The court of the Gentiles: or A discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish church in order to a demonstration, of 1. The perfection of Gods vvord, and church light. 2: The imperfection of natures light, and mischief of vain pholosophie. 3. The right use of human learning, and especially sound philosophie. / By T.G.

§. 12. Thus we have dispatched the first part of Pagan Theologie, called Mythologie, or the fabulous genealogies of the Gods: wherein we have given very probable, if not scientifick no∣tices, that their chiefest Names, Attributes, and Offices were as∣sumed in imitation of, and dertvation from some Hebrew names, Attributes, Persons, and Traditions. Whereof we have the sum in Sandford, de descensu Christi l. 1. §. 6. to the 25. where he first laies down this conclusion, That the names of the Grecian Gods were of Hebrew origination: and then, having shewn how the Gre∣cians formed and shaped their assumed Deities out of Hebrew names, and stories, he proceeds to particulars; and demonstrates, that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 was traduced from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 El, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Elohim, §. 7. as from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 di or dai in Shaddai, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Iupiter's name: §. 8. From 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Iehova, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Iaoth, Ieje, Heje; as also 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Jupiter, Jove, Eu∣vios, &c. were traduced: §. 10. 11. 12. 13. From 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Sabaoth, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. §. 14. From 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Adonai, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Adonis: §. 15. Also 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Phoebus, as the American Hiob, from Jehovah. Lastly, that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Iacchus was derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Iah, or Iehova; as in like manner all the sacreds of Bacchus from the Historie of Moses, the same Sandford proves at large §. 17. 18. 19. The like he proves of Hercules, whose Theogonie he derives from Ioshua: §. 20. 21. See more of this in what precedes chap. 6. §. 10.

of this Book. As for the causes of this Mythologick Theologie, they may briefly be reduced to these heads. 1. One great spring of this Mythologick Theologie, was the ambiguitie and equivoca∣tion of the Hebrew words, wherein these oriental Traditions were first delivered. This made the Grecians, unskilled in the He∣brew Idiom, very apt to mistake things. 2. The sublimenes of the matters or mysteries, unto which these fables related, gave a great occasion to their original. 3. The imperfection of the Tradition; which was conveyed in a very broken and mangled manner, especially to the Grecians, &c. 4. An affected humor in Mythologists, inclining them to attribute the Attributes or A∣ctions of several persons to one chief, or of one to several; hence many Iupiters. 5. But the main prolifick principle of Theologick Mythologie was a vain humor of imitation, which possest the Grecians, and led them to coin Fables; as hereafter.