Then said _Samuel_ (which some suppose was sathan, and as I thinke was the witch, with a confederate; for what need so farre fetches, as to fetch a divell supernaturallie out of hell, when the illusion may be here by naturall meanes deciphered? And if you note the words well, you shall perceive the phrase not to come out of a spirituall mouth of a divell, but from a lieng corporall toong of a cousener, that careth neither for God nor the divell, frō whence issueth such advise and communication, as greatlie disagreeth from sathans nature and purpose. For thus (I saie) the said _Samuel_ speaketh: Wherefore dooest thou aske me, seeing the Lord is gone from thee, and is thine enemie? Even the Lord hath doon unto him as he spake by mine hand: for the Lord will rent thy kingdome out of thine hand, and give it to thy neighbour _David_, bicause thou obeiedst not the voice of the Lord, &c. This (I say) is no phrase of a divell, but of a cousener, which knew before what _Samuel_ had prophesied concerning _Saules_ destruction. For it is the divels condition, to allure the people unto wickednes, and not in this sort to admonish, warne, and rebuke them for evill. And the popish writers confes, that the divell would have beene gone at the first naming of God. If it bee said, that it was at Gods speciall commandement and will, that _Samuel_ or the divell should be raised, to propound this admonition, to the profit of all posteritie: I answer, that then he would rather have doone it by some of his living prophets, and that sathan had not beene so fit an instrument for that purpose. After this falleth the witch (I would saie _Samuel_) into the veine of prophesieng, and speaketh to _Saule_ on this wise; The Lord will rent thy kingdome out of thine hand, and give it to thy neighbor _David_, bicause thou obeiedst not the voice of the Lord, nor executedst his fierse wrath upon the _Amalekites_: therefore hath the Lord doone this unto thee this daie. Moreover, the Lord will deliver thee into the hands of the _Philistines_, and to morrowe shalt thou and thy sonnes be with me, and the Lord shall give the host of Israel into the hands of the _Philistines_. What could _Samuel_ have said more? ♦1. Sam. 28. 16. 17.♦ ♦1. Sa. 15, 28.♦ ♦1. Sa 28, 17.♦ ♦18.♦ ♦19.♦