GOD 
the Father, Epfi. i. 3. for the Son, John, i. r. for the 
Holy Gho(t, ABs, v. 3, 
Offences agiiinfi: God and Religion were formerly pro- 
feciited only in the ecclefiaftical courts., which corredled 
tlie offender pro falnte animie. But now, Vty flat. 9 and 
10 Will. III. c. 32, if any perfon educated in, or having' 
made profefiion of, the Chrillian religion, lhall by 
writing, printing, teaching, or advifed fpeaking, deny 
the Chriffian religion to be true, or tlie Holy Scriptures 
to be of divine authority, he limll upon tlte firlT: offence" 
be rendered incapable to hold any office or place of 
truff j and for the fecond, be rendered incapable of 
bringing any aftion, being guardian, executor, legatee, 
or purchafer of lands, and ffiall fuffer three years im- 
prifonment without bail. To give room however for 
repentance, if within four months after the firfl: convic¬ 
tion the delinquent will in open court publicly renounce 
his error, he is difcharged from all dii'abilities. 
Gods of the Heathens. See the article Mytho¬ 
logy. 
GOD’S MER'CY (IHands of), three or four fmall 
illands at the north-weft extremity of Hudfon’s Straits. 
Lat.63.45.N. Ion. 73. W. Greenwich. 
GOD'ALMING, a neat and pleal'ant town in the 
county of Surrey, delightfully fttuated in a beautiful 
valley, encompail'ed v/ith fine hanging woods at a fmall 
diftance, witlt the river Wye running dole to the town, 
which is navigable to London. It is governed by a war¬ 
den and eight aftiftants, with a bailiff, conftables, &c. 
It has very confiderable manufactories for the weaving 
of all kinds of ftockings. The highly-efteemed manu- 
faCloVy of the patent fieecy hofiery is very extenlively 
carried on here ; alfo a manufactory of combing wool, 
and making worfteds ; belldes which is a large manufac¬ 
tory for making blankets, and another for tilts and col¬ 
lar-cloths. The church is defervedly admired for its 
iieattiefs and the height of its fpire. Here is a charity- 
Ichool, and an hofpital built and endowed for ten old 
jiien. In 1739, the fmall-pox carried off above five hun¬ 
dred perlons here in three months, tvhich was more than 
a third of tl;e inhabitants. Market on Wednefdays ; 
fairs, F'ebruary 13 and July 10. Godaliriing is fituated 
in the great road to Portfmouth, Chichefter, Midhurft, 
and Arundel; and is diftant from Guildford four miles j 
from Farnham, nine miles; from Chichefter, twenty- 
eight miles; from Portfmouth, thirty-eight miles ; and 
from London, thirty-four miles. 
GODAN'NA, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak: 105 miles eaft of Ifpahan. 
GOD'ARD, [of Dob, Sa.x. God, or good, a.nd aerd, 
Dut. nature, q. d. one endowed with a compliant and 
divine difpolhion of mind.] A proper name. 
GODAA'ERY, or Gun'ga, a river of llindooftan, 
which riles about fevcnty miles north-eaft of Bombay, 
and falls into the Bay of Bengal by feveral mouths, be¬ 
tween lat. 16. 20. and 16. 30. N. Ion. 81. 40. and 82. 30. 
E. Greenwich. It is the Tyndis of Ptolemy ; and rifes 
nearly in the parallel of St. John’s Point; it performs a 
courle of above fix hundred miles, of which abou.t two- 
thirds are navigable for boats of one ton and a half bur¬ 
then. Not far remote from its Iburce is Naffir Turmeck. 
Th.e waters of the river, which in this part is named 
Gunga, are efteemed pecnlitirly facred, and are the great 
refort of pilgrims to perform their ablutions. It enters 
the Nizam’s dominions, tmd crolfcs I'Outh-wefterly till it 
reaches the borders of Berar. 
GOD'BOTE, j. a fine or amerciament anciently paid 
for oft'cRces'againft God. 
GOD'CiilLD,/i A term of fpirltual relation; one 
for whom one became fponlbr at baptifm, and promifed 
to fee educated as a Cliriftian. 
GOD'DARD (Jonathan), a phyfician and chemift, 
born at Grceirvvich in 1617. In 1672 he became a com¬ 
moner ol Magdaleti-hall, Otd'ord, 'vvhere he continued 
ti.' he was oj ftanding fufficient for the degree of B. A. 
