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Spirit, melts it; fo begets and fends forth Light in Rays from every Side, quite through this Syftem. A City and feveral Regions were call'd non, and one Jos. xxi.

the Fires of the דור or חמות דאר

Sphere, the Generator. Under this, and fuch fynonymous Words, the first Person in the facred Trinity is emblematically nam'd and term'd Father; and the the, &c. emblematical Names for the second Perfon, fo call'd Son. There were Images of this mention'd Ifa. xxvii. 9, &c. call'dan Images of the Sun. 2 Par. xxxiv. 4, And they brake down the Altars of Baalim in his Prefence, and the SunImages by that were on high above them, he cut down. Paleoti de Imag. fays, p. 315, they had Altars on the high Places for the celeftial Gods, and in Caves for the terreftrial Gods. This had its Commiffion and its Powers exprefs'd and limited, Gen. i. 15, & feq. under the Name explain'd in the second Part of M. P. p. 42c. & feq. In Oppofition, Job. xxvi. 9, He holdeth back the Faces of his Throne, and spreadeth his Cloud upon it. Ifa. xl. 26, Lift up your Eyes on high, and behold who hath created thefe Things that bringeth out their Hoft by Number; He calleth them all by Names, by the S 4

Greatness

Greatness of his Might: He is frong in Power, not one faileth. 1 Kings xviii. 24. The Aleim that anfwereth by Fire, let him be Aleim. 2 Kings i. 10. If I be a Man of the Aleim, then let Fire come down from the Names, and confume thee and thy Fifty. Hof. viii. 14. For Ifrael hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth Temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced Cities: But I will fend a Fire upon his Cities, and it fhall devour the Palaces thereof. 2 Kings xxiii. 10. And he defiled Topheth.--That no Man might make his Son or his Daughter to pass through the Fire to Melech. Jer. vii. 31. And they have built the high Places of Topheth to burn their Sons and their Daughters in the Fire, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my Heart. Jer. xliii. 13, And the Temples of the Alcim of the Egyptians fhall he burn with Fire.

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Xplain'd in the fecond Part of M. P. p. 392. and in M. fine P. p. 203. and fome Claims inferted; which is another Name for the Fire at the Orb of the Sun; expreffes Wrath, Fury. Hence feveral Cities are call'd by that Name; and

a Man, Par. vii. 36,

the Fury of

a young Bull; which was the Emblem of

the Fire.

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Xplain'd in the fecond Part of M. P. P. 393. and in M. fine P. p. 203, which I think is the fame Word with another Termination. Jud, i. 35, mentions a Mountain of this Name; and Jer. xlviii. 36, &al, mentions a City called p Kir-heres.

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HIS was the Aleim of the Men of Cuth, mention'd 2 Kings xvii. 30, from Fire burning in a Lamp, or &c. and iffuing Light; and the Sphere rolling, or of a Fluid revolving: So the Fire circulating at the Orb of the Sun. This Word, with a Tau prefix'd, is used at making the Covenant Gen.xv. 17. And behold a Furnace of Smoak. There were Towers for this, mention'd Neh. iii. 11, xii. 38. The facred Fire was fo call'd, Ifa.xxxi. 9, Whofe Fire is in Zion, and his Furnace in Jerufalem. So was usd for each of the feven

Lamps

Lamps on the Center and Branches of the Candlestick in the Tabernacle and Temple. David, &c. were term'd the Lamps which were to bring forth the Light Chrift. So

The נר יהוה נשמת אדם 27 .Prov. xx

נור

Candlestick of Jehovah; the Soul of Adam. B. C. 1321, "In the Glofs and in Aruck is explained to be a Worfhipper of Fire, or a Worfhipper of an Idol called , fo Raf. Affe had a Wood and he fold it to the Temple of Fire; that is to the Priests that worshipped Fire, Nedar, Fol. 6. 2." The Word is fo confiderable in this Operation, that a was a general Name for their Objects of Worship And many Cities and Places took their Names from this Word fingle or doubled. The true Aleim claim this Pfal. lxxvi. 12, & al. by the Word aap. A Prince of the King of Babylon Jer. xxxix. 3, is call'd Nergal. On the other Side one was call'd, Jer. xxxii. 12, 7”) the Lamp of the Effence. So Jud. xii. eternal Revolution. Ecclef. xlii. 16, The Sun that giveth Light looketh upon all Things, and the Work thereof is full of the Glory of the Lord. Ib. xlii. 2, The Sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rifing a marvellous Inftrument, the

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Work

Work of the most Highfending forth bright Beams, &c,

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אלהים עגל

Ention'd, Exod. xxxii. 4.

This was

the Image of an Object of Worship among the Ifraelites coming from Egypt, and is conftrued a Calf: The Word fignifies in Fluids to circulate; and the Head of the Bull, by the Name , was the Emblem of Fire, and call'd the Head of a Cherub; fo of the firft Perfon in the Cherubim; And fo the Object among the falfe Worshippers was the Fire, at the Orb of the Sun; among the true ones, the first Perfon in the Aleim. The Singing and Dancing in Choirs, was in Imitation of this, and fo attributing that Power of Motion and its Effects to it. These were found among the Things in Gideon's Spoil. Numb. xxxi. 50, call'd y nyab, and were fome Reprefentations, either folid or grav'd, of the Bull's Head, or Circulation. So is an Inftrument of Progreffion by Rotation, There is a Place nam'd after this Fire, with this and another Word affix'd. Jer. xlviii. 34, from So

from City .חרנים עגלת שלישיה bar even to

and Perfons took their Names from this; Jeroboam,

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