Kurios, having Authority, a Chief. Selden of the Syrian Gods, p. 129. Apollo, the Sun, and Pan are the fame with the Antients. Pan was called οτῆς ὑλῆς κύριος, that is as Macrobius interprets it, the material Lord of the univerfal Subftance, or Bada Baal." We fee that this Word has in their Heathen Religion the fame Signification as Jehovah had in the Jewish Religion; that by it they expreffed the Subftance of the whole, or Part of the Heavens, whether it was that in Fire at the Orb of the Sun, that in Light iffuing, which they fay it was, and which they call'd Adonis, Apollo, &c. or that returning towards the Orb of the Sun, Matters not much; what they called Sol, this Fluid in the three Conditions, had, but more particularly the Light had, the Power in it, though derivatively of ruling; yet neither Fab, Jehovah, or Húgos do any more exprefs or fignify Lord, than they fignify any other Attribute which belongs to the Effence of the one, or the Subftance of the other. Indeed the Power or Force wherewith earthly Princes, who are Men, rule, is not fufficiently in each of their own Effences; each of them is forced to take in Affiftants that was the Difference between Christ's Kingdom, and the Empires or Kingdoms

of this World. He had Empire in himfelf; those of this World in their Servants, who would fight for them. As this Word then applied to Chrift, expreffes him to be of the Effence, notwithstanding the Chicanery of late Writers, the Kingdom, the Dominion, the Power of ruling within it felf, in the whole, or œcunomically, in one Perfon, without employing fome Subjects to rule others, as earthly Princes do, is in Chrift, as it was in the Light.

Befides the vifible Defcription contained in the Name 1 the Effence, and what is comprehended under exifting, there are many other Words added to it, to explain it, in particular, to represent to us by Terms, or emblematically, by Things we are more familiar with, the Attributes, Perfections, Powers of, or Perfons in this Effence-existing. And each of the several Names or Attributes added to Jehovah, though it appears many were fixed in Paradife, have been inferted in the Confeffions of Believers, and in Scripture, each at the proper Time, when the Heathens attempted to use that for the Heavens, for the very fame Reafon, and in the very fame Manner, as the Apoftles and the Church fince have from Time to Time added

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added explanatory Words to their Confesfion, when there was an Attempt to introduce a Herefy. I have in the Introduction shewed, that Life in a created Body, is Motion, without the Will of the Liver, raised and impelled by the Machine of the Heavens acting upon it: And that though this Fluid could give and fupport Life, it had no Life in it felf. But the Heathens had attributed Life, and all the Perfections of Life, to it, as you may fee in S. T. and Scap. under the Word Ζάω and alfo under Ζεύς. Thence the Affertion, that Life was inherent in the Effence-exifting, and that all the Powers in the Fluid were fubject to it; and that the Power of giving them and Life, and of taking them or it away, was alfo in that Effence-exifting, in the Aleim. As Pfal. cxliii. 11. For thy Name's fake Jehovah, give me Life. Numb. xiv. 21. Jehovah faid- but truly I live. Ifa. xlix. 18. Deut. xxxii. 4. I live for ever. Jud. viii. 19. Jehovah liveth. Ruth iii. 13. Sam. xiv. 39. Ver. 45. xvii. 26. xix. 6. XX. 3. Ver. 21. xxv. 26. xxvi. 10. Ver. 16. xxviii. 10. xxix. 6. This Effence is diftin guished by this Name, Gen. xvi. 14. n viventis (of the Liver) who feeth me. Dan. iv. 31. who liveth for ever. xii. 7. and fwore

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by him who liveth for ever. So John vi. 69. σὺ εἶ ὁ χριςὸς ὁ υἱὸς τῇ Θεὸ τὸ ζῶντος, thou art Chrift the Son of God the living one. The Power of giving and taking away the Powers in the Matter, which has mechanical Motion, and of this Condition, which we now term Life, to, or from fuch, as we call living Creatures, is alfo attributed to this Effence exifting as before cited, Deut. xxxii. 36. For Jehovah will judge. 39. fee now that I am, and no Aleim (fupports, fuftains me.) I kill and I make alive, &c. 2 Kings v. 7. In the Plural Number, Mal. ii. 5. Eternal Lives. Dan. xii. 2. These to Lives everlafting. To the Subftance of the Heavens, &c. Neh. ix. 6. Thou art Jehovah, alone, thou madeft the Hoft: the Earth, and all that is upon it. The Seas and all that is them; and thou art the Life, (Inftrument of Life.) All thefe; and the Hoft of the Heavens worshippeth thee. Thou art the Jehovah, the Effence exifting D'nban God. The Word Aleim is Plural, and common to the Trinity in the Heavens, and the Trinity in this Effence; and furely this Paffage diftinguishes which Aleim thefe are; and then 'tis thou art the Effence-exifting of, or in the Aleim, of which hereafter under that Word. These Attributes

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are given in Greek to God, under the Word eds God. 1 Tim. vi. &c. And this Motion or given Life is attributed to all Creatures poffefs'd of it by the Hebrew Word 'n. And in Ezekiel's Vifion to the Reprefentatives of the Perfons in this Effence-exifting, as the Manner was among infpired and prophane Authors always. And to fpringing or circulating Water, Gen. xxvi. 19. Fountain of living Waters; and to that fymbolically ufed in Purifications, Levit. xiv. 5, 50, 51, 52. so for Chrift, Cant. iv. 14. A Well of living Waters. Jer. ii. 13. Fountain of living Waters. Zach. xiv. 8. living Waters. So under the Word Jehovah. Jer. xvii. 13. Because they have forfaken the Fountain of living Waters, the very Jehovah. So Chrift fays, John vi. 51. I am the living Bread. Indeed, as I fhewed above, the animal Creatures have this Life at fecond Hand from the Heavens, fob. vii. 7. The Spirit is my Life, Ibid. xxxiii. 4. (as above in the Introduction) and the Breath of the Almighty is my Life. Ezek. xxxvii. 5. 6, 9, 10, 14, Iwill bring the Spirit into you, and ye shall Live. This Attribute, whofe Idea is convey'd to us, by the Perception we have of Motion in the Fluids of this Syftem, and in our felves, and in other living Creatures, is compreprehenfible