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Show PAIL4366 Payt,4; 0 F THE KIN G D 0 ME 01-" DARKNESSE. Cilllll).4$o €543.46. 357' Wax Car-J1: ;, To thefe Proceflions alfo belonged the bearing of burning Torches, and Tani-w and Candles,before the Images of the Gods , both amonglt the ligblfd- Greeks,and Romans. For afterwards the Emperors of Rome received the fame honor-, as we read ofCaligula, that at his reception to the Empire, he was carried from M/fi'mrm to Ram 7, in the midfl of J. throng of People, the wayes belet with Altais _, and Bcafls for Sacrifice, and burning Toff/1852 And of CJVJCfl/[J that was received into Alexandria with Incenfe, and with calling oli Flowers , and "$57!", that is, with Torches; for ""761 were they that amongft the Greeks carried Torches lighted in the Proccfiions of their bods: Andin proceffe oftime,the devout, but ignorant l'cople, did many times honor their Bifhops with the like pompe of Wax Candles, and the Images of our Saviour, and the Saints,con{tantly, in the Church CHAP. XLVI. OfDARKNEssnfiom VAIN PHILOSOPHY , 3 and FABuLOLIS TRADITIONS. B Y Pr; I LOLOS p H It, is underflood 1/1: Knowledge ""17"" Wbathilofarca' by Rmflmixg, from the Manner of :12: Gtmmtiox (,fpbyn. may thing, to {lye Properties; or from ti}: Properties to it felt-.And thus came in the ufe of Wax Candles-J and was alfo efia- fomepamfleWJy omeemtiim of t/Jcfimc; to die and to he 412?: to blilhed by form of the ancient Councells. The Heathens had alfo their Aqua LII/1mm, that is to lay, Holy W420. The Church of Rome imitates them alfo in their Ha [y Dryer. prodwe, asfdr trimmer, and lummcforte Permit, flit/1 Efli'fh a" on ofFigurcs, findeth out many Properties thereof, and from the They had their Bart/24724114, and we have our VVakei, anfivering to Properties, new Ways of their Conl‘truetion, b Reaibninn. to the end to be able to mature Land, and Water; am for infinite other theszhey their Sammalm, and we our Carnwn/Zr , and Shrove- tuefdays liberty of Servants : They their Procelfion otPr/apm, wee our fetching in,ere€tion,and dancing about May-Poles, and Dancing is one kind of Worfhip : They had their Proceflion called Ambarenzliazand we our Procemon about the fields in the litigation week. Nor do I think that thefe are all the Ceremonies that have been left in the Chuteh,from the firlt converfion ofthe Gentileszbut they are all that I can for the pi‘efcnt call to mind,and if a "1'3" would wel obfervc that which is delivered in the Hifiories, concerning the Religious Rites of the Greeks and Romanes, I doubt not but he might find many more of thefe old empty Bottles of Gentilifme, which the Doctors of the {Romane Churclneither by Negligencepr Ambition, have filled up again with the new Wine of Chrifiianityahat will not faile in time to break them. [warming/if: requiret/J. So the Geometrician, from the ConfirtietiL ufes. Sothc Afironornei',fi'01n the Rifing, Setting, and Movint‘r of the Sun, and Starres, in divers parts of'the Heavens, findethbo‘ut the Caufes of Day, and Night, and ot‘the different Sealbns ofthe Year-,whcrcby he lgcpeth an account of Time : And the like ofother Seiences. By which Definition it is evident, that we are not to account as. any partthereof, that originall knowledoe called EV crience ii Pmm‘KIe'iiii , ~ . Prudence : Becaui'e it If not which confifleth _ .amine?" . L )y R e.tlo3 ‘1 Mb). rm; rung, butioiind as well In Brute Beafls , as In Man; and is but a Memory or iiicceilions or events in titties pail, wherein the omit"- Iion ot every little eiiciimi‘tance altering the efleet 1.:- fl‘llflltllctll the expectation ot'the molt Prudent: whereas nothing, is produced by lleaioning aright , but generall, eternall , and immutable T rlitli. Norarc ue therefore to give that name toany falle Contliifioiis: No My DafPor hethat ltealonethgiright in words he undcrhandeth, can never "Humid" Concludc an hi‘roi : "ii "WWW: hortothatwhith any man knows by fiipernamrall Revelarion- M'mm‘ became it is not acquired by Realoning: , "mam" Northatwhich is gotten by llealoning fiom the Authority of'lmmflmm Books, became it is nor by Rationing from the Caule to the ;\:"""I""‘b' Eli?) nor iron) the Efiert to the Carrie; and is not Knowledg, but (55;, trim, CHAP. . The faculty ot Reahrning being contiquent toilie iii}: of Spcctll, ltwasnotpollible, but that there iliould have been tome generall Truthes found out by Realbning, as ancient :ilmofl a». Lanviiage it {Elm Th6 Savages otiAinerica, are not without tome "oodaMorflll Sentences; allotheyhavealittle Aritlimetick,to adde, aciid dividein 1\umbers nor toogreat: but they are not therefore l'hilolbphers. For as there were Plants of Corn and Wine in (mail quantity diprFAaa 2 {Ed IJ' . ("the Be"!!!mnyi mill l'rofiitflt' "1' rim/4b}. |