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

176 Two forts of Atheijls in Plato. Book I.beft advantage, which we have therefore endeavoured in the former chapter..The anfwers to which atheiftick arguments ought, according to tlie laws ofmethod, to be referved for the lafl: part of the whole treatifc, wlierewe arepofitively to determine the right intelleftual fyft^-'m of the univerfe; it beingproperly our work here, only to give an account of the three filfe hypothefesof the mundane fyftem, together with their feveral grounds. Neverthelefs,becaule it might not only feem indecorous, for the anfvvers to thofeatheiftick arguments to be fo long deferred, and placed fo fu- behind thearguments themfelves, but alfo prove otherwiie really inconvenient, we fhalltherefore chufe rather to break thofe laws of method, (neglefting the fcrupulofitythereof j and fubjoin them immediately in this place, craving thereader's pardon for this prepofteroufnefs.It is certain, that the fource of all atheifm is generally a dull and earthydifbelief of the exiftence of things beyond the reach of fenfe •, and it cannotbe denied, but that there is fomething of immorality in the temper ofall Atheifts, as all atheiftick doftrine tends alfo to immorality. Notwithftandingwhich, it muft not be therefore concluded, that all dogmatick.Atheifts came to be fuch merely by means of grofs intemperance, fenfuality,.and debauchery. Plato indeed deicribes one fort of Atheifts in this man-Tie Lev. I. ner ; o'? un ttco^ t>j oo'^u, th ^im Efrifxa fivai Trxvlcc, axfartiaj t£ v^nuv >^ XvttujK3. /|. 908.. Trooanyiirwa-i ,(jlvtiixxi ri lo-p^upai Jt, justflwEij o'^tiai 7ra^3w(ri* Such, who togetherwith this opinion., that all things are void of gods, are cHed alfo by intem-peranceof fleafures and -pains., and hurried away "with violent lufts, being perfonsotherwife endued with Jlrong memories, and quick wits. And thefe are the debauched,ranting, and hedloring Atheifts. But befides thefe, that philofo-IbiJ,, pher tells us, that there is another fort of Atheifts alfo, 0^^ i^i voij-i^vc-^ iraj iTvai-TO Trcccd.Tnx.v, rO©^ (puVrt Trccarynilxi ^fxatov, /xnrjoltV ts yiyjovlxi t»V xxw^, xJ tu^(Tj^EoawEiu Tw dSiKixv, 8T£ T«r TO»auT«? TTja'^Ei? TTr 00" I'f 1/7 at TT^aTlfii/, rove TS f*l) oixaiKS,Tui/ xi^^d-TTuv tpsiy^iTiy>