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4 took , tip the child and carried it home and put it to her breast for warmth , { h iving not had a child herself of about go years ); , the child drew milk , and so much , that the woman nursed it tip with her breast-milk a good while . The committee desired some women to
try her , and they found it true , and that she had a considerable proportion of milk for the child : If any one doubt of this , they may yet be resolved by Mrs . Hunt , wife to Mr . Rowland Hunt , of Harrow
on the Hill , who living then in Manchester , was one of them that by the committee was desired to try the woman , and it > ho hath oft told it me , and is a credible , godly , discreet gentlewoman . The maid herself thus nursed up ,
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POSTSCRIPT " TO CHRISTIAN POLYTHEISM FURTHER DEFBNDEB , BY CIIARICLO .
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If the opinion of your correspondent S » that Scthoa and He . zekiah are different persons , were ¦ ever so well founded , this would not affect the maiu proposition of
Cbariclo ; that hero-worship is authorized by scripture ,-and was practiced in the temple of Jerusalem : it would only affect the
date of its introduction , and reduce the evidence for its antiquity to the proofs contained in the book of Ecclesiasticus . The question however ^ whether Sethon and Hezekiah be identical , may deserve a few more words .
4 C Thc Egyptians , says Michaclis , had among iheir many divinities , one , to whom they ascribed the creation of the woTld , who in their own language was called Phthas , and Knuf , and by the Greeks Hcfaistos . Now as the
Jews ascribed to their God the creation of the world , the Egyptians mistook the god of the Jews for their ow n demiurges , and called him Phthas , i . e . Hefaistos , w Vuleaxw' With this sanction , »\ i . m
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lived afterwards in London / ' Baxter ' s Life and Times . Fol . p . 46 , " That worthy servant of Christ , Dr . Teat , who being put to fly suddenly with his wife and children from the fury of the Irish rebels , in the night without provision ; wandered in the snow out of all \ yays upon the mountains , till Mrs . Teat * having no suck for the child in her arms and he being ready to die with hunger , she went to the brow of a rock to lay him down , and leave him . that she might not see him die $ and there in the snow out of all ways where no footsteps appeared , she found a suckbottle , full of new , sweet milk , which preserved the child ' s life . " Ib , 46 .
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from Mieiiaelis , Chariclo makes no difficulty at all ( as S . amusingly expresses it ) of transforming Vulcan into Jehovah . Chariclo relies still mor 6 on some arguments which have been
advanced in the Critical Review , ( vol . xxxix . p . . 366 . ) in behalf of the propositions , that the fire - worship of the Medes and Persians was emblematic , and really addressed to the God of the universe ; that the descendants of Abraham
always continued a worship , which their fathers had brought from Chaldea ; and that the Jews were at every period of their history , as-far as respects thoupreme God . of the same religion with .
Cjtus and Darius Hystaspis . The Greeks always speak of the Persians as fire-worshippers ; and seeing in the temples of the Jews , the fchekinah employed as the emblem of divinity , they in like manner attributed a fire-worship to the Jews ; and therefore supposed their own god of fire , or Vulcan , to be-identical with Jehovah *
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2 && Postscript to Christian Polytheism further defended ^ by CTiaticto .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/32/
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