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“worshipped ** fictitious deitie nd als ween
th the Indian who * through his idole’
‘“* worshipped the unknown God.”
tainly was not the etern al God, becausé he was the
“son of Sat ho was himself the son of Celus,
&c. neither was he ‘t tor’? specau Celus
- integrity of those hol;
; CATHOLIC’ . VOL. 1X.
36 . UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. :
one whom they did not’ know, subsequently regulat- Catholics >
LEPTER t id S [ing & the parts, of which this chaos was composed. “ They were also initiated to Beelphegor, &c.
jou- ? we Ne .
Tothe Bilton Lie ccoal re on , epostauam, Saturno tenebrosa i in Tartara misso, This refers to ne fact related i in Numbers xxy.
© Sub Jov undus rotestant ue
Mthohecde und toutes thither hast But w good Sa torn, banish’a from above, 1. And Isracl abode in Shittim, and tho people began to
7 "ho he: ads and tenders ae haste where stood Bit whe driv’ i ‘to Hell, the world was under Jo v0.” w 1. And Tsracl a bodein | daughters sito 3 Anhey
i he people unto the 8: ices of their go
dignities ; We are now brought to the exhibition of who was |alled Pp oi aod
Exesling homan, princely dignt sat on thrones, “ the supreme of the Greek: ans. | peor? hw and b gar down fo to their go day 3, Ani
hough of their names in heavenly records now This Jove or Jupiter, clearly then was neither the . ols that they auored were dead and the sa-
i yt alin eee oes Sight tafe eae t a its sp wil will crifices | offered them were by way of contempt call-
or had they yet among the s is of Eve A slight reference to the ‘Theogony of Hesior co the *€ sacrifices of he dovd.” to shew the vanity
rot them new names; till, ad ring over the ear! earths perhaps-not be here ki Sridols, i in contrast with ‘“ the living God, ” who ne:
hrough God's high euerines ‘or the trial of m: “ Hail, rode clei wood of Heaven’ a great king, cessarily poss 3 hfe amunicates it.’
Jsiti ies the greate: SSE: *
mankind they corrupted to forsake Tepites lovely ia ly lay, Het thy poot 5 nies Psalmist proceeds. to shew who were the objects of
pat hla thet aate than toe My theme th’ immortal gods, a race adoration through ® thei images of those idolaters.
Glory of him it aty ‘ them to transform aaa a thy of Heay'n hae lamps vit Son, 5 olestant versions 7
esy And of os “Tight, groat parents i] vd the heathen, an
id “35. But were ming] 4 um a
And dst rd feikiee? and golds ake’ but such few extracts as are necessary for| earned their t they.» 36. And y served their idols : which
‘Then woro they known to men by various names my purpeése, but am careful not to garble,so asto mis-| were a snare unto them, 37. ve ea, acrificed their sons
ugh the heathen w.
Saas SE Tew, Book q
Gentiemen, In my Tas I have: exhibited an
outline of the idolatrous worship of the Pagans ; in
it, you have seen stated, that they paid no worship
to the Creator of the world, the eternal and invisible
God, bat that they worshipped i imaginary beings,un-
der cieanige gues fashioned according to fancy ; or
they worshipped creatures, | whether they belt eved
+ And vations idols throu,
‘ Mu
them ° reside i 3; those cre atures
were in many ins! stances devi, "ho sought ©
gate to themselves the homage due to the Creator,
and in opposition to him. Upon the principle which
Ihave taken as my guide, it is proper that ie Id
satisfy my readers that those assertions have een
gratuitously made, thou shall not enter Tato fall
evidence for their support. If [can prove that it was
not th rnal God,” ** the Creator’? whom th:
[
of the correctness o
incide with me therein, toe i in n his s essay 2, paragraph
23, he admits a wide distinction in favour ‘of * Chris-
tian worshipper ers-of the o: ”
they
neither mew tog believed any: thing of the one ith.
ould a ot. worship him through an image, or
. me God _rorshipped by the idolatrous
Grecks and ‘Rom mai as J
e Cr
d Terra, or the Heavens and the Earth which wero
his grandfather and grandmother, pre. existed to his
father: what then are are to think of the informa-
tion of those good writers, who gravely tell us that
ology. of Greece and Rom
eptune, Pluto, &c. a
the situation of our saints? Verily, the good si
men need to be taught. poutifthey have been taught,
‘and if they do kno ow those facts, and if they have
-during some’ years, laboured in tea aching those same
. facts to children, what are we t
asse! font Yea,—of a ‘truth
t en, is their religious integrity a notable phenome-
_ version, unless { state otherw
represent any idea of the
not contained therein,’ i shall q
translation and refer ‘to the li
“ Chaos, of all the origin, gave e births
to her offspring the wide bosom’d Earth,
the gods,
Possess Olymp' us ever cloth’d with snow : :
Th.
original, or to suggest any
&c, line 190.
k
‘And Er ebus, black son 1 from Chaos came, 202.
n equa a
. Poul | fo rth, that Covers all, the s ry frame,
The sp; cious Heaven, of gods the sul domain, &c.
“At len; ngtl nh the Ocean, with his pools profound, 214,
Whose whirling streams pursue their rapid round,
OF Heaven and Earth is bor!