V OL. Vlll. No. 5/3. 
GOD 65.) 
and then left the univerfity to travel abroad for improve¬ 
ment in the ftiidy of medicine. In 1640 he took the de¬ 
gree of M. B. at Cambridge, and foon after fettled as a 
phyfician in London. In January 1642, he proceeded 
doftor of phylic in Cambridge. He was elefted a fel¬ 
low of the college of phyficians in 1646, and appointed 
to read the anatomy ieClure of the enfuing year. Dr. 
Goddard was appointed phyfician to the parliament ar¬ 
my, and attended Cromwell in his expeditions to Ire¬ 
land and Scotland. On September 9, 1651, the parlia¬ 
ment at Cromwell’s recommendation appointed him 
warden of Merton-college, Oxford, upoii the refignatiou 
of fir Nathaniel Brent; and in January, 1651-2, he was 
incorporated dodlor of phyfic in that univerfity. After 
this he was chofen to reprefent the univerfity in tlie par¬ 
liament fiimrnoned in 1653 ; and alfo appointed^ mem¬ 
ber of the council of ftate. 
On November 7, 1655, Dr. Goddard w'as elefted pro- 
felfor of phyfic in Greffiam-coUcge, in the room of Dr. 
"VVinfton. He continued at the head of Mcrton-collego 
till the reftoration, when by a letter from Charles II. 
dated July 3, 1660, Dr. Reynolds was appointed war¬ 
den, as fucceflbr to fir Nathaniel Brent, no notice beii’.g 
taken of Dr. Goddard, whofe election was conftdered as 
illegal, and the place, of confequence, vacant. After 
this he fixed hinifelf at Grefliam-college, and was con- 
tinned a fellow of the college of phyficians by their new 
charter, in 1663. He was likewife nominated one of the 
Council of the royal fociety at its firft inftitutioii in the 
lame year, to which'he was a peculiarly ufcful member 
on account of his chemical knowledge. He refided in 
Grefhani-coilege till his death, which happened ^on 
March 24, 1674. Dviring Dr. Goddard’s life, he pub- 
liflied maiiy papers on medical fubjefts in the Philcl". 
Tranfaftions ; and to the fecond edition of the Pharma- 
copceia Balcana, printed in 1691, the Arcana GodU'ardiana are 
lubjoined. Tlicfe are feme medicinal receipts, taken 
from Dr. Goddard’s maiiufcripts, and particularly ufed 
by him. 
The famous Gultce Qoddardiana;, or Angelicas, or Arcanum 
Goddardianum, for the receipt of vvhich Charles!I. i.s 
faid to have given fifteen hundred pounds, and which, 
alter all, is only a volatile alkaline fpirit impregnated 
with an empyreuniatic oil, like fpirit of hartfiiorn, was 
not, as Salmon informs us, invented by this phyfician, 
but by Dr. William Goddard, a contemporary, and 
an older man. This perfon ftudied and took a degree 
at Padua; was after'vvards incorporated at Oxford in 
1634, fettled in London, and became a member of the 
college of phyfici:ins. 
GOD'DAUGHTERjy. A girl for whom one became 
fponfor in baptifm. A term of ipiritual relation. 
GOD'DESSjy". A female divinity. See Mytho¬ 
logy. —Hear, nature hear; dtdv godd/fs^ hear a father! 
ShakcJ'pcare. 
A woman I forfwore : but I will prove, 
Thou being ix gnddefs, I forfwore not thee: 
My vow was earthly, thou a hcav’nly love. Shahefpeare. 
GOD'DESS-LI KE, adj. Refembling a goddefs : 
Then female voices from the Ihore I heard ; 
A maid amidft thtin goddefs-iike appear’d. Pope. 
GODEAU' (Anthony), an eminent French rvritcr, 
born at Dreux in 1605. He was one of thofe who gave 
occafion to the cftablilhment of tlie French academy of 
belles lettres, and became one of the original members. 
As he poffcffed a ferious turn of mind, he was led to 
write feme verfes upon religious fu'ojefts ; and he be¬ 
gan with a paraphrafe on the Be7iedicite. The manner in 
which this poem was-executed, gained him no little re¬ 
putation among his contemporaries; but modern critics 
nave thought Ids favourably of its merit::. Mr.Godeau 
took orders in 1755: and liaving cnrii hedhis mind v/ith 
the moft pure maxims of Chriftian muralit:-, he tauglst 
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