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

3^4 A Trinity^ part Book I.y.iv TT^tOTOf N»5j oarwf £$-iv JOi/* ^£ (Jfurff^, ep' /^Eu TO £j aJtw wrjoj^ 'ly^H SiTO TTJO aUTB, ;^ (Atli'XJii JTX.'JTUi iKilVil, >^ Jia TKTO JfUTEf*^' 'O il Tf IT©-', e'o /(A6U TOIV a'JTy, jt, KTOj voJiTO'ii' (jraf j/aa vaj tu (tuc'jJ'KuIi i/o>iT^ o auTof ErTjJ £yfi ^6 to eu T(ijdiJli^u' y.xi Cfx TO TTfi'jiroy oQif yy.q ttAej'u ») «7ro's->X3"if, Tojisra to Epj^oii d,iJ.(,$coTiiO'j.This pafTage being very remarkable, we thought fit to fet it down at large,and fhall here trandate it. AmeJius makes a threefold demiurgus cr opfex ofthe ivorld, three minds and three kings ; him that is, him that hath, and himthat beholds. Which three minds differ thus, in that the firfi is effentially that,iihich he is {or all perfeSfion : ) the fecond is its own intelligible, but hath thefirfi (as fomething difiinoi from it) and indeed partakes thereof, and thereforeis fecond. The third is alfo that intelligible of its oivn, {for every mind is thefame thing with its correfpondent intelUgibU) but hath that a-hicb is in the fecond,and beholds the firfi. For hozu much fo^z-er every being departs frotn thefirfi, fo much the obfcurer is it. After which Prochis immediately iubjoins,rvTui BV TSf T^fif voaf X, iny-inpyi; VTro^.i^ilxi, h| tsj ttx^x rui IIAxtwvi, r^sTg (ixm-Mx;^ Xy tb; ttx^ 0^(p(7 r^i7;, ^ Oj^xvov, >^ Kpo'i'ov, ?^ o fj-xKirx ttx^^a-jTio Jn^uixpj^o; J fpxw,; Irir Amelius therefore fuppofeth thefe three minds anddemiurgick principles of his to be both the fatne with Plato'j three kings, andWith Orpheus his trinity of Phanes, Uranus, and Chronus ; tut Phanes isJuppofed by him to be principally the Demiurgu?, Where tho' Prochis (whohad fome peculiar fiincies and whimfies of his own, and was indeed a confounderof the Platonick theology, and a minglcr of mach unintcHigiblefluff with it) does himfelf aflert a monad or unity, fuperior to this wholetrinity ; yet does he feem neverthe'efs rightly to contend againft Amelius.,that it was not the firft hypoftafis neither in the Platonick nor Orphick trinity,that was chiefly and properly the demiurgus or opifcx of tiie world,but the fecond. Ard thus Proclus his mafter Syrianus ' had before determined,that in the Orphick theology, the title of Opifex did properly belongto Or/^^aj his rrqicloyovl^ ^eo\, or firfi-begotten God, which was the fiime•with Plato's Nbc or divine Intelle^. Agreeably whereunto Proclus his con-ClUllOn is, Tjf ^£v Bi/ iriuufpyo; £j-i t^ c'ri N»f 5s7o; rr; o'Xri? ncinciu^ aiTioc,Bi^r.^u Six TBTwj" xj oTMf Jttote '0.(^/e