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

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utChap. IV. deified^ but feveraiNames <strong>of</strong> God. zizgconceive <strong>the</strong> word o-a/xaloTouri&ai, <strong>the</strong>re turned validiora fieri, <strong>is</strong> here ufedby Origen in <strong>the</strong> fame fenfe with Trcoui^TroTroitUBxi : fo that h<strong>is</strong> meaning <strong>is</strong>, aswe have declared, that th<strong>of</strong>e figments <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Greeks <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r BarbarianPagans, (which are <strong>the</strong> fame with Balbtts h<strong>is</strong> cotmnentitii fcj' fifii Dii)are re<strong>all</strong>y nothing e!fi but <strong>the</strong> things <strong>of</strong> nature, figuratively <strong>and</strong> fifftitiouflyperfonated,- <strong>and</strong> confequently not fo many diftinft fubftantial deities, butonly feverai notions <strong>and</strong> confiderations <strong>of</strong> one God, or fupreme Numen, in<strong>the</strong> world.Nbw th<strong>is</strong> fiftitious perfonating, <strong>and</strong> deifying <strong>of</strong> things, by <strong>the</strong> PaganTheologers, was done two manner <strong>of</strong> ways ; one, when th<strong>of</strong>e things in naturewere <strong>the</strong>mfelves without any more ado, or change <strong>of</strong> names, Ipoken <strong>of</strong>as perfons,. <strong>and</strong> ib made gods <strong>and</strong> goddefles, as in <strong>the</strong> many inftances beforeprop<strong>of</strong>ed. Ano<strong>the</strong>r, when <strong>the</strong>re were diftinft proper <strong>and</strong> perfonal namesaccommodated fever<strong>all</strong>y to th<strong>of</strong>e things, as o't Minerva to wifdom, oi Neptuneto <strong>the</strong> fea, <strong>of</strong> Ceres to corn, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> Bacchus to wine. In which lattercafe, th<strong>of</strong>e perfonal names properly fignify <strong>the</strong> invifible divine powers, fupp<strong>of</strong>edto prefide over th<strong>of</strong>e feverai things in nature ; <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe are <strong>the</strong>reforeproperly th<strong>of</strong>e gods <strong>and</strong> goddefles, which are Suln^c; ixuvi, t\\& givers znAdifpenfers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> good things, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> removers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> contrary •, <strong>the</strong>y areufcd improperly alfo for <strong>the</strong> things <strong>of</strong> nature <strong>the</strong>mfelves, which <strong>the</strong>reforeas manifeflations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divine power, goodnefs <strong>and</strong> providence perfonated,are fometimes alfo abufively c<strong>all</strong>ed gods <strong>and</strong> goddeflcs. Th<strong>is</strong> myftery<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pagan poly<strong>the</strong>ifm, <strong>is</strong> thus fully declared by M<strong>of</strong>chopulus : 'irriov oti j„ jjejSeii.p.i^.TTavrx ot'F^XKwe; a, Slvc.y.iv iyovlx iu>e>iv, oux avvj iTrnrrxuix^ ^£U'j tvIj ivvccy.iv mtjovhscysrj Evo^t^ov, Ijl Je oio'jwali to re t»)u SCvxi^-n £p(^ov, >t, tov sVitrralouuTai tstu 3e^vuvo/Aa^ov* sfljv "H^jJifou i-kxXhv tote JiiXicovixov touto Tufl, H, Toa iTnr'a.lc-j-jT» txT; J<strong>is</strong>tTO'^TX ivioyauvjoci; Ti^jxig, Xj Ariuvlpav tok o-rTou Xj T0'>/f xxpTrouf, >£, tjjv Suipvy-ivrtv Toa-Ti(j 3'Ec'i/, J4, iTs-i^xlo'^cxv auTOK, hJ 'AOjivau t))u CpfOvrjTi'.', >«, T>tv Efp<strong>of</strong>ou T)"? (^foi/ii.rEw?^iov' Xj TO'; Alowjs'ov tou oivov >^ Tov SiSdvTX To\jrov S'EOK" ov Xf ano T« (JiJbvai tov oi'voa oIlAaTUD Trxpxysi, Xp AliotVKTOV TOUTOll TTOieT CiTX Xy AlOVlKTOV' xj EiAflGl/«C TOUf To'>£«?,rxi; ipocuc-x^ touj toxsj S'saf >tj ApfoSnY,v mv inj^nrixv Xy STrirxiova-xv rairvi ^eoVKara touto Xj Mo'-'caj eAe^ov TacTE KoyiKx; TE'j^vac, o.ov ptil<strong>of</strong>ixrv, c.—povouLxv, aoifj-oi-Sixv, roayuaixv, x^ raj £(po'j!«J

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