The Sacred and Prophane History of the World Connected, (Volume 1); From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the ... and Israel, Under the Reigns of Ahaz and P - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1743. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... couraged the Reception of them (a), at what time he does not tell us j but we may remark this, that we cannot suppose it to be before the Plantation of that People, which left Greece under the Conduct and Command of Oenotrus (b), were migrated into Italyj for if it had, they would have carried these Gods, and this fort of Worship with them. But if we look into Italy, we not only find in general, that the Writers of their (c) Antiquities remark, that their ancient Deities were of a different fort from those of Greece j but, according to Plutarch (d) , Numa, the Second King of Rome, made express Orders against the Use of Images in the Worship of the Deity; nay he says further, that for the first 170 Years after the building the City, the Romans , used no Images, but thought the Deity to be invisible, and reputed it unlawful to make Representations of him from Things of an inferior Nature; so that according to this Account, Rome being built about A. M. 3256. (?), the Inhabitants of Italy were not greatly corrupted in their Religion even so late as A. M. 3426, which falls when Nebuchadnezzar was King of Babylon, and about 169 Years after the Time where I am to end this Work. It is remarkable that Plutarch does not represent Numa as correcting or refining the ancient Idolatry of Italy, but expresses, that this People never had these grosser Deities, either before, or for the first 170 Years of their City j so that it is more than probable that Greece was not thus corrupted, when the Pelasgi removed from thence into Italy -, and further, that the Trojans were not such Idolaters at the Destruction of their City, because, according to this Account, Æneas neither brought with him Images into Italy, nor such Gods as were worshipped by the Adoration of Images; and the...

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