How Gods people are not to take the names of the heathen gods in their mouths, nor follow their customs nor learn their waies, &c. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1687 Approx. 8 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A84791 Wing F1844 ESTC R229086 45789314 ocm 45789314 172623 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Society of Friends -- England -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800. Days -- Names -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-01 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2008-01 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion HOW GODS PEOPLE Are not to take the Names of the Heathen Gods in their Mouths . Nor follow their Customs nor learn their Waies , &c. THus saith the Lord to the House of Israel , Learn not the way of the Heathen , and be not dismayed at the Signs of Heaven , for the Heathen are dismayed at them , for the Customs of the People are vain , &c. for they are altogether Brutish and Foolish : their Stock is a Doctrin of Vanities . Thus shall ye say unto them , The Gods that have not made the Heavens and the Earth , even they shall perish from the Earth , and from under these Heavens , Jer. 10. Pour out thy Fury upon the Heathen , that know thee not , and upon the Families that call not upon thy Name , &c. for they have eaten up Jacob , and devoured him , and consumed him , and have made his Habitation Desolate : but the Lord is the true God , he is the Living God , and an everlasting King at his wrath . The Earth shall tremble , and the Nations shall not be able to abide his Indignation , Jer. 10. 25. Here you may see they that follow the vain Customs of the Heathen , and learn their waies , and follow the Doctrin of their Vanities , are Foolish and Brutish , and such Worship the Gods that are made with Hands , which made not the Heavens and the Earth , and all such Gods the Lord saith shall perish from the Earth , and from under these Heavens ; as you may see these that learned the way of the Heathen , and followed their vain Customs and Doctrines of Vanities , and were Foolish and Brutish , and were dismayed at the Signs of Heaven , and these are such that eat up Jacob , the second Birth , and seek to devour him , and consume him , and to make his Habitation desolate . So the Jews the Children of Israel were not to learn the waies of the Heathen , nor their vain Customs , nor to follow their Doctrine of Vanities , for they were foolish and brutish that did so : And the portion of Jacob , the second Birth , is not like them , for the Lord is his portion . The Lord said to the Children of Israel in the Old Testament , and Old Covenant , In all things that I have said unto you be Circumspect , and make no mention of the Names of other Gods , neither let it be heard out of thy Mouth , Exod. 23. 13. Now here you may see Gods People were to make no mention of the Names of other Gods , namely the Gods of the Heathen that were made with hands , neither were they to be heard out of their Mouths , for he saith , The Gods that made not the Heavens and the Earth , even they shall perish from off the Earth , and from under these Heavens , Jer. 10. 11. And God's People were not to learn the way of the Heathen , nor follow the vain Customs of the People : for they are altogether Brutish and Foolish , and their Stock is a Doctrin of Vanities : And therefore God's People in the Old Testament , were wholly forbidden such things , but they were to Serve and to Fear the Lord God. The old Pagan Saxons , in their Idolatry , brought in the Names of the Daies after their Gods ; and these called Christians have retained them to this Day ; and yet they say the Scripture is their Rule , for their Faith and Practice , and yet their Practice is quite contrary to the Scripture , and the Command of God. The First Day of the Week , the Idolatrous Saxons Worshipped the Idol of the Sun , from whence came Sunsday or Sunday . The Second Day of the Week they Worshipped the Moon , from whence came Munday or Moonsday . The Third Day they Worshipped the Idol of the Planet , which they called Tuisco , from whence came Tuesday . And from their Idol Woden , came Wodensday , called Wednesday . And from their Idol , Thor , came Thursday . And from their Idol Friga , came Friday . And from their Idol Satur , came Saturday . And the Heathen called Mars the God of Battle , and from thence they called the first Month March. And Venus they called the Goddess of Love and Beauty , and from thence they called the second Month April . And Maja a Heathen Goddess , called Flora , and Chloris , were called the Goddesses of Flowers , unto Maja , the Heathen Idolaters used a Sacrifice , from thence was the third Month called May ; and upon the first Day of May they used to keep Floras Feast to the two Goddesses of Flowers ( to wit ) Flora and Chloris . Flora was a Strumpet in Rome , that used on the first Day of May to set up a May-Pole at the Door to entice her Lovers ; from whence came May-Poles to be first observed . And from the Heathen Goddess Juno , is the fourth Month called ●●●e . And in honour to Julius Caesar , a Roman Emperour , they called the fifth Month July . And the sixth took its Name August in honour to Augustus Caesar . And September , October , November , and December , are called from the Latines . And one Janus ; a King of Italy , was for his Wisdom pictured with two Faces , and whom they Honoured as a God , and from this name Janus was the eleventh Month , called January . And Saturnus , Pluto , Febeus were called the Gods of Hell , whom the Heathen said had the Rule of the Evil Spirit there ; and from Pluto , Febeus was the twelfth Month , called February . Now here you may see how the Christians call the Daies , and many of the Months after the Heathen Gods and Goddesses , and not after the Scriptures , which in the Beginning called them the First , Second , Third , Fourth , &c. And called the Months , First , Second , &c. to the Twelfth . And the Lord Commanded the Jews his People , as is said before , In all things I have said unto you be ye Circumspect , and make no mention of the Names of the other Gods : Neither let it be heard out of thy Mouth . Now all you that profess Christianity , how do you obey the Lord , and are circumspect , who make mention of the Names of other Gods & Godesses , & are so often heard out of the Mouths of you and your Children , and to keep them up in the Memory both in your Mouthes and Childrens , ye put them in your Almanacks lest ye should forget them ; and yet you say the Scripture is your Rule , and yet disobey both the Command of God and the Holy Scriptures of Truth , and are often angry with , and deride the People of God in scorn , you call Quakers , because they do not call the Months and Daies after the Heathens Gods and Goddesses , but do call them according as the Holy Men of God in the Scriptures of Truth have first called them , and cannot call them after the Idolatrous Heathens Gods and Goddesses , nor mention their Gods and Goddesses Names , as you do , without the Breach of the Command of God , as in Exod. 23. 13. and the Scriptures of Truth . The Lord Saith , I will Cut off the Names of the Idols out of the Land , and they shall no more be Remembred , Zach. 13. 2. And the Lord saith , I will take away the Names of Baalim out of her Mouth , and they shall no more be Remembred by their Name , Hos . 2. 17. G. F. London , Printed in the Year . 1687.