2. Again concerning _Ahab_, thus much is literally true in matter of fact that he was perswaded to go up to _Ramoth Gilead_ by his false Prophets in whose mouths there was a lying Spirit. But the manner there declared of sending the lying Spirit into their Mouths, cannot rationally be presumed to be true in a literal sense, but in a Metaphorical; for that the Lord was set on his Throne, and all the Host of Heaven standing by him, on the right hand and on the left, must needs be a Metaphor taken from an Emperour or a King that sits on his Throne, and all his Counsellors, Princes, Estates and Officers about him, to deliberate and consult what is to be done. And this is the highest and most apt Metaphor that the supream Majesty of Heaven and Earth can be represented by; not that in the literal sense it must be believed to be acted just in that mood and manner, but as the most apposite Metaphor that can be found to express the proceedings of the Heavenly Majesty by, and that for these reasons. 1. God is Infinite and is every where by his Power, Essence and Presence, and therefore cannot literally be said to be comprehended in any locality, but after a Metaphorical sense and expression. For the Prophet saith: _Do not I fill Heaven and Earth, saith the Lord?_ And as _Solomon_ confesseth: _But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less this house that I have builded?_ 2. God who is only wise, and before whose eyes _all things lie open, and naked_, cannot litterally be said to consult or deliberate, or to ask his creatures how a thing shall be done or brought to pass, because his wisdom is, like himself, Infinite, and need ask counsel of none, and therefore must the manner of the performance of the deceiving of _Ahabs_ Prophets needs be Metaphorically understood, and not literally, which is the thing that we would demonstrate. [Sidenote: 1 John 1. 5.] [Sidenote: 1 Tim. 6. 16.]