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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	day_n	saul_n	1,144	5	9.5833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26477	A perfect discovery of witches shewing the divine cause of the distractions of this kingdome, and also of the Christian world : very profitable to bee read by all sorts of people, especially judges of assizes, sheriffes, justices of the peace, and grand-jury-men, before they passe sentence on those that are condemned for witch-craft / by Thomas Ady.; Candle in the dark	Ady, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing A676; ESTC R19148	123,593	172

all Israel knew it and what was more probable than that the time was at hand when so mighty an Host of his enemies were come against him when his heart and spirit failed him and when God had forsaken him and if it had not come to pass such Oraclers did use to have evasions the fault might have been laid upon Samuels Ghost and further cousenage might still have been wrought to blinde Sauls eyes and had it happened how it could so that the Witch had come off blewly and her imposture been afterward known to Saul yet she had the Oath of the King to save her harmless Further it is the opinion of some learned men that there was no certainty at all in the answer given to Saul and that it was meerly conjectural and though happening some way true yet it failed in the day prefixed for whereas it was said To morrow shalt thou and thy Sons be with me vers 9. it was very false for when the Philistims went up to Battel David returning was three days marching back to Ziglag 1 Sam. 30.1 and one day pursuing his enemies vers 17. and the third day after that tidings was brought to David from the Camp of Saul that Saul and his Sons were dead 2 Sam. 1 2 3 4. which made in all seven days and therefore it was not likely that Saul and his Sons were slain upon the morrow which was the scope of the Oracle or answer that was given to Saul this I say is the opinion of a learned Writer So much by the way Further if it had not been a meer delusion to blinde the eyes of Saul why must Samuel bee described an old man cloathed in a mantle That indeed was the fashion of living Samuel but after he was dead and buried had Samuel appeared as she pretended or had the Devil appeared in his likeness as some fond Readers suppose he did it must have been like Samuel in a Winding-sheet but indeed had she described him by his Winding-sheet that might have been any man else as well as Samuel and Saul had not been so easily deluded in his fond credulity and Idolatrous way If you think it an incredible thing that Saul should be so easily deluded look Isaiah 8.20 in the Latine translation which carrieth the true sense of the Original how odly soever our English Translators run where the Prophet speaking of such as would counsel men to seek to Oraclers and South-sayers he faith in Tremelius An non loquuntur in sententiam illam cuicunque nulla est lucis scintilla do they not give this counsel to such as have not the least spark of light or understanding and this was Sauls case Saul indeed had been a wise man formerly when the Spirit of God was upon him when it was said Is Saul also among the Prophets but then when God had forsaken him his wisdom his courage and his victoriousness went all away together and then and never till then was he deceived by a Witch And however many erroneous Readers when they read this History of the Witch of Endor do suppose she did such things really as are set down only according to the apprehension of the Spectators namely Saul and his Servants yet let them but consider the nature of impostures and they may easily conceive how such a cheating imposture might easily and still may be brought to pass to delude fools by an ordinary Jugling confederacy according to the manner afore described as well and as really as ever she did it and that without a familiar Devil as is foolishly supposed she had only a Devil ruling in the heart of them that do it to the like end to delude and lead people from God as she did the Devil being the Father of all lying delusions and ruleth in the hearts of the children of disobedience Such a Devil was in the heart of Ahabs Prophets 1 King 22.23 But for such as will not allow of that exposition that the Witch of Endor did all by a confederate I say she might do it also by the imposture of Hariolating as may be seen in the latter end of the Eighth term of description following And truly for such as will still beleeve the common foolish errour that Python was such a Witch as had a familiar spirit except they mean such a lying spirit of Oracling Divination I wonder how farre they will stretch the sense and coherence of the Scriptures to make any such interpretation Look but T 〈…〉 us Translation 2 Chron 33.6 it is said of Manasseh among the Witchcrafts which he used or rather that the Idolatrous Priests under him used Instituitque Pythonem What is that Did he set up a familiar Spirit one that had a familiar Spirit or did be set up an Oracle Which is best sense but the common conceit of Readers is because their Dictionary saith Python signifieth a Devillish spirit of Divination or one that hath such a Spirit therefore that must needs be a familiar Spirit and indeed the common abuse of words may make words signifie any thing but let such as trust only to their Latine Dictionaries or Greek Lexicon shew me in them or any authentique Writer but especially in the Scriptures where Python is taken in any such sense as a familiar Spirit especially where it is taken for a killing spirit of a Witch according to the common doctrin of Devils that hath defiled the Nations but only for a spirit of lying Prophecie or one that hath such a Spirit or Devil in his heart and in the text it is taken for the Oracle of the Devil and if any carp at words yet they must examine as well the sense of the Original and the sense and coherence of the Scriptures from place to place as where words may by abuse and ill custom signifie yet I say where do we read of a Familiar Spirit in all the Scriptures if they be truly translated especially where do we read of a killing spirit of a Witch So much for the Seventh term of description Requirens Pythonem The Eighth term of Description THe Eighth term of Description of a Witch in the text is Ariolus for the most part written Hariolus and is by all men taken for a South-sayer but a South-sayer differeth not from Utens Divinationibus being the Second term of description for what difference is there between South-saying and using of Divinations or lying Prophecies so then it might seem to be a Tautologie in the text but as it hath been said before that these Nine terms of appellation in the text are not terms of distinction but several terms of description so if Moses had set here down hundred several terms of description signifying one and the same thing it had not been a tautologie in the worst sense but a more full expression of the same thing for illustration of the matter in hand but yet as most of the rest of the terms of description in the text did all tend