Of Idolatry, Postscript
SOme few teſtimonies, which may tend to the clearing of the precedent obſervations, but could not conveniently be put in either, in the Text or the margin of the Book, I have here thought fit to affix by way of Poſtſcript.
Add. p. 11. ad lin. 32. in marg. Thus among the Romanes in their lustrations, foreign, Sybil. orac. l. 3. p. 231. and ſpeaking of the Chriſtians giving over Idolatry, foreign, &c.] it is added immediately, foreign &c. naming all the ſeverall nations of the heathen world that were guilty of it, p. 264. and exhorting againſt Idolatry, foreign &c. foreign, p. 279. and that true pietie, as it is oppoſed to idol-worſhip, ſo to foreign, & foreign, l. 4. p. 287. & p. 296. and of the Romanes again, foreign, p. 315. and ſo again, p. 332.
Add. p. 12. ad lin. 24. in marg. In this ſenſe I conceive Plato uſed the word foreign. l. 9. where ſpeaking of ſenſuall men, and comparing them to beaſts, foreign, full fed and laſcivious, he addes, foreign, &c. Or if you will needs have the notion of covetouſneſſe continued, yet I conceive the company that the word is ſo oft found in the New Teſtament, will have ſuch an influence on it, that it ſhall belong to that foreign, getting wealth by theſe unclean proſtitutions, which ſure is expreſſed by the Authour of the Sybylin oracles, l. 3. p. 231. where immediately after the mention of thoſe impurities is ſubjoyned, foreign.
Add. p. 14. ad l. 4. in marg. to the word foreign. So in the Sybil. or: is this ſinne expreſſed by foreign. l. 3. p. 231. and the men guilty of it called foreign, pag. 232. (the word foreign, noting all immoderate deſires or attempts, foreign, ſaith Phavorinus) and as it is immediately ſpecified, foreign So in Phocylides, foreign, & foreign, doth ſeem to import alſo.
Add. ad p. 15. l. 10. in marg. So in the Sibyll Oracles, l. 2. p. 172. with foreign, thoſe that had put off all ſhame,] are joyned foreign, raviſhers, and pag. 216. with foreign (which ſure belongs to the fury of inordinate luſts) there is joyned foreign, rapes and ſhameleſſe luſts, and foreign, ſecret loves; and a foreign, the judgements of Brimſtone (the portion of Sodom for ſuch ſinnes) follows in the end of that Book. All which paſſages, though they cannot be thought to have that antiquity or authour, to which they pretend, are yet by our Countrey man Joannes Opſopaeus, or Cook, with great reaſons ſuppoſed to be as ancient as the Emperour Commodus, and ſo will be worthy our heed, for a matter of no greater weight then is now laid on them.
FINIS.
End of the text · Henry Hammond, Of Idolatry (1646)