DAEMONOLOGY. FIRST BOOK.

yet it is evident by the text that as soon as that unclean spirit was fully risen, she called Saul in. For it is said in the text that Saul knew him to be Samuel, which could not have been by hearing a description only of an old man with a mantle, since there were many more old men dead in Israel than Samuel: and the common clothing original: "weid" of that whole country was mantles. As to the next point, that it was not the spirit of Samuel, I agree: in proving that, you do not need to insist, since all Christians of whatever religion agree upon that; and none but the completely ignorant, or necromancers, or witches doubt it. And that the Devil is permitted at times to put himself in the likeness of the Saints is plain in the Scriptures, where
2 Corinthians 11:14

it is said that Satan can transform himself into an Angel of light. Neither could that bring any conflict original: "inconvenient" with the visions of the Prophets, since it is most certain that God will not permit him to deceive His own people in that way; but only those who first willfully deceive themselves by running to him. God then suffers them to fall into their own snares, and justly permits them to be deluded original: "illuded" with a powerful deception because they would not believe the truth (as Paul says). And as to the Devil's foretelling of things to come: it is true that he does not know all future things; yet the tragic outcome of this history declares that he knows some part (which the wit of a woman could never have foretold). It is not that he has any foreknowledge original: "prescience", which belongs only to God, or that he knows anything by looking up—