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. CXLVI. Judaism. Judaismus. [Illustration] Yet the true _Worship_ of the true _God_, remained with the _Patriarchs_, who lived before and after the Flood. Verus tamem _Cultus_ veri _Dei_, remansit apud _Patriarchas_, qui vixerunt ante & post Diluvium. Amongst these, that Seed of the Woman, the _Messias_ of the World, was promised to _Abraham_, 1. Inter hos, Semen illud Mulieris, _Messias_ Mundi, promissus est _Abrahamo_. 1. the Founder of the _Jews_, the Father of them that believe: and he (being called away from the Gentiles) with his Posterity, Conditori _Judæorum_, Patri credentium: & ipse (avocatus a Gentilibus) cum Posteris, being marked with the _Sacrament_ _of Circumcision_, 2. made a peculiar people, and _Church_ of God. notatus _Sacramento_ _Circumcisionis_, 2. constitutus singularis populus, & _Ecclesia_ Dei. Afterwards God gave his _Law_, written with his own Finger in _Tables of Stone_, 5. to this people by _Moses_, 3. in Mount _Sinai_, 4. Postea Deus exhibuit _Legem_ suam, scriptam Digito suo in _Tabulis Lapideis_, 5. huic Populo per _Mosen_, 3. in Monte _Sinai_, 4.