Gentilism.
Gentilimus.
[Illustration]
The _Gentiles_ feigned
to themselves near upon
XIIM. _Deities_.
_Gentiles_ finxerunt
sibi prope
XIIM. _Numina_.
The chief of them were
_Jupiter_, 1. _President_, and
_petty-God of Heaven_;
Eorum præcipua erant
_Jupiter_, 1. _Præses_ &
_Deaster cœli_;
_Neptune_, 2. of the Sea;
_Pluto_, 3. of Hell;
_Mars_, 4. of War;
_Apollo_, 5. of Arts;
_Neptunus_, 2. Maris;
_Pluto_, 3. Inferni;
_Mars_, 4. Belli;
_Apollo_, 5. Artium;
_Mercury_, 6. of Thieves,
Merchants,
and Eloquence;
_Vulcan_, (_Mulciber_)
of Fire and Smiths;
_Mercurius_, 6. Furum,
Mercatorum,
& Eloquentiæ;
_Vulcanus_ (_Mulciber_),
Ignis & Fabrorum;
_Æolus_, of Winds:
and the most obscene of
all the rest, _Priapus_.
_Æolus_, Ventorum;
& obscænissimus,
_Priapus_.
They had also
Womanly Deities:
such as were _Venus_, 7.
the Goddess of Loves,
and Pleasures, with
her little son _Cupid_, 8.
Habuerant etiam
Muliebria Numina;
qualia fuerunt _Venus_, 7.
Dea Amorum,
& Voluptatum, cum
filiolo _Cupidine_, 8.
_Minerva_ (_Pallas_), with
the nine _Muses of Arts_;
_Juno_, of Riches and Weddings;
_Minerva_ (_Pallas_), cum
novem _Musis Artium_;
_Juno_, Divitiarum & Nuptiarum;
_Vesta_, of Chastity;
_Ceres_, of Corn;
_Diana_, of Hunting,
and Fortune;
and besides these _Morbona_,
and _Febris_ her self.
_Vesta_, Castitatis;
_Ceres_, Frumentorum;
_Diana_, Venationum;
& Fortuna:
quin & _Morbona_,
ac _Febris_ ipsa.
The _Egyptians_,
instead of God
worshipped all sorts
of Beasts and Plants,
and whatsoever they saw
first in the morning.
_Ægyptii_,
pro Deo
colebant omne genus
Animalium & Plantarum,
& quicquid conspiciebantur
primum mane.
The _Philistines_ offered
to _Moloch_, 9.
their Children to be burnt alive,
_Philistæi_ offerebant
_Molocho_ (_Saturno_), 9.
Infantes cremandos vivos.
The _Indians_, 10. even to this day,
worship
the _Devil_, 11.
_Indi_, 10. etiamnum
venerantur
_Cacodæmona_, 11.