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Show LIB. IV. m1ght not depart. Again, it m1ght be done in imitation of the ]"ew1, who about the time of our Saviosr his Incarnation .. held it t. lawful to pron runce that EfTential N~me of God, jehovah, and inftead thereof would read Adonai. The occaGon of this conceal~ ment of the n ~ me Jehovah I l'ake to have been ori· ginally, to preven the blafpheming of that holy · Name among the fleathens, who h2d learned from h v;J. Macrob. that name to c!enominate their Ido!J, (h) Jove I«rJ IaSatur .l.t.'•18• oth, lttdtct, &c. Hence afterward the forbearing the 1 t. Irenctum, b fi ll · · d f r ·1 d lib. 2 .cap.ult. Name ecame uperuitious·, an o rar prevat e , Item, Origerr., that they corrupted the Text for the defence thcre-contr « c~l[Hm• f. 1-h· · ""'1 ~ [ / fi 1•6.fol.76.col. 3• o , Ex. 3. I 5. Is IS my name a, p, egno am'j or i Vid.P.Gata- ever: ( i) they read o'-?~~ legnalem, to be conrea/ed. rin.li~,2 :'· 10 • Though I deny not but that name was always in kPlrn .rnPro· r r. • a:bl 1 (l.) /' r.·b h em.lih, r·Hrft• fome 1en1e 1neua e: name y, as, ~ P tnJ 1a1t :> t e N4tur. · namt:s of the African people and Towns were ineffa .. ble, that is, fuch as other Language$ could not exprefs withou.t circumlocutions. As thofe forementioned Idoltltrous nAmes were nothing elfe but fo many depravations of the name Jehovah: fo the Original of many other enfuing kinds of Idolatry proceeded at firfi: from a mi£ .. confrrull:ion of Scripture. They have learned by Tradition, that the Sun, Moon, and Stars, had a kind of Lordihip and rule over day and night, times and fe2fons :. Hence the fuperftitious ignorance of thofe people Deified thofe lights of Heaven, and worfhipped them as gods. Afterward corruption prevailing, their Apotheojs, or god-ma~ing Ceremonies, were extended to fublunary creatures, partly as SJmhola, or reprefentative figus of thofe greater and more glorious lights; for this reafon theCa/deans wodhip fire: '71N, and Vr, of theca/deans) mention ~ ed / L I B. IV~ Of Moloch, &c. .J:4·~· ed, Gene I I.: which Ggnifietb fire or light, is thought to be the very god of the chaldettnJ. though in that place the name vr be applyed to forue chief City, from the name of the Idol. Yea, the god of Nahor Gen._3 I.~ 3· is thought to be no other; partly, alf~ the Infertour creatures were canonized for gods, in way of thankfulnefs for the benefits received from them, for which reafon the Sea, the Wind1, the Air the Earth, and fruits of the earth, hecame deified. A~ ]aft, weU deferving men; nay, Crocodiles, 8erpents,Ral.r Cats, Dogs, Garlick, Jnd Onions) were reputed gods. ) CHAP. II. Of 1\tlolech, Adram-Melech, Anam-Melech Baal The ",.,.a.. v' ernac le of Mo Ie ch, Chiun Rernph' am , . ' ' H orjes confecrated to the Sun, Thamuz, 0 F .. t~e Idol M~~och we rea? in divers places of Scrtpt~re, 1 Kt_ng. I I. ~ Ktng.2j.Io. Levitic~n 18. z. l. He Is fornettmes called lvloloch fometimes MfJ!ech, fometimes /Wilcom. He was the ~enutedgod . . llOt 0 I f h . b r ' n Lortlf, '"All: n Yo t e_:tmmonlle.r, ·Utof the(n);t-foabites 7· t~Oecumtn, alfo. He h~d his name from l'iD Melac, "lignifying ~o rule or re.tgn. ~he Seventy Eld__ers tranflare him, ccrx.~v , {4_tt(JJA£u>~ a Pr1nce, or King. Such· Kh,g::Idol.r Were A dram· melech, and An am. melech, the gods of Shepherva~m , unto whom that people burnt their Children 10 fire. _ I take Moloch and Baal to be one and the fame Idol they were both names of fupremacy and rule '?l)~ Baa/fignifieth a Lord or Mafler. And 1'10 Molo~h, a .King~ |
