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

IQA 77js Hylozoick Atheifm Book I.itfeems to have been chiefly averted by certain fpurious Ileracliticks a;/d Stoicks.And thercfcre this form of atheifm., ivbich fuppofes cm cofmoplaflick nature, maybe called Pfeudo-Zenonian. 29. Ihat, befides the fhilofophic Atheifts^ therehave been ahvays enthufiaftick and fanatical Atheifts, though in fow.e fenfe allAtheifls may be faid alfo to be both enthufiajfs and fanaticks, they being kd byan Of ,"•1 a.''Aoy(^, or irrational impetus. 30. T^hat there cannot eafily be any etherform of atheifm., befuies thofe four already mentioned., becanfe all yltheifts areCorporeal/fis, and yet all Corporealifts not Atheifls, but only fuch as makethe firft principle of all things not to be intelleilual, 31. Adiflribution ofatheifms producing the former quaternio, and fhoroing the difference betiveenthem. 32. That they are but bunglers at atheifr., -who talk of fenfitive andrational matter \ and that the canting aflrological Atheifls are not at all con-Jiderable, becaufe not underftanding themfelves. 33. Another dil'ribution ofatheifms ; That they either derive the original of thingsfrom a merely fortuitousprinciple, the unguided motion of matter, or elfe from a plaflick and methodical.^but fenflefs nature. What Atheifls denied the eternity of the world, and whataffer'edit. 34. That of thefe four forms of atheifm, the Atomick or Democricifal,and the Hylozoick or Stratonical are the chief; and that thefe two beingonce confuted, all atheifm will be confuted. 35. Thefe two forms of atheifmbeing contrary to one another, how we ought in all reafon to infifl rather uponthe atomick ; but that afterwards we fl)all confute the hyhzoick alfo, andproveagainfl all Corporcalifls, that no cogitation nor life belongs to matter. 36. Thatin the mean time we fl}all not negleSf any form of atheifm, but confute themall together, as agreeing in one principle ; as alfo fljow, how the old atomickAtheifls didfufficiently overthrow the foundation of theHylozoifls. 37. Obfervedhere, that the Hylozoifls are not condemned merely for ajjerting a plaftic life, diflin^from the animal, {which, ivithmofl otherphilofophers, wejudge highlyprobable,if taken in aright fenfe-,) but for grofly mifunderflandingit, and attributingthefametomatter. Theplajlicklife of naturelargely explained. 3S. Thatthough the confutation of the atheiflic grounds, according to the lazvs of method,ought to have been referved for the lafl part of this difcourfe ; yet wehaving reafons to violate thofe laws, crave the reader^ s pardonfor thisprepofleroufnefs.Aconjiderableobfervationof^ls.td's, that it is not only moral viticftty,which inclines men to atheize, but alfo an aff'e Slation of feeming wiferthan the generality of mankind; as likewife, that the Atheifls, making fuchpretence to wit, it is a feafonable undertaking to evince, that they fumble inall ther ratiocinations. That we hope to make it appear, that the Atheifls areno conjurers ; and that all forms of atheifm are rj)nfenfe and impoffihility,I, "^ "^ T^E have now reprefcnted the grand myfteries of atheifm, whichmay be alfo called the myfleries of ihe kingdom of darknefsthough indeed fome of them are but briefly hinted here,they being again more fully to be infilled on afterward, wherewe are to give an account of the Atheifts endeavours to folve the phasnomenonof cogitation. We have reprefented the chief grounds of atheifms in genera],as alfo of V\'xt moft notorious form of atheifm in particular, that is calledAiomical. But whereas there hath been already mentioned another form ofIatheifm