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 repose, when upon any occasion they appear among the living.

Fifthly, But he saith, that Saul and his Sons should be with him, viz. in Thalamo justorum, which some think, not unlikely, believing that Saul was reprobate only in Type. But more probably the meaning is, that he should be in the State of the dead in another World, as he the Prophet was.

Sixthly and Lastly, The Spectre said, that to morrow he should be with him, which was not true, for several days intervened before the Battle. But the word to morrow need not to be taken in strictness, but in a Latitude of interpretation for a short time. He was to dye in or upon the Fight, and the enemies were now ready for it, and so the event was to be within a very little while. The prediction of which, was a Prophecy of a thing very contingent, and shews that the Predictor was the real Samuel.

SECT. XXVIII.

An Answer to that Objection, That if it was Samuel's Soul that appeared, it makes nothing to Witchcraft.

BUT if it were the real Samuel, will they say, this Story will then make nothing for the Opinion of Witchcraft. For Samuel was not raised by Enchantment, but came either of his own accord, or on a Divine Errand. To which Objection, I say,

First, Here is at least proof of an Apparition of a Man after Death.

Secondly, Saul's going to this Pythoness upon such an Inquiry, and she undertaking to bring the person up, whom he should name (at least the appearance of him) intimated v. 11. are good proof that this had been her practice, though at this time over ruled, and that she acted by an evil Spirit. For certainly when Saul intreats her to Divine to him by her Familiar Spirit, he did not mean that she should deceive, and delude him by a Confederate Knave. The senselessness of which Figment I have already sufficiently disproved. That the Wo-