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

28o 7%e Judgment of Fathers y concerni7ig Book t,cfficerSy which one greatcfi God, who is omnipotent, bath varioujly appointeda?7d conjtitilted, fo as to ferve his command and beck. Now, if ail the Pagangods be net equal, then can they not be all gods ; ftnce that which ruleth, andthat which ferveth, cannot be the fame. God is a name of abfolute power, andimplies incorruptibility.^ perfeHion, impaffibility and fubje£iicn to nothing.Pa^. 2S. Wherefore thefe ought net to be called gods, whom necejfity compels to obey one[Cap. \. V-greateJl God. Again, in the fame book, Nunc fatis eft demonftrare, fummo^ 'ingenio viros attigiffe veritatem ac prope tenuiffe ; nifi eos retrorfuin iyifatuatapravis opinionibus confuetudo rapuiffet, qua i^ deos alios effe opinabanttir, i£ea, qua in ufum hominis Deus fecit, tanquam fenfu pradita effent, pro diishabenda ^ colenda credebant. It is now fufficient to have fhown, that themore ingenious and intelligent Pagans came very near to the truth, and wouldhave fully reached it^ had not a certain cuflomary infatuation of evil opinionsfnatched them away to an acknowledgment of other gods, and to a belief, thatthofe things, which God made for the ufe of men, as endued with fenfe {or animated)ought to be accounted gods and worftoipped ; namely, the ftars. And^"Z- 39- afterward, ^bd ft cultores deorum €os ipfos fe colere putant, quos fummi Dei[Cop.'^'jniniftros appellamus, nihil eji quod nobis faciant invidiam, qui unum Deum dicamus,multos negemus. If the worfhippers of the gods think, that they wcrfhipno other than the minifiers of the one fupremt God, then there is no caufe, whythey ffiould render us as hateful, who fay, that there is one God, and deny manygods.Trjcf Evang. Eufebius defar'ienfts likewife gives us this account of the Pagans creed, orrP ^ I l"'^*^^ tenor of their theology, as it was then held forth by them ; r.a yxa fjjx^ ^'^ TuxtiTicv ii'^y.ovjx' >^ tktov clxoruif-oDiTii' oiimfAXTu; Si xj xpavuf Iv 'J'^C'""' "''^"'je,x r&j aeiTi\u:ixt:-j:v ff/bfiK ©ari* The Pagans declare themfelves in this manner^that there is one God, who with his various powers filleth all things, and pa f-feth through all things, and prefideth over all things ; but being inccrpcreallyend invifibly prefent in all things, and pervading them, he is reafonably wcrfinppedby or in thcfe things., that are nianifeft and vifible. "Which paffage ofEufebius will be further confiJered afterward, when we come to give a moreparticular account of paganifm.What St. /iuftinh fenfe was ' concerning the theology of the Pagans,hath been already declared ; namely, That they had not fo far degeneratedas to have lofi the knowledge cf one fupreme God, from whom is all whatfoeverfiature; and that they derived all their gods from one. We fliall now, in the////:/. 6. f. i.laft place, conclude with the judgment of Prttt/z^ Oroftus, who was his con-[j'.4i6.E