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

in ihls of Euripedes ^: AAX Ej-i", iiTTi' y.a,]/ Tii; lyfeXZ Xoyx,Chap. IV. ©«o) taken for the inferior gods only. 261j'W£c&a, If God will have it fo, let it be fo. And that of EpiSetus'', av f^owvfAif^V/ITO TUIV ^x9oXlX(i3-J, Tl E/XOD, TJ »)C ifJt.OV ; Tl' ^i\!l fAC TTOlitV 6 QlO( vuv ;Do thou only remember thefe cathoUck and univerfal principles, what is mine,and what is not mine ? what would God have me now to do ? and what wouldhe have me not to do? But we fhall mention no more of thefe, becaufe theyoccur fo frequently in all manner of Greek.writers, both metrical and profaical.Wherefore we fhall here only add, that as the fingular^so? was thus ofteniifed by the Greeks for God xar' s^ox^v, or in way of eminency, that is, forthe fupreme Deity ; fo was likewife the plural S-fol frequently iifed by themfor the inferior gods, by way of diftinftion from the fupreme. As in thatufual form of prayer and exclamation, u Zeu xJ Qi^\, O Jupiter and the gods ;and that form of obteftation, -n-^ii; Aio? xj ©fw-j. By Jupiter and the gods. So'EJl, (jfint licet qui rideant ) efl Jupiter,,Superique^ cafus qui vident mortalium. .In which paflages, as Jupiter is put for the fupreme God, fo Is 0fo) likewifeput for the inferior gods, in way of diftinftion from him. Thus alfo,0eof and 0!ol are taken both together in Plato\ Phasdo, ©so? for the fupreme,unmade and incorruptible Deity, and ©fol for the inferior gods only, o JeJ/eP. 106-®iOi (o!i/.cci) 'ipri 2M>cfaTJif,.?t, auTo to rn? ^un^ ilSo; Tra^oi ttxvtuv a\i oixoKoytiiciv, fJLeSivole oiTToXAutrSai. ITafa ttxvtuv ^eutcii i/)5 At (ipri) ai/S-fuTrsu yi, xj £t» [mxXXov, wf lyufA.ai,TTOL^i 0£wu. / fuppcfe, /a/V;Socrates, that God, and the very fpecies,ejfence or idea of life will be granted by all to be incorruptible. Doubt lefs by all Piatt de Rep,men {faid Cthts) but much mo'-e, as I conceive, by the gods. But a further in- '"X ^'^^ S'^',ftance will be propounded afterwards of the word Qio\, thus ufed, by way oflZUTi'Tf,,-diftinftion, for the infLirior gods only; as it was before declared, that the*'^''*'''*'".'''V^''theogonia or generation of gods was accoraingly underitood by the Greeks xai/ir-T^seiiuniverfallyof theoi©£ol, that is, i\i& inferior gods.Tt^z^l'^l^Moreover, as the word Bio; was taken h^t' i^ox,fiv, or by way of eminency, '^f^'it'^'^i,for the fupreme God, fo was Aan'^wu likewife. As for exampJe, in thisp3^{- r:fgieaid