_Every man shall be salted with Fire and every Sacrifice shall be salted with Salt_, _Mark._ 9. 49. Wee have already spoken of Fire, Salt remaineth, of which there is no lesse to say. But it is strange that the Ceremonies of _Paganisme_, should be found in this respect, and many other in Mosaicall Traditions; Fire shall alwayes burne on the Altar; _Lev._ 6. 12, 13, _The Priest shall burne wood thereon every morning, &c._ And in the 2. 13. _Thou shalt season with salt all the Oblations of thy Sacrifices; and thou shalt not forget to put the salt of Gods Covenant under them; with all thy Offerings thou shalt offer Salt_, which Salt _Numb._ 18 19. called the everlasting Covenant before God to _Aaron_ and his sonnes. And _Pythagoras_ in his Symboles, ordaines not to speak of God without light, and to apply Salt in all Sacrifices and Oblations. And not onely _Pythagoras_, but also _Numa_, which most part of men, hold to have been 100 years before _Pythagoras_, instituted the same according to the Doctrine of the Hetrurians. It is not beleeveable that _Moses_ so deare and welbeloved of God, and so illustrated with his inspirations, whence proceeded all the documents that he left, and so hot a persecutor of Idolatries and Ethnique superstitions, that hee would borrow any thing from them. But more likely that the Devils instigations who makes himselfe alwayes as his Creators ape, to make himselfe to idolize, was willing to divert those sacred mysteries to their abusive impieties, according to which _Josephus_ against _Appion_, and Saint _Jerome_ against _Vigilantius_, doe very well sute: so that as in the Judaicall Law they used no Sacrifices and oblations in Paganisme, but they used Salt as _Pliny_ witnesseth in 31. Book 7. Chap. Especially in holy things the authoritie of Salt is understood, when none were made without a Salt Mill. _Plato_ to _Timæus_, when in the medly and commixtion of the elements, the composed is destitute of much water, and of the more subtill parts of the earth, water resting therein comes to bee halfe congealed, saltnesse is there brought in which hardens it the more, and so there is procreated a body of Salt, communicated to the use of our life, for as much toucheth the body and senses, accommodated by the same meanes according to the tenor of the Law; on that which depends the service of God, as being sacred and agreeable to God, wherefrom hee called it a body beloved of God, for which _Homer_ called it Divine, whereof _Plutarque_ in his 5. Booke of his _Symposiaques_ 10. question renders many reasons, and among others, for that it symbolizeth with the soule that is of Divine nature, and as long as it resides in the body, keepes it from putrefaction, as Salt doth dead flesh, where it is brought in in stead of a soule that keepeth it from corruption, whence some of the Stoicks would say, that Hogs flesh of it selfe was dead, and that a soule which was sowed therein in a manner of salt to