3. This Hebrew word is taken _in bonam partem_, heedfully to consider, mark, or observe, as _Laban_ said, when he laboured to stay _Jacob_ from going from him: _I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake_. So that though _Laban_’s heart was not upright toward _Jacob_, nor he a sincere Worshipper of the God of the Jews; yet so far had the Lord convinced him, by the faithful and industrious service of _Jacob_ that he had experienced, and by tryal found that the Lord had blessed him for _Jacob_’s sake. And the same word is used, when _Joseph_ said: _Is not this the cup wherein my Lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth, or maketh tryal?_ And again: _Know ye not, that such a man as I can certainly divine, or make tryal?_ And though _Pererius_ hath made a large Dispute about this matter, and reciteth the Opinions of many Authors concerning it; yet it is manifest, that _Joseph_ knew his Brethren before, and had caused the Cup to be put into _Benjamins_ Sack, and that all this was but done in a just and prudent way, the better to prepare his Brethren for his revealing of himself unto them, and so had reference to no unlawful conjecturing at all, though it was plain, that he had the special gift from God of interpreting of Dreams, and foretelling of things that were to come. 4. It is too hard a task to enumerate all the several ways that the Heathens used, by observation to foretel things to come, and more difficult so declare all the subjects from whence they gathered the signs of their Predictions. The chiefest that the old _Romans_ used, were _Augurium quasi Avigerium dictum, vel Avigarium, ab avium scilicet garritu quem auspicantes observabant_: And so _Auspicium, quasi Avispecium, ab avibus spectandis_. And these observations were taken, either from the feeding, flying, or noise of the birds. So they had their _Haruspices_, _Harioli_, and _Haruspicina_, which was derived _ab haruga, hostia, ab hara in qua concluditur & servatur_. [Sidenote: Matth. 16. 2, 3.] [Sidenote: Luke 12. 54.]