A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

He reckoned that he had not only repelled all death and danger from Thebes, by his own, but that he had purchased joy, in peace and liberty for the people.

And where there was none in public calamities, that did voluntarily devote themselves, the people were wont to take some obnoxious person, to make him exercra•le, and to lay on him according to their superstition, all the wrath of their Gods, and so give him up to Destruction. Such the Apostle alludes unto, Rom. 9. 3. 1 Cor. 4. 9, 13. So the Massilians were wont to expiate their City by taking a Person devoted, imprecating on his head all the evil that the City was obnoxious unto, casting him into the Sea with th•se words, [Greek or Hebrew] be thou our expiatory Sacrifice; To which purpose were the solemn words that many used in their expiatory Sacrifices; as Herodotus testifieth of the Egyptians, bringing their Offerings, saith he, [Greek or Hebrew]; they laid these imprecations on their heads; that if any Evil were happening ⟨p. 244⟩towards the Sacrificer, or all Egypt, let it be all turned and laid on this devoted head.

And where there was none in publick calamities, that did voluntarily devote themselves, the people were wont to take some obnoxious person, to make him exercra•le, and to lay on him according to their superstition, all the wrath of their Gods, and so give him up to Destruction. Such the Apostle alludes unto, Rom. 9. 3. 1 Cor. 4. 9, 13. So the Massilians were wont to explate their City by taking a Person devoted, imprecating on his head all the evil that the City was obnoxious unto, casting him into the Sea with thse words, be thou our expiatory Sacrifice; To which purpose were the solemn words that many used in their expiatory Sacrifices; as Herodotus testfieth of the Aegyptians, bringing their Offerings, saith he, ; they laid these imprecations on their heads; that if any Evil were happening