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And Devils to adore for Deities: Then were they known to men by various Names, And various Idols through the Heathen World. [ 375 ] Say, Muse, thir Names then known, who first, who last, Rousd from the slumber, on that fiery Couch, At thir great Emperors call, as next in worth Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,

While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof? [ 380 ] The chief were those who from the Pit of Hell Roaming to seek thir prey on earth, durst fix Thir Seats long after next the Seat of God, Thir Altars by his Altar, Gods adord Among the Nations round, and durst abide [ 385 ] Jehovah thundring out of Sion, thrond

Between the Cherubim; yea, often placd Within his Sanctuary it self thir Shrines, Abominations; and with cursed things His holy Rites, and solemn Feasts profand, [ 390 ] And with thir darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid King besmeard with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears,

Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud Thir childrens cries unheard, that past through fire [ 395 ] To his grim Idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her watry Plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart [ 400 ]

Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His Temple right against the Temple of God On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove The pleasant Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna calld, the Type of Hell. [ 405 ] Next Chemos, th obscene dread of Moabs Sons, From Aroar to Nebo, and the wild

Of Southmost Abarim; in Hesebon And Horonaim, Seons Realm, beyond The flowry Dale of Sibma clad with Vines, [ 410 ] And Eleale to th Asphaltick Pool. Peor his other Name, when he enticd Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.