mystically of spiritual _Babylon_, in which Antichrist ruleth, who (as the Apostle saith) _sitteth in the temple of God, and exalteth him self against all that is called god; and this is he whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders_. So that it is plain that his working being by lying wonders, his Merchants must needs be lyers and deceivers, and it is these Sorceries, impostures and delusions by which all Nations are deceived, and caused to err: and so is no other Witchcraft but meer lying, delusion and imposture. And to this purpose doth Dr. _Hammond_ Paraphrase it in these words; speaking of the destruction of _Babylon_: “And three eminent causes (he saith) there are of this; First, Luxury which inriched so many Merchants, and made them so great. Secondly, seducing other people to their Idolatries and abominable courses by all arts of insinuation. And thirdly, the persecuting and slaying of the Apostles and other Christians.” And in the same sense must this word also be taken in the _Galathians_, which though translated Witchcraft, must needs mean imposture, deceit and delusion by which people are led from the true Doctrine and Worship of Christ, to vain and lying Superstition and Idolatry, and not bodily poysoning. [Sidenote: 1 Sam. 15. 23.] 6. Thus far we can find no such Hebrew word as signifieth any such kind of a Witch as Dr. _Casaubon_, or Mr. _Glanvill_ intend, or labour to prove, and therefore we may proceed to the next. Only we cannot but take notice of one other text, that our English Translators have erroneously rendered, and that is this: where _Samuel_ is rebuking _Saul_ for sparing _Agag and the best of the spoil_, he saith, _For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry_: Which _Tremellius_ renders thus: _Quin sicut peccatum divinationis est rebellio: & sicut superstitio & Idola est repugnantia_. And _Arias Montanus_ gives it thus: _Quia peccatum divinationis est rebellio, & mendacium vel Idolum, & Teraphim transgredi_, which both are agreeable to the Hebrew word ‏קֶסֶם‎ which signifieth properly Divination. So that this place noteth, not rebellion against an earthly or temporal King, but against the King of Heaven; and to disobey his command, and to follow our own wills and judgments, and to persevere therein, is as odious and detestable, as to set up lying Divinations thereby to follow Idols and false gods: for the following the fancies of our own brains, is to follow the divinations of our own counsel, and to make an Idol, and a Teraphim of our own frail, weak and blind judgments, and to forsake the pure and perfect Law of the Lord, which ought to be a lantern to our feet, and a light unto our paths, and is spiritual rebellion, even as the divinations of Idol-priests and Idol-worship were.