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Show 54 of MA N. Ptrt 1" 611411.12;- did for their war at Lepmlo, demand another Planemio, The Pompeian faftion for their warre in Afriqw, another 5(IP10 -, and others have done in divers other occalions lince. In like manner they attribute p", AW," plat: or another, a God, or Divell ; or by their Poets feigned to be inaninuted, inhabited, or polTei'led by tome Spirit or other. The unformed matter of the World, was a God, by the name of fpoken, efpeciallv if the name of God be amonglt them -, as Charm. The Heaven, the Ocean, the Planets , the Fire , the Earth, the \Vinds, were {0 many Gods. . Thirdly, for the \vorlhip which naturally men exhibite to Powers £130.77 W if. as they would me towards men -, Gifts, Petitions, Thanks, Submilli- on of Body, Confiderate AddreiTes, fober Behaviour, premeditated Words, Swearing (that is, alluring one another of their promil‘es,) by invoking them. Beyond that i'eafon fuggefteth nothing-7 but leaves them either to rei‘t there 3 or for further ceremonies, to rely on thofe they belieVe to be wifer than theml'elves. Aid arm; Laftly, concerning how thefe Invifible Powers declare to men the 5‘7" '0 "W? things which {hall hereafter come to paffe, efpecially concerning their :',‘"‘""":"" good or evill fortune in generall, or good or ill fiicceffe in any parti- ‘r7 m" I' cular undertaking, men are naturally at a Rand.> fave that ufing to conjecture of the time to come, by the time pail, they are very apt, not onely to take cafuall things, after one or two encounters, for Pi‘ognofiiques of the like encounter ever after, but alio to believe the like Prognol'tiques from othermen, of whom they have once con« ceived a good opinion. F"""‘-"'[""fl‘= Andinthefe. foure rhinos Nan/mt! ' ‘ g , O piniono fGlto it s, I gnOiance ' * officond pal; ,f M" caufes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Ca« gm," luallfor Prognof'tiques , confifieth the Naturall feed of Religion ; which by reaton or the different Fancies, judgements, and Paifions of ieverall men, hath grown up into ceremonies f0 different, that thofe which are iiled by one man, are for the moft part ridiculous to another. ‘ , Dam.- "'f‘ Chap. 12. Chaos. 5 n'wgrinvifiblegt can be no other,but fuchexpreliions of their reverence, , of MA N. their fortune to a [binder by, toalucky or unlucky place, to 'WUI'tlS ing, and Conjiiriiig (the Leiturgy or VfVitchesg) iiilomuch as to believe, they have power to mrna {tone into bread, bread into a iiian,ot any thing, into any thing. _ , n3: part. i . For there feeds have received culture from two forts of men. One if? [Mu/- fgittgatye been they, that have nouriihed, and ordered them, accord- , . b ieii own invention. The other, have done it, by Gods com- mandement,and directionzbut borh forts have done it, with a par _ Msn, Womengt Bird, a Crocodile, a Calf, a Dogge, a Snake,a'n Onion,a Leeke,DciHed.Befides,that they filled almolt all places,wtth fpirits called Damvm : the plains, With PM, and Panda, or Satyres; the W'oods, with Fawnes,and Nymphs ; the Sea, With Tritons, and other Nymphs -, every River, and Fountayn,‘ With a Ghofl of his name, and with Nymphs -, every houle, With its Larcr, or‘Familiars; every mm) with his Gmim 3H6", With Ghofls, and {pirituall Oth'cers, as Clutrori, Ceréerm, and the Furies 5 and in the niOht time, all ‘0 places with Larvae, Lcmurcs, Gholls of men deceafed, and a Whole kingdome of Fayries, and Bugbears. They have allbafcribed Divi- titty" and built Temples to meer Accidents, and Qualities -, fiich as are T iine, Night, Day. Peace, Concord, Love, Contention,Vertuql-lo- nout, Health, Ruthever, andthe like 5 which when they prayed for, or againfhthey prayed to, as if there were Ghofts of thole names hanging over their reads, and letting fall, or Withholding that Good, or Evill, for, or againfi which‘the prayed. They invoked alfo their own Wifaby the name of Mufti; t ieir own lgnorance,by the name of .FOHWH‘ -, their own Lufl, by the name of Capri; their own Page, by the name Purim , their own privy members by the name or PruiPhs -, and attributed their pollutions, to Irwin} and Stitmé‘e: info- much as there was nothing, which a Poet could introduce as a pet-Tori in his Poem, which they did notmake either a Goal, or a Dim"? The tame author-sot the Religion of the Gentiles, oblervmg the Proud ground For Religion, which'is vme‘ns Ignorance ofcaules , and therebftheir aptnefle to attribute tneir fortune to caules, on which there Was no dependance at all apparent, took occafion to obtrude on their ignorance, in [lead of fecond caules, a kind or lecond and Int: nilteriall Gods; al‘cribing the cattle of Foecundity,to mej the came, of Arts, to [lye/lo ; ofSubtilty and Craft, to Mercury -, OtTempelts and llorines, to 9/‘1 olm -, and of other et'rects, to other Gods :‘ inlo- 5222‘122353193;538:112:tthe up: to CW? mach asthere was amongfl the Heathen almoit as great variety of on of the former lort, is a part of humane Politiques, and teachebth part And to the \‘V'orihip, which naturally men conceived fit to bee 3‘ , ,, .‘ my, and civtll Seeiety. So thatthe Rellol- of the duty which Earthly Kings require of their the Religion ot~the later lot‘t is Divine Politiques; Subjects. And and Preceptstotholc that have yeeldedthemfelves fiibjeéts containmh in the Kino; Gods, as of bulinefle. . iii‘td towards their Gods, namely ()blations, Prayers, Thanks, aiid the reit formerly named ,tlielame Legillators of the Gentiles have addtd their Images, bOthin Picture, and Sculpture, that the more dome of God. l;11‘r\)l.ll".[ tort, ( that 15 to tliy,the molt part, or generality of the peo- the Law-givers of the Gentiles: Of thC‘l‘ILCi" httpwete Abra/um, Mo er, and our Bic/[ed yawn," 5 by Whom have? ple :{hmkmgthe Gods for whole reprelentation they were made, Of the former fort, were all the founders (5)" Common-weakhs, and At R a ca (Tera-ed ccrninuthenatchldfl) 5.1.‘DiKIDn3‘WthhFORM-{cm m Opinions con-t,‘.».-u.',z.u.~. has ‘1?er 1 h* , outis nvrhble, tnere is almoft not! ting that .. 4 1 )t 1-11 is110tbeenefieemedamongi‘tthe Gentiles, in one "Melt really ihcltideti,;iiiti as it were houfttl within them, might to anaelzthe {note {Kind in {care of them : And endowed them with line's, and homes, and otiicers) and revenues, let apart from all other litrlllali'; rifts ; tlzatzs,eoniecrattd‘ and mad: holy to tholetheir Idols; » (Hans, Groves) \\'oods, Mountains, and whole Hands; and. hire pl ace |