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

Chap. IV. of one unmade Deity, 245Before that fea, and earth, and heaven was fram*'dfOne face had nature^ which they chaos nam*d.No Titan yet the world with light adorns.Nor waxing Phebe fills her wained horns ;Nor hung the felf-poiz'd earth in thin air pfac^d.Nor Amphitrite the vaft fhore embraced;Earth, air, and fea confounded, &c.In the next place,, when there was a world made out of this chaos, that thisCofmogonia, or generation of the world, was alfo a Theogonia, or generationof gods, is plainly intimated in thefe verfesTo this fenfe,Neu regio foret ulla fuis animalihus orba,Aftra tenent ccelefle folum, formaqne deorum.That nought of animals might unfurnifh'd lie,The godsy in form of Jiars, poffefs the Jky.And that all this was efFeded, and this orderly mundane fyftem produced'out of a diforderly confufed chaos, not by a fortuitous motion of matter, orthe jumbling of atoms, but by the providence and command of one unmadeDeity, which was alfo that, that furnifhed all the feveral parts of the world,with refpedive animals, the fea with fifhes, the earth with men, and ^eheavenwith gods ; is thus declared alfo by the poetHanc Deus 13 melior litem natura diremit.Nam cceJo terras, & terris abfcidit undas :Et liquidum fpiffo fecrevit ab acre cesium, l^c.Sic ubi difpofitam, quifquis fuit ille deorum,Congeriem fecuit, fe5ldmqi