Furthermore, it is not likelie that God would answer _Saule_ by dead _Samuell_, when he would not answer him by living _Samuell_: and most unlikelie of all, that God would answer him by a divell, that denied to doo it by a prophet. That he was not brought up perforce, the whole course of the scripture witnesseth, and prooveth; as also our owne reason may give us to understand. For what quiet rest could the soules of the elect enjoy or possesse in _Abrahams_ bosome, if they were to be plucked from thence at a witches call and commandement? But so should the divell have power in heaven, where he is unworthie to have anie place himselfe, and therefore unmeete to command others. Manie other of the fathers are flatlie against the raising up of _Samuell_: namelie, _Tertullian_ in his booke _De anima_, _Justine Martyr In explicatione, quæ._ 25. _Rabanus In epistolis ad Bonas. Abat, Origen In historia de Bileamo, &c._ Some other dote exceedinglie herein, as namelie _Bodin_, and all the papists in generall: also _Rabbi Sedias Haias_, & also all the Hebrues, saving _R. David Kimhi_, which is the best writer of all the _Rabbins_: though never a good of them all. But _Bodin_, in maintenance therof, falleth into manie absurdities, prooving by the small faults that _Saule_ had committed, that he was an elect: for the greatest matter (saith he) laid unto his charge, is the reserving of the _Amalekits_ cattell, &c. He was an elect, &c: confirming his opinion with manie ridiculous fables, & with this argument, to wit: His fault was too little to deserve damnation; for _Paule_ would not have the incestuous man punished too sore, that his soule might be saved. _Justine Martyr_ in another place was not onlie deceived in the actuall raising up of _Samuels_ soule, but affirmed that all the soules of the prophets and just men are subject to the power of witches. And yet were the Heathen much more fond herein, who (as _Lactantius_ affirmeth) boasted that they could call up the soules of the dead, and yet did thinke that their soules died with their bodies. Whereby is to be seene, how alwaies the world hath beene abused in the matters of witchcraft & conjuration. The Necromancers affirme, that the spirit of anie man may be called up, or recalled (as they terme it) before one yeare be past after their departure from the bodie. Which _C. Agrippa_ in his booke _De occulta philosophia_ saith, may be doone by certeine naturall forces and bonds. And therefore corpses in times past were accompanied and watched with lights, sprinkled with holie water, perfumed with incense, and purged with praier all the while they were above ground: otherwise the serpent (as the Maisters of the Hebrues saie) would devoure them, as the food appointed to him by God: _Gen._ 3. alledging also this place; We shall not all sleepe, but we shall be changed, bicause manie shall remaine for perpetuall meate to the serpent: whereupon riseth the contention