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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38007	A farther enquiry into several remarkable texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some difficulty in them with a probable resolution of them / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing E206; ESTC R37315	201,474	386

place to the Devil Where we learn that the Fire of Hell burns in Angry Breasts the Brimstone of the Bottomless Pit may be smelt there He that is overcome of Passion gives place to the Devil I add in the next place that Pride is perfectly Diabolical It was this which first infected Lucifer and his Fellow-Angels and thrust them down from their Heavenly Dignity and made them what they now are Devils But our Saviour on the contrary throws down Pride and exalts Humility and commends it to all his Followers from his own Example Learn of me for I am Meek and Lowly This is a right Christian Temper and is Heavenly and God-like and whoso fosters it in his Breast is beloved of God and all Good Men. Reproaching and Reviling are no less the Devil's Works and thence he hath his Name given him in the Greek A Devil and a Reviler are terms convertible It is the Office and Employ of the Evil Spirit first to raise and then to keep up Slanders and Contumelious Reports But behold our Blessed Master hath left us Rules diametrically opposite to these Practices * Ephes. 4. 31. We must put away from us all Evil-s●●aking We are not suffer'd to revile though we be reviled Yea we are to be possessors of that Charity which † 1 Cor. 13. 5. thinketh no Evil. To proceed Lying and Falshood Craft and Treachery most sensibly discover the Devilish Nature These Windings and Crooked Courses are the Goings of the Serpent We are told that the Devil put it into Judas ' s Heart to betray Christ that we may thence infer that Treachery and Perfidiousness are more immediately from that False Spirit And for this Reason chiefly our Saviour doth once and again call this Mock-Apostle ‖ John 6. 70. 8. 44. a Devil But certainly nothing is more opposite to Christianity than this base and sordid Vice And Christ and his Apostles both by Precept and Example commend Fidelity Truth and Sincerity and disallow of all Guile and Hypocrisy and herein shew themselves opposite to the Wicked Spirit who is a Liar and the Father of Lies John 8. 44. In the same place it is said He was a Murderer from the beginning which suggests to us another Particular He began betimes to exert his Cruel Nature in the first setting out of Mankind he stir'd up Cain to kill his Brother and ever since this Savage and Bloody Spirit hath shew'd it self in the World It is the inseparable Property of the Roaring Lion to seek whom he may devour He is the Destroyer * Rev. 9. 11 Apollyon is his Name and he acts agreeably to it As for his Violence and Cruelty towards Mens Bodies in continual haunting and worrying the Possessed I have said something already in this Discourse but it is another sort of Cruelty which I am now to speak of of which I will propound these two notable Instances First The Humane Sacrifices which were offered in most parts of the World Secondly The Bloody Prizes of the Gladiators which prevail'd in great Cities chiefly at Rome the Mistress and Governess of the World And I will briefly hint to you how the Christian Religion destroy'd these Works of Satan First I say Humane Slaughter and Sacrifices were no unusual things in the World The Evil Spirit taught Parents to make a Burnt-Offering of their Children unto Moloch to Sacrifice them alive in the Valley of Hinnom so that the Name of Hell Gehenna takes its denomination ●rom that bloody Usage This Moloch was the God of the Ammonites but it appears from Ier. 7. 31. and Psal. 106. 37. that even the Iews God's Select People burnt their Sons and Daughters to this Idol nay although they had been particularly cautioned against it by an early Prohibition Levit. 18. 21. I know some of the * Solomon Jarchi D. Kimchi Maimonides Rabbins hold that the Children were not burnt or killed but that two Fires being made the Priests drew them between both and that was all But this is a Rabbinical Fancy for 't is clear from that place in the fore-mentioned Psalm that the Children who were offered to Moloch were slain and burnt They sacrificed their Sons and Daughters Iisbechu Mactarunt they killed them And therefore it immediately follows They shed Innocent Blood even the Blood of their Sons and of their Daughters and the Land was polluted with Blood Hereupon these Idolatrous Rites are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wisd. 14. 23. i. e. Ceremonies that were accompanied with the Slaughter and Death of their Children But I think I can guess at the Reason why some of the Rabbins conceited that this passing through the Fire was not attended with the Death of the Persons but was rather Purgative than Mortal The Occasion of this Opinion might be this There was a very old Custom of passing through the Fire without Killing for those that swore to clear themselves of a supposed Guilt undertook likewise to purge themselves and clear their Innocence by going through or over or between certain Fires or hot glowing Coals or Irons and if they came off unhurt they were believ'd to be Guiltless The Grecians of old used to swear and purge themselves from Crimes by creeping on their Hands through some Fire or by hold-a red hot Iron in their Hands for thus one in * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sophocles's Antigona offer'd to swear and clear himself St. † Cont. Julian I. 10. Cyril treats of this old Piece of Superstition and our own Histories tell us that our Ancestors in this Island were no strangers to such a kind of Ordeal This perhaps might give some Jewish Writers occasion to imagine that this kind of Fiery Trial is spoken of when the Scripture saith The Children pass'd through the Fire to Moloch and to think it was only a Consecrating or Initiating the Persons into the Pagan Rites a Previous Purgation or Februation as ‖ De Idololat I. 2. c. 5. Vossius calls it for he holds they were not burnt but only pass'd between two Fires though in another place he is of another opinion But this is a gross Mistake for the fore-named Text informs us that it was a Bloody Rite and accordingly Philo a Learned and Sagacious Jew as well as Eusebius and other Christian Fathers assert it to be of that Nature and explode the contrary Opinion But who hath not read of the barbarous Effusion of Humane Blood on the Altars of the Painims The Iews it is probable had it from them and particularly from the Canaanites who as we are ascertain'd from Deut. 12. 31. were in●ected with this Cruelty Thei● Sons and their Daughters they burnt in the Fire to their Gods And an impious Example of this we have in 2 Kings 3. 27. where we read that the King of Moab offer'd up the King of Edom's Son the Heir of the Kingdom for a Burnt-Offering These Heathens were not content with Sacrificing of Beasts but