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Earth. xx But not [underlined] (say some) as doing evil, [underlined] whereas that Divel in Samuel's Likeness told a pernicious Lye, when he said thou hast disquieted mee.[underlined thou...me]. It was not in the pers^n of Saul nor all the Divels in Hell to disquiet a soul in heaven, where Sam^ll had been for two years before this apparition nor did the Spectre [underlined] speak true when he said 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 matter in hand]) the Divel in Sam^lls Shape Confirmed necromancy [underlined] & cursed Witchery [underlined]. He that can in the likeness of ^a Saint, encourage witchery and familiarity with Hell, may possibly in the Likeness of a Saint afflict a Bewitched Person. And wheras tis Objected that this Divel may appear in the form of a Dead Person but that he can not Represent such as are Living, the contrary is manefest. No Question had Saul said to the witch bring me David who was then Living She could Easily have shown Living David as Dead Sam^l. As easily as that great Conjurer of whom ^e 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 appearing shape of a godly man
[obscured by tape] sse preshigis [?] d amshum L.1. C. 15.