1. _Moses_ in this Text doubtlesly did not set down all the particular sorts of Divinations and Impostures used amongst the Heathen, for that had hardly been possible, but the chiefest kinds of them. And this is not rationally probable that he would do it by a Tautology, or repetition of the same thing twice. For inquiring of the dead, or consulting with them, was intended in the word _Ob_, and the Woman of _Endor_ said; _Whom shall I raise up_, or cause to ascend unto thee? Whereby it appeareth that she pretended (and also _Saul_ vainly believed, who said; Divine unto me in or by _Ob_) that she could cause the dead to ascend, and to have answers from them of things to come, as is manifest in the Story of the pretended apparition and prediction of _Samuel_. And so this thing should be twice repeated in this place, which is not probable that _Moses_ would have done. [Sidenote: Isai. 44. 19.] 2. He doth not forbid these several sorts of Divination only because they were evil and unlawful in themselves (for some of them might be lawful, and performed by natural or artificial means) but because of the thing they all centred in, and the end they all tended to, which was to lead and draw the people to inquire of and to serve deaf, dumb and dead Idols. For though the Idols were Silver and Gold, the work of Mens hands, and had eyes and saw not, _ears and heard not, feet and walked not, mouths and spoke not_, neither was there breath in their Nostrils: And though the common people could not but know this, for as _Isaiah_ saith they were so blinded that, _None considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge or understanding to say, I have burnt part of it in the fire; yea also I have baked bread with the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh and eaten it, and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?_ Yet notwithstanding were they so deluded by the crafty Impostures, and subtile Divinations of all the several sorts of these Jugling Priests, that they ran to ask counsel at these dead Idols, who (as they falsly perswaded the people) did inspire them, and gave them answers, when the Idols were all dead things, and gave no answers at all. And this is that consulting with the dead, that all these couzening Priests did draw the people unto, and therefore in general is here forbidden. [Sidenote: Isai. 8. 19.] 3. The words of the Prophet, where he saith [_And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that are_ Ob or Oraclers, _and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?_] do fully prove as much; for the sense must be this: That the people of God ought to seek unto their own God, who was and is a true and a living God, and to his Law & Testimonies, and not to those peepers and mutterers that seek counsel of the dead Idols only; and doubtless this is the true meaning of consulting the dead.