and all their Hoft have I commanded. Pfal. cxlviii. 2, Praise ye him, all his Hofts (fhew the Power of the Irradiation.) In Oppofition to the Strength the Heathens supposed these Agents could give to Men in War, &c. they make Jehovah Aleim their General, Giver of Force, &c. Pfal. Ix. 9, Who will bring me into the strong City; who will lead me into Edom? Wilt not thou, O Aleim, which hadft caft us off ; and thou, O Aleim, which didst not go out with our Armies? Give us Help from Trouble; for vain is the Help of Man. Through the Alcim we shall do valiantly; for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies. In Reproach to those who trusted in these Powers, Ifa. xxxiv. 4, And all the Hoft of the Names fhall be diffolv'd, and the Names fhall be rolled together as a Scroll, and all their Hoft fhall fall down as a Leaf falleth off from the Vine, and as a falling Fig from the Fig-Tree.

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Xplain'd in the fecond Part of M. P. p. 145, and is another Description of the Spirit, by Order call'd, The third Idol:

Yet

Yet this is not all, as One did not rule, but Three; and tho' the Jews and Deifts would have all Rule in One, yet in the Hebrew, and all the Corruptions of it, the Word for Three and Ruler is the fame; as in Hebrew why, in Chaldee hn, &c. And tho' they have made themselves merry with Things they knew nothing of, I fhall, perhaps, e're long, in Courfe, have Occafion to fhew how this and other Numbers in that Language are fram'd to accord with Things; and to fhew, that fome of the Authors which are most in Favour with those who oppose it, prove it.

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Ention'd Jud.xviii. 28. This Word

takes in the whole Substance of the three Names, and 'tis the extended, fpacious, capacious, roomy Aleim, which contains all material Things, and in which all Creatures live, move, and have their Being. There were feveral Cities and Perfons call'd by this Name, and one Man the Space of the Effence, and the Claims, fhew, that they had attributed to this the Power of giving Space; for several

of the Promifes of the temporal Part of the Covenant, the Enjoyment of Canaan are under this Word, Exod. xxxiv. 24, And I will caft out the Nations before thee, and enlarge thy Borders. Deut. xii. 20, When Jehovah thy Aleim shall enlarge thy Border, as he hath promis'd thee (Gen. xxviii. 14.)-Only thy holy Things which thou haft, and thy Vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the Place, which Jehovah fhall chufe. Ib. xix. 8, And if Jehovah thy Aleim enlarge thy Coast, as he hath fworn to thy Fathers, and give thee all the Land which he hath promis'd to give unto thy Fathers- Then fhalt thou, &c. So Gen. xxvi. 22, And he call'd the Name of it Rehoboth, and he faid, For now Jchovah hath made Room for us, and we hall be fruitful in the Land. So in the Promife of the Kingdom of Chrift, Ifa. liv. 2, Enlarge the Place of thy Tent, &c. So in Deliverances, temporal or fpiritual, PJ. iv. 1, Thou hast enlarged me when I was in Difirefs. Ib. xviii. 19. He brought me forth alfo into a large Place. ver. 37, Thou baft enlarged my Steps under me, that my Feet flip not. Ib. xxxi. 9, Thou haft fet my Feet in a large Room. Ib. cxix. 45, I will walk at Liberty [at large] for 1 feek thy Precepts. Tho' neither Sir I. N. nor

any of his Coadjutors, knew a tittle of the Meaning of thefe original Epithets, yet from scatter'd Scraps in Greek and La tin, about this, he gave us his Definition of his Deus; and by miftaking this active Fluid for God, and for empty Space, he was led to dream of Projections, &c. and of fecond Caufes, without Means. If Words can make a Diftinction between the Effence, and Matter, David has feparated them Pfal. cxviii. 5, I called upon the Effence out of, and the Effence heard

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HE first is explain'd in the fecond Part of M. P. p. 276, with fome Claims; and at large in M.-fine P. p. 46. The second is mention'd fof. xix. 38; 'tis that which irradiates, and thereby has its Strength for Operation, which is each of, or all the three Names, FIRE, LIGHT, SPIRIT. Hence thefe Expoftulations, Hof. x. 15, Sofhall Bethel do unto you, because of your great Wickedness. Amos iv. 4, Come to Bethel, and tranfgrefs. Ib. v. 5. But feek not Bethel and Bethel fhall

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come to nought. Ib. vii. 13, But prophefie not against Bethel, for it is the King's Chapel, and it is the King's Court. So claims from El. Ezek. xxviii. 2, And thou haft faid, I am a God; I fit in the Seat of the Alcim, in the midft of the Seas: Tet thou art a Man, and not God, tho' thou fet thy Heart as the Heart of the Aleim, &c. ver. 9, Wilt thou fay before him that flayeth thee, Iam Aleim? But thou shalt be a Man, and no God, in the Hand of him that flayeth thee. As the Word a, or, when apply'd to what they took for God, fignifies a Temple, 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 fall devour the Palaces thereof. Joel iii. 5, Because ye have taken my Silver and my Gold, and have carried into your Temples my goodly pleasant Things-Behold, I will, &c. As thefe were Temples to the created Aleim, and as there was but to be one Temple to the Aleim, the Effence exifting, and but onc chief Interceffor (for fo the Word fignifies; and the Idea was, as all others, taken from what was perfectly understood ; for fo Aaron was to Mofes; fo feveral fucceffively were to King David, as 2 Sam.