1. Though it might be granted that he used Divinations that were not lawful, yet what is that to a killing and murthering Witch? Surely nothing at all. And though _Balak_ believed that _whosoever he blessed were blessed, and whosoever he cursed, were cursed_, and therefore fetched him so far, yet there is nothing apparent to prove that _Balaam_ could do any such matter, and from _Balaks_ belief to _Balaams_ performances proceedeth no argument, for his belief that he could either bless or curse, did not confer any power to _Balaam_ to produce such effects withall. And _Balaams_ blessings, or cursings might be intentional, and declarative, but could not be effective, for he confesseth a great piece of truth: _How should he curse, whom God had not cursed, or how should he defie, whom the Lord had not defied?_ He might have done it verbally, but it would have been frustrate, and to no effect, and therefore he concluded: _Surely there was no inchantment against Jacob, nor no Divination against Israel_. [Sidenote: _Reas. 2._] [Sidenote: Chap. 24. 1.] 2. And though it be said, that he went not as at other times, to meet Auguries (for as we have before shewed, the word doth properly signifie that) It must be understood, and is manifest that at the former times he went to attend solitarily what the Lord would say unto him, and those two times that he went before was only to meet the Lord, to hear and receive what he would say unto him. But here he did not, nor had need to go, for the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he took up his Parable, and prophesied. Where though his going to meet the Lord, be called to meet Divinations, yet it cannot be taken in the worse sense, for unlawful Divinations, but for such as were sent him and taught him by God, by Visions, Angels, Trances, or other such like wayes as God in those times used to reveal his Will to his Prophets by: For from first to last, it appeareth that he neither professed, nor did (in this case) utter any thing but what the Lord commanded him, and so was no false Prophet. [Sidenote: _Reas. 3._] [Sidenote: Numb. 22. 18.] [Sidenote: _Ibid_ _c._ 24. 4, 16.] [Sidenote: _Vid. Caten. Aur. Tho. Aquin._ _p._ 10.]