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- ORACLE
- ORAL
- ORATORY
- ORDER
- ORDERS
- ORDERS, RELIGIOUS
- ORDINANCES OF THE GOSPEL
- ORDINATION
- ORIGENISTS
- ORIGIN OF EVIL
- ORIGINAL SIN
- ORTHODOXY
- OSIANDRIANS
- OSSENIANS
- PACIFICATION
- PAEDOBAPTISTS
- PAGANISM The religious worship and discipline of Pagans, or the adoration of idols and false gods. The theology of the Pagans according to themselves, as Scxvola and Varrs, was of three sorts. The first of these may well be called fabulous, as treating of the theology and genealogy of their deities, in which they say such things as are unworthy of deity; ascribing to them thefts, murders, adulteries, and all manner of crimes; and therefore this kind of theology is condemned by the wiser sort of heathens as nugatory and scandalous: the writers of this sort of theology were Sancho-niatho, the Phoenician; and of the Grecians, Orpheus, Hesiod, Pherecyde, &c. The second sort, called physic, or natural, was studied and taught by the philosophers, who, rejecting the multiplicity of gods introduced by the poets, brought their theology to a more natural and rational form, and supposed that there was but one Supreme God, which they commonly make to be the sun; at least, an emblem of him, but at too great a distance to
- PAGODA
- PALM SUNDAY
See Sin.