When by Prophecy is meant Praediction, or foretelling of future Contingents; not only they were Prophets, who were Gods Spokesmen, and foretold those things to others, which God had foretold to them; but also all those Imposters, that pretend by the helpe of familiar spirits, or by superstitious divination of events past, from false causes, to foretell the like events in time to come: of which (as I have declared already in the 12. chapter of this Discourse) there be many kinds, who gain in the opinion of the common sort of men, a greater reputation of Prophecy, by one casuall event that may bee but wrested to their purpose, than can be lost again by never so many failings.
Etorkizuneko gertakariak aurresateari edo iragartzeari deitzen bazaio profezia, Jainkoak beraiei iragarritakoa gainontzekoei aldarrikatu zieten Jainkoaren bozeramaleak ezezik, gezur-iragarle guztiak ere profeta ziratekeen, hau da, famili izpirituen laguntzaren bidez edo arestiko gertaera eta dedukzio faltsuetan oinarritutako azti-igarpenen bidez, etorkizunerako ere antzeko gertaerak iragarri nahi dituzten guztiak ziratekeen profeta. Profeta faltsuon artean, diskurtso honen 12.