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 iSi Au/ie Bradjl reefs Worhs.

Re/en, Caleh^ and Rehoboth likewife

By him to Cities eminent did rife.

Of Saturn^ he was the Original, [70]

Whom the fucceeding times a God did call,

When thus with rule, he had been dignifi'd,

One hundred fourteen years he after dy'd.

��Belus.

f~^ REAT Ninirod dead, Belus the next his Son ^-^ Confirms the rule, his Father had begun; Whofe a6ts and power is not for certainty Left to the world, by any Hiflory. But yet this blot for ever on him lies, He taught the people firft to Idolize: Titles Divine he to himfelf did take. Alive and dead, a God they did him make. This is that Bel the Chaldees worfhiped, Whofe Priefts in Stories oft are mentioned; This is that Baal to whom the Ifj'aelifes So oft profanely offered facred Rites : This is Beelzebub God of Ekronites, Likewife Baal-peor of the Mohabites^ His reign was fhort, for as I calculate, At twenty five ended his Regal date.

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