lated Lord and God, come together, they drop or change, or make any of them fignify any thing. My Readers may fee, what Relation Aleim, which is used for Kings, and for .Cherubim, Teraphim, and for Fire, Light and Spirit, has to any fingle Perfon with all Powers, which they suppose their God has. The Words in the Original were by Infinite Wisdom and Goodness fuited to the State of Forfeiture Men were then in, and fo to the Chriftian Syftem; which he defires you will not admit, for if you do, he and his Brethren in your Opinion are damned. The Perfon of the Effence, who was to purchase Men, is fometimes called Lord, and is fo now; he has in his way owned there was no Word except for God, but what they took from the Alcoran. He may fee in Mr. Hutchinfon's Introduction to Mofes fine P. the Word God came from Perfia, by the Goths and Vandals, fignifies Good; what they applied it to I cannot tell: So you may fee how the Greeks had applied Words ufed for Jehovah, &c. in Mofes-fine P. p. 37. He would apply it to the Aleim, the Trinity. It is no wonder that the Deifts or Atheists fhould be fo fond of this Word, is not this all they have to fay? Indeed he objects,

objects, that if these Words be explained, it would fwell the Bible, perhaps, fome Sheets. If we get quit of these Creatures for this Expence, it will be the best Bargain Men have made a great while.

He, p. 15. afferts Mr. Catcott's own Verb, is ufed in the Hebrew Bible, to lament and howl, and that he might as well have derived the Name Aleim from that Senfe. 'Tis not 78 but that is once writ, Joel i. 8. and fo conftrued; but this is not proving that it is the fame Verb, nor that it is ufed as it is construed to howl. If he could prove this of the Root, which is impoffible, was it not a Part of the Curfe, when the Jews rebelled, that their Church was to be a Widow, without either real or falfe by, that there were to be many Widows, who might bind themselves in Sackcloth, and none were to fhew Mercy, or comfort them.

P. 13. because is used for an Oak, he fays Mr. Catcott might as well have derived Aleim from the Properties in an Oak, why the Oak was named nb, he may fee in the Accounts Mr. Hutchinfon has given of the Methods ufed to preferve the Memory of Perfons and Actions, before Writing was revealed, and no where elle ;

elfe efpecially in his Introduction to Mofes-fine Principio.

He exposes his Ignorance in defiring to be fhewed why eos God, and @Elos Divine, were not derived from ɛlov, which fignifies Brimstone, in not knowing that Brimstone, was derived from their God Eos, and that it was an Emblem of one of their Typical Purifiers, cited in the Use of Reafon recovered, p. 138. And the Root was used for it, as that of 2 was to Sope; but Brimstone was nothing a-kin to the true Aleim.

Though the Aleim cannot lye nor break their Covenant or Oath, yet they can make a Covenant each with the others, and swear to perform it, and they . tell us their Reason, Heb. vi. 17.-to fhew unto the Heirs of Promife, the Immutability of his Council, interpofed himfelf by an Oath: Mofes fine Principio, p. 94. Eph. ii. 12. Strangers from the Covenants of Promife

without

God in the World. The Obfervator's God could not make a Covenant, fo the Obfervator has made a Covenant from all Eternity; fo co-eval with Jehovah Rubbim, before they were Aleim; fo owns not that it was made by them, and 9. denies that it was confirmed by their

Oaths,

Oaths, or that 8, as an Oath or Curfe is ever applied to Jehovah Aleim, of which laft presently.

None of the Cafes he puts, p. 10. are parallel. He fays, p. 27. But all this may be litterally true, of any three Men armed, who are in League together for any Mifchief, &c. The Obfervators have entered into a League and armed themfelves to do Mischief; but that makes not them Aleim: Neither Kings, nor Jehovah Aleim were called fo for that; but for covenanting and fwearing, &c. and falfe Aleim were fuppofed to do so, to deliver their Subjects, &c. Indeed, it was Part of the Covenant and Oath to deftroy their Adverfaries, &c. and formerly they did fo; but any Three who have Power and Right fo to do, who make a Covenant, and bind themselves by Oath under a conditional Execration to perform it, are called Aleim, A Hebrew Word gives its own Idea, takes it not from others, and Ideas of Perfons or Actions above, are taken from Perfons, Things or Actions which are Objects of Senfe here. These are fenfible Proofs, why the Eternal Three are called Aleim, and thence the Idea is

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taken; but no other Three are Jehovah Aleim.

Though a Man that is baptized, and duly receives the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, does not take an Oath, yet he comes into the Oath of the Aleim, and fo has a Religion; was in danger of being execrated before he came in, fo need not come in to be execrated himself; but to partake of the Benefit of Chrift's being execrated for him.

Many have complained that the Jews did not own the Root, fo did not give us the Signification of this and the other chief Words, as you may fee in the Hebrew Writings perfect, p. 310. So others, as 7. Cocceius, Herm. Witfius, Melch. Leydecker, have aimed at, and come near the Signification of Aleim, as you may see, ibid. p. 315, 316, 317. and ibid. p. 310. that fome had attempted to make the Word from Arabick fignify to adore, or to worship.

9. After quibbling and fhuffling, and talking of a Plural Being derived from a Singular, averring that he finds not an explanatory Conftruction of in any Lexicon; ('tis all one if it be in a Concordance; Kircher, , Adjuration, an Oath, which one is bound by, under

the