himself in his Power, Wisdom, &c. forni ing all Things in Heaven, Earth, Waters, according to his Design and their Ends, and making them all obey him, defcribing each great Act more particularly thus than any other Way. When he speaks to distinguish himself, he says, making the Spirit his Agents, and the Fire his Minifters; there we have no Idea of Action in him, but in the Spirit and Fire. In the Reprefentation of his Government, making the Clouds his Chariot, or Chariots the Emblem of Government: The Clouds, which are to be the laft material Emblem of Divinity at Chrift's Judgment, the Chariot, the Emblem of Government, moving by the Rotation of the Wheels which reprefents the Power of Circulation, and the Manner of the progreffive Rotation of the Earth; which continued, is an Emblem of Eternity; fitting in the Chariot, fometimes upon an Orb, the Hand being the Emblem of that by which Power is pof fefs'd, holding the Reins with one Hand, and the Whip in the other: So riding upon a Cherub, one of these three, walking, or proceeding upon the Wings of the Wind the Spirit, Wings being the Emblem of the Power to move and give Motion to other Things: So Jupiter upon the Wings

Wings of a flying Eagle, the Cherub, the Emblem of the Spirit, fo commanding and ruling that, to which he has given the Power of giving the Motion, and confequently the Motions of those who are moved, or move by thefe Powers. When he comes to terrify, punish or destroy his Enemies, and deliver or cftablifh his Servants, he reprefents himself with Darknefs under his Feet, encompass'd with Clouds and Darkness, as this Syftem is, or with thick Clouds and Waters; as the Sun in Storms and Tempefts feems to be; Fire proceeding out of his Mouth, Smoak and Spirit out of his Nose or Visage, iffuing terrible Voices, Thunders, darting Lightnings, Flames, Coals of Fire, Arrows through the Clouds and Darkness, raifing Whirlwinds, Storms and Tempefts, raining Hail-ftones, &c. to terrify, dif perfe or destroy his Enemies, and reprefenting the Effects of his Wrath by Ideas, taken from the Effects, thefe Agents in Thunders, Earthquakes, Storms, &c. have upon the Earth, Waters, or inactive Parts of this System: And the Shame which affected those who had trufted in the Powers in thefe Shadows. All the Poetical Defcriptions, in Words, by Infignia, &c. extant of Jupiter, &c. come infinitely

fhort in Propriety, Strength, Beauty, &c. of these and many more in the facred Writings. And tho' we are forbid in the fecond Commandment to make Similitudes for our felves, yet we are, Hof. xii. 11. directed to take thofe under the Word 7, which God gives us by the Hands of the Prophets. And though they were warn'd, Deut. iv. 12, 15. Te saw noon Similitude: Yet God fays, Numb. xii. 8. And the Similitude of the Lord he shall behold: And David fays, Pfal. xvii. 15. I will behold thy Faces in Righteoufnefs, and shall be fatisfied in the Summer (theWarmth which makes many Species of Creatures awake and live) of thy Similitude. There is a Place call'd by this Name Deut. iv. 48, Mount Sion which is Hermon. Pfal. lxxxix. 13, Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name. So a People, Pfal. xlii. 7. Hermonites: So a Place call'd, Gen. xxxviii. 12. 2. The Rabbies, as appears by M. under the Word conftruen Bafilisk. And this Similitude truly is that Serpent which killed by looking upon them, or at least when they look'd upon it. There are Words which are confin'd to the Fire at the Orb of the Sun, and the Irradiation exhibited from it, outward

outward and inward; as Jud. ii. 9, nyan on, the Similitude of the Sun. This Irradiation of the Fire at the Orb of the Sun, or reprefented from a Head outward and inward, is defcribed under thefe Words from human Writers, in the fecond Part of M. P. p. 389, & feq.. The Repesentation is alfo exprefs'd from Scripture. Jof xix. 50, nad njan, the Image of the Irradiation, and was forbid in the fecond Commandment. Exod. xx. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image, or - any Likeness which is in the Names above, &c. explain'd by the Infignia upon the Heads of their Pictures, Ezek. xxiii. 15, and died Turbans upon their Heads. Each of these two was an Image of the whole, or of the three in Miniature. The D Tiara Turban colour'd was form'd of Rays extended outward, as the Word expreffes, and reprefented the Irradiaton of the Heavens; as what we now call a Turban, a Cap, with fomething turn'd feveral times round about it, reprefents the Motions or Courses of the Orbs; they generally put this of Irradiation, and no other, about the Heads of their Gods, fometimes about one Head, fometimes about three; a Crown indeed includes both: The Similitude which led the Ifraelites, and confifted of Fire, Light, $3 Cloud

Cloud was this in Miniature. 'Tis fuppos'd they intended to reprefent Fire, by the curl'd Hair on the Head of the Bull or Calf, and Irradiation by the Horns, as you will fee in the next but one, A Voyage to Arabia the Happy, p. 133. "The Religion of the Banjians is a ridiculous and gross Idolatry for they fay, they adore all Sorts of Animals, but principally a Cow, which is the grand Object of their Worship and their Love. p. 135. as to the reft their Dress is very fingular, above all that of the Head, which is a Kind of Turban of white Muflin, which they endeavour as much as they can to make in Imitation of the Horns and Head of a Cow or Heifer."

fo חרס is from חרמון If any infift that

terminated and not compounded, and conftrue Baal and it,. The Lord, the devoted to be cut off, let them place it below, next

comprehends המון the firft Word ; אשימא

all under this Head.

חמת

Explain'd in the fecond Part of M.P.

p. 387, and in M.- fine P. p23.

and the Claims inferted. The Fire that co Orb of the Sun, which is fupply'd by the

Spirit,