impell'd by them in the Manner aforefaid. But as Things acting fo mechanically are not to be depended upon as Aleim, and are perifhable, they are conftrued Vanity; and as the Perfons and Things acted upon by them, and depending upon their Action, are flecting and fhift off the Scene, in that Senfe they are conftrued Vanity. Indeed I think is a double Word; and as all is full, when one moves this Way, another muft move that Way, fo in Fluids, or where the Parts of Solids are fmall, it expreffes to mix, fo confound the Species, and fo perhaps is 22. They knew this had Power to move the Earth, whence that Description taken out of B. C. p. 310. 2, cited in the fecond Part of M. P. p. 253. This was one of the difcriptive Names of thefe Powers, which the Heathens worshipped firft after the Flood, and perhaps the Tower of Babel was built for this; and if there were any named before the Flood, 'tis like this was one, beeause the Punishment was from this Word. 'Tis much the fame as eds. This was join'd to feveral Names of Places and Perfons. Under thefe Conftructions are the Operations which they attributed to : This is claim'd Job xxxviii. 37. The Defluxions of the Airs who can caufe to reft?

So

So the Claims of this Syftem and its Actions, 1 Sam. ii. 8, To Jehovah belong the Inftruments of the Compreffion and Adhefion of the Earth, and he has placed the Globe upon them. 1 Chron. xvi. 30, The World also shall be stable that it fail not. Job. xxxiv. 13, Who orders the whole World. Pf. 1. 12, The World is mine and the Fulnefs thereof. Pf lxxxix. 12, The World and its Fulness, thou didst found them. Pf. xc. 2. Thou formedft the Earth and the World. Jer. x. 12. He hath eftablished the World by his Wifdom. So the Flood. Gen. vi. 17. Behold 1, even I, do bring a Flood. Pf. xxix. 9, Jehovah fitteth upon the Flood. So Rains and Fruits, Deut. xi. 17, And He shut up the Airs that there be no Rain, and that the Land yield not her Fruit. Jer. xiv. 22, Åre there any among the Vanities of the Gentiles that can caufe Rain? Can the Names give Showers? Art not thou he, oh Jehovah, our Aleim? Therefore we will wait upon thee; thou haft made all thefe Things. Lev. xxvi. 4. The Land ball yield her Increafe. ver. 20. Their Land fhall not yield her Increafe. Thefe ftiled in Ridicule as Accting. Ifa. xxxiv. 4. All their Hoft fhall fall down as the Leaf falleth off from the Vine, and as a falling Fig from the

Fig-tree.

Fig-tree. Ibid. xxiv. 4, The Earth mourneth and fadeth away, the World languisheth and fadeth away. So in the Phrafe of waxing old, prevented by Miracle, Deut. viii. 4. Thy Raiment waxed not old upon thee, as aforefaid; Ifa. li. 6. The Earth fhall wax old as a Garment. So in Ridicule of thefe Powers as tranfient, Deut. xxxii. 21, They have provoked me to Anger with their Vanities. 1 Kings vi. 13, and 2 Kings xvii. 15. They followed Vanity and became vain, (wafted away) Jer. ii. 5, What Iniquity have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after Vanity? Ib. viii. 19, Why have they provoked me to Anger with their graven Images and with Strange Vanities. Ib. xvi. 19, The Gentiles fhall come unto thee from the Ends of the Earth, and fhall fay furely our Fathers have inherited Lies, Vanity and Things where there is no Profit. Shall a Man make Alcim unto himself, and they are no Aleim. So the Deftruction of the Worfhippers of these Powers, Ifai. xlvi. 1. Bell boweth down, &c. Jer. 1. 2. Bell is confounded -Her Idols are confounded, her Images are broken in Pieces. Jer. li. 44, And I will punish Bell in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his Mouth that which he hath fwallowed up, and

the

the Nations shall not flow together any more unto him.

בית הערבה

Explain'd in the fecond Part of M. P.

p. 240. It expreffes the Mixture, or that which is continually mixing; Spirit and Fire, Light and Spirit 3 where its Actions, the Laws and Appointments concerning it, the Names, &c. are inferted at large; and the Salix, the Emblem, is mention'd, ib. p. 244, and in the Introduction to M.-fine P. p. 258.

בית כר

E

Xplain'd in the second Part of M. P. p. 290, to fignify Going out, and Coming in So Circulation. I obferv'd, the Word was but feldom us'd in Hebrew under that Root, and in that Sense, except for a Sheep or Lamb, the Emblem which in those Days were folded, went out, and came in; and that the neighbouring Languages us'd it in that Senfe. And the Word is to dance in Rays or Circles. VOL. IV, Y

And

And my Defign in that Piece, was, to fhew the Meaning of the Words, in the material or philofophical Senfe. I am also now to confider them, where the Word admits, in a mental or fpiritual Senfe, and fhew the Evidence for that Senfe. If

be an Inhabitant, the Senfe to the Mind is one, known in the ftrongest Sense, a Person that one is acquainted with, or knows intimately. They have placed this Word under , which with the 3, the Prefix, is to be a Stranger; fo unknown, or to be ignorant: But the Word is frequently us'd for a Native, Neighbour, or one known. So the Lamb, from its going out, and coming in, and being known. Tis us'd feveral Times for the Act of the Mind; to know, to understand. I must confefs it would, at first Sight, look more natural, to make this the Aleim of Knowledge; but by the Evidence, it feems to me, they intended to comprehend the Aleim they knew, they were converfant with, intimately acquainted, as they were with thefe Agents and their Powers, which could not be difputed. Yet the Aleim, which are frequently faid by another Word to be known to Ifrael, very frequently afferts, not, that thefe Agents, which they call'd their Aleim, were Stran

gers