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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30328	A collection of eighteen papers relating to the affairs of church & state during the reign of King James the Second (seventeen whereof written in Holland and first printed there) by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5768; ESTC R3957	183,152	256

pure and Spiritual Essence they are easily disposed to embrace such notions of God as may live more peaceably with their vices and so they hope by a profusion of expence and honour or of fury and rage which they Imploy in the Worship of an Imaginary Deity to purchase their pardons and to compensate for their other crimes if not to authorise them These two principles that are so rooted in our frail and corrupt natures being wrought on by the craft and authority of ambitions and covetous men who are never wanting in all Ages and Nations have brought forth all that Idolatry that has appeared in so many different shapes up and down the World and has been diversified according to the various tempers accidents and Constitutions of the several Nations and Ages of the World. IX I now come to examine the beginnings of Idolatry as they are represented to us in the Scripture in which it will appear that our Authors account of it shews him guilty either of great Ignorance or of that which is worse He pretends that the first plain Intimation that we have of it in Palestine is when Jacob after his conversation with the Schichemites commanded his family to put away their Strange Gods. VVhereas we have an earlier and more particular account of those Strange Gods in the same Book of Genesis Chap. 31. where when Jacob fled away from Laban it is said Vers 19. that Rachel stole her fathers Images or Teraphim and these are afterwards called by Laban his Gods vers 30. and these very Images are called by Joshua 24.2 Strange Gods So that the Strange Gods from which Jacob cleansed his family Gen. 35.2 were no other than the Teraphim and that in the Teraphim we are to seek for the true Original of Idolatry and for the sense of the phrase of other Gods or Strange Gods which is indeed the true key to this whole matter These were little statues such as the Dii lares or Penates were afterwards among the Romans or the Pagods now in the East in which it was believed that there was such a divine vertue shut up that the Idolaters expected protection from them And as people in all times are apt to trust to Charms so those who pretended to chain down the Divine Influences to those Images had here a great occasion given them to deceive the world of this sort was the Palladium of Troy and the Ancelle of Rome And this gave the rise to all the cheats of Telesmes and Talismans that came afterwards These were of different figures and since our Author confesses p. 124. that Cherubim and Teraphim are sometimes used promiscuously for one another it is probable that the figure of both was the same and since it is plain from Ezekiel that the Cherubim resembled a Calf Compare Ezek. 1.10 with chap. 10.14 where what is called in the first the face of an Ox is called in the other the face of a Cherub from hence it is probable that the Teraphim or at least some of them were of the same figure In these it was also believed that there were different degrees of Charms some were believed stronger than others So that probably Pharaoh thought that Moses and Aaron had a Teraphim of greater virtue than his Magicians had which is the clearest account that I know of his hardening his heart against so many Miracles and this also seems to be the first occasion of the phrase of the Gods of the several Nations and of some being stronger than other that is the Teraphim of the one were believed to have a higher degree of enchantment in them than the others had This then leads us to the right Notion of Aaron's Golden Calf and of the terms of graven or carved Images in the Second Commandment and even of the other Gods in the first Commandment for we have seen that both in the Stile of Moses and Joshua the Images were those Teraphim which they also called strange Gods. When the Israelites thought that Moses had forsaken them they came to Aaron desiring him to make them gods that is Teraphims yet they prescribed no form to him but left that wholly to him and so the dream of their fondness of the Egyptian Idolatry vanishes for it was Aarons choice that made it a Calf perhaps he had seen the Divine Glory as a Cloud between the Cherubims when he went up into the Mountain Exod. 24.9 10. For a Pattern being shewed to Moses of the Tabernacle that he was to make it is probable Aaron saw that likewise and this might dispose him to give them a Seraphim in that Figure this is also the most probable account both of the Calves of Dan and Bethel set up by Jeroboam and also of the Israelites worshipping the Ephod that Gideon made Judg. 8.27 of the Idolatry of Micah and the Danites who robbed him Judg. 17.18 and of the Israelites offering Incense to the Brazen Serpent 2 Kings 18.4 which seemed to have all the Solemnities of a Teraphim in it so that it is plain the greatest part of the Idolatry under the Old Testament was the worship of the Teraphim X. But to compleat this Argument with relation to the present Point it is no less plain that the true Jehovah was Worshipped in those Teraphim To begin with the first It is clear that Laban in the Covenant that he made with Jacob appeals not only to the God of Abraham Gen. 31.53 but likewise to Jehovah v. 49. for tho that name was not then known yet Moses by using it on that occasion shews us plainly that Laban was a VVorshipper of the true God. Aaron shews the same by intimating that Feast which he appointed to Jehovah Exod. 32.5 which our Author thought not fit to mention the People also by calling these v. 4. the Gods that brought them out of Egypt shew that they had no thoughts of the Egyptian Idolatry but they believed that Moses had carried away the Teraphim in the vertue of which it seems they fancied that he had wrought his Miracles and that Aaron who they believed knew the Secret had made them new ones and this is the most probable account of their joy in celebrating that Feast And as for Jeroboam the case seems to be plainly the same he made the People believe that the Teraphim which he gave them in Dan and Bethel were as good as those that were at Jerusalem For as his design was no other than to hinder their going thither 1 Kings 12.27 so it is not likely that either he would or durst venture upon a total Change of their Religion or that it could have passed so easily with the People whereas the other had nothing extraordinary in it It is also plain that as Jeroboam called the Calves the Gods that brought them out of Egypt v. 28. so he still acknowledged the true Jehovah for the Prophets both true and false in his time prophesied in the name of Jehovah 1 Kings 13.2 18