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Show 104 Of other Gods f!JentionedJ&c. L 1 B. 'IV. talt; the sepharv11ims burnt their Children in the fire to Adram-;melech, and Anammelch· the godJ·of Sfphara A ]arohi, vaim, 2 King 17. 3o.3 1. (a_) The Hebrew DolJors fay, ~ Kj;f,)J~0,. tha(~·uccoth Benotb wa13 the piCture of an Hen with her diffintit.. chick.._en: Nergat they interpret GaUum sylveflrem, Aji-ma a Goat, Nibha.z a Dog, Tar tal{ an Afs, Adramme .. lech a Mule, Anammelech an Horfe: that fncb brute beaftsfhould be worfhipped as godt, m.ay feem· ridi'culous ; but the like to have been pratbfed among the Heathens profane Authors abundanti y teftifie. The (b) ~/;~·~!~.'6' Cock._ was ~or!hipped a.s a god among the syrian1; (c.) c HtrodotJu in A Goat by the Mendejit ; (d) A D(Jg by others . Yea, Eut~rP-., 1 .,_ they have adopted into the number of their gods &c. dz. Czc. at et.'"· l d'[ ( ) 1.vid.Ttra· Oxen, LyonJ, Eagles, Wo ves",)Croco 1 es,Cats.')RatJ, e fD4tl· in Alex. Nay ,they have digged their gods out ofthetr gardens, :.~~~pol./.6 • lfJ Garlic~{~ r:eek.,.s,Onions~&c.lo thefe~ay be added f Porntm &. Nifroch., whtch was the god of the A.fljrtans, and, as cepe, nef:,1 "' 10 " it feemeth had his Tem,le at Nineve, 2· King. J 9· ult. lar t {!J 1 rtln- ~ f ' I • L d t,ertmorfu.o and EJa.J 37:11/t. Secondly, l)01 ~tmmo~, tHe w_0r_ fartflttl gentu figsifieth a Pomegranate. Concerntng thts Idol tt 15 •utbut h£c u- h d h h N r:. d · (~urrtRr ;, bor- ffiUC COntrOVetre , W et er a-aman tlnne not 1'0 til Numina. faying, '1 he Lord be me~ciful unto thyfervant, thtlt t#huz K"~e.nal.fatyr. 111J Mafiergor.th into the hfJufe ofRimfiJ~1t,&c.'l King.;. s 1 8.Read the words in the Prteter ten{e [when m.y l\l!a-fter went into the hop.fe of Rimmon J the fenfe appeaFs to be. a pardon craved for fins paft, not afterward t_o bt committed. The fame word\~ )J:l Bebboi in-going,1s put to exprefs the time pa.fr, in the titles of t~e Pfolms 5. z. and. Pjdlm 54· Thirdly, Nebo otherwtfe calle? N11bo , an Idol of the A!fjri-ans, ]er. 48._1_. ~e had hts name from Pr.'opbecy, N':J~ Nt1bbi, figntfyJnp a ,f!o· phet, ~e feemeth not much to ~iffer-fr?m Ztt.~ {j'd'II.(J)@-, or Z!u~ p.n7JtnJ~, fo often menttoned 1n Homer. (g) e;·Dioa. Sicul. Diodonu siculm. maketh them both one => • and we 4 •$ ''"·7· maY J t I B. IV~ The fiveralmannerJ of Divine Reveltttio11. i 6) may render Nebo, l"he A./Jyrians Ammon, or Jupiter . f/aticintH, the god of their Oraclet. --..c-----~---------- CHAP. VIII. The fever a! manners of Divine Revelation. AS Idolatry origi~ally fpr~ng from miftaking_ of . Scripture; fo "'ttch.cratt and Sorcery, (whtch holdeth near ~·ffinity with Idolatry) feerneth to have had its firft beginning from an im\tation of God1 Ora::. cle1. Godjpake in divers manners!\ Heb. I .r. By dreamr, by Vrim, by Prophets, r Sam.l8.6,7. when the Lord would by none of thefe anfwer King Saul, then he fought to a Witch. To thefe might be.added G~d1 fpeaking frore between the cherubim!'} ht~ an!wenng by rijinns, Ange!J, and VoiceJ: but the chtef manne~s . of revealing himfelf, obferved by the Hebrew \IVn~· . ters, are four , which they term ( a ) four degreeJ a r-. F.tgi_iu in of Prap be cy, or Dt.v t.n e R tve [a t t.o . n: 1r: 0mew ha t t.h ere .. Exod. 28, fore being fpoken nf thefe, I purpofe to eXt plain the ieyeral forts of ugla·wful divinations mentioned in Scripture. · . The firft degree was ~N~Jl Nebuah, Prophecy. This was when God by certain vifions and appantionsrevealed his \Vill. The fecond was Wii?:-1 n)'1 Ruach Hacodefch, The i11"' fpiration of the Holy Ghofi, whereby the party was in;.. abled without Vitions or Apparitions, to prt>phefie: forne fhe_w1ng the diffe.rence between thofe two (b);. 0 1 K·'!Z,;• 1 add, that the gift of Prophecy did caH a man into '~ ar. rn 1" · a trance or extafie, all his fenfes being taken from him; but the infpiration of the Holy Ghoft was without any fuch ext aGe, or abolition of the fenfes, as appear-eth in Job} D·avid, Daniel. Both thefedegrees, as Jike-wife. vrim and Thummim.ceafed in the.fecond Temple, whence . |