is, And the Woman came unto Saul. The vulgar Latin, Ingressa est, she came in, which implies that she went out of Doors, rather than into her Closet. The Septuagint read <...>, being the same sense with the vulgar Latin. The Chaldee Paraphrase simply she came, so the Syriack and Arabick; but we find nothing of coming out any where but in the Discoverer; so that here is a Text made two, as well as many a groundless Comment.
But whether she only came to Saul, or in or out to him, it matters not much, for it implies only, that she withdrew, while Saul communed with Samuel, out of respect, and after the Communication she returned, and found the King in great Disorder, and what is this to a Closet?
SECT. XVI.
Two of Mr. Webster's Arguments for the Witches Closet proposed and answered.
But Mr. Webster persues the Business in the behalf of the Discoverer; First, If they were in the same Room, and Samuel a visible Object, how comes it to pass, that Saul saw him not? Mr. Glanvil saith he, must pump to find it out; p. 169. But doth not Mr. Webster know, that it is usual in Apparitions, (and he owns there are such) for the Spirit to appear to one, when it is not visible to another, though in the same Room, and every ways capable of seeing? In the famous Story of Walker and Sharp, recited by him, p. 299, 300. which he confesseth to be of undoubted Verity, he saith, It was reported, that the Apparition did appear in Court to the Judge, or Foreman of the Jury, (and I have from others Hands very credible Attestation that it was so) but the rest saw nothing. Many other well-attested Relations of this kind, speak of the like, and there are innumerable Stories of People that have their Second-sight, as they call it, to wit, a Faculty of seeing Spectres, when others cannot discern them. In which there is nothing either impossible or unlikely: And why then should there be need of so much pumping to Answer this Objection?
