where; but if they erre an hundred times, it is soon buried in silence and oblivion, and one fool will not take warning at anothers being cheated and deceived. And that their Idols did not, nor could declare truly what was to come, is manifest by the Prophet who saith: _Let them bring them forth_ (that is, their Idols) _and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together._ Yet these miserable, cheating, dissembling Wretches that would have had the multitude to have believed, that their Idols could have foretold truly almost any thing; yet neither their Idols, nor the Gods (or Devils) they pretended to be in them, nor themselves could foretel or foresee their own destruction, as is manifest in the Prophets of _Baal_ in the time of _Elijah_, who went up to Mount _Carmel_ to advance the worship and power of their Idols, but did not foresee it should be all their destructions and deaths. Doubtless those that in the Book of _Daniel_ are called Wise-men, Magicians, Astrologers, Sorcerers, and Chaldeans were endowed with much rare knowledge, both in respect of Nature and Art: for if their knowledge had been Diabolical, without question _Daniel_ would hardly have interceded for them, yet could they not reveal what the Kings dream was that was gone from him, nor foresee that they run the hazard of their lives; but did conclude that none other could shew it, except the _gods whose dwelling is not with flesh_. 4. In matters of fact it appeareth, that they were active deceivers and deluders, as is manifest when _Pharaoh_ had dreamed two dreams, that he called and sent for all the Magicians and Wise-men of _Egypt_; but they could not interpret them unto him. _Junius_ and _Tremelius_ render it: _Omnes Magos Ægypti, & omnes Sapientes ejus_. The vulgar Latine (or that which is improperly called St. _Hieromes_ Translation) gives it: _Misit ad omnes Conjectores Ægypti, cunctósq; Sapientes_. And these doubtless _Pharaoh_ would not have sent for, but that either upon his own knowledge he knew that they professed the ability of the interpretation of dreams, and (perhaps) as the sequel shewed, greater matters; or else upon common repute, or relation of others, and that must needs arise from their own profession of the knowledge of such abstruse matters: and so of necessity must have pretended greater matters, than when they came to tryal they were able to perform, and so must needs be Impostors. And the Woman at _Endor_ (falsely called a Witch, or a Woman that had a familiar Spirit, when in the Hebrew she is only called the Mistress of the Bottle, as we shall manifest hereafter) must needs be a Deceiver and Impostor, because she pretended to bring up whomsoever _Saul_ desired,