To these successive wily Saturn 223,
As sire and son in each a barbarous namo
Rhed to Saiutn bores} he ‘brother oid 494,
uote from Cooke’s 4
nd went a whoring afte
1 shal Wn make a very sh
Pantheon, as your correspondent seems to like the
bo
t.4, Namus or Jupiter.
In different plncss, and lunguages, he was afterwards
called Beel, Baal, Beelphegor, Beelzebub, and Belzemen.”
Allow me, good gentlemen, to refer you now toa
few texts of the old and new Bestanents, merely for
a specimen of the evidence which is at your service:
Kines I. or LV. Chap. i.
2 And Ahaziah feil down through a lattice t that was in’
per chamber in and was sick he sent
ease. t-the angel Elijah t
bite, arise, G0 Up and inov| the > messengers of the king o' of a
<
Vesta and Ceres :
And Pluto hard of hoart wide command
'y o*er a dark-and subterrane ous land, .
A pow’rful monarch, hence derive: their birth
With Neptune, deity who shakes th je earth :
f these great Jove, tho rule ler ofthe ski és.
golden shod,
8 bor: rm; and him verse ad
é And the-earth trembles when his thunder
urn frorh and Heav’n adorn’d with clare,
fad learn’d the rumour of approaching wars,
zreat as he a greater should ariso.
'o rob hin ‘ofhia pnp
he aia Jove
may heré sly “conclude that the Pagans did
not worship the. tr in any manner whatsoever;
pire ofthe skies, °
yn, &c.” Me
any -other,called
other name he might
Whom then did they warship, rong their idols ?
Let the few extracts which I adduce inform you, and
you have only to cal! for other ofa similar descrip-
tion if you ne ed t therm, I ere quo
design:
And tho priest shall sprinkle the bicad pon the altar of
18 abernacl of the congregation,
javour “unto the Lonp pb. And
0 more offer their sacrifices unto payin after
|whom they have gonea cannes &e.”—Levir,
“ Then he forsook Gop THAT MADE UTM, and ily
s salvation, They provoked ‘him to
joa lo
him to anger. ‘They eer feed unto Devine; NoT To Gov;
ee whom they knew not; to
whom your fathers feared not “OF the Rock that begat
But, ‘gentlemen, you r euri igh
-easily have aed ty wa a better author: than either of
those mentione
us well acquainted aah the Heathen mythology.
| vid wrote expressly upon the subjec
“ Ante mare et tellus, et quod tegit omnia, celum,
Unus erat toto Na ture vultus in o
Quem dixére Chaos.
Before the seas, “and this: terrestrial ball
A nd | heaven, high canopy, that co Vers alls
. Rag was the of Natur a fac “
Rai vand indig:
A Hilo hap anfashion'a and seam’
OF jarr ‘ing se eds; and jus tly chaos nam’d.”
Thus
vid gives-us, matter or cos in the first in in
stance, before all things; he t
form us of its distribution or dsranger cement,
* Sie ubi dig; spocitam, oe fuit itle Deoram,
Congeriem secuit, si ein edagit.
‘Thus s-when tho God, whatever God was he,
‘ole, ”
We have thus. found is testimony i in the first book
-of his metamorposes, for the pre-existence of chaos,
vor matter increated.; and some
nm ‘Proceeds t to in-
one of the gods,—
forgotten God that form
hee.. And ‘when the Lord saw it #abhorred them, because
of the provoking of his sons and of h laughters,’ Deut.
xxxii. 15, 16, a 18. . Protestant versi
saeiie version of th
« Ho forsook God wo made him, and. departed f
his Saviour, They pi ovoked him by pe god and God
dh
the king of heaven, wines supreme Bats or by whatever er
‘ote ftom your own |
ed} in,
Merrnew xii, Protest tant version.
n the Pharisees livard it, they said, This fet-
out Devils, but by BEELzesuB THE PRINCE
“pd. But wi
Jow “doth not cast
ILs,
25, But some of them said, he casteth ih out devils through
Beniatee UB THE CHIEF OF T:
eternal God, the creator where it is plain that they
adored the prince of Devils. m I aware of
the question having be een ever seriously raised by
any lependen
ci and opp ° ‘O-
wards the close of the first book of the liad, w we
find Jupiter granting a Tequest of Thetis, to
victory to the © Trojans ; 3 but warning | her to
> les hould see her,
and give hin a the benefit. of her ‘eloquence. And
ti
ma nati Ons. ,
to Devils and not to God, ‘0 1s whom the
that were newly come
‘They serie |
kne °
ed ia m.”
Protestant sersion of Psalm evi.
#19. They made a calfin Horeb, a
"| ten ima; 20. The
militads « ofan ox
‘| their Saviour, which had fone great things’ in
Catholic Psalm cv,
nd worshipp
ey forgot Go 4
Egypt.”
aun
Cath
hey made, also a calfin H : and the do
y adored the
graven things and they changed the lo
sen hg oat ga nt nie lory into the likeness
28.. The: ey joined {namelves also unto
the sacrifices of the dead, hus they Provoked him t
wi
Baal-peor and eat] €
anger with their i inventions,
ndecd.
?
Sentry often remind me ofan order once given toe
in oIrch that ye go to ‘saris of “Baalzcbub ie god of Ek-
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