and, by healing all Difeafes, to prevent Death, and even raise others and himself from the Dead. The Prophecies of Chrift extended not only to those then alive, of his own Death and Refurrection, the Perfecutions, the Destruction of the Temple, and the irrecoverable Difperfion of the Jews, but to all Jews, Heathens, and Chriftians to come; none of his or of his Apostles more eminently than thofe of Antichrift; which was then begun by the apoftate Jews, and has been propagated by them, and is established upon their Foundations. 1 John ii. 18, As ye have heard that Antichrift fhall come, even now are there many Antichrifts, &c. ver. 22, Who is a Liar, but he that denieth that Jefus is the Chrift? He is Antichrift, that denieth the Father and the Son, &c. 1 John iv. 3, And every Spirit that confeffeth not Jefus Christ who is come in the Flesh, is not of God: And this is that Spirit of Antichrift, whereof you have heard that it should come, and even now already it is in the World. 2 John i. 7, For many Deceivers are entered into the World, who confefs not Jefus Christ who is come in the Flesh: This is a Deceiver and an Antichrift. And of the poor Creatures that run about oppofing

him, and are fuffered to try the Inclination of the People, as the Canaanites, who were left in the Land of Canaan, were to try the Jews, and to make those who stand shine more gloriously.

If it were poffible that we could produce what concerned the Names, the Images, Infignia, Emblems, Ornaments, Temples, Altars, and their Apparatus, the Habits and Ornaments of their Pricfts, an Account of the Covenants, with Sacrifices, Services to, and Dances, Games, in Imitation of, their Courses and Actions; and of the Speeches the Priefts and People made in Confeffions, Praifes, Hymns, Prayers, to these Aleim, for giving Life, Neceffarics, Victory, and all the other Attributes; and the pretended Declarations of the Wills of thefe Aleim, by their Priests, Prophets, Obfervers, &c. by fuch Signals as they pretended to understand, or which they pretended were revealed in their Way, and which are exprefly tho' fummarily contained in the following Epithets and Attributes, given by the antient Heathens to them before Writing, or while the Hebrew Tongue was preferved, and they underftood, and we might understand, what they said and meant; you would understand the Reason why all these Speeches

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in the Bible were made to, and of the Ef fence exifting, the Aleim of the Jews: As those cannot now be retrieved; if any one, either from the Motive of retrieving the Meaning of the Heathen Books which are left, or to fhew the Reason for, and illuftrate the Paffages in Scripture, would be pleased, as I have done, to rummage over a great Part of what has been fince, and is preserved; and to do what in many I, in this Article, have neglected, and cannot now submit to retrieve, because I hope I can do something of greater Service; I mean, to extract the best of the imperfect Accounts fince the Confufion of what is above-mentioned, and of their Oracles, Infcriptions, and what has been added fince, and infert them under their Names or Heads, in Claffes, as I have done fome of thofe Claims, &c. in the Scripture: Tho' there will be abundance of Inconfiftencies, and abundance of Imagination and Falfhood in human Writings and the later Languages; as we know what God did by his immediate or spiritual Power, and what he ordered these Agents to do; what he did by those Agents; fo what they did, and what they could not do; it would be easy to fort the Material from the Spiritual, the Real from the Imaginary, &c. And tho' there

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would be fome Difficulty in forting them into Heads or Attributes, yet as these, in the main, would direct him to place them pretty near their feveral Claffes, they would in grofs, fhew the Meaning of all their Actions, Speeches, &c. and why the Appearances, Miracles, Defcriptions, Speeches,

c. in the Bible, were recorded; and even their Confusion, in mistaking the Attributes of each, would not only prove what I have deduced, though fome of the Expreffions might equal the poor Performances in our Tranflations, which I have been forced to cite; but make thofe who have pretended to fhew their Perfections and Beauties, when fet against those in the Hebrew Text, afhamed of them, and of their Judgment; and would for ever determine where Truth, Knowledge, Perfection and Beauty were to be found: And tho' the Claims, &c. I have inferted, fhew this fufficiently for my present Purpofe, the Ufe of this Undertaking, till that is done, will appear clearer to those who have made Searches among those Books, than to others.

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HE two firft, mentioned Gen. xi. 4. the Name, the Names, explain'd under De in. M. fine P. p. 181. The third, Jof. xii. 3. The fourth, Jof. xiii. 20. the Temple of the Name, or Names, or of the Subftance of the Name or Names, explained in the second Part of M. P. p. 56. which is expreffive of the three Conditions of that fluid Matter commonly called the Heavens, in FIRE, LIGHT, and SPIRIT; of which in their Order.

I have fhewed in the second Part of M. P. p. 79. & al. that Subftance and Space

are the fame: So as the Name as a Subftitute and the Subftance is the fame: The Place and the Name are the fame; and the fame Letters in Hebrew are Place and Name; and one Species of Matter or Subftance is by Eminence upon feveral Accounts the, chief Root for both. But in the Perfection of the Contrivance, and of the Ufage of the Hebrew Tongue, they differ. There are of this one Substance three Names, of Condition, of Office, of

Action,