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Earth. xx [underlined: But not] (Say Some) [underlined: as doing evil], whereas the Divel in Samuel's Likeness told a pernicious Lye, when he said [underlined: thou hast disquieted mee]. It was not in the pow^r of Saul nor all the Divels in Hell to dis= quiet a soul in heaven, wher Sam^ll had been for two years before this apparition. nor did the [underlined: Spectre] speak true when he said [underlined: thou and thy Sons Shall be w^th me]. Tho Saul himself went to be with the Divel at his death, his son Jonathan did not so. Besides (which suits with the matt^r in hand]) the Divel in Sam^ll Shape Confirmed necromancy [underlined] & cursed Witchery [underlined]. He that can in the likeness of ^a Saints, encourage witchery and Familiarity with Hell, may possibly in the Like= ness of a Saint afflict a Bewitched Person. And wheras tis Objected that the Divel may appear in the form of a Dead Person but that he can not Represent such as are Living, the Contrary is ma nefest. No Question had Saul said to the witch bring me David who was then Living She could as Easily- have shown [marked out word] Living David as [word scratched out] Dead Sam^l. As easi ly as that great Conjurer of whom * Wierus [underlined][Overwritten: Wierys] speaks brought the appearance of Hector & Achilles[underlined] & after that of David [underlined] before the Emperour Maximilian [underlined] . and that evil spirits have sometimes appeared in

[in margin] 3 There are who acknowledge a Demon [underlined] may apear in ye shape of a godly man

[tape cut away] fre [?] præstigijs dæmonum. L.1. C. 15.