childish to believe that God doth hide himself and speak in the belly of these couzening Diviners, and therein though an Heathen was wiser than many that profess Christianity now, who believe it to be some Spirit, when it is nothing but the cunning Imposture of those persons, that by use have learned that artifice of turning their voices back into their Throats and Breasts. 5. As to matter of fact it is manifest that in the time of _Plutarch_ there were those that practised this cunning trick thereby to get credit or money by the pretence of Predictions and Divinations, and such an one doubtless was the Woman at _Endor_, and the Maid mentioned in the _Acts_ of the Apostles, of which we shall speak presently. [Sidenote: _Antiq._ _lect._ 8. 10.] Also _Tertullian_ a grave Author, affirmeth that he had seen such Women that were Ventriloquists, from whole secret parts a small voice was heard as they sate, and did give answers to things asked. And so _Cælius Rhodiginus_ doth write that he often saw a Woman Ventriloquist at _Rhodes_, and in a City of _Italy_ his own Country, from whose secrets he had often heard a very slender voice of an unclean Spirit, but very intelligible, tell strangely of things past or present, but of things to come for the most part uncertain, and also often vain and lying; which doth plainly demonstrate that it was but an humane artifice, and a designed Imposture. [Sidenote: _Hist._ 1.] [Sidenote: _De Mag. Infam._] _c._ 14. _p._ 141. “But most notable is that story related by _Wierus_ from the mouth of his Sons who had it from the mouth of _Adrianus Turnebus_, who did openly profess that before-time he had seen at _Paris_ a crafty fellow very like _Euricles_ mentioned by _Aristophanes_, who was called _Petrus Brabantius_, who as oft as he would, could speak from the lower part of his Body, his Mouth being open, but his Lips not moved, and that he did deceive many all over by this cunning, which whether it be to be called an art, or exercitation, or the imposture of the Devil is to be doubted. And further relateth that at _Paris_ he deceived a Widow Woman and got her to give him her Daughter in Marriage, who had a great Portion; by counterfeiting that his so speaking in his Breast, or Belly, was the voice of her deceased Husband, who was in Purgatory, and could not be loosed thence, except she gave her Daughter in Marriage unto him: By which deceitful knavery he got her, and about six Months after, when he had spent all her Portion, the Wife and Mother-in-law being left, he fled to _Lions_: And there hearing that a very rich Merchant was dead, who was accounted living a very wicked man, who had gotten his riches by right and wrong; this _Brabantius_ goeth to his Son called _Cornutus_, who was walking in a Grove or Orchard behind the Church-yard, and intimateth that he was sent to teach him what was fit for him to do. But while that he telleth him that he ought rather to think of the Soul of