ch other; but their
_reality_ is not disproved by any discrepancy, or want of truthfulness in
their responses; for if they are spirits, none but unclean spirits would
respond in a forbidden manner.

These spirits are to be discredited, because they preach a different
gospel from that preached by Paul, who says: "I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another
gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and
would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let
him be accursed," Gal. 1:6-9. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be Anathema, Maran-atha." 1 Cor. 16:22. Said John, "Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world," 1 John 4:1. Also
Isaiah said, "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not
a people seek unto their God? To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them," Isa. 8:19, 20.

Because of these practices, the nations were driven out from before the
children of Israel. And with the _miracles_ to be wrought, the frog-like
spirits are to go forth to "the whole world to gather them to the battle
of that great day of God Almighty."

In the time of Abraham, "the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full,"
(Gen. 15:16); but in four hundred years they had practised all the
abominations for which they were to be destroyed, and the practice of
which God has expressly forbidden. He said to Israel, in the wilderness,
"When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou
shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nation. There shall
not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass
through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits,
or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an
abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy
God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the
Lord thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviner