But if God should have sent _Samuels_ Soul on a Divine errand, when the Witch was practising her Diabolical Divinations and cheating tricks, it had been to have countenanced and confirmed both _Saul_, and the Witch, in their wicked wayes, and to have contradicted his own law and command, which did positively order, that all that used Divinations should be put to death, and all those that sought for counsel from them to be severely punished. Now let Mr. _Glanvil_, or any other prove, that God orders that to be done by the dead, which he forbad to be done by the living. 6. If it had been the true _Samuel_ that appeared, it is not rational, nor credible to imagine, that he would neither rebuke _Saul_ for consulting with a Woman that practised those things, that were forbidden by the law upon pain of death; nor that he would either reprove, or punish so wicked a Woman, finding her in the very act. We say it is not credible, unless we suppose _Samuel_ less zealous for the law and commands of God, being dead, than he was for them being living. Surely he that living _hewed Agag in pieces_, only because God had commanded he should be slain, would (if it had been the true _Samuel_, which without all question it was not) have done as much or worse, to the cursed and Idolatrous cheating Witch, though after his death, if he had come upon a Divine errand. 7. God should have shewed himself very mutable, if he had answered _Saul_ in a miraculous way by a dead Prophet, that had refused to answer him by one living. And _Samuel_ while living knew certainly that the Lord had rejected _Saul_ from being King over _Israel_, and had testified unto him, that _the strength of Israel would not lie, and that he was not like a man that he should repent_. But if it had been the true _Samuel_ that had been sent to speak to _Saul_, he knowing both by his own knowledge and relation of _Saul_ himself, that God had refused to answer him by Prophets, must in that conference both have made God a liar, and mutable, and also himself, who living had testified the contrary, and therefore it could not be either the true _Samuel_ nor his Soul. 8. It is manifest that the Lord had before withdrawn his good Spirit from _Saul_, and an evil one from the Lord was come upon him, and therefore it was no way probable, that the Lord would in a miraculous manner answer such a wicked person, whom he had utterly rejected as a reprobate. Neither is it like that God would shew him an extraordinary favour by a dead Prophet, that would not vouchsafe him his Spirit in an ordinary way. And _Samuel_ that came not at him for a long time (though but a little distance asunder) while he lived, was not like to make so long a journey in a Divine errand to visit him after his death. 9. And if _Abraham_ at the request of the rich Man _would not send Lazarus to warn his brethren, lest they should come into that place of torment_, which bore with it a fair shew both of Charity and Piety; much less