APPENDIX, NT. 
of the country ; and there cannot be pointed 
out a truth connected with their history more 
capable of demonstration, than that the Dea 
Syria who obtained, by her ten thousand appel- 
lations, the epithet of Myrionymus, with all the 
fabulous history of her favourite u4donis, or the 
Earth*, was, under all its modifications, but so 
many testimonies of this antient worship \ The 
numerous instances of popular Pagan super- 
stitions retained in the Greek and Roman 
churches have been often before noticed ; these 
were made subservient to the propagation of a 
more enlightened system of faith : and as, in 
our reformed religion, a part of the Liturgy of 
the Roman Church has been preserved, so it 
may be said that certain of the external forms, 
and even of the prayers ^ in use among the 
to be the same with the moon. This deity was worshipped by the 
PMlistines in the shape of ajish. Lucian (Dea Syria) saw the image 
in Phoeniciii ; the upper part resembling a woman; the lower, ajish. 
And to tliis Horace has been supposed to allude, in the following 
line : 
" Desinit in piscem mulier formosa super?ie." 
(4) Macrob. Saturn. UL.\. cap.'2>\. 
(5) See particularly (he Ilarpocrates of Cuper, {p. 108. Utrecht , 1687,) 
and the figure of his, as engraved by him. 
(6) The Glwspody Pomilui of the Russians, and " Lord have mercy 
upon us !" as it stands in our Liturgy, was a part o{\hePaga7i Litany. 
f See Young's Diss. ifc. Fbl.ll. p.l. Ijond. 1734.) Ao^simj says, that 
Y^u^n iXi/i(ro» was au usual form of prayer among the Gentiles as well as 
Jews. 
