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DENMARK, to pass the RHINE (9) or the DANUBE (r), when her barbarous Sons came like a Deluge into the South, and spread beneath GIBRALTAR (s), as far as the utmost Limits of AFRICK.

FORTHWITH the Heads and Leaders from every Squadron and every Band hafte where their great Commander stood, godlike Shapes and Forms, much furpaffing the Beauty and Perfections of MAN; princely

(9) Rhene, or Rhine; Teut, i. e. Pure, because of the Clear. nefs of the Waters; or Gr. i. e. the Flood or River; because it is a vast one. A large River in Germany, rifing in the Alps, parts France and Germany, and after a long Course of 1000 Miles, throws itself into the German Ocean, in two large Mouths near the Briel; therefore Virgil calls it Bicornis, i. e. Having two Horns or Paffages.

(r) Danaw, Danow, Danube, and by the Natives, Tonaw, Teut. i. e. Thunder; because of the thundering Noife of its rapid Current and three grand Cataracts. Or Danubius, Lat. q. Danivius, i. e. Snowy, from the Abundance of Snow that falls upon the adjacent Mountains, and fwells the River; or from Danai, an antient People that are faid to have dwelt thereabouts. A grand River in Europe; it rifeth in Suaben, runs through Germany, Bavaria, Auftria, Hungary, Bulgaria, &c. into the Eux ine Sea in 6 or 7 Mouths, (but only two are navigable) after a Course of near 2000 Miles, wherein it receives 60 other Rivers, whereof 30 are navigable.

It is very broad, and 200 Feet deep in divers Places; and abounds with many large Iflands and Villages. At the Confines of Illyricum it changes its Name, and for 400 Miles is called the Ifter, q. Efter, contracted from Eftreon, i. e. The Flood or River, as I think, for I cannot find the original Derivation in any Author. Dionyfius calls it the Sacred Ifter. The Country thereabout is called Iftria, and the People Iftri.

(s) Gibraltar; Arab. Fibil Tharek, i. e. The Mountain of Tharek Captain of the Moors, A. D. 718. when from Africa they invaded Spain, and pitched firft upon that Promontory, which is upon the Mouth of the Streights between Spain and Africa. Thefe Streights were formerly called the Streights of Hercules and of Gades. From that Time the Moors poffeffed Spain 760 Years, 'till 900.000 of them were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella, A. D. 1492. But the Moori is ftill spoken in fome Parts of it, and many of their Cuftoms and favage Difpofitions continue in the Blood of the Spaniards to this Day.

Dignities

Dignities and Powers, that once in Heaven had fat upon Thrones, though now in the Records of Heaven there be not the leaft Memorial of their Names, by their Rebellion blotted out from the Books of Life; Nor had they yet got themselves new Names among Mankind, 'till after a Time wandering o'er the Earth, through God's high Sufferance, and for the Trial of MAN, they corrupted the greatest Part of MANKIND, to forfake their GoD and Creator, and to transform the invifible Glory of him who made them, oftentimes to the Image of a Brute; which they adorned with gay Ceremonies, and Rites that were full of Pomp, and Gold; and fometimes worshipped the Devils themselves for Deities, who were then known to MEN by various Names, and figured under various Images and Idols through the Heathen World.

THEIR Names then being known, it is not difficult to fay who was the firft, who laft, that rouzed from their Astonishment and the Gulph of Hell, at the Call of their great Emperor; who next in Worth came fingly where he flood, on the Brink of the Gulph, while the inferior Multitude of the fallen Angels, promifcuous and affembled in Disorder, stand far diftant from him. The Chief who approached near him were thofe, who roaming from the Pit of Hell to feek what Prey they could devour on Earth, durft (though long after this) fix their Seats next the Seat of GoD, and their Altars by his Altar (t); adored as Gods among the Nations,

(1) Altar: Teut. Dut. Fr. Lat. i. e. high; because it was raised high above the Ground: Or to burn: becaufe Sacrifices were offered upon Altars. From the Heb. Arar, i. e. to pray or

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imprecate; or of El, God, and Tar, a Place appointed for the Worship of God. A Place raifed up with Stones and Earth, whereon Men facrificed their Oblations to the true God. Altars

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and durft abide the LORD thundering out of StON, throned between the Cherubim: Nay, they often pla ced their abominable Shrines (u) within his Sanctu ary (x), and profaned his folemn Feasts and holy. Rites with accurfed Things, daring to affront his Light with their Darkness.

