Image which reprefented thefe was, it ap pears it was made with great Application, or reprefented them working with great Application, Hof. xiii. 2, And now they Sin more and more, and have made them molten Images of their Silver; Davy Operators according to their own UnderStanding, all of it the Work of the Craftsmen: To them they pray (peak). Sacrificeing Men they kifs the Calves. Ib. viii. 4, Of their Silver and their Gold have made them. Operators; therefore shall they be cut off. Thy Calf, O Samaria, is caft off; mine Anger is kindled against them. These feem to be made the only Object of Worship by God's claiming the Names as above. Pfal. cxv. 3, But our Aleim is in the Names; he hath done whatfoever he pleas'd. Their Operators are Silver and Gold, the Works of Mens Hands, Ver. 16, The Names, even (of) the Names are the Lords. It appears thefe were made large or heavy, and carry'd with them to War, &c. lia. xlvi. 1, Their Operators were upon the Beafts, and upon the Cattle; your Carriages were heavy loaden. They are a Burden to the weary Beaft. So at 2 Sam. v. 21. above. As great Notice was taken of the Image of these Operators in thefe and other Places; and

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one may fee that this is a distinct Commandment, and a Man might make Representations of any one, or even all the Agents with the Powers in them, and not have enter'd into Covenant by Oath, and made them his Aleim. The Reafon adjoin'd to this Article puts the Matter out of Difpute. A Man who fees his Wife commit Adultery, cannot be faid to be jealous. But if he fee her pay the smalleft Marks of Affection to another Man, he may be jealous, much more if he fee nearer Approaches. This Commandment distinguishes the three or four Ranks or Claffes into which the Heathens divided their Names of their Aleim, which as you have seen and will fee, are taken from the Manner of their Motion or Operation, from the Covenant with them, from their Dominion or Rule, from their Effects or Performances in general, in particular, in this or that Place, upon this or that Matter, or, &c. And though I intend not to meddle with the later Heathens here, yet as this will be a Key to the eldest of their Writings, I fhall ftate it. The Attributes given to the Names for what they did without or above the Atmosphere of this Orb were call'd Celestial Gods; and the Services were paid to them upon the Tops of the highest Mountains, Tow

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crs, Pyramids, Houfes, &c. The Attri butes given them for what they did upon or near the Surface of the Earth to Animals, or fo far down as immediately concern'd Vegetation, were call'd Terreftrial Gods; and the Services were paid to them upon low Altars upon the Turf, upon the Ground, or, &c. The Attributes given to them for what they did in the Shell or Cruft of the Earth, and perhaps in the Abyfs were term'd Infernal Gods; and the Services to fome of them were paid in Vaults or Caves. As Ifa. Ivii. 5, Slaying the Children in the Valleys under the Clifts of the Rocks. The Attributes given them for what they did in the Waters, in the Abyfs or Scas, were call'd Gods of the Waters; and the Services to them were paid by Waters, Rivers, Springs, or, &c. Whether the raifing of Springs or Rains, which were brought out of the Abyfs through the Cruft of the Earth into the Atmosphere, was attributed to the Infernal Clafs, or that of Waters is not very clear, nor very material; fo their Emblems, or as this Text calls them, Similitudes, their Sacrifices, Services, Prayers and Praises, were fuited to each Clafs. As the Heathens evaded the Creation and Formation by the immediate Power and

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Operation of the Aleim, in the firft fix Days, and pretended to make one thing fet another a going; they make the Matter of the Heavens Mafculine and Feminine; that is, active and paffive; and they fup. pose fomething like what we call Mind in them. So they talk of them as intelligent Beings, and call the Action of this upon that Marriage, or lying of a God with a Goddefs, and the Product a new Condition, Motion, Effect, or, &c. a Son or a Daughter: So a new God or Goddefs, and fo on through the Celestial Clafs. Then they talk of the Heavens marrying the Earth, that is, acting upon earthy or vegetable Matter, and producing Sons and Daughters. They were cach call'd by the Name of the Effect; one the Former and Binder of the Earth, &c. Another the Mover of it. One the Producer of Animals, another the Producer of Vegetables. So in Branches, the Producer of Corn, of Wine, or, &c. So in the Shell or Cruft of the Earth, the Former of Metals, Jewels, Minerals, &c. fo married with, that is, acted upon the Waters in the Abyss, rais'd Vapours through the Shell into the Atmosphere for Rains, to the Surface for Springs; fo operated in the Seas, in producing Fish, in its Motions by Tides, up

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