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which were not then invented, or 

 Jpllfie other liJce means to prefo it, 

 wearing out, and the reafon of the 

 Infl-itutia|i of this Worfliip being by 

 degrees forgot, the After- Ages per- 

 verted it to a fbmewhat different 

 Senfe and Intention : fuppofing that 

 ;his ,w3tS, only ^ reverential Duty and 

 Gratitude paid to phe Earth, as the 

 Common Parent of Mankind , and 

 becaufe both Man, and all other Crea- 

 tures proceed out of it ; by xfliich 

 means the true Notion of the In ftituti* 

 oil ^ ^beifig loft , the / Tradition x>f ^ the 

 tDehige, which was couched under it, 

 :was alfb thereupon at length fufpnd- 

 ed^and loft; none of all thefe many 

 Nations , in the latter Ages of the 

 World, having any Memory or Know- 

 ledge of it, befides what they after- 

 wards recovered from the Jews and 

 ancient Chriftians,.v/ho had it frorn 

 the;:Writings of Mofes. In Greece in- 

 t-deed there were fbme other Accidents 

 ^ whicbperplex^d and impeded the Tra- 

 ditioniof it in that Country, whereof 

 1 have already f given iuch HintSi as f Part 

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