Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	mouth_n	speak_v	word_n	6,196	5	4.5092	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85292	An advertisement to the jury-men of England, touching witches. Together with a difference between an English and Hebrew vvitch.	Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.	1653 (1653)	Wing F909; Thomason E690_6; ESTC R202078	20,216	32

Consulter with Ob applied here to Magitians who possessed with an evill Spirit spake with a hollow voyce as out of a Bottle The Hebrews explaine it thus that he which had a Familiar spirit stood and burned Incense and held a rod of Mirtle-tree in his hand and waved it and spake certaine words in secret untill he that enquired did heare one speak unto him and answer him touching that hee enquired with words from under the Earth with a very low voyce c. Likewise one tooke a dead Mans Skull and burnt Incense thereto and inchanted thereby till hee heard a very low voyce c. This Text in our English translation being expounded a Familiar Spirit and seconded by the History of the Woman of Endor may seeme a strong evidence that the Devill covenanted with Witches But if all be granted that can be desired that this Familiar Spirit signifies a Devill yet it comes not home to prove the maine point for it is no proofe that the Familiar Spirit enter'd upon Covenant or had or could give power to others to kill the persons or destroy the Goods of others Kings James confesseth the Devill can make some to be possessed and so become very Demoniaques and that she who had the spirit of Python in Acts 16. Whereby she conquested such gaine to her Master that spirit was not of her own raising or commanding as she pleased to appoint but spake by her Tongue as well privately as publiquely Wee do not finde the Pythonesse condemned or reproved but the uncleane Spirit commanded in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her The Child which was too young to make a Covenant with the Devill was possessed with a dumb and deafe Spirit and the Devill charged to come out and enter no more into him Marke 9. A Daughter of Abraham that is of the Faith of Abraham was troubled with a spirit of infirmity 18 years and bowed together that shee could not lift her selfe up Luke 13. 10. 16. It is observable that in Deut. 18. where all the unlawfull Arts are reckoned up and most fully prohibited the crime of them is charged upon the practisers of those Arts but the crime of having a Familiar Spirit is not there condemned but the Consulter of a Familiar Spirit so in Levit. 19. 31. the prohibition is Regard not them that have Familiar Spirits and so in Levit. 20. 6. The Soule that turneth after such as have Familiar Spirits so that it was not the having but the consulting was condemned If we draw neerer to the words of the Text it will be found that these words a Consulter with a Familiar Spirit are no other then a Consulter with Ob. Where the question will be what Ob signifieth Expositors agree that originally Ob signifieth a Bottle and they say is applied here to one possessed with an evill Spirit and speaketh with a hollow voyce as out of a Bottle but for this I finde no proofe they bring out of Scripture that saith or expoundeth that Ob signifieth one possessed with a Familiar Spirit in the Belly the onely proofe is that the Greeke Interpreters of the Bible Translate it Engastromuthi which is speaking in the Belly and the word anciently and long before the time of the Septuagint Translators was properly used for one that had the cunning or slight to shut his mouth and seeme to speake with his Belly which that it can be done without the helpe of a Familiar Spirit experience of this Age sheweth in an Irish-man We do not find it said that the Woman of Endo did foretell any thing to Saul by the hollow voyce of a Familiar Spirit in her Belly neither did Saul require nor the Woman promise so to answer him but hee required bring me him up who I shall name unto thee and she undertooke to do it which argues a desire in Saul to consult with the dead which is called Necromancy or consulting with the dead But it hath beene said shee raised the Devill in Samuels likenesse yet there is no such thing said in the Text when the Woman went about her worke the first thing noted is that when she saw Samuel she cried out with a loud voyce an Argument shee was frighted with seeing something shee did not expect to see it is not said that when shee knew Saul but when shee saw Samuel She cryed out with a loud voyce when shee knew Saul shee had no reason to be afraid but rather comforted for that shee had his Oath for her security It may well be that if either shee had a Familiar Spirit or the Art of hollow-speaking her intention was to deceive Saul and by her secret voyce to have made him believe that Samuel in another roome had answered him for it appeares that Saul was not in the place where she made a shew of raising Samuel for when shee cried out with a loud voyce Saul comforted her and bid her not be afraid and asked her what she saw and what forme is he of which questions need not have beene if Saul had beene in the Chamber with the Witch King James confesseth that Saul was in another chalmer at the conjuration and it is likely the Woman had told Saul shee had seene some fearfull sight which made him aske her what she saw and her answer was She saw Gods ascending out of the Earth and it may be understood that Angels waited upon Samuel who was raised by God and not any Puppets or Divells that shee conjured up otherwise the words may be translated as Deodat in the Margent of his Italian Bible hath it She saw a Man of Majesty or Divine Authority ascend un ' huomo di Majesta è d' Authorita Divina which well answers the question of what forme is he of which is in the singular not in the plurall number Wee finde it said in Esay 29. 4. thou shalt be brought downe and shalt speake out of the ground and thy speech shall be low out of the dust and thy voyce shall be as one that hath a Familiar Spirit out of the ground and thy speech shall whisper out of the Earth which argues the voyce of Ob was out of the Earth rather then out of the Belly and so the Hebrew Exposition which I cited before affirmes some learned have beene of Opinion that a naturall reason may be given why in some places certaine exhalations out of the earth may give to some a propheticall spirit Adde hereunto that some of the Heathen Oracles were said to speake out of the Earth and among those five sorts of Necromancy mentioned by Doctor Reynolds in his 76 Lecture of his censure of the Apocryphals not any of them is said to have any Spirit in their Belly The Ronanists who are all great affirmers of the power of Witches agree that the soule of Samuel was sent by God to the Woman of Endor to this not onely Delrio but Bellarmin before him agrees That true Samuel did appear