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Rh have fully anſwered all objections to the contrary, I ſhall not now engage in the leaſt in the controverſy, but ſhall only give an account of the miſerable deaths of ſome perſons mentioned in hiſtory, who were concerned in theſe curſed arts, and likewiſe of ſome remarkable apparitions, and actions of evil ſpirits, and their taking poſſeſſion of the bodies of ſeveral perſons, and tormenting them, with ſeveral other ſtrange fears, and illuſions of Satan, as I have collected them from very credible and approved authors, together with the danger of thoſe who are ſo vainly curious in knowing future events, as to enquire or aſk counſel of any of theſe ſorcerers, which is ſo ſtrictly forbid in the law of Moſes.

I. Saul, the firſt king of Iſrael, being much diſturbed in mind for fear of the army of the Philiſtines, which came againſt him, would by all means know aforehand the iſſue of this doubtful war, now whereas before, whilſt he performed the duty of a good king, and obeyed the commandments of God; he had cleaned his realm of witches and inchanters; yet he is now ſo ſenſeleſs, as in his extremity to aſk counſel of them, adding this wickedneſs to all the reſt of his ſins, that the meaſure thereof might be full; he went therefore to a witch to know his fate, who cauſed a devil to appear to him in the ſhape of Samuel, and foretel him of God's juſt judgment upon him in the final ruin and deſtruction of himſelf and his family.

II. An example not much unlike this in the event we find recorded of Natholicus, the thirty-firſt king of the Scots, who after he had unjuſtly uſurped the crown and ſcepter, and by much bloodſhed had obtained the throne of that kingdom without any legal right or title thereunto, he endeavoured