They did not only enroll _Men_ and _Women_ among their Gods, but they had also _Hermaphrodite-Gods_. Thus _Minerva_, according to several of the Learned, was both Man and Woman, and worshipped as such under the Appellation of _Lunus & Luna_. _Mithras_, the _Persian Deity_, was both God and Goddess; there were Gods of Virtue, Vice, Time, Place, Death ... Infancy. Not Men only, but every thing that relates to Mankind, has also been deified, as Infancy, Age, Death, Labor, Rest, Sleep, Virtues, Vices, Time, Place.... Infancy alone had a numerous Train of Deities. They also ador’d the Gods of Health, Love, Fear, Pain, Indignation, Shame, Renown, Prudence, Art, Science, Fidelity, Liberty, Money, War, Peace, Victory.... Thus we have seen, that nothing more common among Pagans, than to place Men among the Number of Deities; yea, some of them would not wait for their Deification till Death. Thus _Nebuchadnezzar_, King of _Babylon_, procured his _Image to be worshipped_ while he was living. Thus _Augustus_ had Altars erected and Sacrifices offered to him while alive. He had Priests called _Augustales_, and Temples at _Lyons_, and several other Places. He was the first _Roman_ who carried Idolatry to such a pitch: Having in a most respectful manner view’d the embalm’d Body of _Alexander the Great_, was ask’d, if he would see _Ptolemy_’s also? he answer’d, _His Curiosity was to see a King, not a Man_. His Favourite Poet complements him with the Title of God[379]. Yea, the _Ethiopians_ deem’d all their Kings _Gods_. Footnote 379: ——Deus nobis hæc otia fecit. II. _Inanimate Things turn’d into Gods._ Things without Life were made into Gods by the Heathens: The Sun, Moon, and Stars seem to be the first Idols, or false Gods, to whom they paid a divine Regard. _Possidonius_ defines a _Star_, a _divine Body_. The _Zabii_ erected Images to the Stars, which they fancied to be so many Gods, and that they influenced the Images consecrated to them; yea, and communicated the prophetick Spirit to Men. The _Sun_ and _Moon_ were by the idolatrous _Israelites_ called the _King_ and _Queen_ of Heaven, and the Stars were supposed (as it were) to be their Militia, form’d for their Guards, with which they were always surrounded. _PHILO_ of _Alexandria_, (called _Philo_ the _Jew_, a _Platonick_ Philosopher) imputes to the Stars a great part of whatever happens on the Earth; and says, they are not only Animals, but even most pure Spirits; that our Air is replete with Animals and Spirits, which are continually descending to animate Bodies. He had borrow’d these odd Notions from his Master _Plato_, Chief of the Academicks. _Origen_ one of the Fathers, who flourish’d in the third Century, was guilty of the same Mistake[380]. Footnote 380: _Philo Leg. Alleg. Origen._ t i. _Maimon. in Calmet._ under the word _Star_.