What therefore may consist with history, by cessation of Oracles with _Montacutius_ we may understand their intercision, not abscission or consummate desolation; their rare delivery, not total dereliction, and yet in regard of divers Oracles, we may speak strictly, and say there was a proper cessation. Thus may we reconcile the accounts of times, and allow those few and broken divinations, whereof we read in story and undeniable Authors. For that they received this blow from Christ, and no other causes alledged by the heathens, from oraculous confession they cannot deny; whereof upon record there are some very remarkable. The first that Oracle of _Delphos_ delivered unto _Augustus_. _Me puer Hebræus Divos Deus ipse gubernans Cedere sede jubet, tristemq; redire sub orcum; Aris ergo dehinc tacitus discedito nostris._ An Hebrew child, a God all gods excelling, To hell again commands me from this dwelling. Our Altars leave in silence, and no more A Resolution e're from hence implore. A second recorded by _Plutarch_, of a voice that was heard to cry unto Mariners at the sea, _Great Pan is dead_; which is a relation very remarkable, and may be read in his defect of Oracles. A third reported by _Eusebius_ in the life of his magnified _Constantine_, that about that time _Apollo_ mourned, declaring his Oracles were false and that the righteous upon earth did hinder him from speaking truth. And a fourth related by _Theodoret_, and delivered by _Apollo Daphneus_ unto _Julian_ upon his _Persian_ expedition, that he should remove the bodies about him before he could return an answer, and not long after his Temple was burnt with lightning. All which were evident and convincing acknowledgements of that Power which shut his lips, and restrained that delusion which had reigned so many Centuries. But as his malice is vigilant, and the sins of men do still continue a toleration of his mischiefs, he resteth not, nor will he ever cease to circumvent the sons of the first deceived. [SN: _The devils retreat when expelled the Oracles._] And therefore expelled from Oracles and solemn Temples of delusion, he runs into corners, exercising minor trumperies, and acting his deceits in Witches, Magicians, Diviners, and such inferiour seducers. And yet (what is deplorable) while we apply our selves thereto, and affirming that God hath left to speak by his Prophets, expect in doubtfull matters a resolution from such spirits, while we say the devil is mute, yet confess that these can speak; while we deny the substance, yet practise the effect and in the denied solemnity maintain the equivalent efficacy; in vain we cry that Oracles are down; _Apollos_ Altar still doth smoak; nor is the fire of _Delphos_ out unto this day.