And this Spirit of Wisdom, Knowledge and Power, which is produced by the
Revelation as aforesaid, it hath motional Voices in the Conscience, as
the Familiar Spirit hath in the evil Conscience; but the motional Voices
in a good Conscience speaketh Peace. Likewise this motional Voice in
Prophets, High-Priests, Apostles, and others, is that by which they do
foretel Things by, whether it be good or bad, that shall befal those
that shall enquire.
Also the Spirit of Revelation hath a standing Rule to enquire by, as
those have that doth tell Things by a Familiar Spirit, as I said before;
for the Witches doth imitate the way of the Prophets, and the Devil's
Way is as like God's Way as he can.
Now let the Reader mind, and he may see how Men have enquired of the
Lord by motional Voices in the Mind, by that Spirit of Faith which is
gotten by Revelation, which is called the Spirit of God.
In the Time of the Law of _Moses_, the Ephod was a standing Rule, for to
enquire of God for good or bad Success. Now there was no Man could tell
what the Event would be that looked upon the Ephod, but such Men as had
the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy in them; as _David_ and the High
Priest, as soon as ever they looked upon the Ephod, they could tell
whether they should prosper in Battle or not; but if any other Man which
had not the Spirit of Revelation and Prophecy should look upon the
Ephod, they could tell nothing by it.
Though the Ephod was appointed of God, on purpose to enquire of God, yet
none could find out God's Mind, but such Men aforesaid; for as soon as
ever _David_ or the High-Priest looked upon the Ephod, they could tell
what the Event would be, as may be seen, 1 _Sam._ xxiii. 6, 9. how
_David_ called for the Ephod and _Abiathar_ the Priest to bring it to
enquire of the Lord.
Yet God never spake to them by Voice, yet they had motional Voices in
themselves in their Hearts, assuring them that they prosper or not
prosper; yet God never appeared himself, nor any Angel, neither did God
speak by any Voice, yet they are bid to go and prosper, as if they had
heard some Voice by looking upon the Ephod, so that those Voices that
bid them go and prosper, they were motional Voices that did arise from
the Revelation and Spirit of Prophecy within them by that Skill they had
in the Ephod, which was appointed of God for that Purpose. So that all
_David_'s Voices, and the High-Priest Voices, that were motional Voices,
yet called the Voice of God, because they did arise from the Seed of
Faith in _David_ and others, which is the Divine Nature of God,
therefore called the Spirit of God.
For this I say, if _Saul_ had not lost that Spirit of Prophecy by his
Disobedience, as he once had, when the good Spirit departed from him, he
might have enquired of the Ephod, and have been answered with a motional
Voice by the Ephod, as he was by enquiring of a Witch.
For the Spirit of _Samuel_ did speak no more to _Saul_, then the Spirit
of God did speak to _David_, they were both motional Voices that did
arise from their two Seeds the one Voice spake Peace and Deliverance,
and the other spake Wrath and Destruction; the one did enquire in the
Way that God did appoint, even of the Ephod, or of the Lord's Prophets;
the other did enquire of that which was forbidden, and forsook the Lord
and his Prophets, and went to a Witch to enquire: It was because one was
the Seed of _Adam_, which is the Seed of God, and so chosen of God in
Mercy, even _David_; and the other was the Seed of the Serpent, even the
Devil, who was chosen King in God's Wrath even _Saul_.
This is the true Interpretation of those Voices that _Samuel_ spake to
_Saul_, and of his being raised by the Witch of _Endor_.
Therefore you that can understand these things as aforementioned, you
may see how the whole World lieth in Darkness, and are cheated of their
Sense and Reason by this lying and vain Imagination, to believe that
Spirits can be without Bodies, or that Spirits can be raised without
Bodies, or that Spirits can speak without Bodies, or that Spirits
departed can assume any Shapes afterwards; these Things and many more
are produced by the dark Imagination of the Heart of Man: And if the
Reader hath any true Light of Faith in him, he may understand the
Interpretation I have given of the Witch of _Endor_, and how a Familiar
Spirit is produced or begotten in them, and be satisfied in his Mind as
to that Matter; so much concerning those Words in _Samuel_
aforementioned.