4. Amongst all the several ways of Idolatry that _Manasseh_ set up, or caused to be set up, this is one ‏וְעָשָׂה אוֹב‎, _& fecit Pythonem_, or _fecissetq; Pythonem_, he made _Ob_, or _Pytho_; and though Translators have been much perplexed, and hard put to it, to give a signification agreeable to their preconceived opinion, yet have they, were it right or wrong, brought it to their minds, though it be utterly false and erroneous; for _Tremellius_ renders it, _instituitq; Pythonem_, which though pretty near, yet is altogether short of the propriety, and the most of the rest have run quite Counter; but our English Translators the worst of all others, who give it, _and dealt with a familiar spirit_. When it is plain that this word must be taken in this place, as it is in the third verse of this Chapter, _he made groves_, _fecitq; lucos_, because the words are both from the same root which is ‏עָשָׂה‎ _fecit_, _confecit_, _perfecit_, and so it is, and must be taken in other places; and is especially manifest in these. _God said to Noah, make thee an Ark of Gopher wood_, and after, _a window shalt thou make to the Ark_. The Psalmist saith: _But our God is in heaven, he hath done whatsoever he pleased_, and again, _To him who alone doth great wonders_. We might add forty places more, where the word is used that cometh from this root and hath the same punctual signification; so that from hence we may conclude, 1. That _Manasseh_ could not make a Devil nor a Spirit, and therefore that the word _Ob_ doth not intend nor bear forth any such matter in true and genuine signification. 2. That he could not make a Man or Woman, and therefore the word properly doth signifie neither. 3. That he only could make, and cause to be contrived the Groves, in such an order, as the Idol-Priests might direct, as most fit for them to play their couzening and Jugling feats and delusions in. So he might make or cause to be contrived the μαντείον or place for the Oracle, and prepare those knacks and implements, wherewith and in which place the Diviner might either by him, or her self, or with the help of confederates bring to pass strange things, which they made the blind and ignorant people believe were performed by the God worshipped in and by those Idols, or by Demons and Spirits, or the calling up of the dead. When in truth there was nothing at all performed, but either in raptures, feigned and forced Furies, Trances; and thereby lying predictions and ambiguous equivocations were uttered, whereby the people were deluded and drawn unto Idolatry: or by giving dark and obscure responsions by Ventriloquy, speaking in Bottles, or through hollow Pipes and cavities, whereby they did peep and mutter; or lastly by having knavish confederates hidden in secret, and cunningly contrived places, and suitably habited to personate those that were desired to be raised up, as is most probable in this Woman of _Endor_ and the forged and pretended _Samuel_: So that