Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn.

  • Thomas Godwyn
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1631
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Credit: Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I6x ' L ’ *• 4- Of Moloch. By the firft they vnderftand bodily torment, infliaed if on the bodies of firmer, in this world: By the fecond * TSaUtmui hb.tlfy vni^n:and the painer of thefoule in the world to n,'f.e. come. They fay hkewife, thatthereare Septem Ge- mMfanes, Seen degree, or manfionplace, m e'’enna. r. Inf emus. z. Per ditto. j. Profundum 4. Taciturnitas. S.Tmbra mortis. 6. Term inferior, will °fthefe feutn receptacles, he that c]uot™onfPCnd hlStlmemay rcadaccord[ng to the thS-fl controuerfed among Expofitors,whe- §re or r,n^hl-d lnthts facnfice were burnt in the 3 or only vitiated and confirmed to Moloch pjf- J probable, that bath were invfe. Fir/l the Scripaire fpeaketh of both. Secondly, the Hebrew - ifoiu. Do[iors fof the manner of both. That they were Burnt,/alknt exprefly teacheth, and with him • o thers accord faying. Then Molech is the name of an *a¥\ mjt,e n’‘fe men °f blejjed memory interpret Molech to bee an vmuerfall name,denoting anywLnL o^hZu^ i°suerthem> *»*ituagreedvf- on, that this t, the abomination oftbefonsofAmmol andthuphrafeto caufe topaffe thorow,isJmuch a, to •MMUdmon “^'2^ tea, Molech, and 'twyfbumrfbtp: Thathe,(namelythefather)de. It tiered hu fonne vnto the Priefis, and they made two great fires and they made hi,fonne paffc ol hi,fee, be- tweeneboththefefires. J Notwithftanding, we mufl not thinke rhatthere were nootheroblations vnto Molech befides facrifi. ctng of chfldren : For what vfe then ferued thofe 0- iher fix Chappels ? No, I take this oblation ofehil- dren.
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