and this Confeffion where real, with commemorating the Sacrifice now paft, is now the Terms of Salvation. Marius,

"Its Expofition is Projection-I. To calt, project, eject, dart, dart out, to impel or throw Arrows, or Stones. Piel. the fame. II. Its Signification is Praise, Praife-worthy, or Confeffion. Hiphil.

to confefs freely, or acknowledge Benefits received, and to return Thanks for them, and with a grateful Mind praise, laud and magnify God-Thence Confeffion, Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Celebration, Praife, an Ode, Oration, Deprecation, and from thence a Sacrifice of Confeffion. III. Hence comes the Name Fudaus, Jew and the proper Name Jehudah, Judah, being fo called from his Mother's Confeffion, Thankf giving, and Celebration of God. Hithphael. nn to Judaize, to observe the Cuftom or Rites of the Jews. Chaid. Syr. Arab. the fame. The Maforites call the Divine Name " read as it is wrote " because it is manifeft that God is Lord of of all. Caftel, to caft, projectBut according to the Law of the PeaceOfferings, Lev. vii. The Sacrifice of Confeffion or Thanksgiving was eat the fame Day and Night. See Rabbi David, &c.

Chald.

Chald. Confeffion of a Debt, an Obligation, an Hand-writing by which a Perfon confeffes a Debt. Sanhedrin xxix. 2.

alfo a Celebration, an Euchariftic or Thanksgiving Sacrifice. Lev. vii. 12. &c.

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a formal Confeffion, viz. of Sins, which the Jews at certain Times are obliged. to recite, &c. Syr. Samar. the fame. Arab. Ary" This is done by his "Help and Affiftance."-The Force and Violence of the Wind. Col. ii. 11.-The Power of God. Cocc.-Piel. in the Infinitive Mode, to fcatter, (project). Zach. i. 21. or ii. 4. It anfwers to to ventilate, future. 17" for 17" Lament. iii. 53. They caft (projected) a Stone at me. From this Root is derived an Hand. And hence in Hiphil has its Signification, to be ready at hand, to give Help or Affiftance, to be handy, as the Greek προχειρίζεθαι οι πρόχειρον ἔχειν Για nifies-(So, 2 Chron. xxx. 8. Give the Hand to Jehovah). It is opposed to O covering. Pfal. xxxii. 5. I will confefs my Defections to Jehovah, and thou tookeft away the Iniquity of my Sin, Selah. So 1 Kings viii. 33, 35. And they fhall be converted to thee, and confefs thy Name; they fhall confess that thou art him who is, and fhall attribute

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Glory to thee; and that thou art truly as thou art called in thy Word, a God holy, merciful and juft." This fort of Sacrifice is mentioned Levit. vii. 12. xxii. 29. 2 Chron. xxix. 31. And this is the Law of the Sacrifice of Peace-Offering, which he fhall offer to Jehovah. If he offer it for a Confeffion, then fhall he offer upon the Sacrifice of Confeffion, unleavened Cakes mingled with Oil; and unleavened Wafers anointed with Oil; and Cakes mingled with Oil of fine Flower fried. Befides the Cakes, he fhall offer upon his Offering leavened Bread, with the Sacrifice of Confeffion, his Peace-Offerings. And he shall offer one out of the whole Oblation for in an Heave-Offering to Jehovah: And it fhall be the Priests that Sprinkleth_the Blood of the Peace-Offering, &c. So Baal Jehudah, mentioned in the fecond Part M. P. p. 147, 'tis likely, was attributing this Power to Baal. The Word A includes the Actions of the Powers of Light affifted by the Spirit, which form and move every thing in this System. This Manner of their Peace-Offering, when it was to confefs, to attribute these Powers of Action, Motion, &c. to that Perfon in Jehovah the Type represents,

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which was the very Condition of their Peace, Plenty, &c. was of Bread, Oil,

c. and no doubt fuch, and in fuch Manner, as either was from the Fall of Man, or as the Heathens had offered them to the Light. And as the Action of the Power On Hermes, the Projector, which I have explained, was included manifeftly in this, and the Service they had paid to that Power was, as they render it, to heave or project Things, Part of this Offering was to be heaved or projected to that Perfon to render that Attribute to him: So Pfal. cxviii. 19. I will go into them, I will confefs to Jah. ibid. cxxxvi. 26. Confefs to the Irradiator (the Light) of the Names; for his Mercy endureth for ever. Jer. xxxiii. 11. Confefs to Jehovah of Hofts. The Names confefs this, of which below. From Leah's Confeflion upon the Birth of her fourth and laft Son, fhe called him Judah. Thence the Name of that Tribe; under this Name is couched that famous Prophecy, Gen. xlix. 8. Judah, thou whom thy Brethren fhall praife (confefs) thy Hand in the Neck of thy Enemies; thy Fa ther's Children shall bow down before thee. Hence Pfal. cvi. 47. To confefs to the Name of thy Holy One. Pfal. VOL. VI.

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CXxxviii.

cxxxviii. 1. To the Beloved. I will confefs to thee with my whole Heart; before the Aleim will I fing Praise unta thee. I will worship in the Temple of thy Holy One, and will confefs to thy Name, because of thy loving Kindness, Ton (thy Pious One) and thy Truth because thou hast magnified thy Name,

thy Word above every thing. Some Bird, which they fay is the Stork, is called pfo made the Emblem of Benevolence, Benignity, of Mercy or Piety; hence all the emblematical Stories told of fupporting his Parents, of the Pelican's feeding her Young-ones with her Blood, hold true of the Original. Much Strefs seems to be laid upon this Confeflion, as I Kings viii. 33, 35. 2 Chron. vi. 24, 26. Pfal. c. 4. cv. I. cvi. 47. cxxii. 4. cxl. 14. Ifa. XXV. I. of the Name hereafter. Hence Mat. xii. 48. Who are my Brethren?so, Whosoever shall do the Will of my Father which is in Heaven. The Jews, in the lxx. have, instead of Irradiation of Light, only given that to Jehovah, which was due to the Man, predicted under the

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מהלל אקרא .4 .as 2 Sam. xxii יהורה Word

I will call upon the Irradiator, Jehovah, fo fhall I be faved from mine Enemies.

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