to the very Words, where other Words exprefs'd them much better, they are sometimes us'd; as the Devil under another Word, truly, though maliciously, attributed this to God, Job. i. 10, Haft not thou made an Hedge about him and about his Houfe, and about all that he hath on every Side? This Power is claim'd by this Word, Ezr. ix. 9, And to give us an Hedge in Judah and in Jerufalem. Ifai. v. 5, I will take away the Hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, and break down the Wall thereof, and it shall be troden down. Pfal. lxxx 12, Why haft thou broken down her Hedges, fo that all they which pass by the Way do pluck her? &c. Ib. lxxxix. 40, Thou hast broken down all his Hedges, thou haft brought his ftrong Holds to ruin. So for repairing them, Ifai. Iviii. 12, And thou shalt be call'd the Repairer of the Breach. Amos ix. 11, In that Day will I raise up the Tabernacle of David that is fallen, and hedge up the Breaches thereof, &c. Mich. vii. 11, In the Day that thy Walls (Hedges) are to be built. As a restraint to hinder from going aftray, Ezek. xiii. 5, xxii, 30, Te have not hedged the Hedge for the Houfe of Ifrael. Hof. ii. 5, For The faid, I will go after my Lovers that

give me my Bread, and my Water, my Wool, and my Flax, mine Oil, and my Drink. Therefore behold I will hedge up thy Way with Thorns, and make a Wall that she fhall not find her Paths Then fhall be fay, I will go, and return to my firft Husband- So Eccles. x. 8, Who

breaketh the Hedge, the Serpent shall bite him. There is a Place call'd, 2 Chron. xxviii. 18, Gederoth; and feveral other Places, and Tribes of People took their Names from this.

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Mention'd fof. xvii. 11, and Jud. i.

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27. The Word fignifics to reft quietly, to be eafy and quiet. And fo the Agent with Powers which they imagin'd could make them reft quietly. Those who depended on these Powers are threatned, Ifai. xxxii. 9, Many Days and Tears fhall ye be troubled, ye careless Women-Tremble, ye Women that are at Eafe. Jer. xlviii. 11, Moab hath been at Eafe from his Youth, and he hath fettled on his Lees- I will fend unto him Wanderers, &c. Amos vi. 1, Wo to them that are at Eafe in Zion, and trust in the

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Mountain of Samaria. Zach. i. 15, And 1 am very fore difpleafed with the Heathen that are at eafe. So Promises to those who depended on God, Prov. i. 33, Whofo hearkneth unto me shall dwell fafely, and shall be quiet from fear of Evil. Partly Spiritually, Ifa. xxxii. 18, And my People fhall dwell in a peaceable Habitation, and in fure Dwellings, and in quiet Refting-Places. Ib. xxxiii. 20, Thine Eyes fall fee Ferufalem, a quiet Habitation. Jer. xxx. 10. xlvi. 27, And Jacob shall return, and fhall lie in reft and quiet, and none hall make him afraid.

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HE First mention'd Jof. xix. 38. and Jud. i. 33. The Second, Jos xv. 59. The Third, 2 Kings xvii. 31. the highest Services were paid to these, Ib. Ver. 31, And the Sepharvites burnt their Children in Fire to Adramelech and Anammelech, the Alcim of Sepharvaim. We have made vaft Improvements by natural Religion; thefe Heathens would give their First-born to be burn'd rather than

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go to Hell: Parents now will go to Hell rather than their Firft-born want a large Eftate. Lower down, Sons difcharged all Obligations, and Debts rather than their Fathers fhould fuffer; now, whatever come of Fathers, Sons pay nothing but what they are forc'd to pay. * But to the Meaning, Kirch. Concord. "y is the Action or Operation of one towards another, whether it confifts in mutual Difcourfe, in Singing, or Refponfes, be it by Voice, by Deed or by Report &c." The Word expreffes in the Body to be afflicted, in the Mind to be affected in any Degree, as every one is fuppofed to be before he speaks, or, as we fay, is moved to speak ; as 1 Sam. iv. 20, But she was not affected, neither did he regard it. 1 Kings xviii. 29, There was neither Voice, nor any that was affected, nor any that regarded. Hof. xiv. 8, I have heard him, and obferved him. Sometimes this Word is taken for the Motive and the Act of Speaking. The chicf Method by which the then

The Meaning of y feems to be being, putting or keeping, under; and the Idea runs thro' all the Senfes they put on the Word. Here, to answer, is to fubjoin; a Cloud, which oppreffes; a Fountain . e. Water preffed out of the Earth, &c. And hence y a Participle, Compreffion; Sin, as it is Servitude or Slavery.

then Heathens pretended to have Anfwers from their Aleim, was by the Appearances ofy the Clouds, from their Obfervers, called alfo by that Name from their giving Answers; as I have hinted in the Second Part of M. P. p. 148. The Service is mention'd Exod. xxxii. 18, Not finging, but praising by alternate Refponfes, in which perhaps, they had regard to the oppofite Refponses of Light and Spirit. This Word spoke of the True God is Inclining, which is anfwering; because every Event is according to his Will; fometimes with the Addition of a Signal, Voice, or &c. Gen. xxxv. 3, Who answered me in the Day of my Diftrefs. Ib. xli. 16, And the Aleim fhall give Pharoah an Anfwer of Peace. Exod. xix. 19, And the Aleim anfwered him by a Voice. I Sam. vii. 9, xxiii. 4, And Jehovah answered him. 1 Kings xviii. 24, And the Alcim that anfwereth by Fire, let Him be Aleim. Ver. 38, Then the Fire of Jehovah fell, and confumed the burnt Sacrifice, &c. 1 Chron. xxi. 26, And he answered him from Heaven by Fire. Pfal. xvii. 6, I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me. Ib. xx. 6, He will answer me from the Names of his Holiness. Ib. lxxxi. 7, Thou calledft in Trouble, and I delivered thee,