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 The Treface. Of this Zorcafier s Eufebiui in the Theologie of the Phoenicians, ultng Zoyoajler'% own words: H&c ad V(rbumfcribit(foth Euf(b:us) Dtut primus } incorrupti- bilittm, fcmpittrnus , ingtruius y expert partium, fibiipfi/i- mi//imus y bonorum omnium auriga, muntra non expeftant, optlmttsrfrudentifsimtts, pater uris, fine doclrina ]a(ltti- am perdotiu* , natura perftttus, fapiens^ facra, nature uni- on inventor t &• Thus faith Zoroafler, word for word : God the firft, incorruptible, everlafting, un- begotten, without parts,moft like himfelf, the guide of all good,expe<5ting no reward,the beft,the wifeft, the father of right , having learned juftice without teaching,perfec~t, wife by nature, the onely inventor thereof. So that a Magician is no other but divinorumcultor & interpret , a (ludious obferver and expounder of divine things 5 and the Art it felf is none other quam Naturalis Philofophia abfoluta confummatio^ then the ab- folute perfection of Natural Philofophy. Never- thelefs there is a mixture in all things, of good with evil, of falfhood with truth, of corruption with pu- ri ty. The good,the truth ,the purity,in every kinde, may well be embraced : As in the ancienc worihip- ping of God by SacrifTce,there was no man knowing God among the Elders, that did forbear to worfhip the God of all power, or condemn that kinde of Wor/hip, becaufe the devil was Co adored in the Image of Baal, Dagon, K^dflamh, Chemojh, Jupiter, ApllO) and the like. Neither did theabufe of Aftrology rerrifie Abraham, (if we believe the moft ancient and religiousWriters) from obferving the motions and natures of the hea- venly bodies. Neither can it dehort wife and learned men