being delighted with their Beauty, or aStonished at their Power, they took them for Gods. In a Word, if we look over all the Accounts we have of the feveral Nations of the Earth, and confider every thing that has been advanced by any or all the Philofophers; we can meet with nothing to induce us to think, that the firft Religion of the World was introduced by the Ufe and Direction of mere Natural Reason; but on the other hand, all History, both Sacred and Prophane, offers us various Arguments to prove, that God revealed to Men in the firft Ages how he would be worshipped; but that, when Men, instead of adhering to what had been revealed, came to lean to their own UnderStandings, and to fet up what they thought to be right, in the room of what God himself had directed, they loft and bewildered themselves in endless Errors. I am fenfible is a fubject that should be examined to the bottom, and I am perfuaded, if it were, the Refult of the Enquiry would be this, that he that thinks to prove, that the World ever did in Fact by Wifdom know God (a), that any Nation upon Earth, or any Set of Men ever did, from the Principles of Reafon only, without any Affiftance from Revelation, find (a) 1 Corinth. i. 21. This out out the true Nature and the true Worship The End of the First Volume. INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME. A. BEL killed AR Why his Sacrifice was accepted Abraham, where his Ancestors lived When he was born Left Ur of the Chaldees Lived at Haran Went into Canaan His Religion, what Removed into Egypt Famous in Perfia Ananim, a King of lower Egypt Antediluvians, Berofus's Account of them Sanchoniathon's Account of them Egyptian Accounts of them Their Longevity Their Religion, what may be conjectured about it 37 Their Wickednefs which occafioned the Flood, what? Antediluvian World, the Chronology of it The Geography of it How many Perfons in it Job, or of Jethro 48 42 72 36 Arabians not corrupted in their Religion in the Days of Aram, where he and his Sons fettled after the Difperfion from Babel Ararat, Mount, where fituate Ark of Noah, its Dimenfions P. 162 99 13 Arphaxad, where he lived after the Confufion of Tongues Afhur, for fome time a Subject of Nimrod's Afterwards firft King of Affyria 161 160 182 153 348 Askenaz, what Country he planted after the Difperfion from Babel Aftrological Character of Gemini, whence derived Aftronomical Obfervations at Babylon, agree with the Scripture-Chronology Aftronomy of the Ancients, not exact Babel Tower, when began B. 191 332 106 How long the Project of Building it was continued Babylonia, the Kingdom of Nimrod 150 181 Babylonians, when they began their Aftronomical Ob fervations Balch, a City of Perfia; Abraham never lived Belus, the Second King of Babylonia The Inventor of the Chaldean Aftronomy Thought by fome to be Ham, the Son of Noah C Cabiri of the Ancients, who 192 there 307. 182 183 194 197 214 Callifthenes, his Account of the Aftronomical Obferva tions at Babylon Canaan, who the firft Inhabitants of it At what Time the firft City was built in it -191 175 207 Canaanites true Worshippers of God in the Days of Abraham Caphtorim, where he fettled after the Difperfion from Babel Cafluhim, what Country he planted p. 174 173 Chaldeans expelled Abraham their Country for not conforming to their Religion Corrupted their Religion in the Days of Abraham Their firft Errors in Religion, what By whom introduced 269 308 329 328 331 The Names of their ancient Kings explained Ceremonies, moft ancient ones ufed in Religion, what 301 Ceremony of washing before Sacrifice, how ancient, and why inftituted' Chinese Hiftory begins at Noah 303 29 Chinese Fohi, the fame Perfon with Mofes's Noah ibid. Chinese Language very ancient, and most probably an 123 97 Chronology of the Septuagint and Samaritan Veríions different from the Hebrew in the Accounts of the Times before the Flood 50 Differs alfo in the Accounts of the Times from the Dedan, where he fettled after the Difperfion from Babel 172 Differences in Religion, what, in the Times of Abraham 304, 313 Difperfion of Mankind, whence caufed, when began, and how effected Did not reach at firft to Spain or Italy 142 Divifion of the Earth, the Account of it in Eufebius's Chronicon rejected Dodanim, where he lived after the Difperfion |