having had the latter Part of the Sentence remitted, and the first fufpended, dwelled in Booths covered with Boughs of the Trees aforefaid; and as after I had delivered you in, and brought you out of Egypt, and made you dwell in Booths, fo you fhall dwell in Booths, and rejoice in Memory of what is past, and in Profpect of what is to come. Much has been writ by Chriftians to explain the Meaning of the Jews. What Spencer and others have endeavoured to make of the Services of the Heathens, and fo of the Services of the Jews, as taken from the Heathens, I have already fhewed. Others make it all have reference to the Church of Chrift; and have endeavoured to fhew what is typified under each Part of it. It is no lefs a Type for being inftituted at the Fall of Man, but more fo than it would be if it had been inftituted upon Ifrael's coming out of Egypt. It is agreed on all Hands, that God either inftituted or reestablished the principal Parts in Scripture, and that the Jews had fome Forms which they pretend to obferve by verbal Direc tions from Mofes, but perhaps were fo well known, that he had no Occafion to write them. And it is certain that these Trees were facred long before Mofes, to

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the Heathens, and that they had the fame either from the firft Inftitution, or how, let who can fhew: Nay, that even the Object of their Worthip was called by that Name. 2 Kings. xvii. 30. Amos v. 26. A Tabernacle is a Reprefentation of the Heavens, and the Trees which refembled the Parts or Acts in Paradife, are by this explained. And God ufes the Word for his Protection by his Wings, Exod. xxv. 20. For that of the Wings of the Cherubim. For that of the Cloud; nay, the Devil uses the Word with a in that Senfe, fob i. 10. I fhall endeavour to fhew, that thefe Things were inftituted long before the Hebrews and Heathens feparated, and how each of them in their respective Ways of Worship, use them; that is, what is attributed to God by these Services from the Jews, and what is attributed by the Heathens thereby, to the Heavens. I have above thew'd my Sentiments about planting Paradife; though Adam named the Beafts, doubtlefs God, who planted the Trees in fuch Order as to reprefent Things to inftruct Man, muft name them, fhew what they exhibited, whether apparently, or only as fubftituted; that is, whether they sách, by the Order it stood in, or by R 2

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the Figure of the Tree, or, &c. gave an Idea of what it reprefented, or whether each was only a Subftitute to represent or keep the Action or Thing in Memory. We have not pofitive Evidence of the Order they were planted in, and we are at prefent at fuch Uncertainties about the Sorts and Figures of fome of the Trees, that we are fcarce able to fhew how each anfwers the Idea of its Name, or the Epithets given in other Places of Scripture and Heathen Writing; such as 712 Glory, Greatness, D Beauty, on Strength,

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Glory, &c. or whatever Ideas those Words convey. However, we fhall fuppofe that these below were fome of thote which had their Names in Paradife. My Bufinefs is to come at the natural Ideas of fome of the Words, and that will be fufficient for the present to fhew the Ends of their Institution. There are Precepts to make Booths, but the Materials are only named, Neh. viii. 15. -Branches of the Olive, the Wood of w Oil Branches,) and Branches

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Trees) no nwy to make Booths (a Tabernacle) as it is written. So, as it is written, refers only to the Precept of each, making the Booth, not to the Materials that we fuppofe was understood. I have already, in the fecond Part of Mofes's Principia, fhewed feveral of thefe Trees were Representatives of the Powers in the Heavens, before Mofes writ; and from the latter Scripture, that they were used as fuch by the apoftate Jews; and by the eldest prophane Writers, that they were ufed fo by the Heathens. I have shewed above, Trees with fuch Epithets were in Paradife. I fhall fhew the Patriarchs used fuch as facred Emblems, and I have thewed, that among the Heathens those mentioned by Mofes, ufed fuch as Emblems of Powers in the Heavens, which are Representations of the Powers in the Effence. No doubt these Services fucceeded the firft Sacrifice, and here were re-established by the written Appointment of God; and many of the Stories they tell us of oral Direction, and fo Tradition from Mofes, of which I take this to be one, appears to be, as I faid above, about Things and Forms established from the Beginning, and which had no Addition to, nor Alteration in them, fo ncoded

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needed not be written. Indeed, ftating the Cafe may vary the Deductions, fo I fhall ftate it both ways. If Man by eating the Fruit of a forbidden Tree, was fuppofed to have allowed the Powers reprefented by that and other Trees, to be independent in the Heavens, then one might fuppofe that after he by the great Sacrifice at the Collection of the Fruits, was alfo to make Satisfaction by an Acknowledgment that the Powers reprefented by the Trees, were in God, before he could be clothed, then that had been a Feaft of Humiliation, and there had been no Occafion to rejoice till it had been over. But fuppofe that great Sacrifice had emblematically atoned, then they who we may cafily be allowed to fuppofe dwelled in a Booth, by being ordered by God to cover it with the Branches of thefe reprefentative Trees, and dwell under them, were emblematically covered with what they reprefented. Something has been faid about the Olive-Tree and Oil; they agree not what fort the Wood of is; fome make it the Pine: Nor do they let us know what the Word for Myrtle fignifies, Some late Jews make it fuftus, or a juft one, perhaps from Ifa. Iv. 12. All the Trees of the Field fall clap their Hands.

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