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SOME 
Special Remarks 
TAKIN OUT OF 
ATHANASIUS KI RCFER'S 
Antiquities .of China. 
'P ART. III. 
Of the Idolatry of the Chinefes. 
H E Books of the Chinefes mention only three Sc&s of 
Religion in China   Firlf, that of the Learned  next, 
that call'd Sciequia; and the third they term  Lancu. 
One of thefe three'all the Chimfes, and other conter- 
minate Nations which ufe the Cbinefian Charaters; 
do profefs ; fuch are thofe ofJapan, Corian, Tonchini, 
and Cocincina. 
Thefe three Se&s do very muchrefemble the Eg- 
ptian Priefis or Wife-men, their Hierogrammatflss, or thofe that were vers'd
ia 
the Sacred Writings, and the Plebeians. 
The Se& of the Learned Rule the Commonwealth, abound in Books, and 
are applauded above the refi. They acknowledge Confatim as the Author and
Chief of the Philofophers, as theEgyptians do their Tboyt, whom the Grevians
call Hermes Trifmgiflus , and as the Egyptians do their Sages worfhipp'd
one 
God, whom they termed Hemphet, fo the Learned Mtn of Cbina, according to
the Di6tates of Confutius, worfhip not Idols, but one Deity, whom they term
The IKing of Heaven. 
Concerning this Se6t Trigautiu in his Chri/Iian Expedition into Cbina fays,
"They afert that the Funaionor Office of Sacrificing to, and Worfbipping
H h h h h              "   of 
The three 
Se~a of tht 
The fiLt