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

andChap. IV. a divine Theogonifi. 243generated god, the animated world, called elfewhere in Tlato ^itm ^fvu»m;,and another eternal and unmade God, tnnatus i£ infe£lus Detts, who wasthe caufe of the world's generation or production -, or, to keep clofe toPlatoh own language, one God who belonged to genefis, or that headof being, which he calls generation, and therefore muft needs have an antecedentcaufe of his exiftence, fince nothing can be made without a caufe iand another God, that was truly and properly oJa-i'a, immutable ejfence, whowas the caufe of that generated god the univerfe, and therefore of all things.The other paflige of Platoh is, fag. 41. of his Tim^us, tTnl ouv Travlsj oVoi rejr:pnro?^o^crt (pai/spwV, )cjo'(ro( (p^i'vovTai xx^' olrovoiii i^i\ui(n S'eoi, 'yive6.llionable, that he deriveth all his gods from one. Wherefore all thofeeternal gods oi' Plato, (one only excepted) though they were not ymnloi, orgenerated in one fenfe, that is, kccto. Xfowv, as to a temporary beginning,yet were they notwithfianding, as Proclus diftinguiflieth, yiw-uot ^tt' xItIxc, generatedin another fenfe, as produced from a fuperior caufe, there beingonly onef uch ccyiiVT^I©^, one ingenerate or unproduced Deity. Thus, accordingto Plato, there were two forts of secondary or inferior and derivativegods ; fird, the deo\ ifKO(7[ji.toi, or mundane gods, fuch as had all of them'a temporary generation with the world, and of whom Platd'i Theogoniaand yiniTu^ 9-euv is properly to be underftood •, fecondly, the uVEfxoViuiojand aiVioi Beoi, the fupramundane and eternal gods, which were all of them^'Timsi, Cap. XXI. p. 245. f..alfo, five only one, produced from that one, and dependent on it as theircaufe,.