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

fometimesCThap. IV. for tke fupreme Gcd. 259oompUance with the third hypoftafis of his divine triad. To as properlv tofignify the fijperior foul of the world; rj>.o>-9j of, ;it£>-aA»t,- nvo? St^axn hiymv mmray Aia. Kf ov^ yd^ to xa^ceo'/ aJrs xj axnealos tb Nj " trt ss Jrof O/.'f ans yoV, a j P.sj^'Neverthelefs it ij reafonabie tc fuppofe Zeus crJupiter /o ^f the offspring cffemegreat mind ; and Chronos or Situm /tgnifieih a pure and pirfe£i mind eternal;who again is [aid to be the [on cf Uranui cr Coeiius. Where it is manifeft,that Plato endeavours to accommodate this poetick trinity of gods, Uranus^Chronos and Zeus, or Ccelius, Saturn and Jupiter^ to his own trinity of divinehypoftafcs, r'^j^afioK, isj and 'liix", ths Jir/i good, z perfe£l intsUeciy andthe high eft foul. Which accommodarion is accordingly further purfued byPlotinus in feveral places, as Enn. 5. /. i. c. 4.. and Enn. 5. /. 8. c. 13. N--verchelefs, thefe three archical hypoftafcs of the Platonick trinity, tho'jghlook'd upon as fubftances difJincl from each other, and fiibordinate, yet arethey frequendy talcenall together by them for the whole fupretnc deity. Howeverthe word Zik is by Plato feverally attributed to each of them •, whichProclus thus obfcrved upon the Timaus : xiyjiy-rj en Trc\ha,) jxtv eiVi ra^si; xj txru^Jetsju Trc/.ox'iooiai, Xj cc\>.c^ o xox'ji'j?, itri iVi ts xtXx'/vj in; o v> Tn B'xnBiiiTuioiui' IVe fay therefore^ that there are fexeral orders, ranks or degrees ofZeus or Jupiter in Plato ; for fometimes be is taken for the Dcmiurgus oropificer of the -world, as /« Cratylus ; fometimes for the Jirft of the Satumiantriad, as in Gorgias -,for the fupericr foul of the world, as inPhaedrus ; atid laftly, fymetimes for the Iczoer feu! of the heaven. Though,by Proclus liis leave, that Zeus or Jupiter which is mentioned in Plato'iGratylus (bring plainly the fuperior pfyche or foul of the world; is not properlythe Dc'w;n/r^«i or opiticcr, according to htm; that title rather belongingtovoCf or intelled, which -is the fecond hyppllafis in his trinity.As for the vulgar of the Greekifh Pagans, whether they apprehendedGod to be isj^u t,;>:^y^iuoi, roJ KiTuti, a mind or intelieSf feparate from theworld, or elfc to be a foul of the -world only ;. it.&uinot be doubted, but thatby the word Zeus they conimbnly underftbod the fupreme Deity in one orother of thofe fcnfes, the father ar^d kjng of go^is ; he being frequentlythus ftyled in their folemn nuncupations of vows, Z:~ ttx-ic, Z-J mx, O Jupiterfather, and Jupiter king. As he was invoked alfo Z=x Pa(nX£o inthat excellent prayer of an ancicr.t poe:, not without caufe commended inPlato's AUibiades 1O Jupiter king, give us good things, -whether "we pray or pray not for them; hut-witb-hotd evil things from us, though -zve kouij pray never fo eameftly for them.But the inftances of- this kind being innumerable, we ih.Ui forbear to mentionany nrwre of them. Only we .iliaJl abferve, that Zeus Sabazius was aname -I In Alcibiad. fecundc, fivede PreinitMie, p. 40.