4. There is much question who was the Penman of this first Book of _Samuel_, but whosoever it was (for we cannot determine it) it cannot be rationally supposed that he had the Story of this transaction betwixt _Saul_ and the Woman from Divine Revelation, for then doubtless it would not have been left so ambiguous and doubtful, but the whole truth, both of the matter, manner and circumstances, would in all probability have been fully set down: and have been declared whether it were a miracle wrought by God, a delusive apparition of Satan, the Soul of _Samuel_, or the Imposture of the Woman, the certainty of which had been mainly profitable and expedient for the people of God and his Church to have known. And if the Penman had it from the relation of _Saul_ or either or both of his Servants, then it must needs have been according to their deluded imaginations and their deceived apprehensions, as is most rational to believe that it was; or if he had it from the Woman, or those of her family, (which is not rationally probable) then it is sure to have been represented for the most advantage, and credit of the Womans skill and cunning. But the most learned persons do judge it to be related, meerly according to the deceived opinion and apprehension of _Saul_. [Sidenote: Consid. about Witchcraft, p. 86.] 5. But to come more near the stress of the business, though Mr. _Glanvil_ confidently say, that Mr. _Scots_ Tenent, that the Woman was in one room and _Saul_ in another, when the feat was acted, is but a pretty knack and contrivance, and but an invention without ground, and not as much as intimated in the History: Yet we must soberly averr, that nothing is more plain in the Text, than either that they were in diverse rooms, or that _Saul_ saw nothing at all, but what he had was from her relation, or the acting of a confederate, and this we shall prove by these undeniable reasons. 1. After _Saul_ had pacified the pretended fears of the Woman, who falsly counterfeited that she knew not _Saul, who was taller by the head and shoulders than any man in Israel_, the next thing we hear of in the Text is, _and when the Woman saw Samuel_: Now if they were both in the same room, and _Samuel_ a visible object, how comes it to pass that _Saul_ saw him not? for if they were both in one room, and _Samuel_ visible, how is it that he did not or could not see him? were his corporal eyes as blind, as the eyes of his understanding? surely not. What fiction or invention must salve this? surely Mr. _Glanvil_ must pump to find it out. 2. The next thing is, that when the Woman saw (for blind _Saul_ saw nothing) _Samuel, she cried with a loud voice, magna voce_, or (as the Hebrew hath it) _in magna voce_. And (I pray you) if they had been both in one room, or near together, what need she to have cried with a great voice, might not an ordinary tone have made him to have heard her? What was he deaf as well