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Gen. xi. 1. And all the Earth was of

דברים the fame Confefion, and שפה אחת

On the fame Words. * has about Religion, under one Idea, feveral Significati ons; this holds in the first, and all the reft here. plural, and joined with a plural Word M. iidem, (the fame) is not, nor can be used in any other Senfe: The Prophecy was to confound their Confeffion, but nothing is faid of their Words, which conftitute what was after called, when Words for the fame Things differed in different Countries, a Language. From this univerfal Practice of those who had Tradition, Emblems, and a pure Language, the Perverfeness of thofe is expofed, who have that Confeffion, recorded in Writing in that pure Language, and are forced to ufe it in a confus'd Tongue, and object as against a Confeffion or fet Form of Worship in the fame Words; and would leave every one, who know nothing of thofe Records, to use their own Imaginations. The Attempt, v. 4. was to build, which was there the Place or Temple of the Great.

* a Word is the outward Expreffion of our Sentiments; their Rites and Ceremonies were the Words or outward Expreffions of their Faith; and D' is fo ufed Jer. vii. 22. for the outward Form in Contradiftinction to the Thing fignified. They had the fame Faith and the fame way of expreffing their Faith, viz. the fame Rites and Ceremonies.

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A Temple, because its Head was for the Names, for the Ufe of an Altar. These two Words come together, Cant. v. 13.

(Temples (Altars מגדלות מרקחים שפתותיו

the Place of Burnt Odours, his Confeffions.
So Ifa. v. 2. and built a Tower in the

midst of it. That this Altar was built to
the whole Subftance, is expreffed by the
Word ', the three Names. Hence
Jehovah frequently affumes the Title 7,
2 Par.ii. 5. And the Houfe which I build
is great; for great is our Aleim a-
bove all Aleim, v. 9. the Houfe which I am
about to build is great, and D wonderful.
Indeed 'tis plain, fix of the seven Planets,
or those fix which move, were called great.
ones: And if it were the Great one, in
Comparison among the Planets, it must be
a Temple to the Sun. I have corrected
one Mistake about the fecondary Candle-
ftick, from which the Light is reflected in
the Night, but not fully. The falfe Con-
ftruction of bra, Deut. xxii. 12. and
1 Kings vii. 17. for twisted Cords or Ropes,
which has gone by the Tranflation into
other Languages, as most of the falfe Con-
ftructions have, made me mistake it for a
Term for the Courfes of the Moon:
as the Candlestick in the Tabernacle was.
made, 'tis very likely, before Genefis was

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writ, it refers for an Idea to that, Exod. XXV. 31. Thou shalt make a Candlestick and fix Branches- an Apple and a Flower on one Branch- that they may give Light over against it; with a Flower to reprefent the Irradiation of the Light from each Apple or Ball, reprefenting a Planet, which are each named as diftinct in the Apocalypfe : And each few was to wear the Figures of thefe fix great ones upon the Skirt of his Garment; and they were placed in the Crowns, upon the Columns, before the Porch of the Temple; of which in their Place. And their Defign was to make themselves D, a Name, that they should not be dispersed, Targum of Jonathan. "And let us make us an Image to worfhip before upon its Top, and put a Sword in his Hand, that he may fight for us against our Enemies, before we be dispersed over the Face of the Earth. Jerufalem Targum. And let us make us in the middle of the Tower, a Temple for divine Worship upon its Top, and put a Sword in the middle of his Hand, left there be War waged against him before we be difperfed over the Face of the whole Earth. Morinus of the Primitive Tongue, &c.Berifch. Rabb. &c. Let us make us a Tower, and an Idol on its top, and let us

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arm his Hand with a Sword that he may feem to fight for us. Ibid. Let us make us a Name; that Name fays R. Ifrael, is nothing but an Idol. Befides Herodotus himself, Book i. § 182. defcribing that Tower as it was ftanding in his Time, faith there was indeed no Image in the Chapel on the top; only a Golden-table, and a Bed magnificently adorned to receive the Madam that prostituted her Chatity to his Godship; but in the inferior Shrine or Chapel, there was yet remaining a Golden Statue of Jupiter." The fame P. 54. and Strabo, Geography, Book 16. Whether this Image was made, and fet up here at first, is not certain, but fuch a one was afterwards made, and fet hard up by; whether it was very large, and had the Sun, or the Irradiation about its Head, which has fince been called the Crown, from whence it took the Title of D Name is not expreffed; but it was of human Figure; and putting a Sword into its Hand was acknowledging its Power, allowing it to be in Affyria 5a, in Hebrew ; io Jupiter, &c. N. B. This is one of the first in the Pedigree of the Kings of our modern Chronologers; and almost all the reft of their Kings were fuch.

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The Confequence of making an Altar to the Names and fetting up this new Objec of Worship, was to produce a new Confeffion, which was to be followed by offering the Types of the great Sacrifice for the Redemption of Man from the Forfeiture, for the Crime of believing incommunicable Powers in created Matter, to the material mechanical Agents, which, whatever they then thought were in them, were only for fupporting the Life of, and fupplying the Body with Neceffaries, giving Ideas, &c. And fo was relaphing into the Original Sin, or a Degree of it, with the further Aggravation of Ingratitude for promifed Redemption, &c.

Gen, xi. 6. And Jehovah faid, Behold the People is one; and they have all the fame Confeffion; and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be refrained from them which they have imagined to do: Come let us go down now, and confound (let us caft it out of their Minds, &c. as you will fee below at large under the God a) (the Name, or upon Earth.) their Confeffion, that they may not understand one another's Confeffion, (Lip.) So Jehovah feattered them abroad from thence over the Face of all the Earth, &c. Befides the Oppofition of the true Believers, the Effect, I think

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