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§ 28. The same (say some) with Baal, onely he was a Phenician, this au 1.1 Babylonish Deity. This Bel was the grand confounder of so many barnes, flocks, and vineyards, spending daily twelvew 1.2 measures of fine flowre, forty sheep, and six great pots of wine. Surely he deserved to forfeit his large fare, by the Apostlesx 1.3 rule, He that will not work, let him not
eat, finding no activity in this Idol, proportionable to his voracious ap∣petite. Indeed his Priests, and their famiy are said to make riddance of all those victuals; and although the whole story may be challenged to be Apocrypha, yet so much thereof as relateth to Bels devouring belly (so be∣leeved by a vulgar errour) seems framed in some analogy to Canonicall truth; witness the threatning of God in they 1.4 Prophet. And I will punish Bel in Bablyon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth, that which he hath swallowed up.
Isa. 46. 1.
Hist. Bel. v. 3.
2 Thes. 3. 10.
Ier. 51. 44.