make a Termination; and what still makes it moft difficult, they kept not to their Roots. We find the Letters which are anfwerable to though not founded Jah. S. T. Index c. 2. 1076. "In Ie, In the fonic dialect for a Ia, alone, one; μía, Món, according to Hefychius alfo, ins ies, for us, mias, from the Mafculine "os, Ios, one alone. But in, ie, he came, ndo, Elthoi, from us, in ie, fent, comes from "Tis here cited out of Hymns, to their feveral Gods, fingle, and double, and in an Answer by Mercury thrice in in in with various Conftructions. As

is the firft Part of nn Jehovah; and as the Greek Words for each are mixed together, and as the Greeks writ their Letters to answer that Word, as they in their feveral Dialects pronounced thefe Letters, or perhaps as it was pronounced before Letters, we, though the latter be before its Course, fhall take the Greek Words for them together. Ibid. Index 1077. "Inios Ieios is an Epithet of Apollo according to Hefychius

For fince there are two great Effects of this Star, i. e. the Sun, the one which with a temperate Heat is of Benefit to the Lives of Mortals; the other that by the darting his Rays caufes fometimes a pestilential Poison, these two, and the fame

Surnames

Surnames, &c." So in Scap. nios; we ήιος alfo find lau, 8, i fo ufed. Pl. Lex w, Io, to Go, &c. 'Iwn, Joe, a Wind, BlaftSplendour, Smoke, Fume,- Scap. I→ is by Hefychius alfo conftrued Smoke, Fume, Spendor, Impetus, Impulfe. S. T. t. 1. c. 18. 1653. Iews Ieo, to caft, emit. Greg. Lex. n Jehovah the Antients called iduo Iavo. Iren, B. 1. c. 18. Orig. B. 6. against Celfus. Macrob. Sat. B. 1. p. 251. The Sun is fignified by law, Iao, 265. The Affyrians alfo (worship) the Sun under the Name of Jove, or Jupiter, whom they call Jupiter Heliopolites. (i.e.) the Prince of the Sun. 307. Jupiter is the middle Æther. Selden of the Syrian God. p. 115. Thence from law and itúw Iao and Ieuo, was formed Jovis, at length, it paffed into Jovis-pater, Jovifpiter and Jupiter. Leydecker, Theological Exerc, of the Theology or Symbols of Mofes, p. 7. For Diodorus Siculus bibl. B. 2. fays, that Mofes feigned the God called lao to be the Giver of the Laws which he prescribed: and in Macrobius There is extant this Oracle of Apollo.

Iao God of all Supreme proclaim.

Leydecker,

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Leydecker, p. 25. This rather feems to be the Truth, that the Gentiles attributed the Idea of the Supreme Being, which the Mind by the help of Self-confcioufnefs cannot but have a Conception of, to Figments or Creatures: But the Name lao, Apollo, they afcribed to him alone, who was worshipped under various Names, and was, in the Winter Pluto, in the Spring Jupiter, in Summer, the Sun, in Autumn Tao, Ma crob. Sat. B. 1. c. I. 18.

Iao God of all Supreme proclaim,

Pluto in Winter, Jove in Spring his:
Name;

Sol is the Sound in Summer glads his.
Ear,

Iao in the Autumn of the Year.

Namely, the Sun is Jehovah, and the Sun as Orpheus in the fame Macrobius in the Place cited, is

One Zeus, one Ades, one Helios, one Dyonyfus.

Zeus Jupiter is from a Verb that fignifies Fervour; Ades, Pluto, from lying hid, Helios the Sun, from Splendour; Dionyfus from the Verb Dioneifibi, because it is car

ried round in an Orbit, and as the Poet fings,

Because it is circulated round boundless
Olympus.

Altho' Macrobius fays, that Naturalifts define Dionyfus, the Nous Mind of Dios Jupiter; because they made the Sun the Mind of the World. The World is named Heaven, which they call Jupiter: thence Aratus, we fpring from Jupiter. So Leydecker, p. 9. Eufebius Evangelical Preparation, B. II. c. 2. upon which Account we read this Infcription in a Temple of Apollo, Ei, thou Art." So Porphyry makes Sanchoniathon take his History from a Prieft of this 'Ieuw Ievo, as appears by the Powers in it, which they called Sons and Daughters, and which poor Dr. C. & al. have mistaken for Men, and from their Times of supposed Life, have framed Chronologies. He, one would think, with a Defign to ftrengthen the Scriptures; others, with a Defign to destroy them.

It can be no Dispute what Ideas these Words, in, le, saw, Iao, &, Ei, &c. were intended as far as poffible, to convey by God, of himself; or by the Worshippers on each fide. By our late Wisdom we

have given up the Claim of Self-existence of the Heavens; nay, we have averr'd, that at prefent, it has not Subftance, Effence: But for all that, we have not given the Attribute to God, as you may fee, that is ftill a Difpute. The Long. and Lat. found, p. 61. Corol. (8.) However, fo far we

are fure, that the Earth on which we live, has not been from all Eternity, in its prefent State; but at a certain Period backward, this diurnal Motion, or our Day and Night, as diftinct from Summer and Winter, really began; as all antient Tradition and Records whatsoever do agree; and as Dr. Halley himself is very free to confess. Philof. Tranfact. No. 344." And in others fo blafphemous, that I think not proper to infert them. So, that which the Ancients attributed of Eternity falfly, or which we conftrue fo falfely; and of Powers exifting truly, tho' dependently, to the Heavens these attribute to the Orbs, make them Coeval with God, fo God; and poffefs'd of Properties to move regularly, &c. so poffefs'd of this Attribute. Those who have not been convinced of the Difference in

that, by the Miracles and Defcriptions of Mofes, will not be convinced, if one were to come from the Dead; and I must