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248 How <strong>the</strong> divine Iheogonif<strong>is</strong> mad^ Book IIalfo by <strong>the</strong> generality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ancient pagan Theifts in Epcharmi<strong>is</strong> ' ; <strong>and</strong><strong>the</strong> latter by Orpheus'^ an undoubted Theill, in h<strong>is</strong> hymn <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Night,No£iem concekbro genetricem hominiimque deumque.They not underft<strong>and</strong>ing th<strong>is</strong> abfolutcly <strong>and</strong> iiniverf<strong>all</strong>y <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong> godswithoutexception,, as <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r a<strong>the</strong>iftick Theogonifts did,, as if <strong>the</strong>re hadbeen no unmade Deity at <strong>all</strong>^ but Chaos <strong>and</strong> Night, (that <strong>is</strong>, fenfelefs mutterblindly <strong>and</strong> fortuitoufly moved) had been <strong>the</strong> fole original <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> things,,but only <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ol 0.'o),, <strong>the</strong> gods, fo c<strong>all</strong>ed by way <strong>of</strong> diftindion from Godor <strong>the</strong> fupreme Deity^ that <strong>is</strong>,, <strong>the</strong> inferior mundane gods generated toge<strong>the</strong>rwith <strong>the</strong> world. The reafon where<strong>of</strong> was,- becaufe it was a mod ancient,<strong>and</strong> in a manner univerf<strong>all</strong>y received tradition amongft <strong>the</strong> Pagans,as hath been <strong>of</strong>ten intimated, that <strong>the</strong> c<strong>of</strong>mogonia or generation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>.world took its firft beginning from a chaos, (<strong>the</strong> divineC<strong>of</strong>mogonifts agreeingherein with <strong>the</strong> a<strong>the</strong>iftick ones ; ) th<strong>is</strong> tradition having been deliveredidown from Orpheus <strong>and</strong> Linus famongft <strong>the</strong> Greeksj by Hefiod <strong>and</strong> Homer t.<strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs 1 acknowledged by Epicharmus ; <strong>and</strong> embraced by Thales, Ana—x-agoras^ Plato, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r phil<strong>of</strong>ophcrs, who were Theifts : <strong>the</strong> antiquityvwhere<strong>of</strong>was thus declared by Euripides ^ ;.fi? o\j^z:oi; Tf yaAX T ijv [AOflpri jiaW,,Ti'xIkTI TTflSI/Tat, KoiviSuMXH flf ^(x/^,Tx iivS^oc, TrlniiJ,. S-Jj^af, oiV &' aA/xn Tj£(p£i,,r.£vOf T£ ^VriTUV'Not! hie meus,.fed taatr<strong>is</strong> eji fermo mea^.Figura ut una fuerit Cj? cosli & /o/i,Secreta qu^ mox ut receperunt ftatum^.CunSfa ediderunt hac in oras lumin<strong>is</strong> ;.Feras, valuerss, arbores, ponti gregem.,^Homines quoque ipfos,Sfei<strong>the</strong>r can it reafonably be doubted, but that it was origin<strong>all</strong>y Mbfaicalj,<strong>and</strong> indeed at firft a divine revelation, fince no man could othtrwife pretendto know what was done before mankind had any being. Whereforeth<strong>of</strong>e pagan C<strong>of</strong>mogonifts, who were Theifts, being Poly<strong>the</strong>ifts <strong>and</strong> Theogoniftsalio,, <strong>and</strong> aflerting, befides <strong>the</strong> one fupreme unmade Deity, o<strong>the</strong>rinferior mundane gods, generated toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> world f<strong>the</strong> chief where<strong>of</strong>were <strong>the</strong> animated ftars^ <strong>the</strong>y muft need?,. according to <strong>the</strong> tenor <strong>of</strong> thattradition, fuppole <strong>the</strong>m as to <strong>the</strong>ir corporeal parts at leaft, to have beenjuniors to Night <strong>and</strong> Chaos, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>f"-fpring ot <strong>the</strong>m, becaufe <strong>the</strong>y wereSfmptf.^,

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