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

theyChap. III. Pythagorlch^ andthe Old Materiahjls. 115fore they concludcxl, that thefe fuppofcd forms and qualities of bodi'-s werereally nothing elfc, h'.'t only the diiferent modificacions of pve-cxident matter,in refpe(fl of magritude, iigure, fite and modon, or relt ; or dilfjrcnt concretionsand fecretions, which are no cntitits really diftinft from t^e fubftance,but only c.iufe difR-rent plufai-ita, fancies and apparitions in us. oThe fecord thing, which this doftrine aimed at, was the cfcablifliing theincorporcity and ingencrahility of all I'ouls. For fince life, cogitation, fenfeand undiTfi.inding, could not be refolvcd into thofe modifications of matter,magnitude, figure, fite and motion, orintomcch-inifm and fancy, but mufbneeds be entities really ditUndt from extended bulk, or dead and ftupidmatter -, conclixLd, that therefore fouls could not be generated out ofmatter, bccaufe this would be the produftion of fome real endty out of nothinginexiftingor j^re-exifting but that they muil needs be another kind of•,fubftance incorporeal, which could no more be generated or corrupted, thanthe fubRance of matter itfclf ; and therefore muft either prc-cxift in nature,before generations, or q\{^ be divinely created and infufed in them.It hath been already proved in the firfl: chapter, that the upfliot of thatPythagorick doftrine, that nothing could be generated out of nothing preexifting,amounted to thofe two things mendoned, viz. the aflTerting of theincorporcity and ingcnerability of fouls, and the rejecting of thofe fantalfickentities of forms and real qualities of bodies, and rcfolving all corporeal phjEnomenairtto figures or atoms, and the difi'erent apparitions or fancies caufedby them. But the latter of thefe may be further confirmed from this paflTageoi yhijlotkh, where, after he had declared, that Z)««o(rr//z/j and Leucippusmade the foul and fire to confift of round atoms or figures, like thofe h tucJepi fuVji/.sjTis, thofe ramenta that appear in the air when the fun-beams are tranfmittedthrough crannies ; he adds eoixe h\ v.x\ tl ko.^'I tuk n-j^xyof^iuv Xiyojj.cvo'j, A'-ta yfufiflx.rriv a.\jT/iJ t^Cii J'utioiai', i(px(!-c.v yy^Tivig ai'Tuv, ^/\i^m livca roi h tm a/pi j^va-fAocleCj ol^J. ?• C i "^^ii, 70 TOMToi xi'.Tv. And that zvhicb is /aid amon^Jl the Pythagoreans feems to have arniftake foi*the fame fenfe, for fome of them affirm, that the foul is thofe very ^uViuaTa, the paflTage isramenta or atoms; but others of them, that it is that which 'moves //^j^w; ; Lib. i. de a-v/hich latter doubtlefs were the genuine Pythagoreans. However, it is plain"'"^^.'"P- j[-from hence, that the old Pythagoreans phyfiologizcd by goVjuaTa, as well asQ.t^^ °"'" 'Democritus 5 that is, figures and atoms, and not qualities and forms.But Ariflotle\ Materialifts, on the contrary, taking it for granted, thatmatter, or extended bulk, is the only liibftance, and that the qualities andforms of bodies are entities really diftinft from thofe modifications of magnitude,figure, fite, motion or reft ; and finding alfo by experience, thatthefc were continually generated and corrupted, as likewife that life,fenfe and underftanding were produced in the bodies of fuch animals, whereit had not been before, and again extinguifhed at the death or corruptionof them, concluded, that the fouls of all animals, as well as thofe other qualitiesand forms of bodies, were generated out of the matter, and corruptedagain into it ; and confequcntly, that every thing that is in the whole world,befidci