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And lower down in that State this Word became the common Name of the Race of Abraham, who left his Country upon this Confeflion, and of their Religion, and of the Land, Gen. xxix. 35. Now

N will I confefs to Jehovah. What had the to confefs? Nothing but that that Name Jehovah was Creator, Former and Master of thefe Powers which formed and brought forth the Child; and that he was hereafter to reform us, make us Weight,

c. as above. This was the Distinction between the Jews and all the Nations upon the Earth, this was to Judaize; from this Root all forts of Praife or Acknowledgments of his Power in this System arofe; and the Word to impel, to move, to project, is ufed for them all in common; and from this Idea all the Operations in the spiritual Syftem are taken.

As the Gravitor is applied to the Eight, fo is the Wonderful, a great Action performed by an invifible Agent, fo ufed for many of the great Miracles; and the Names are faid emblematically to confefs the Agent. The Perfon and the Type, Job xxxvii. 3. He directeth it under the whole Heaven, and his Light is upon the Wings of the Earth. After it a Voice

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> Voice roareth: He thunders with the Voice of his Excellency. The Irradiator (Light) thunders with his Voice, wonderful Things does he do, great beyond Knowledge-ver. 14. Hearken unto this, O Job; ftand still, and confider the wonderful Agents of the Irradiator. Didft thou know how he on whom the Curfe is, gave them Power, and his Cloud (the Spirit) made the Light to fhine? Doft thou understand the forming of the Grains, the wondrous Works of him who is perfect in Knowledge?— Canft thou, like him, give an expansive Power to Ethers, ftrong as a molten Looking-Glass? Pfal. lxxxix. 6. And the Names fhall confefs thy wonderful Power, Jehovah. So Ifa. ix. 6. the Child Chrift is called Wonderful, one poffeffed of the great and invifible Power. And as it was predicted, that he and his Followers fhould work Miracles, and that the miraculous Gifts of the Spirit should be poured forth upon them, to enable them to publifh the Golpel, to difcern the Minds. of Men, to speak Languages they had not learned, to understand the Hebrew Scriptures, to record the New Testament, to prophefy, &c. fo it was predicted when all these miraculous Powers and Actions. fhould

fhould cease, viz. when the Jewish State fhould ceafe, their Metropolis and Temple fhould be deftroyed; and that People partly deftroyed, and partly difperfed in the strongest manner, that any Paffage in Scripture can be worded, Dan. xii. 5. Then I Daniel looked, and behold there stood other two, the one on this Side of the Bank of the River, and the other on that Side of the Bank of the River. And one faid to the Man cloathed in Linnen, which was over the Waters of the River, How long shall it be to the End

of Wonders. And 1 heard the Perfon who was cloathed in Linnen, (which was the Habit of an Interceffor) who was over the Waters of the River, and he lifted up his right Hand, and his left Hand to the Names, and fwore by him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for a Time, Times, and an half, and when he shall have finished tise Scattering the Power of the holy People, all thefe Things fhall be finished. The wonderful Actions in the Emblems continue; but all thofe who prerend now to fupernatural Powers are Liars, Impoftors, and Blafphemers. To return; as Light moving and acting, in that manner we call Lightning, is here reckoned one of the wonderful Actions, and was

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the vifible Emblem of Chrift, fo called the Glory, as in the New Teftament, Mat. xxiv. 27. For as the Lightning cometh out of the East, and shineth even to the Weft, fo fhall also the Coming of the Son of Man be. Ibid. xxviii. 2. For the Angel (Agent) of the Lord defcended from Heaven his Countenance was like Lightning, and his Raiment as white as Snow. And as Light is the invisible and wonderful Agent which demonstrates the Glory of him it represents most, and fo by Eminence is called the Glory, as in its Actions of Gravity consolidating the Parts of Bodies, and all its other Offices, though 'tis out of my Way, I cannot forbear asking a Queftion: Are the Actions and Effects of Lightning, fuch as breaking Holes through the ftrongest Walls at Distances, one after another, melting Metals inftantaneously, &c. nay, its Effects in Ætna, &c. by Earthquakes, &c. from that Force of the Preffure of the Atmofphere, which they pretend to have ascertained? We fhall confider a few of its other wonderful Actions in the latter Part of this.

Befides the Representation in Miniature of the Crown or Glory, or Light in Irradiation, which God was pleafed upon

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fpecial Occafions to exhibit or fhew to the People, of which hereafter; the Heathens, 'tis like, had made fome inward Part of a Beaft the Emblem of this, which is rendered, Marius, "An heavy, weighty Member, viz. the Liver. Caftel, The Liver, the heaviest of all the Bowels. Chald. It is a general Name of that upon which Life depends. Erchin, c. v. 2." And the Heathens fearched in this for something, which they thought Discoveries of Things to come might be made from, as they had thought they might be from what with them it reprefented, as Ezek. xxi. 21. And he looked into the Liver. They have not made it clear which Member this was. Caftel, Arab." The Center of Heaven-the Heart-the Middle and Height of Heaven. Handle of a Bow, and the Part from whence the Arrow is fhot out.' But, allowing it to be the Liver, the Jews were ordered to facrifice fomething which was against it, or upon it, Marius, "Excellency-a Nerve-the Pancreas, a Fibre." Caftel, The Diaphragm. See Fuller's Mifcellanies. Ver. 24. Above the Liver. Exod. xxix. 13. And thou shalt take all the Fat that covereth the Inwards, and the Caul above the Liver B 4 (Marg.

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