Book II. I and

THE CABALA ; OR,
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and in the treatife of the Temples of Rabbi Ifhmael, and in almoft all the- commentaries of his book of Formation, and he ffiall find it written at large- concerning them.
CHAP. XII.
..IE CABAL1STS DRAW FORTH THE SACRED NAMES OF ANGELS FROM SACRED WRIT, AND OF THE SEVENTY-TWO ANGELS, WHO BEAR T.HE NAMES OF GOD; WITH THE TABLES OF- ZIRUFH^, AND THE COMMUTATIONS OF NAMES AND NUMBERS.
THfeRE are alfo other facred names of good and evil fpirits deputed to each office of much greater efficacy than the former, which the Cabalifts draw from facred writ, according to that art which we teach concerning them ; as alfo certain names of God are drawn forth out' of certain places : the general rule of thefe is, that wherefoever any thing of divine eflence is exprefied in the Scripture, from that place the name of God may be gathered ; but in what place foever in the Scripture the name of God is found exprefied, then mark what office lies under that name ; wherefoever therefore the Scrip- ture fpeaks of the office or work of any fpirit, good or bad, from thence the name of that fpirit, whether good or bad, may be gathered ; this unalter- able rule being obferved, that of good fpirits we receive the names of good fpirits, of evil the names of evil : and let us not confound black with white, nor day with night, nor light with darknefs, which, by thefe verfes as by an example, is manifefi: :
“ Let them be as dufl before the face of the wind ; and let the angel of the Lord fcatter them : let their ways be darknefs and flippery and let the angel of the Lord purfiie them.”
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in the xxxvth Pfalm with the Hebrews, but with us, the xxxivth ; of which the names of thofe angels are drawn, Midael , and !?ntd Miriael \
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