Mofes יכל finished המלאכה the Work. 2Chr. viii. 16. Now all מלאכת the Work of Solomon was תכן prepared unto the Day of the Foundation of the House of Jehovah, and until כלתו it was finished: So the House of Jehovah was perfested. The Parts, the Works, such Symbols or Representatives of those Powers in the Heavens, as the Heathens worshiped them by, which were imitated in the Tabernacle and Temple, are called by the fame Names as the Powers were called, not only generallyas מלאכת and צבא, but each by their peculiar Names, of which in their Places. i Chron. xii. 37. With all בלי צבא Inftru ments of War for the Battle. Ver. 33. Instruments of War, Deut. i. 41. Jer. li. 20. &c. Thus every Composition of Atoms, or Parts of Matter, which is made a Machine, an Instrument capable of performing what it was designed for, is perfect. C. צבא To war, minister, assemble, or meet together in a regular Manner, and at a stated Time, Pec. to holy Offices, Exod. xxxviii. 8. 1 Sam. ii. 22. The Word implies a Troop of Powers, which are employed in any Service. Here 'tis not in the the Ser vice of the Tabernacle, or Temple, as above, though each of those was a Representation of this; nor in the Service of VOL. II. War,

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ter the Name of several of them, fome have taken them for Stars; as for Example, the Star or Planet we call Mercury, was only called after Mercury; and so the Star of Mercury, the Power, or God; but Mercury the God was not the Star : I muft in Course shew them diftinctly and authentickly. And tho' I have in the faid Effay, inter al. cited these Texts, I cannot omit them here, Deut. xvii. 3. And bath gone and ferved other Gods, and worShipped them, the Sun, the Moon, or any of the Host of Heaven. 2 Kings xvii. 16. And worshipped all the Hoft of Heaven. Ibid. xxi. 3. And worshipped all the Hoft of Heaven, and ferved them. ver. 5. And be built Altars for all the Hoft of Heaven. Ibid. xxiii. To Baal, to the Sun, and to the Moon, to the Planets, and to all the Hoft of Heaven. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 3. And worshipped all the Hoft of Heaven, and ferved them. Zeph. i. And those that worshipped the Hoft of Heaven upon the House-top. And God frequently claims these Powers of the Heavens as his, by designing, contriving, creating, and making them; and declares them to be at his Command, and his Servants, as Ifa. xlv. 12. My Hands stretched out the Heavens, and all their Hoft I commanded Syr. And to all their Hoft I gave

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