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the fame with the Goddefs Rhea ; that Ifhmaet 
(^Abrahams Son) is the Muth of Sanchomathon, and 
t\\zT>is or Rlutoo^ the Greeks and Romans: That 
Ifaac {Abraham’% other Son) is the fame with the 
Sadid of Sanchoniathon, with Jupiter among the 
Latins., and TLevs among the Greeks, his Wife Re-- 
hecca being Jimos that Efau {Ifaac s eldeft Son) 
is Ofris and Bacchus, and that Jacob (the youngcft) 
is Typhon. And, in like manner, he finds a very 
great Part of the Grecian Theology in Abrahams 
Family. 
In the mean while his Readers will, perhaps, make 
t'ivo very material Obfervations on this extraordinary 
Difcovery of his : The one, that Cronus's Character 
in Sanchoniathons Fragment, is the mofl immoral 
and tyrannous of any recorded there : And how to 
reconcile this with the Character given in Scripture 
to Abraham^ 2iS the Friend of God, the Father of the 
Faithful, &c. is no eafy Task : It requires (to be fure) 
more than a Refemblance of two or three Circiim- 
ftances, common to Cronus and Abraham, when 
their Hiftorians in Fifty other Circumftances make 
their Charaders effentially different. The other 
Confideration, which occ«rs, when we read this 
Treatife, is, that Abraham had ill Luck indeed, if, 
when he left his native Country becaufe of the Rife 
of Idolatry there, all the groffer Idolatry of the 
Heathen Nations after his Time took its Rife from 
him and his Family : The very Crime which he took 
Pains to avoid, he was the accidental Occafion of, 
if he and his are to be thus placed at the Head of 
the Heathen Theology. 
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