by Lot to be facrificed, and another by another Name, by Lot became the ScapeGoat, I hope fome will fhew: How of the Representatives of that dreadful Perfon, confifting of Divinity and Humanity, of and who is to judge and pafs Sentence, one the mortal, was made an Atonement, facrificed for Offences and Offenders, was put in the Place of those who had offended, and were to have been punished; how another Reprefenta

by אדם with immortal יהוה tive of him

Lot, under the Name Ny Goat efcaped, al. the ftrong one went off, and carried off the Sins of the People; and alfo how this was to take Effect by the Prieft's putting his Hand upon the Head of this Emblem, and confeffing the Sins of the People. S. 1912.-" The Gate of Judgment which was next to the Place called Calvary, where Offenders, capitally convicted, were brought to fuffer. From thence there was an Out-gate towards the Weft, to Tyre and Sidon. And without this was Christ crucified." As this was in Practice among Deferters before the Law with the Abuses, and what was right was renewed in the Law, and as the Country where Efau lived, was fo named, as we have thewed each Country was, from fome of

these

thefe Powers, Gen. xxxiii. 16. we fhall fuppofe that this had its Rife with the reft, and that they understood the Emblems. The strange Ufes made of this Root, the Greek Word daiwv, makes me go out of my Way to fhew the Ufage of it. Acts xvii. 16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his Spirit was firred in him, when he faw the City κατείδωλον wholly given to Idolatry (full of Idols). Ver. 18. Then certain Philofophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him: And fome faid, What will this Babbler fay? Other fome, he feemeth to be a Setter forth of Ξένων δαιμονίων Arange Gods, because he preached unto them Jefus and the Refurrection. Ver. 22. Then Paul

Ye Men of Athens, by all Things I perceive that ye are too fuperftitious. s δεισιδαίμονεςέρες Is there any thing appears here but that they were wholly addicted to Idolatry, and paid too much Fear to these Sayónia? So in other Words, Gal. iv. 8. But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were Servants to thofe which by Nature are not Gods; but now, fince ye know God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Elements, whereunto ye defire again to be in Bondage? Ye obferue Days and Months, and Times and Years. E e 4

Scap.

Scap. saxeia properly speaking, are the four Elements from whence all Things arife and proceed. The Service the Heathens paid to the Elements of the Air, was attributing to them the giving of Days, Months, Years, and the Benefits thereby, &c. This was not too much Religion; this was no Religion, because they were no Gods, but the Servants of God for Man; and when he pleafed, the Punishers or Avengers. And if what they fay be true, that the Altar at Athens was built to avert a Peftilence, in that Cafe, they were to invoke Demons; and it feems they generally facrificed more out of Fear than Love: As I Cor. x. 20. But I say, that the Things which the Gentiles facrifice, they facrifice to Devils, and not to God: And I would not that you Should have Fellowship with Devils. Ye cannot drink the Cup of the Lord, and the Cup of Devils: Ye cannot be Partakers of the Lord's Table, and of the Table of Devils. S. T. t. i. c. 896. Agathodaimoniftai-fee Erafmus upon this Word. See alfo the Proverb-The third Cup to Jove the Saviour. Where from Athenæus, he fhews that after Supper, and washing of Hands, the Cup of Jupiter the Saviour, ufed to be brought, which was the fame

with

1

fa me

in

I

James earthly, fenfual,

with that called i.e. the Cup of the good Demon, (or as others will have of good Luck) fee the Athaneus, alfo in Pollux, and Suidas." Tim. iv. 1. Doctrines of Devils. iii. 15. This Wisdom (natural) devilish Rev. ix. 20. That they fhould not worship Devils, Idols of Gold, &c. The Prophets and Priefts who pretended to be infpired by thefe Powers, from their acting furiously, were called Demoniacks; Baal's Priefts who leaped upon the Altar, and cut themselves were one Sort. So thofe who were affected by any of these malignant Powers of the Air. This we knew, without being advertized in the News-Papers of the pretended Discoveries of our Ratcliffs and Newtons. But as the fame Name was carried to the fallen Angels, the Devils who poffeffed and tormented the Heathens, fo it expreffes them, as Luke viii. 29. The unclean Spirit after δαίμονα. And we need not be to feek which it was; the Powers of, or in the Air, could not fpeak, but the others could, and do many Things which the Air and Man could not do; and they confeffed the Divinity of Chrift, for which thefe Gentlemen will never forgive them, till, if poffible,

they

they have difpoffeffed Men of the Belief of their Existence. The Word is once applied to the Object of the Religion of either the Jews or Chriftians, Acts xxv. 19. but it was by a Roman Governor to fuch as himself, who named the Aleim of the Jews, as they did thofe Powers, the Objects of the Worship of their own Country; and it is likely thought the little Service they had to those Powers in his own Country, much more the Religion of the Jews too much; and fays, but had certain Queftions againft him περὶ τῆς ἰδίας δεισιδαιμονίας of their own Superftition, and of one Jefus which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

CHA P. XI.

אנש 6 איש

A

S one, or several, or all the Perfons of the Aleim, are called not only by the Name but also by the Word

I am to fhew the Meaning of אנש or איש

Ufage of that Word. Some make these Words the fame, but they are not; indeed barely, fignifies a Perfon, Creature, or Thing; but is more confined

to