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But when this punishment for sin is inflicted upon a people, nation, or particular person, for dealing with familiar spirits, and worshipping of devils; when punishment comes, it makes the heart or hearts to fail, for the spirit is brought down by this judgment even to death, and so goeth to the ground; so that the very fear, trouble and sorrow of heart, shall speak as it were out of the dust, or out of death; for sin will speak out of the ground, and the speech of death will be low in them that have escaped the destruction which others did go through; for there will be a resemblance in those that have escaped, how their friends and relations are fallen to the ground or dust of the earth for their wickedness, so that sorrow and grief will speak in the mind of those that have escaped with a low speech, even as one doth who hath a familiar spirit.

Or as if their friends or relations, the remembrance of their destruction being taken away in wrath for sin, it speaks a small low voice of grief and sorrow in the heart of those that are alive, even as one that hath a familiar spirit, even a law motional voice of sorrow and grief, and it cometh as it were out of the ground or out of the dust.

That is the very influence of grief and sorrow for their dead friends and people; it causeth, where grief is to hear as it were low voices and small speeches, even out of the ground or out of the dust of the earth: just as it was with Cain in another case, the Lord said to Cain, thy brother's blood crieth from the ground for vengeance;' and so the blood of those that were slain under the altar did from the ground cry for vengeance, as in Rev. vi. 10. it crieth for vengeance in the consciences of all bloody persecutors.

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So in like manner doth the death and destruction of a people, who are destroyed for wicked idolatry, as those were the prophet Isaiah speaketh of, they spake from the ground a low speech in the conscience of those that were concerned, grief, sorrow, and fear of the same punishment, and such like.

CHAP. IX.

FOR where grief and sorrow is rooted and settled in the heart, it speaketh with low motional voices in the mind; that is the thought of fear in the mind, both of temporal losses and the loss of eternal peace. The fear moves to and fro in that mind, as if it were a speech out of the ground; for the thoughts of the heart are low voices which cannot be heard by any but themselves.

So it is with those that have a familiar spirit, their voices and speech they hear from spirits without them, as if spirits did speak to them out of the ground: which speech they say they hear is nothing else but the thoughts that pass to and fro in their own minds, a low motional voice in themselves, as if spirits did speak to them with a low voice out of the ground, or out of the dust. For their faith is strong and above all, those that come to enquire of a witch, they do all believe that spirits may be raised without bodies out of the ground, as the witch doth; so they both do believe, that the spirit came out of the ground that spake those low voices to the witch, and she tells it to the other that enquire of her, and they believe her as king Saul did.

So they are wholly departed from the Lord, and believe a lie, to think that spirits can be raised out of the ground without bodies after men have been dead: it is a thing God never did; we never read in Scripture, that God or his prophets did ever raise any spirits out of the ground without bodies after they were dead; but we read in Scripture that God and his prophets have raised some from the dead with bodies, as that

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of Lazarus being raised out of the ground by Christ, and the child that was raised from death by the prophet Elijah, and another child raised from death to life by the prophet Elisha, and several others come forth out of the ground at the rising again of Christ from death, as those saints that did arise out of the graves, and appeared to many that were alive; these all did arise out of the graves with bodies after they were dead, and Lazarus came forth out of the ground after he was dead, but his spirit came not out of the ground without his body, but body and soul came out of the ground together.

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For it was always God's practice to raise soul and body together; and because the imagination of reason in those that have a familiar spirit cannot do so, nor those that enquire of them, therefore they do imagine that spirits may be raised out of the ground without bodies, or assume a shape and appear like a body, yet it shall be of no substance, a shape that can neither be felt nor handled by the hand of man.

Now mind, all those God doth raise out of the ground after they were dead, they may be handled and felt, though they be spiritual bodies, yet they may be felt and handled, as Christ said to Thomas, 'Feel me and handle me,' after he was risen from the dead, and Thomas laid his fingers on the print of the nails and on his side.' Yet Christ was at that time a spiritual body that was risen from the dead, that might be felt and handled, and not a Spirit without a body, as most people do vainly imagine that spirits may be raised without bodies.

And as for that Lazarus and others, that were raised by the power of God out of the ground after they had been dead, they had bodies as well as spirits that might be seen with natural eyes, and handled and felt with na

tural hands. So that God's power in raising the dead, it is no cheat; the creature is not cheated nor deceived, but is fully satisfied in his mind.

But for a familiar spirit to say or tell people they do or can raise spirits out of the ground in such a shape without a body or bodily substance; or shall say, they hear voices from this spirit so raised, is a mere cheat to the ignorant, and unbelieving, and leads them into the pit of darkness, and makes them fear where no fear is, and are afraid of their own shadows; for it is the nature of reason the devil to imagine, that this way of raising of spirits without bodies, to be of a more high uature than to raise spirit and body together, as God doth; and the imagination doth conceive it a more greater power to raise spirits without bodies out of the dust of the ground, than it is to raise spirit and body together as Christ did; for Christ always raised spirit and body together, as the scriptures do testify.

For the reason in man doth send forth the imagination of the heart, the unclean spirit in man walking through dry places, seeking rest but can find none; the ignorant dark thoughts of the imagination goeth out of aman to enquire of one that hath a familiar spirit, seeking rest but can find none, as king Saul did: for the imagination of the heart being continually evil, it always walketh through dry places, where no matter of life is to be had, to quench the thirst of sin or a defiled conscience; neither can the thoughts of imagination be satisfied with what a witch or a familiar saith; therefore called dry places; they may be called dry, because the heart is never satisfied with what a witch saith, for she always saith a lie.

To tell a man or woman, that she doth or can raise spirits out of the ground without bodies, as the witch of Endor did to king Saul, or that she did hear any low

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