wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

andj"^ ufltheijls impug7i the Worlds Anhnatton. Book I.may nile, govern and fway the whole, underftandingly,. and in a more perfcdmanner than our fouls do our bodies -, fo long as it continues, exercifea principality and dominion over it. Which although it will not a-mount to the full notion of a God, according to the flrift fenfe of Theifts,yet it will approach very near unto it, and indanger the bringing in of allthe fame inconveniencics along with it. Wherefore they will now prove,that there is no fuch foul or mind as this, (refulting from the contexture of a-toms) that prefides over the corporeal univerfe, that fo there may not be fomuch as the fhadow of a Deity left.It was obferved before, that life, fenfe, reafon and underftanding are butqualities of concreted bodies, like thofe other qualities of heat, and cold, i£c.arifing from certain particular textures of atoms. Now as thofe firft principlesof bodies, namely fingle atoms, have none of thofe qualities in them,fo neither hath the whole univerfe any f that it can be denominated from)but only the parts of it. The whole world is neither black nor white, hotnor cold, pellucid nor opake, it containing all thofe qualities in its feveralparts. In like manner, the whole has no life, fenfe, nor underftanding in it,but only the parts of it, which are called animals. That is, life and fenfeare qualities, that arife only from fuch a texture of atoms as produceth foftfiefh, blood, and brains, in bodies organized, with head, heart, bowels,nerves, mufcles, veins, arteries and the like j-Senfusjungituromnisyifceribus, nervis, venis, qu^cunque videmus-yMollia mortali confiftere corpore creta ;And reafon and underftanding, properly fo called, are peculiar appendicesto human^fhape ; Ratio nufqiiam ejfe poteft nifi in hominis figura. Fromwhence it is concluded, that there is no life, foul nor underftanding adingthe whole world, becaufe the world hath no blood nor brains, nor any animalifhor human form ^ ^i mundum ipfum animantem fapientemque eJfe dixeru/H,nulla tnodo viderunt animi naiuram, in quam figurant cadere pojfet.Therefore the Epicurean poet concludes upon this ground, that there is nodivine fenfe in the whole world4 Difpcfitum videtur uhi eJfe i^ crefcere pqffitSeorfim anima atque animus ; tanto jnagis inficiandumyTotum pojfe extra corpus formdmque animaleniyPutrihus in glebis terrarum, aut folis in igni^Aut in aqua durare, aut altis atberis oris.Haud igitur conjlant divino pr^tdita fenfu,^andoquidem nequeunt vitaliter ejje animata."i^o^ if there be no life nor underftanding above us, nor round about us, notany where elfe in the world, but only in our felves and fellow animals, andwe' Id. Lib. II. ver. 905, &c. ' Id. ibid. Lib. I. cap. X. p. 285,3. Tom.» Vellcius apud Ciceron. de Nat. Deor. IX Opcr.Lib. I. cap. XVlil. p- 1907. • Lucret. Lib. V. ver. 143, Sec.