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FIRST of all MOLOCH (y), that horrid King, wet with the Blood of human Sacrifices, and with the Tears

were used for the WorshipofGod by Adam, Noab, and all the Patriarchs from the Beginning of the World, and long before Temples, Gen. iv. 4, 5, 8, 22, 23, 29, ix, 10. Exod. xx. 24. And from them the Heathens took the Use of Altars, whereof they had three Sorts; 1. Thofe to the Celestial Gods, which were as high as a Man of a middle Size might ufe, and erected upon Hills, Groves, the High-ways That of the Olympian Jupiter was 22 Feet high. 2. Thole to the Infernal, which were placed upon a little Trench below the Ground. And 3. for the Ter reftrial Deties, which were erected upon the Ground; but low, flagged with Sod, and covered with facred Vervaine. Altars were esteemed moft facred; for upon them they made their most folemn Vows and Oaths, by 1 ying their Hands upon them in a very folemn Manner, as we find in the Practice of Hannibal, &c. See Corn. Nepos, Cicero pro Flac. Tit. Liv. &c. They never permitted Whores and Murderers to approach them.

(u) Shrines; Fr. Sax. Lat. i. e. Desks, Cabinets, or Closets..

The Saxons meant thereby Clo fets or Temples, like the Lares among the old Romans; wherein they kept the Reliques of their Saints, and the latter their Gods. In these they made their Prayers. Shrines were the Altars or Temples of thofe Idols, where these Devils were worshipped. Here, the Temple of the true God was made a Repofitory for those Idols; for fo Solomon Manaffes, and other wicked Kings of Fu dab did..

(*) San&uary: Fr. from the Lat. i. e. A holy and fanctified Place. The most holy Part of the Tabernacle, within the Veil, and in the Weft End of Solomon's Temple, adorned with two Cherubim, the Ark of the Covenant, and the extraordinary Prefence of God. It was unlawful for any Man to enter into it, but the High Priest only, and that but once in the Year, on the great Day of Atonement, which anfwered to the Twelfth of our September. The molt facred Place was called the Holy of Holies, i. e. The most Holy Place, Levit.

xvi. 23.

(y) Moloch, Molech, Milcom, and Melcom ; Heb. i. e. A King.

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Tears of Parents, though for the Noise of loud Drums and Timbrels, the Cries of their Children, who passed thro' the Fire to his cruel Idol, are fcarcely heard; the AMMONITES (2) worshipped him in RABBA (a), and the watry Plains about that City; in ARGOB (b), and in BASAN

An Idol of the Ammonites ftri&tly forbidden the Jews, Levit. xviii. 21. XX. 2. The Prophets denounced and God executed grieVous Judgments upon all the Worshippers of it; and no Wonder, for it was a most infamous Idol. ft, in his affuming the Name of a King, and robbing God of his Sovereignty and Gloty. zdly, in the Inhumanity of the Worship paid him. Moloch was a hollow Statue of Brafs, with the Head of an Ox and the Hands of a Man, with feven Chapels. It was made red hot, then the Priests threw the Sacrifices into its Arms, where they were burnt to Death in a dreadful Manner. The Carthaginians offered 200 Children of their Nobility to it at one Time, and 300 at another; which made Darius fend Ambafladors to Carthage, with an Edict to forbid them that Inhumanity. See Jufin. Hift. L. xix. Cap. 1. 490 Years before Jefus Chrift. The Americans 5 or 6000 Children. every Year; and one of their Kings facrificed 64080 Men in the Space of four Days, A. D. 1486. He that offered his Son, kiffed the Idol, Hof. v. 2. It was the Saturn of the old Romans. This devilifh Abomination was laid afide in Europe by the Decree of Conftantine 1. A bleffed Effect of the Chriftian Re

ligion; therefore our Author calls it juftly horrid, dreadful King. It was the Sun, and the feven Chapels fignified the feven Planets, whereof he is the chief. See Macrob. 1. 2. Curt. L. iv. Diod. Siculus.

