That is, =Cresus= passing ouer the riuer, =Halis= shall ouerturne many kingdomes. And yet oftentimes he gathereth one thing no otherwise than by an other. Hereof writeth =Augustine= in the 26. 27. 28. Chapters of his Booke _De Anima_. The Diuel is one which hath bene long beaten in experience, the which thing in all affaires and matters is of very great force. For olde and practised souldiours doo by and by foresée to what issue things will come, but yoong men, and such as want experience, doo not forthwith espie out the euent of each enterprise. Moreouer, the Diuels are very actiue, and can soone dispatch their matters. The Marriners knowe when windes and stormes will arise. Husbandmen also are not destitute of their prognostications. The skilfull Astronomer can many yeares before exactly foretell when there will happen an Eclipse of the Sunne and Moone. The Phisitian by the criticall dayes, pulse, and vrine, can lightly iudge whether his patient shall liue or no: builders sée before hand when an house will fall, and a practised souldioure can straightwayes iudge who shall winne the victorie. And what maruaile then may it be, if the Diuell an olde trained souldiour, can sometimes foreshew some certain thing? Shall we be of this minde, that so many yeares experience hath broughte them no knowledge at all? Otherwhiles he telleth things which be true indéed, and yet to no other end, but that he may thereby purchase a certaine credite vnto his lying, to seduce the ignorant. For euen that counterfeit =Samuell=, made wise, as if he had taken it in very ill part, that =Saule= did so molest and disquiet him, and that he should be forced to talke with him: he vseth farther the words as it were of =Samuel= himselfe. And hereof it commeth, that many gather, he was the true =Samuel= indéede. But what doth not Sathan deuise, to deceiue men, and to force them vnto desperation? Here I could alleage examples of suche as haue bin perswaded, that they sawe and heard this and that man, and moreouer knewe them perfectly by their speeche: whereas they haue afterwards had euident intelligence, that they were at that time many miles distant from them. So craftie is the Diuell, and knoweth how to worke these and many other feates. There are farther, diuers places alleaged out of the auncient Fathers, that séeme to make for them, whiche affirme that true =Samuell= appeared vnto =Saule=. But these places wée haue before for the moste parte aunsweared. For albeit =Augustine= in some places mooue a doubte, whether it were the true =Samuel= or no, yet in certaine other places hee lyketh and beste alloweth their opinion, who denie =Samuel= to haue appeared at all, taking rather that kinde of spéech, for tropicall and figuratiue. [Sidenote: Iustinus.]