the Prophets, and the unclean Spirit to pass out of the. Land, by using the one for the other. Jer. vii. 18. The Children gathered Wood, and the Fathers kindled the Fire, and the Women kneeded the Dough to the Queen (to the Workmanship) the Frame of Heaven, Jer. xliv. 19. And when we burnt Incenfe to the Queen of Heaven, and poured out Drink Offerings to her; did we make ber Cakes, to worship her, and pour out Drink-Offerings to her, without our Men? (we have made to her Preparations for an Operatrix, or if it must be a Gerund, te attribute Operations to her) libandum libamina. Whatever the Figure of this Image was which represented thefe, it appears it was made with great Application, or reprefented them working with great Application. Hofea xiii. 2. And now they fin more and more, and have made them molten Images of their Silver, and Idols according to their own Understanding; all of it the Work of the Craftfmen; they Jay of them, let the Men that facrifice (Marg.) the Sacrificers of Men kifs the Calves, ibid. viii. 4, &c. These feem to be made the only Objects of Worship by the Elabim claiming the Names as above. Pfal. cxv. 3. But our Elahim is in the Names, he hath done whatsoever he pleased; their Operators are Silver and Gold, the Work of Mens Hands, &c. It appears these were made large or heavy, and carried with them to War, &c. Ifa. xlvi. 1. Their Operators were upon the Beafts and upon the Cattle. Your Carriages were heavy. laden, they were a Burden to the weary Beaft, fo at 2 Sam. v. 2. above. As great Notice was taken of the Image of thefe Operators in thefe and other Places; and as 'tis likely (I think I may say exprefs'd) that there were more than one Operator exhibited in it, and fo must be Three; in Oppofition to this, and all others, was the 2d Commandment. Exod. xx. 4. Thou shalt not make to thy felf any graven Image,

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&c. explained. Deut. iv. 16. Left ye corrupt your felves, and make you a graven Image; the Simitude of any Figure, the Likeness of Male or Female, the Likeness of any Beaft that is on the Earth, the Likenefs of any winged Fowl that flyeth in the Air, the Likeness of any Thing that creepeth on the Ground, the Likeness of any Fish that is in the Water, beneath the Earth, and left thou lift up thine Eyes unto the Names. I think in Opofition to the Service paid to the Names, and the Adoration paid to the Reprefentations of them, was the Figures of the Names, Earth, &c. fet upon the Columns before the Porch of the Temple; which not only comprehended all the Names but all the Powers in them upon the Earth, Orbs, Water, &c. Any one may fee that this is a diftin&t Commandment, and a Man might make Reprefentations of any one, or even all the Agents with the Power in them, and not have entered into Covenant by Qath, and made them his Elabim. The Reafon adjoined to this Article, puts the Matter out of Difpute. A Man who fees his Wife commit Adultery, cannot be jealous; but if he fees her pay Marks of Affection to anoher, his Love to her will make him fo.

THIS Commandment diftinguishes the three or four Claffes, into which the Heathens divided their Names of their Elabim, 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 and 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 latter Heathen there; yet, as this will be a Key to the oldeft of their Writings, I will ftate it. The Attributes given to the Names for what they did with

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out, or above the Atmosphere of this Orb, were called celeftial Gods, and the Services paid to them were upon the Tops of the higheft Mountains, Towers, Pyramids, Houfes, &c. The Attributes given them for what they did upon, or near the Surface of the Earth, to Animals, or fo far down, as immediately concerned Vegitation, were called Terreftial Gods, and the Service were paid to them upon low Altars, npon the Turf, upon the Ground, or &c. The Attributes given to them for what they did in the Shell, or Crust 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, Ifa. lvii. 5.* Slaying the Children in the Valleys, under the Cliffs of the Rocks. The Attributes given them for what they did in the Waters, in the Abyss or Seas, were called Gods of the Water, and the Services to them were paid near Waters, Rivers, Springs, &c. Whether the railing of Springs or Rains, which were brought out of the Abyss through the Cruft of the Earth into the Atmofphere, 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 Praifes, were fuited to each Clafs. As the Heathens evaded the Creation and Formation by the immediate Power and Operation of the Elabim in the firft fix Days, and pretended to make one Thing fet another agoing; they make the Matter of the Heavens Masculine and Feminine, that is, active and paffive, and they fuppofed fomething like what we call Mind in them; fo 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 Ec. a Son or a Daughter, fo a new God, or Goodness

