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The accounts which profane writers give of him. ibid
His contemporaries in the heathen nations....... 133
He, and his descendants, worshipped two distinct
Divine persons

... 443
Before his time, no appearances of GoD or Angels 460
He knew the LORD, by his name JEHOVAH ..... 462
Actæus, king of Attica

327

Adrichomius, his mistake about the situation of Seir. 248
Alcmena, the Inscription and Antiquities found in her

tomb..

Amphictyon, king of Attica..

.. 317
312

Amphictyones, their rise, constitution, and council.. 338
Animals, sacred ones, of Egypt, consecrated to $348
their gods...

361

Areopagus, the rise and constitution of that court... 334
Argos, the rise of that kingdom ....

Astronomy, its use in the ancient agriculture.
Athlius, first king of Eles....

Atlas, lived where, and when

325

154

327

326

BELUS, son of Neptune, went to Babylon........ 291
Not the same as Belus, the successor of Nimrod. 297
Birthright, Esau's, what.

CADMUS built Thebes

Mistakes about his time

When he lived ...

...213, 219

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Whether he was a Phoenician or an Egyptian.... 316
Canaan, its first kingdoms erected upon principles of

liberty..

......

Cat, why consecrated by the Egyptians.

Cecrops came to Attica (Sig. U)...

The time of his reign settled...
His people at first not numerous

175

349

299

ibid.

309

Why called Διφνης..

Page.

311

Cedrenus, his opinion about Belus

Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, who..

Chinese, their government, when first settled

Chronus, Abraham, so called by the heathens
Circumcision enjoined Abraham, &c.

Corinthian history begins where

295

103

158

126

110

....

327

Ciphers, the Egyptian, why invented.

361

DANAUS came into Greece

322

Obtained the kingdom of Argos...

323

Dedicated the image of a wolf to Apollo....

......

377

Deluge, none in Attica in the times of Ogyges, nor
in Thessaly in the reign of Deucalion..

329

EGYPTIAN kingdoms, not founded at first upon
despotic authority.

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Their consecrating animals

When they began this practice

For what reason..

They canonized their heroes

Their most celebrated hero-gods, who.

Upon what account they deified them

410

411

ibid.

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Their hieroglyphics not their most ancient letters 263

They perplexed their ancient history, how....

368

Their fables about Isis and Osiris

370

Their theology arose from their learning
Their errors in religion, how occasioned

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Came from India....

Exodus out of Egypt, when....

Faith, the only principle upon which the men of the

carly times could know GoD..

262

266

399

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GEPHYRÆI came with Cadmus into Greece..
Greece, its history very short and imperfect, until
after Cecrops' time....

Page,

319

325

HEATHENS acknowledged one supreme GoD...... 458.
Heliopolis, the opinion of the priests there about the
passage of the Israelites over the Red sea..
Hellenes, who most anciently so called....

516

344

How the Greeks came to be universally called by

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346

Hyagnes, an improver of music.

347

JACOB, his temper and disposition
Gets the blessing from Esau...

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210

234

236

239

246

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Heathen testimonies about him..

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The number of his family that came into Egypt.. 286

Jehovah, at first the name of the supreme GOD in all
nations...

452

Images, Egyptian, most ancient not of human shape

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Embalms Jacob, and buries him in great state ... 282

His behaviour to his brethren after Jacob's death. 283

By what king of Egypt he was advanced...

Isis, the table of, what....

Who were owners of it...

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Several observations upon it

Page.
385

Ister wrote a book about the migrations out of Egypt 305
KINGS, the opinion of their divine right..................... 182
Were, in Greece, the ancient priests of their

kingdoms...

LEARNED men have often embraced the grossest
absurdities.....

Legislators, ancient ones paid a surprising deference

to paternal authority .....

Lelex, first king of Lacedæmon

Letters introduced into Greece by Cadmus

What the ancients meant by the mimesis they

ascribed to them ....

Longinus, his character of Moses

Lot, saved from the destruction of Sodom.

His wife turned into a pillar of salt

189

373

178

328

322

364

434

111

ibid.

434

ibid.

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475

476

482

Lucian, his injudicious cavil at Moses' account of the
creation

Lyre invented by Mercury.

MAGICIANS not able by enchantments to work
miracles

The Egyptians really performed the wonders
ascribed to them

How they performed them..

Magistrate, civil, his duty to establish religion...... 208
Marsham's (Sir J.) arguments about Inachus considered 136
Magic, Egyptian, did not proceed from the influence
of dæmons...

But from the study of natural philosophy

Mercury, his three-chorded lyre...

... 414

418

... 434

The second, author of many Egyptian superstitions 359
Miracles, not so many performed amongst the heathens

as pretended.....

Montfaucon errs in his explanation of the Egyptian
images..

His account of the table of Isis not just.

Moses, when born

Preserved by Pharaoh's daughter.

Made a leader of the Egyptian armies.

Visited the Hebrews

Fled to Midian....

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375, 378

382

398

395

396

397

398.

ibid.

ibid.

Page..

Moses said to marry the king of Ethiopia's daughter 398

When he wrote the book of Genesis.
Not the author of the Book of Job ..
Learned in all the learning of the Egyptians
Learned to write both prose and verse..
His song, in what verse written....
Is appointed to go to Egypt...

....

Asks the name of God, and why..

..401

402

407

...

434

436

438

440

Goes with Aaron to Pharaoh

467

Not angry with Pharaoh ...

498

NAMES, Heathen and Rabbinical notions about them 441

Not given arbitrarily in the early times

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Human names not always rightly given.
Name of God discovers his nature.

446

448-

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Divers names given to one and the same person.. ibid.
One name frequently to divers persons.

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Orus, the Egyptian, was thought to become the star
Orion...

354

Ovid, his fable about the serpent's teeth sown by Cad-

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Pharaoh, why he employed his magicians to oppose
Moses...

Did not think Moses' works real miracles...

His obstinacy, whence it proceeded.

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Plato, his opinion about the names of the heathen
Gods.....

His advice in order to know the names of the Gods 447
Plutarch, his explanation of the Delphian inscription. 450
His opinion about the heathen Hero-gods ..... 357
Polycaon, king of Messene

328

446

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