to the old Aleim, for the Operations of the Names, but also retained the Attributes and Services for the Atonement and Redemption of Man, and expected fomething of that Kind, from their new Aleim the Names, which we find attributed to them in their Temples, which were in Canaan, when the Jews came thither, and fo downward. So that there is not one Species of Motion in the Fluid of the Names, of the Orbs, in the Waters, in Vegetables, or Animals, but the Agent, the Patient, the Manner of performing, and the Actions performed, are expreffed, befides what was imagi nary in the Attributes, c. given to thefe new Aleim. Their Worshippers had Obfervatories, Telescopes, Dials, Loadstones,

e. they had the continual Contemplation of thefe Operations, and thereby they admired, and without Caufe, loved their fuppofed Aleim, and they falfely hoped, that this would qualify them to be Favourites of thofe Aleim, and that their Souls fhould be placed in, or among them, and that they fhould have the Pleasure of contemplating their Perfections after Death; and this employed their Minds, and kept them eafy, while they understood thefe Powers, as I have. fhewed

7.

fhewed in the New Account of the Confufion of Tongues, p. 128. in the Parable of the Younger Son. Their Skill was fo great in Aftronomy, that foon, after the Apoftacy, the Chaldeans began to make Calculations of the Motions of the Orbs, Eclipfes, &c. and continued them down, as they affert, to the Destruction of that Empire, by which our Calculations are now made. 'Tis likely, they had then, though we find them not mentioned till lower, fuch Reprefentations of the Motions in this Syftem, as we call an Orrery, moved by Clockwork. The Zeal of these Men was fo great then for the Honour of these Aleim, that they undertook, and accomplished Works incredibly difficult and great, for Temples, Altars, and Monuments, with Hieroglyphical Representations, both large aud fmall, of all the great Motions, Powers, and Actions in this System, before and in their Temples; their Machinery for carrying and raifing great Bodies (a Confequence of their Knowledge of Nature) will never be equalled; their Knowledge in Architecturc, Proportion, Representation, Pourtraiture, &c. are preferved in the Ruins of fome of those inimitable Monuments.

We

We have hints of feveral Families, who preferved the Knowledge, and Worfhip of the true Aleim, for fome time, among them. Of them Job, who stood the Temptation by which Adam fell, was one. But the moft eminent was Abraham, the Eldeft of the Eldeft Line, who fled from his Country, had the Promise of Redemption renewed to his Line, with the Earneft of Canaan. He, his Son and Grandfon had Vifion of, and Intercourfe with the true Aleim; the last, and his Race went down into Egypt, and were there tempted to worship the Names: Mofes was fent to fetch them out, and to make all the Earth know, that the true Aleim were of the Effence exifting. Since the Creation of this System was not seen by Man, the only remaining Proof that there was an Effence, and Perfons in it, fuperior to these in the Names, was that they should fhew Man by Voice, or by Miffion of another Man, that they had Power, and did controul the Powers in this Syftem: And even this Evidence could not be fo to Man, who did not know where, and how the Powers in this System were lodged, and acted; these are called Miracles. What the Agents and their Actions, which Mofes con

trouled,

trouled, were, I have fufficiently fhewed, that admits of no Difpute; I have alfo fhewed, that the Mifapplication of the Emblems to thefe Powers, which bore the Names of the Eternal Three, the Aleim, and the Captivity of that Line, which ftuck to the true Aleim, whereby they were hindered from performing proper Services, and exhibiting proper Representations, moved the Aleim, in Mercy to Man, to reveal the Method of Writing by Letters, thereby to preferve the Knowledge of the Powers in the Jebovab Aleim, and determine the Mechanical Powers in the Names, &c. and the Terms of Man's Redemption; and alfo regulated the Memorials or emblematical Reprefentations of it, till Chrift fhould come, and added the Services whereby the Powers in the Names had been, tho' unjustly, properly acknowledged to them, and reclaimed them to Jehovah Aleim. Since there is not any other Evidence of this Effence, and thofe Perfons, but from the Scriptures, and the Emblems they direct us to; and fince the Opinion of the Veracity of the Scriptures, at least the Credit they will meet with from us, in a great Meafure depends upon the Truth of the Defcriptions of the Things,

Actions,

Actions, and Motions, which we can fee; 'tis amazing to me, that those who are not paft all Hope of Benefit from thofe Perfons, fhould not have done fomething which they have neglected.

The great Apoftafy made it ftill more neceflary for those who stood, to be more circumfpect; the Deliverance out of Egypt, fo from being forced to acknowledge Intelligences, fo incommunicable Powers, in inanimate Matter, could not abate those first natural Duties, Laws, and Services; but made the Performance, the strenuous Averment, Publication, and Propagation of them the more neceffary. It was to prevent the contrary Vices, all the Commandments, Laws, and Ceremonies, befides those which were to preferve the Memory of the Redemption to come, for that Crime, were to pay Services for, and make Acknowledgments of the Powers in Jehovah Aleim, and to prevent making any Acknowledgments of any Powers but Mechanifm to Matter. And, as I have fufficiently fhewed, a great Part of the Pfalms, and indeed of the whole Bible, was writ by the Inspired Authors to this End. The Aleim by their Operations in Egypt, and in the Wilderness, exhibited their Powers, by