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Goddefs, and fo on through the celestial Clafs. Then they talk of the Heaven's marrying the Earth, that is, acting on earthy or vegetable Matter, and producing Sons or Daughters. They were each called by the Names of the Effect; one the Former and Binder of the Earth, and another the Mover of it; one the Producer of Animals, another the Producer of Vegetables; fo in Branches the Producer of Corn, of Wine, or &c. fo 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, raised Vapours through the Shell into the Atmosphere for Rains, to the Surface for Springs; fo operating in the Seas, in producing Fish, in its Motion by Tides, upon its Surface, by Winds, Storms, &c. Thus far, or how these Actions and Effects were perform'd, all the Ancients knew; the Servants of the true Elabim knew what the Heathens imagined, and the Heathens knew what the Worshippers of the true Elahim understood, and believed, and is no more than what Mofes has in the firft Chap. of Gen. committed to Writing; and all thefe Subftances, Motions, Powers, and Effects, were the Product of one Week, Jof. xix. 17. We read of Beth Emek, which was a Temple to the Power which rules in the Valleys, or deep Places, but most eminently in the Abyfs. Jacob bleffeth Jofeph, Gen. xlix. 25. with the Bleffing of the Heavens above, Bleffings of the Deep, which lieth under. Many Valleys are named by this and another Word, 1 Sam. xvii. 2. with another, Joshua 2. 12. with Ajalon. The latter Part of the 2d Command was to restrain them from making any Reprefentations to thefe Powers within the Earth.

BAAL Joma mentioned fof. xv. 9. whether they had any fuch foolish Notions, as that other

Things were produced out of the Sea; and fo this was a Feminine Power appears not; the Word fignifies the Lord of the Sea, or of the Deep; but Gen. xlix. 25. Deut. xxxiii. 13. The Bleffings are made to come from Jehovah, for the Dew and for the Deep that coucheth beneath. This is a high Attribute, because the Life, Growth, &c. of all Creatures, and Vegetables, depend upon this. The Commiffion to the Spirit which was made Ruler on the Surface; and the other, which acts by Expanfion, was given in the firft Chap. of Gen. Fob fpeaking of that Wisdom by which all thefe Things were contrived, makes these Places fay, xxviii. 24. The Deep faith it is not in me, and the Sea faith it is not in me. Those who talk'd of Divinity, and knew nothing of Nature, nor what it was the Heathens made their Elabim, may fee a plain Reafon, why Jehovah called the material Spirit, his Spirit, fo his Prophets. Pfal. cxlvii. 18. He caufeth the Spirit to blow, and the Waters flow. Proof of this Service. Exod. viii. 20. Stand before Pharaoh, lo be cometh up from the Water. Hofea ii. 4. I will go after my Lovers, who gave me my Water. 13. And I will vifit upon the Days of Baalim, wherein he burnt Incense to them, and went after her Lovers, and forgot me. Ifa. lvii. 5. Slaying the Children in the Valley, under the Clifts of the Rocks. Among the fmooth Stones of the Stream is thy Portion, they are thy Lot; even to them haft thou poured out a Drink-Offering, thou baft offered a Meat-Offering. As this Object was the Names with thofe Powers by which it acts upon, and in, the Seas or Waters; and as the Waters are paffive, the Claims are made by Creation and Formation; by Miracles in Terms of general Dominion over their Agents, and their Actions upon the Seas in Storms, Tempefts, Tides; over the Waters in raifing and giving Rain, Dew, &c. and in many other

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