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prehenfive Attributes, but loft in the Tranflation. Jehovah Aleim fuperfedes this by fhewing, that he created, form'd and made a Machine of the Names (to which they gave this Attribute) to act according to Rules, and prepared all other Matter, which they at firft or fince have acted upon. The Proportion of Air for Fire, Light, Spirit, to cach other to make it a Machine, and to act upon other Things, of Stone to fupport this Shell, of Metals to Stone, of Water to terreftrial Matter, of the feveral Sorts of vegetable and animal Matter, to reform and fupply each Part of each, 1 Chron. xvi. 30. Pfal. xcvi. 10, The World is framed it cannot fail. Jer. x. 12, li. 15, He hath establish'd the World by his Wifdom. Prov. iii. 19, He has framed the Airs by his Understanding. Ib. viii. 27, When He prepared the Airs, I was there. Ifai. xl. 12, And proportion'd the Airs by the Span. Ver. 13, Who has prepared the Spirit of Jehovah. Prov. xvi. 2, Jehovah prepareth the Spirits. Pfal. Ixxiv. 16, The Day is thine, the Night alfo is thine; thou hast prepared the Inftrument of Light, and the Light. Pfal. viii. 4, When I confider thy Heavens, the Work of thy Fingers, the the Moon, and the Stars, which thou haft Gg 3 ordained.

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ordained. Pfal. cxix. 90, Thou haft framed the Earth, and it abideth, lb. xxiv. 2, For He hath founded it upon the Seas, and framed it upon the Floods. Ib. civ. 5, He hath founded the Earth upon its Supports. Ib. lxxv. 4, I proportioned its Pillars. Ifai. xlv. 18, God himfelf that formed the Earth and made it, He has established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited. Pfal. Ixv. 7, Who framed the Mountains by his Strength. Job. xxviii. 25, And proportioned the Waters by Meafure. When He made a Decree for the Rain, and a Way for the Lightning of the Thunder, then did He fee it and declare it, He prepared it, yea, and fearched it out. Pfal. cxlvii. 8, Who covereth the Heaven with Clouds, who prepareth Rain for the Earth, who maketh Grafs to grow upon the Mountains. lb. lxv. 9, Thou vifiteft the Earth, and watereft it: thou greatly inricheft it with the River of God, which is full of Water: thou prepareft them Corn, which thou haft fo provided for it. Ib. lxviii. 9, Thou Aleim didft fend a plentiful Rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine Inheritance when it was wea ry-Thou, O Aleim, haft prepared of thy Goodness for the Poor. Job. xxxviii.

41, Who prepared for the Raven his Food. But as this was an Object which they worshipped in the Wilderness, where they faw nothing prepar'd, they fay of God, Pfal. Ixxviii. 20, Can he give Bread alfo ; can be provide Flesh for his People (which he did by Miracle) Ver. 24, And had rained down Manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the Corn of the Names. Ver. 27, He rained Flesh alfo upon them as Duft, and feather'd Fowls like as the Sand of the Sea. And as God claims the Actions of this Machine of the Names from its first Formation upon the Parts of this System, fo in Relation to this Clafs he also claims what they do in small or Microcofms, in forming Bodies in the Womb, in the fame Senfe. Deut. xxxii. 6, Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and eftablifhed thee? Job. xxxi. 15, Did not he that made me in the Womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the Womb? Pfal. cxix. 73, Thy Hands hath made me and fashioned me. Prov. xxiv. 12, Doth not He who prepared the Heart underftand! So under other Words, Job. x. 8. &c. Pfal. cxxxix. 5, 14, &c. A City

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Ention'd, the first Amos v. 26, the fecond 2 Kings xvii. 30. Much has been faid about thefe; I can make nothing of the First Succoth relating to or to be given by any Power, becaufe 'tis Plural and Fœminine, fo will not agree with King: It can fignify nothing but the Tabernacles of your King, that is, one to each Image which they carry'd, whereby they reprefented the Confines of the Heavens, as C. p. 2522. 730" Ar. The Air reaching to the Confines of the Heaven; Heaven itself," and fo belongs to Indeed, as the Heavens was their Object of Worship, it seems pretty plain by Hints from the Heathens, that thefe Tabernacles were Representations of the Heavens or Names, and fo were their Kings, &c. And 'tis likely the hollow Image which they call Moloch, and in which they tell us they burn'd their First-born, was in Imitation of the Heavens, Selden, of the Syrian Deities, "According to Paulus Fagius, the Image of Moloch was hollow or concave, having (even Apartments or Spheres: They opened the First, for the offering

offering of Flour or Meal; the Second, for Turtles; the Third for a Sheep; the Fourth for a Ram; the Fifth for a Calf; the Sixth for an Ox, for the Perfon who had a Mind to offer his Son, the Seventh Chamber or Sphere was opened *: The Face of this Idol was like the Face of a Calf: It's Hands being placed in a Manner fit to receive any thing from the By-ftanders, &c. While the Child was burning in the Idol, a Fire being kindled for that Purpose, they danced, beating Drums or Timbrels, that the Cries of the Child might not be heard. This he had from the Book Jalkut, whose Author is Rabbi Simeon. But R. Salomon upon Jer. vii. fays, the Image was a Molten One. I am afraid the firft Authors of the seven Conclaves or Spheres of Moloch will have much ado to make good that Affertion. Did they take it from the Rites of Mithras! For he had feven Gates facred to him in Allufion to the Number of the Planners,

*And this may serve to clear David of a Piece of Cruelty, charged upon him from 2 Sam. xii. 31. in burning fome of the Ammonites in their Image of Moloch; it being only fending their idolatrous Priefts, or Ring-leaders in this Cruelty of burning Children as a Sacrifice to the Light, after their Sacrifices; and it will clear the Tranflators of a Piece of Nonfenfe, in making People pafs through a Brick-kiln, which has no Paffage thro' it. The Jews for

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kiln; not right furely. See Jer. xliii. 9. There was hardly a Brick-kiln before Palace. It was a Vestibule, or&i. -it is likely.

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