Chap. s i. Expofttion upon the Booke of )(= ti Verf. 26. 56c fromGod which all men doe or ought todedicate unto hire, the Glory ofhis Geeing. Fourthly, Obferve. Thr Surma andMoone have been Idoliz'dor Idolatroufly adored and wmr,4iippdasgods by many Njtiene. That the old Gentiles worfhipped thofe two great lunatics the Sun and Moone is as cieare from Antiquitie as the fhini' g of the Sun at noon, or ofthe Moone at full. Macrobius tell fieth that `?fruro .11_5 r1 the Sun was accounted and adored as a God under the name of s'°° r c. a' Adonis by the 4íyriansand `Phenicians. The fame Author tells us, that the Egyptiansworfhipped the Sununder the name of O- firaa, whom they reprefented in the forme of an Eye, expreffd upon a regal Scepter, thereby (ignifying theruling and al fceirg power of the Sun, which is called by Antiquity, The eye of the world Another of the Ancients faith,that the Egyptian' behold- Diodor. h r. ingand admiring the beautiful) furniture and arrayefthe world, ca,. a, concluded that there were two Gods, and thofe Ecernal,Tlse Sun wand the Mont, The former of the two they called O[rie, the lat- ter /fes. The fame Author reportsagaine, That the Perfiani wor- (hipped the Sun, and the Creci.ono the Moone. Plánie alto ìn- Pan. lib. 36, f=rmes us,thae the Egyptian Kings confecrated certaineObeliJi_es, cup 8. gored with the rayes of the Sun, and infcribed with letters or mottoes of their owne deviling in Honour of the Sun. And that the Egyptians worfhipped the Sun,wehave a greater wirr.e; then any of their, even the holy Scriptures or word of God. (11'2.19. 18. ) IM that day fhall Pave Cities in the landof Egypt fpea,le the language ofCanaan, and [ware to the L,rd of brf s ( that is, they ;fa!iopc (hall be converted to the knowledge and pure worfhip of the l;;,na ti , t.s trueGod ) and one ,17;aä be called the Citie of deflruliion ; So we C ;i:itar eIf in tradiate the text, and put in the Margin Or of Here' or rf the cgg!re ingrnti San, As if he had fayd, even that Idolatrous Citiewhich was de. p°/tta qua Ja&s dictated to the Sun, or where the Sun was efpecially worfhipped, 'xZ fhnll be converted. Againe, the Prophet yeremie (Chap. 43 ) foretelling the def1rudion ofEgypt by Tltbrechadnez.tr and his Babylonians, concludes thus (v. 13.) He !hall breaks allo the images ofBethfhemefh, that it in the landofEgypt ; and the hoN(es ofthe rods of the Egyptians (hall he burnt with fire. Beebfbemefli .( as our Margin bath tt) lignifieth, The Bereft ofthe Sun ; which Cccc was
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