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

Chap. IV. the Supremefrom the inferior Gods, 2^y^uv, oj-x^ xjAx^TrKTiTxi. And though the Scythians call thefnfreme God Pappasus,yet -we acknowledging a fupreme God, will never be perfuaded to call him by that I" l-h 262name, which it pleafed that damon {who ruled over the Scythian defert, peopleand language) to impofe. Neverthekfs, he that Jhall ufe the appellative namefor God, either in the Scythian, Egyptian, or any other language which hehath been brought up in, will not offend. Where Origen plainly affirms theScythians to have acknowledged one fupreme God, called by them Papp^.us, and intimates that the Egyptians did the like, calling him Ammoun.Neither could it pofTibly be his intent to deny the fame of the Greeks andtheir Zeus, however his great jealoufy made him to call him here a dsemon;it being true in a certain fenfe, which fhill be declared afterward,that the Pagans did oftentimes really worfhip an evil dsemon, under thofevery names of Zeus and Jupiter., as they did iikewife under thofe of Hamvwnand Pappisus.In the mean time we deny not, but that both the Greeks ufed that wordZeus, and the Latins 7a^//^r, fometimes (pi-a-iy.w,-, for the asther, fire or air,fome accordingly etymologizing ZtuV from Zsm, others AfoV from (J'fu'wwhence came thofe forms of fpecch, fub Jove, and fub Dio. And thusCicero, Jovem Ennius nuncupat itd dicens. DeNauD.223./. 2.Afpice hoc fublime candens, quern invocant omnes Jovem. [Cap.'xxv,p. 2992.Hunc etiam augures ncjlri cum dicunt, Jove fuJgente, Jove tonante ; dicunt To"" 'X.enim in ccelo fulgente, tonante, iSc. The reafon of which fpeeches feems to P"'J.have been this, becaufe in ancient times fome had fuppofed the animatedheaven, Ecther and air, to be the fupreme deity. We grant moreover, thatthe fame words have been fometimes ufed la-ropixag alfo, for an hero or deifiedman, faid by fome to have been born in Crete, by others in Arcadia.And Callimachus ', though he were very angry with the Cretians for affirmingJupiter's iepulchral monument to have been with them in Crete^ asthereby making him mortalKf>iTEC c.Ei vf/fuoTai, Kxi yx^ Ta(pov, S avx, irfio,KcriTfj iTixrmxvTO' fl"u i o\j S'asvE?, tffcri yxa xm'Cretes/cmper mendaces, luum enim, rex, fepulcbrtimExtruxerunt : iu verb non es mortuns, femper enim es,Himfelf nevertheleft (as Athenagoras"^ and Or/f^?/ ' obferve) attributed the beginningof death to him, when he affirmed him to have been born in Arcadia; x^-x}, yxo ^x'ixtv y\ eVi yr,;; ymTi^, becaufe a terrene nativity is the beginningof death. Wherefore this may pafs tor a general obfervation here,that the Pagan theology was all along confounded with a certain mixtureof phyfiology and herology or hiftory blended together. Ncverthelefs it isunqueftionablt-, that the more intelligent of the Greekiffi Pagans did fre-L 1 2 quently' Hymno in Jovem, verf. 8, g. p. 121.* In Legation, pro C'hrittianis, Cap. XXVI. » Contra Celfum, Lib. IIL p. 1 37.