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tion'd, Deut. xviii. 10, There shall not be

found among you ufeth Divination,

DP DDP any one that y Obferver of the

מכשף an Enchanter ; or מנחש Clouds ; or

ידעני דרש אל המתים

a Witch; or a Charmer; or a Confulter of an Aub; or "y' a Knowing-one; or a Confulter of the Dead. Exod. vii. 11. Then Pharoah alfo called on the Wife-men

חרטמי the Sorcerers ; now the מכשפים and

Magicians of Egypt did in like Manner with non* their Inchantments. Jer. xxvii. 9. Hearken not ye to 'n your Dreamers. Dan. iv. 4, Then came in the

כשדיא ; the Wifemen אשפיא,Magicians

the Chaldeans; and and the SoothSayers. There are other Precepts against thefe, as Levit. xix. 26, Mich. v. 12. And these Things were practifed, 2 Kings xxi. 6. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 6. & al. Though I intend not to meddle here with any Thing but the Heavens, yet as there is one Expreffion

-is Flah להטיהם is to kindle as Fire does ; fo להט

ings of Fire or Light. They jugled by throwing the Light into the People's Eyes, and it is likely pretended, to guefs from the Manner of the Fire's burning. So alfo is a Conjecturer from the Fire; and is to be as quick as Flashes of Fire, or the Reflections from Brafs, as 1 Kings xx. 33. And by fuch Reflections they pretended to know the Event of any Undertaking they confulted the Fire or Light upon.

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preffion which has been taken for enquiring of the Souls of dead Men, and seems to be ftrengthen'd by God's permitting the Woman to fhew a Representation of Samuel, yet that may be only a reproaching Expreffion upon those who enquired of the Heavens or Names who are dead, and never had any Life or Knowledge in them. Who they enquir'd of is often mention'd, Deut. xii. 13, That thou enquire not of their Aleim. 2 Kings i. 2, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub. 2 Chron. xvii. 3, And enquired not of the Baalim.. Ib. xxv. 15, Why hast thou enquired of the Aleim of the People. Ver. 20, Because they enquired of the Aleim of Edom. Ifai. xix. 3. They enquire of the vain Things. Amos v, 5, But enquire not at Bethel. Ifai. viii. 19, Enquire of the Aub's, and of the knowing Ones, the Peepers and the Mutterers; Should not a People enquire of their Aleim? It is for the Living, after the Dead? There are the fame Ridicules upon thefe Pretenders to prophecy, as there is upon their Aleim,

c. And this alfo&,שמש שמים under

fhews what their Aleim were. Mich. iii. 6, Therefore Night shall be upon you, that you shall not have a Vifion; and it

fhall

fhall be dark over you that you shall not divine; and the Light of the Sun fhall go down from over the Prophets, and the Day fhall be darkned upon them. And the Seers fhall be ashamed and the Diviners confounded; and they fball cover their Lip (in token of Grief) all of them, because the Aleim answer not.

אלהים תרפים

Ention'd first Gen. xxxi. 19, Et

M al. The Word fignifies Images,

which could reveal future Events. As the Answers in the Tabernacle, or S. S. in the Tabernacle and firft Temple, came from the Cherubim, which were Images of the Aleim, and thefe were the Aleim of Laban. Coc. p. 983-Jud. xvii. 5, And he made an Ephod, and Teraphim-I believe they were the Cherubim. -Hof. iii. 4, Without a facerdotal Ephod. Whether such as was inftituted by Mofes, or one made by a falfe Zeal, and without Images fuch as the Cherubim were. Ezek. xxi. 21 or 26, He enquired of Images; Gods worshipped thro' Images. Where Where you find the Jews forge a Number of Stories

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about any Word, you may be fure there is fomething of Moment contain'd in it, which they endeavour to hide : Among them they have told us one, which happens to be truc, and for which I thank them. B. C. p. 2660. "Elias adds that the Temples, Churches, and Chapels of the Gentile Idolators, under which Names they mean the Churches of Chriftians,

the Temple בית התורפה were alfo called

of the Teraphim". Because the Mysteries of all Believers in Chrift, of those who were Jews, as well as of Chriftians, are contain'd in them; and even the Heathen for a long Time us'd, though they abus'd them. When these were reprefented by God, as Gen. iii. 24. Ezek. x. &c. And when they were fet up by his Appointment, Exod. XXV. &c. and I Kings vi. &c. they were call'd Cherubim; but at the Time when these appear'd not, or the original Images in the Temple were deftroy'd, they were call'd Hof. iii. 4, Teraphim. As it was prophefied, that inter al. they were to be without Teraphim, which was one of the five Things, they fay, they wanted in the fecond Temple, and for want of thofe Things they had no Answers; mention'd Sheringham Codex Joma, p. 102,

"The

"The Ark of the Mercy-Seat; the Che"rubim; the Fire from Heaven; the Pre"fence of the Holy Spirit; the Urim and "Thummim". If this be true, there was nothing in the S. S. and the Priest could not have perform'd his Service enjoin'd, Levit. xvi. 14, &c. And rending the Veil would have fhewn an empty Place. But 'tis more likely, that they reprefented every Thing they could in the fecond Temple, Veftments, &c. But if they made Figures of the Cherubim, Ephod, &c. the Figures were not Teraphim, did not come up to what the Word expre Tes. They had no Answers from them, nor from the Ephod, or, &c. And after Christ's Refurrection, Afcenfion, Mission of the Holy Ghost, &c. these were useless, either to exhibit the Trinity or give Anfwers. When the fame Similitudes were fet up for the fame End in a private Family in Imitation of the Cherubim, where perhaps their Religion was mixed, as Gen. xxxi. 19, or among other Emblems, in Imitation of thofe in the Tabernacle, as Jud. xvii. 5, xviii. 14, 17, 18, 20, or perhaps in false Worship, and out of the Temple, as 1 Sam. xv. 23. 16. xix. 13, For 'tis a Doubt with me, whether Saul's Fa

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