[Sidenote: Examples of the Wicked punished by delusions of spirits pharao. Exodus.] Touching whiche matter, wée will alleage a fewe examples. =Pharao= contemned God and his seruants, =Moyses= and =Aaron=, wherefore God blinded his eyes, that he gaue himselfe to be ruled by his =Magi= or wise men, and at the last perished miserably in the red Sea. [Sidenote: Samuel.] [Sidenote: 1. _Cor._10.] =Saule= would not giue eare vnto =Samuell=, who bare a right hart and good affection towards his king: he loued him not (as by reason he shoulde haue done) but hated him, and all other that loued him right well, for he contemnned the woorde of God. Wherefore it came to passe, that being in extreme daunger, he sought helpe of a witch to reare =Samuel= from the dead, yͭ he might now vse his aduise, whō he dispised beeing aliue, and disdained to heare him. This woman reareth one, who is no otherwise called =Samuell=, than when false gods, are called gods, when in very déede they are not gods, but wood and stones, or rather (as =Paul= saith) .1. Corin. 10. very diuels. This counterfeit =Samuel= giueth him neither comfort nor Counsell, but driueth him to vtter desperation. The same hapned vnto =Saule= which chaunceth vnto those stubborne children, whiche despise their parents, contemne their counsel, & would gladly wish their death, and at the last grow vnto yͤ point, yͭ they would willingly take in hand a great iorney on condition it might be graunted them to heare them giue their last counsell. [Sidenote: Achab.] [Sidenote: 3. _Reg._ 22.]