r 49 °' beafily Worfhip, that we (hall fcarcely find a Parallel " in all Hiftory." Herodotus, in his Euterpe, tells us, that almoft all the Names of the Gods were brought into Greece from Egypt ; and gives a plain Intimation, that the Greeks, not underftanding the Egyptian Principles, depraved them. But, in fart, and with Submif lion to this efti- mable Father of the Greek Hiftory, the Egyptian Names of their Deities appear to have been Corruptions of their own. In the Time of Hermes 2"rifinegus,, the molt antient of all the HeathenTheologifts, the Gen- tiles feem to have no proper Name for GOD; and there- fore he calls him, 12de dvwvvlcoç, " the namelefs Being." -f- TheChaldBansand Egyptians firft,and after them the Weft- ern Heathens efpecially, debafed the Names and Inflitu- lions of the true GOD, revealed to the antient Patriarchs, by applying both to their Idols. Thus they turned the Name JAI into Inch, and then into Bacchus, who (ac- cording to Tlogius) was likewife called oaßßavi [or fra- Pce gyJ, Sabbafios, from SABAOTH. fidonis was taken from ADONAT ; and the Name AL or EL was changed intoHAs Elios, the Name of the Sttn. GOD's Title 11`517 ELION, or MOST HIGH, the Phoenicians called Elioan. The Name JEHOVAH was turned into tan, Taw, and TFUe, hate, Lao, and Iëuo ; and afterwards farther Rill into Avis, Jovifpater, and ; upiter. So likewife the Sacri- fice of the Firft-born to Moloch was a vile Copy of the Offering up of Ifaac by "graham; and the LapidesBe- tulij, or uniti, the anointed Stones, worfhipped by the Phoenicians, were fuperftitious Abufes of 7acob's anoint- ing the Stone at Bethelt. Betides thefe, they had many other Obfervances, deduced from earlier Times, which * Bp. NEWTON on the Prophecies. Dill: xii. fi LACT. defalfd Rel..SeEl. 6. I MACROS. Sat. 1. 1. C. r8. SELD. de Dije Syris. Prol. c. 3: & 3ynt. t t. c. 1, SrAxH. Hifl. Ea1: V. T. p. 294, 296, 313. GROT. , deYer.Rel.Cbrift. 1. t. Sea. xvi.n.gi. DAMASC. Vit. Ifd.aped PHOT. Cod, CCXLII. BRYANT'S Anal. of Ant. Myth: VoL .i p. 13. GALE'S Court of the Gentiles. Vol: i. 1. 11. p: 12, 27, 90. E would
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