only, deserve the Title of Divine, as I hope will be fhewed in a little Time. It raises the utmoft Contempt, and Indignation, to fee Owls, nay poor illiterate, and (as much as in their Power) malignant Creatures, maletreat thofe, who if they were now alive, would themfelves fhew, that these if they had no other Faults but Ignorance, would not be worthy to wipe their Shoes.

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By this Interchange in the Union; we, who believe, are begotten of, Children, Sons of God, and Brethren to the second Perfon, Ifa. xliii. 6. Bring my Sons from far, and my Daughters from the Ends of the Earth. Hof. i. 10. Te are the Sons of the living God. Mal. xxv. 40. One of the leaft of thefe my Brethren. xxviii. 10. Go tell Brethren. Luke vi. 35. Te shall be the Children of the higheft. Johni.12. But to as many as received him, to them gave he Power (the Right or Privilege) to become the Sons of God. Rom.viii. 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God. v. 17. And if Children, then Heirs; Heirs of God, and Joint-heirs with Chrift. v. 19. For the earnest Expectation of the Creature waiteth for the Manifeftation of the Sons of God. V. 21. From the Bondage of Corruption,

into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God. v. 29. Conformed to the Image of his Son, that he might be the First-born among many Brethren. Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the Children of God by Faith. iv. 5. That we might receive the Adoption of Sons. And because ye are Sons of God, &c. Tit.iii.7. Being juftified by his Grace, we should be made Heirs, Heb. ii. 10. In bringing many Sons unto Glory.v. II.. For which Caufe he is not ashamed to call them Brethren. v. 17. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his Brethren. 1 John iii. 1.That we should be called the Sons of God

Beloved, now are we the Sons of God,. and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: But we know, that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we fhall fee him as he is v. 18. He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself pure.

The Account I give you from the Adversaries of their Doctrine, as they publish it, is not their real Doctrine, they have no Difputes among themselves about thefe: Matters; they, as the Rabbies had, have. another which they communicate only to those whom they can trust, who are initiated, as Philo tells you they had in his Time, and as Toland has honeftly fhewed

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they have now; the apoftate Jews expect a temporal Kingdom, and thefe expect fomething next to a Kingdom; and for the present they act as the Silver-Smiths did, they cried without, Great is Diana of the Ephefians, when within among themselves their real Doctrine was, by this Craft we have our Wealth.

As this Word 7 Glory, &c. is found joined with Name, and is found to be a defcriptive Word for one of the Names; and as the Names have already been explained, and as it is preceded and joined with 2 Word (fecret one to be manifefted) as Pfal. lxxix. 9. Help us O Aleim of our Salvation by in the Word, the Glory thy Name: And deliver us, and cover over all our Sins for thy Name's Sake. And as is joined with other Words of the highest Importance, as Pfal. cv. 8. 1 Chron. xvi. 16. He is mindful for ever of his Purifier; the Word he commanded for a thousand Generations, which he cut off with Abraham, &c. v. 42. For he

קדשו the very Word את דבר remembered

his holy one: Abraham his Servant. So Hag. ii. 6. The very Word I cut off for you when ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit remaineth among you. As the Word is God, that it may not feem ftrange

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that he is said typically to be cut off, it was fact that the God was cut off from the Man, at his Death, and 'till his Refurrection. Ifa. liii. 8. For he was cut off out of the Land of the Living. Pfal. xvi. 10. For thou wilt not leave my Body (animal Frame) in the Grave: Nor fuffer 770 thy merciful one to fee Corruption. 1 Cor. xv. 3. How that Chrift died for our Sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third Day according to the Scriptures. Hof. vi. 2. After two Days will be revive us, in the third Day he will raife us up, and we shall live before him. So Pfal. ix. Tit. ny to the Author of Victory

מזמור,to the Son לבן,over Death על־־מות

the Object of the Song, to the Beloved. Ifa. xxv. 8. He will fwallow up Death in Victory. Ifai. Ixiii. 3. Their As Victory (Blood, in the English) shall be Sprinkled upon my Garments. So Pfal. Cx. 9. Thou art an Interceffor for ever in my Word Melchizedek. cxix. 81. My Defire is wholly after thy Salvation: On thy Word do I hope. xlv. 5. Rule in the Word, the Truth. lvi. 5. In the Aleim I will render Irradiation of Light to the Word. And as 77 is, in thefe and other Texts conftrued the Word, and as it has VOL. VI. R

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more or different Significations, or different Constructions, put upon it in the Tranflations, or Explications of them, than there is upon any other Word in the Hebrew Tongue; and which, inter al. by a Hebraiẩm as they term it, in the Greek by λογοs and Θεος is exprefsly faid to be λογος God, and so a Perfon in Jehovah said to be the Word; which, as it stands, gives no Idea of, or Distinction to the Perfon, nor any Appearance of Reason why that Word or Name was ufed; and fince this Word is also used as a Name for brute Creatures, Things, House, Place, Oration, Action, or Tranfaction and Event, we muft in pursuance of the hieroglyphical ideal Manner of the divine Writings, taken from visible or fome way fenfible Things or Actions, and the Formation of the Hebrew Language, find a Word or Words which will fuit this Idea; and if that cannot be done, because the Formers of other Languages had little or no Knowledge of, or regard to Ideas, when those Languages were formed, I muft explain the Idea in each by Circumlocution; I fhall mention only the Noun, the reft of the Parts of Speech follow. The Word 17 expreffes any thing that is fecret, and is to be manifefted to the Senfe of hearing, seeing, feel