(x) Ammonites; The Pofterity of Ben-Ammi, Heb. i. e. The Son of my People. The Son of Lot by his youngest Daughter, Gen. xix. 38. A mighty Nati on in Arabia Felix, bordering upon Cahaan; but miserable Idolaters, and always mortal Enemies to the People of God; for which Crimes God cut them off the Face of the Earth. They dwelt beyond Mount Gilead about 96 Miles from Jerufalem North Eastward, and were infamous Worshippers of this Idol. 1 Kings xi. 7.

(a) Rabba or Rabbath; Heb. i. e. Great. The chief City of the Ammonites on the North-East Side of Jordan and the River Arnon. It was wel watered by the Springs of Mount Arnon and Mount Gilead; therefore it was called the City of Waters, 2 Sam. xii. David took and plundered it, and made all the Inhabitants Slaves. There the brave Uriah loft his Life, z Sam. xii. 26.

(b) Argob; Heb. i. e. A Lump of Earth or Gravel. A large, very fruitful, and populous Country, lying on the East

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BASAN (), as far as the Extent of the River ARNON (d), and not contented with fo near an Ap proach, he led by Fraud the Heart of wife SoLOMON (e), to build him a Temple over against the Temple of GOD, on a Hill juft without JERUSALEM, and made his Grove in the pleasant Valley of HINNOм (f), by that Reafon fometimes called To

of Jordan among the Mountains, and belonged to Og King of Bafan, near Mount Gilead, Deut. iii. 13, 14. Afterwards it was called Trachonitis, Gr. i. e. Rocky or Stony. See Luke iii. 1.

(c) Bafan, or Bashan; Heb. j. e. in Ivory or Tooth, becaufe it lay between two Ranges of Mountains, like the Tooth of an Elephant. It was alfo called Pe raa, Gr. i. e. beyond, because it lay bey d Jordan, Northward from Jerufalem. A fine fruitful Country beyond Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon.

(d) Arnon; Heb. i. e. A wild Ab; because these Trees grew upon the Banks of it in Abundance. It is a fmall River of the Moabites on the East Side of Fordan, rifing in Mount Gilead, watereth thefe Countries, and runs into the Dead Sea, 20 Miles from Jerufalem Eastward. It was the uttermoft Boundary between the Moabites and Ammonitas. Num. xxi. 13.

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rael, and the wifeft of all Mor tals, fince the Fall of Adam, Kings iv. 29. Yet he fell into this abominable Idolatry, and built a Temple to this Devil, near that which he himself had erected to the living and true God, to gratify his idolatrous Wives, 1 Kings x. 5. Abax, Manaffes, and other impious Succeffors followed his fhameful Example, which brought divine Vengeance upon them. He was born in the Year of the World 2971, before Jefus Chrift 1029. Built, befides other Edifices, a famous Academy upon Mount Sion, where he taught Philofophy, Prov. ix. 1. And from him Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Ariftotle, Trismegiftus, &c. borrowed their Principles of Philofophy. He reigned forty Years, lived fixty, and was the faddeft Inftance of human Frailty extant; yet he repented, was pardoned, and faved.

(f) Hinnom; Heb. i. e. Gracious. This was the Name of the Poffeffor of the Valley, which is called alfo the Valley of BenHinnam, Heb. i. e. of the Son of Hinnom. It lies at the Foot of Mount Moriah and Mount Olivet, Southward. There

(e) Solomon, Salomon, or Schelamob; Heb. i. e. Peace or Peaceable, because he was a peaceable Prince, not like his Father. The Son of David by Bathsheba, (Heb. i. e. The Daughter of the Oath) the third King of Itood the Grove of Meloch,

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