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

:XIVAjt Accoimt of the Life and Writings" the Caufe of the Deity ;yet was he accufed of giving the upper hand to the" Atheifts, for having only ftated their reafons and thofe of their Adverfaries" fairly together."Such was the treatment, which our great Author receiv'd for his immortalVolume•, wherein, as Mr. Warburton fays *, 'voith a BoUnefs uncommon indeed^hut very becoming a Man confcious of his own Integrity, and of the Truth and Evidenceof his caufe, he launch''d out into the immenfity ofthe Intelleftual Syftem ;andat his firfl effay penetrated the very darkefi recefj'es of Antiquity, tojlrip Atheifmof all its difguifes, and drag up the lurking Monfler to Cofivi£iion. Wheretho few readers could follow him, yet the very Jlowejl were able to unravel hisfecret purpofe to tell the world that he was an Atheifl in his heart, and anArian in his Book. However, thus ran the popular clamour againfl this excellentperfon. Would the reader know the confequence ? Why, the Zealots inflam'dtheBigots'Twas the time's plague, when madmen led the blind :The filly calumny was believed ; the much injured Author grew difgufled ; hisArdour fiackened; and the reft andfar greateft part of the Defence never appeared.The fame Gentleman likewife, in his Letter to me above cited, obferves,that among the other excellencies of this Work "all his TranQations from" the Greek Writers are wonderfully exaft, and a vaft judgment and pene-" tration fliewn in explaining their fenfe."In 1706 there was publifli'd at London, in two Volumes in quarto, an Abridgmentof the IntelleBual Syfiem under this title : A Confutation of the Reafonand Philofophy of Atheifn : being in a great meafure either an Abridgment, oran Improvement, of what Dr. Cud worth offered to that purpofe in his true IntelledlualSyllemof the Univerfe. Together with an Introduction, in which,'among accounts of other matters relating to this Treatife, there is an impartialExamination of what that learned Perfon advanced touching the ChrijiianDo5lr'ine of a Trinity in Unity, and the Refurretlion of the Body. By ThomasWife B. D. Fellow of ExetcT-Colkgp in Oxford, and Chaplain to his Gracethe Duke o/Ormond.In the Introduffion Mr. Wife {iyks'Dr. Cudworth'sBook thevajiejl Magazineof Reafoning and Learning, that ever fingly appear'd againfl Atheifn ; and thenexamines his Notions concerning the Trinity and the Refurreftion of the Body.With regard to the former, he obferves, that Dr. Cud-worth having laiddown a general Propofition, that the Heathens univerfally held but one unmadeindependent God, comes to fhew, that the Platonifts in particular maintainedan Unity of the Godhead in their three divine Hypoftafes, viz. Monador Good, Mind, and Soul, notwithftanding that they ov/ncd th.-fc: three Hypoftafesto be numerically diftinft, or to have diftinft fingular Eifcnces of theirown. To vindicate the Platonifts in this point, he tells us, that the antientorthodox Fathers of the Chrifiian Church were generally of no other perfuafionthan this, that that Effence or Subftance of the Godhead, wh'tth all the three•perfons or hypojlafes agree in, as each of them is God, was not one fingular orindividual,but only one common or univerfal Effence or Subftance." This, fays Mr. Wife, and other affertions of the like nature in Dr." Cudwortb's IntelleSlual Syftem, have made fo much noife in the world, that" there• Vrefdise S3 thijcconJ lo.'ume of his Divir.e Legation 5/ Mofe?, p. x, x', xii.