was a Chaldean Deity, and fo the Word must be form'd after their Manner of Writing. And as the Shemob, the Light proceeding from the Sun in that Month, produced the greatest Effects there, not only upon the Earth, and Fruits, and Creatures, but also upon the Bodies of Men and Women, not only in Life, but in Venery, Generation, &c. There is nothing more in it, than that the Women, who were fenfible of fome, and imagin'd other Powers in these Agents, lamented his Abfence by the Earth's Declination in Winter, and rejoiced upon his Return in Summer.

אלהים כמוש

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Ention'd, 1 Kings xi. 7. 2 Kings xiii. 23, &c. This was the Aleim of the Moabites, is compound, I think, or has the Prefix like, which refers to the Condition, Power, Action, Motion, &c. in the Word 'tis join'd to. C. 5, affix'd to a Name, the fame as He, and the Receder; fo It or He the Receder, which is taken from the Direction the Light moves in from the Sun. P. fays fome thought this, and xu, a lafcivious God, mention'd, Rom. xiii. 13, the fame; if so, it must be com

pounded

pounded of fire or luft, and

once mention'd, to deto iffue forth. But we need not strain this, that Word may be taken from 1. And as I hinted above, though they each diftinguish their Object of Worship frequently by one Name or Attribute, they give them other Attributes, as in this. Jud. xi. 24, Wilt not thou poffefs that which Chemosh thy Aleim giveth thee to poffefs: So in the Deftruction denounced. Jer. xlviii. 7, And Chemofh fhall go forth into Captivity with his Priefts and his Princes together. ver. 13, And Moab fhall be ashamed of Chemofh, as the Houfe of Ifracl was ashamed of Bethel their Confidence. ver. 46, Wo unto thee, O Moab, the People of Chemoth perisheth. is found join'd with this, Ifa. x. 9,

כרכמיש

אלהים ירח

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Ention'd, 2 Kings xxiii. 5, & al. I have fhew'd in the fecond Part of M. P. that this is that Stream of Shemash flowing from the Sun, which is interrupted by one of the fix in the fecondary Candlestick, the Orb of the Moon, and reflected against the Earth. This had its Commiflion given, Gen. i. Deut. xvii. 3,

and

and hath gone and ferved other Alcim— The Moon. 2 Kings xxiii. 5. burnt In

cenfe to the Moon. Job. xxxi. 26, If I beheld the Moon walking in Brightness. Jer. viii. 2,-before-the Moon, whom they have loved, and whom they have ferv'd, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have fought, and whom they have worshipped. Claim'd by Miracle, fof.x. 12,-Stand ftill, and thou Moon in the Valley of Ajelon. By Formation. Pf. cxxxvi. 9. The Moon and Stars to rule by Night. Jer. xxxi. 35, which giveth and the Ordinances of the Moon, and of the Stars, for a Light by Night. Pfal. civ. 19. He appointeth the Moon for Seafons (this was one of their Aleim

of Months.) To reclaim this were their Monthly Services appointed. Numb.xxviii. 11, And in the Beginning of your Months ye fhall offer-ver. 14, This is the Burntoffering of every Month, throughout the Months of the Year: So all the other Appointments. Pfal. cxlviii. 3, Praise him--Moon-Ecclus xliii. 6, He made the Moon also to ferve in her Seafon, for a Declaration of Times, and a Sign of the World. From the Moon is the Sign of Feafts, a Light that encreafeth in her Perfection, &c. They worfhipp'd it for the Actions and Effects it has upon Fluids in this

System,

System, and in Vegetables and animal Bodies, &c. Deut. xxxiii. 14, For the

precious Things put forth by the Moons (the Light from the Moon) so in Reproach to those who worshipped it. Ifa. xiii. 10, And the Moon fhall not caufe her Light to fine. Ezek. xxxii. 7, And the Moon fhall not give her Light. Joel ii. 10, The Moon fhall be dark. ver. 30.fhall be turn'd and-the Moon into Blood*. Ib. iii. 15, The Moon fhall be darken'd. Ifa. xlvii. 13, Let now-the monthly Prognofticators ftand up, and fave thee (Chaldæa.) The Shemofh is call'd an Eye, that and Jeresh two; the Streams from the Sun upon each other Orb, feven. Materially Deut. xi. 12, A Land which the Lord thy God careth for: The Eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the Beginning of the Year, even unto the End thereof, because it lay near the Line, but one Part of the Year near each Pole. Spiritually, 2 Chron. xvi. 9, The Eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole Earth-frongly to hold with them, whofe Heart is perfect towards him. Pfal. xxxiii, 18, Behold the Eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him. 1 Kings ix. 3. 2 Chron. vii. 15, 16, I have hallowed this Houfe, and mine Eyes-fhall be there perpetually. Zach.

Reft, Stagnation,

Zach. iii. 9. Upon one Stone shall be feven Eyes. Ib. iv. 10, Thofe feven they are the Eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro thro' the whole Earth. In the Church of Chrift here and hereafter. Ifa. lx. 19, Neither for Brightness fhall the Moon give Light unto thee; but Jehovah shall be unto thee an everlasting Light, and thy Aleim, thy Glory. ver. xx. ib. They wore fome Emblems or Reprefentations of the Moon, mention'd, Jud.viii. 21. and Ezek. iii. 18.

מזלות

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

p. 498, mention'd, 2 Kings. xxxiii. 5. This expreffes the Fluxes or Streams of Light iffued from the Sun against the Orbs of the Stars, and reflected towards the Earth. This is found join'd with Baal, and the Light of the Sun, and the Light of the Moon: And though the Word be general, and might include the Planets and all the Stars; yet, I think, as all the others are elsewhere diftinctly nam'd, it was apply'd to the Fluxes from the Planets; because, I think we have no other Word in Scripture which distinguishes

them :