. mentioneth Divinations of the. li~e ~ind, as that "~'" befti~tm MagicianJ were. wont to eat the pnnctpal parts and 6anc "'0col.t, . members of fuch . beafts which they deemed Prop he• ~ ~~~;,:J~~. .. tical, .thinking thereby, that by a kind of p.•1•p...J.Jx(J,.,~ Mag· J.emo.n, 1. the Soul of fuch Beafis would be conveyed. into I·'·'·-'·18· their bodies, . whereby thev mjgbt be enabled for Cf..Ptter dt ' · · J. Mt~g.p.51• Prophecy. · . The feventh is O'non· '?N w~,, Do,efcb tl ham· methim.;. the Gree~anfwereth word for word, i'JJ'tf";f/ '1¥, ux.t¥~, An t1UJHirer oft he Dead,~ Ne&rotJJancer. Such Diviners confulted with Sat4n in the foape of A det«<. man. A memorable exam-ple we find recorded,. J.S~.Wo t;1B. IV.· SeTJeral/ortt oj Divintitz~,u forCidJt~t. i7'9 I s~.~n._29. There~ King Saul about to war wirh the Phtlifiine.r (God denyi g: to anfwer him either by dreams, ~>r by Vri1JJ, or by Prophet!) upon the (arne of the 1Vztch ofEndor, he repaired to her demandi t~at Sam~el. t;tight be rcufl·d 11p fi·of1J the dead, to t~l1 ~11m the tHue of the war. Now that this was not 1~ trut~ s a!JJUel, is eafily evinced, both by te!timo!2 n1es oft he learned, and rea ions. F irfl, it is improba-ble, tbat6od who had denied to anfwer him by · or d"u tary !'Jeans) ib auld now deign him an anfwera nfoy extraordinar~. Secondl.J, no Witch or Dtvil can ci .. Hurb the boches or Souls of fuch as die in the t d be~a~fc they refi hom their laborsJ Rev. r4.1 3• T%i~d~ ly, 1f1t had been Samuel! he would doubtlefs have re-proved S~ul for con[u1t1ng with WitcheJ. . The etghth is \'7Po ~~w Scoel mal.Jo A Co ,r; 't · h h · .If ,r ~ ' nJ UJ er Wt! .". StaJJ• HoJ. 4· I 2. Jerome faith the manner of tbJs dtvtnatJon was thus · 7/;at if:' the do·~ '·t ' h . . · 'J "v were ve-tween two.or t .ree Ctftes~ rrhichjirji foou!d he a.f!aulted; to d•e te.r 1,J aJt 11 thU", they rrrote the namet o'J- ~"the c1. ,t·e s upon cer.atnJ,aves or arrow.r, which hei1tgfhaked in a quivtr - together thefirft. thatwtU puUcdout determint:d the Cit • (t) Others deliver the manner of this confilltation ?o have been thus: The confulter meafored bh ftaJ! h t Viti, Druf. .;, fpan.r or hy ~he leNgth of hit finger, Jttying, ~s he me?- DoH·P.594 fore~, ! WTU g_o, I wt/l,;ot 6"r 1 wiU do [uch a thing, I w1U not do tt, and tU the Jnfl fpan fi"U 1 r: 1.· - d t . d Th. \.- 011 ' j(J .·C t ~;r17ttt,e : 1s , was termed by the He-athens ptt op.a~ tt~ or ~i"-op.dJ/fjtt Di·vhtatio,n by rod or arrow.~ The ninth was 1JJ:l i1N1 Roe haec abed 11 d · · .. h intralbes, hEze~. h21. 1 2 I·J Nehu-chttdnez.zar bein;~~~~~ wd ar b ·o.t . wlt t 1c tws, an. d the AI/JM•o ·1 d Jr.m flle.r., an ou . tJng ln t ~e W;Jy ' againft wheth( r of there he iliould make his lir!l on. fe~: F'ir!l_he confuJted with a his |