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Show Of Dagon. CHAP. IV. a.R. .. Dav.tSA.s THe ( 4) Hebrew Dollor.r fay thi·s Idol D~gon was made from the Navel dow-nward in form of a Fijh, but from the Navel upward in furm of 11. Man. This they collect from 1 Sam. 5. 4• The two palf!Jf of his hand.r were cut off upon the threfhold. And further• more they fay, Th·: Ido·l Dagon had his name from the Hebrew l, Dag~ fignifying in the Holy Language, a Cth, according to which defcription we may Englifu • tritott n9n ah /';)'" h Jimilem habu- him, the P iliflidNJ Neptune, or* Trito1t, Others de-i. ff(filuram rive the name from p1 Dagon, fignjfying Corn~ and fingit"r ;.FrtHtl they (b) fay, that he fidt invented the ufe of the hominem pr•- ftrt, in pifcem Plow, and CorN ; whence they tranflate him Jupiter definit alvJu, aratriitt. In. this ref peer We cal I him the Philtiflim.r Pier. Hiero&l. b r. A · · k lib r. p. 2a. sa turn, ecau1e ntrqutty m.a es (c) s atur~ thejirft h Ph,lo Bybli- Inventer of Husbandry, and therefore paints him wjrh •d' apupd E~<1(ebb. an Hoo~ or Sit he in his hand, as being the fitte.ft Hie. e pr£ 11.r. t • £ J d 1 .c.7• roglyphiclt or Hu.roan ry. Both opinions have their cPier. Hierotl· Authors, and no futhcient proof hath been produced l.~2.p.228· h . l (d)".. h ' . Jtl .. lih s6. to overt row ett 1er. ~ ea~ t ey are not want1ng d 1t Levi. among the Jews themfel ves, . that iay _, this [mage of 'Sa~. S• Dagon wa1 made in the form of a man. N.otwith1tanding sca/iger his conjecture is not improbable, that thofe, wh~ inte:pret Drtgon, ]11piter ar~triu1 '·or f\[&TtH, mtght mdl:ake and read .,w Sl1 ,tda1, figntfytng · Ager, A ftetd, ~or. "1W Shaddai bting the very N.ame of God, figr1tfy1ng OmnipotenJ, Almighty. C.H.AP~ . _ L 1 B. IV. Of the ~¥Jolt eN Ctt/f. CHAp. V. Of the molten~ a if. ,. T. He J1iftory of the Molten Calf is at la.rge fet down, Exod.32~ where we read, that by rea:{ on of Mtfe.r his long abfence,. the people defired of Aaron, gods to be made; whereupon Attro11 made ' ., for them the mtJiten Calf. The reafon why the.y worfhipped God rather in the fi.militude of a Calf, than of anv other Creature, fs generally by Expo· jitor1 conc~ived to be fro:n the corrup~ions lear~· ed among the Egyptia?tl , who wodbrp.ped .t~etr . Idol(a) Aph, otherwi[e called (b) Serapis~ In a ltvtng aplm Nat •. Oxe, and otherw1·1 r~. I· n an 1m age rna d e ·I ~ th e rt:O t m an_d hHieflr.old. :J .Ic.. 46• · I- se-fimilitude of an Oxe, with a bufutl on hts head. T_b1s ti~. c. 35._aut 0 ""C was remarkable for certain notes and marks , fta~ro8r~m dr- .. tn tone 45· whereby it was differenced from all others. _It was b ~lex. Genial. black.., bodied, it had a whi~e fore-head, and wh1te fpot dur.l6. cap.z. behind and a knot under hts tongue: for the mo~·e cu~ . rious f~fuioning and pollifhing (Jf thefe marks In the molten c~lf Aaron may feem to have made ufe of . · his (c) grav'i ng Stool. ( d ).T he Eg. ypt1.a ns repat.r e d unto jcftyoio, .n(n:Jd prrrio this oxr for the rcfol utton of matters doubtful, as d PltkHifl Mn to an Oracle, an d t he ma£lner o f c?nr1.u lt"1 0g. w.· lt-h lse.xc .4G6·t r/.ti a.. lA. • _ him, was thus. The party that rcpa1:ed .unto h1n;, dier. u:.c 2~ · tend red a bott1e of Hay, or Grafs; whtch tf he recelJ-ved then it betokened a good · and happy evtnt; If oth~rwi[e he rt fufe d it, then it did portend fame evil to come. 1bus they turned their glory i1Jto an O~e th.at eatet~ gr~-1js, l~{alm . 106.2o •. The flebrew wo_r~.1n ito - the Pjalm., tra~f1ated an. ~xe) 1:, (e) sh~~; wht~h 1 note, becaufe tn my· optntotll~ lt giveth llght to on~ G~ - I |