4. Though this Prophet fell into hainous crimes, and enormous sins, as tempting of God, who when the first Messengers came from _Balak_ unto him, was positively commanded not to go with them, and yet as though God would change his mind entertained them again, whereby Gods anger was kindled against him. And though he was drawn _to love the wages of unrighteousness_, and so was rebuked by the dumb Ass, and though _he taught Balak to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel_, and therefore had that judgment to be slain among the Midianites: Yet none of these do conclude at all, that therefore he used Diabolical Divinations, or had not what he declared from Divine Revelation, no more than the flying of _Jonah_ to _Tarshish_, when he was commanded to go to preach against _Nineveh_, or his repining at Gods mercy shewed to that great City, manifested him to be a lying Prophet, or to use devilish Divination. Neither the Prophets being seduced, _that cried against the altar at Bethel_, before _Jeroboam_, by the old Prophet, _and his being slain in the way by a lion, & his carkase left there_, did at all argue that his Prophecie was false, or that he had not his message from God, but they only shew, that even those that have been truly inspired by God and been truly taught by him, have notwithstanding often disobeyed him, and have had therefore fearful temporal judgments faln upon them, and yet no argument that they used unlawful Divinations. From hence also the Witchmongers use to urge a frivolous and groundless argument which is this; that the Angel did speak in _Balaams_ Ass, and therefore the Devil may speak in a Dog, or a Cat to a Witch, but this is confuted by these reasons. [Sidenote: _Reas. 1._] 1. What the Angel did there was by command and commission from God, but we never read, nor can it be proved that the Devil is sent upon such idle, and ordinary errands, to work a miracle, to speak in a Dog, or a Cat, to a Witch; for God doth not work wonders for any such wicked and abominable ends. And if he be not sent of God, he cannot of himself perform any such matter, who could not enter into the Swine, without Christs leave and order; but is kept in chains of everlasting darkness, from whence he is not loosed, but when God sends him as an instrument to accomplish his will, which is always for good and just ends, and not for such execrable and wicked purposes. [Sidenote: Numb. 22. 26, 27.] [Sidenote: Verse 28.]