of a Spirit, and not their own, by craft and cunning altered and changed. Upon which place learned and judicious _Calvin_ saith thus much: “For the voice of them, who before were so lofty and cruel, he compareth to the speech of _Pythonists_, who when they did utter the Oracles, did give forth I know not what kind of murmur, from some low and dark place under the earth.” 8. The next word that followeth in this place of _Deuteronomy_ is ‏יִדְּעֹנִי‎ from the root ‏יָדַע‎ _novit, sivit, proprie est_ (_ut_ Avenarius _inquit_) _mentis & intellectus_. Which word our Translators (contrary to their usual custom) have kept a constancy in, and alwaies have rendered a Wizard, a name (as we conjecture) not improper, for we, in the North of _England_, call such as take upon them to foretel where things are that have been stoln, or to take upon them to help Men or Goods, that the vain credulity of the common people have thought to be bewitched, we (I say) call them Wise Men, or Wise Women, without regard had to the way or means by which they undertook to perform these things. Divers others do render it _sciolus_, which is proper and consonant to the former. The other Translations that we have either seen, or were able to understand, are so uncertain, various, wide and wilde, that it were lost labour to examine or recite them; and the word Wizard (though a general one) is the most proper that we can find. But we must conclude, that hitherto we find no such word as signifieth a Witch in that sense we have allowed, and endeavoured to confute. 9. The last word mentioned in this Text of _Deuteronomy_, is a Necromancer, or one that consulteth with the dead. Now whether this were some special kind of Divination, or but a comprehension of all the kinds, being but in all their several sorts, a leading of the people to inquire of dumb and dead Idols, may be a great and material question. And though no Interpreter or Commentator that we have seen, read, or do remember, do hint at any such, matter, but still strike upon the common string, that it should be some kind of Magick, whereby they could make the dead appear, and consult with them: yet notwithstanding all this we cannot but propose our doubts in these reasons following.