because it was truly a contingent thing, and did only depend upon the free act of _Herods_ will, and therefore by Divine Goodness and Providence it was revealed to the Angel, thereby to preserve the life of the child, and to fulfil the Scriptures. Neither do the faln Angels know future events that are contingent, or depend upon the free will of men, as is manifest in Satans tempting and afflicting of _Job_, which he intended to have been his destruction, and therefore did falsly divine and foretel that _Job would curse God to his face_, but the event was not according to his lying conjecture, but to the manifestation of _Jobs_ Faith and Patience, and produced his glorious restoration. So the lying spirit in the mouth of _Ahabs_ Prophets, did not know that _Ahab_ would go up to _Ramoth Gilead_, or that he should be slain there, but that God did reveal it unto him, and sent him forth with a powerful commission to prevail. So that all the predictions and Divinations of the Devil or his Angels are nothing but lying guesses and uncertain conjectures; for what can be expected from him _who was a liar from the beginning, and the father of lies_? Neither were his Idol-priests, Wizzards, Diviners or Prophets any better but meer conjecturers and lyars, as was most manifest in all those Oracles that were amongst the Grecians, which uttered nothing but cheats, lies, equivocations and ambiguous responsions. And those amongst the Jews were no better, who took upon them to foretel and divine for others, but could not or did not foresee their own destruction, as is manifest in _Ahabs_ Prophets slain by _Elijah_, and the Priests of _Baal_ slain by _Jehu_, and therefore must all those needs be deceived that run to Divining Witches and Wizzards, of which sort of couzeners we have too many. [Sidenote: _Object._] And if against this it be objected that the Devils did know and confess that Jesus was the Son of God, and therefore if they could tell this that was so great a mystery, much more easily may they know other inferior things, and so may foretel future contingencies, to which we give this responsion. 1. We only affirm that Devils did not know Christ by their innate or inbred knowledge, but they might know him by the revelation of the Father, and by the things that were written of him by the Prophets, and by the observation of those things that were manifested at his birth, and shewed and done in his life time. [Sidenote: Matth. 8. 29.] [Sidenote: Luke 8. 31.]