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

Chap. IV. Theology^ that God is all, 307jLtsra TVi; vjv.iaq J^i'-nTi, x, ivxnx tx UmQi^ix ^iw, >^ tjjj tj-ot^xi; t? Tavfa^f • Jupiter,w^o containeth the univerfe^ and all things within himfelf, unitively and intelle£lually^according to thefe Orpbick oracles, gives a particular fubfijlenceof their ozvn alfo to all the mundane gods, and other parts of the univerfe.And this is ;ic«fK 'i^'.xro-j, in tfiat fore-cited Orpliick verfe, Every thing apartby itfelf, the whole produced or created univerfe, with all its variety of thingsin it ; which yet are Orphically fiid to be God alfo in a certain other fenfe,that fhall be decl.ired afterward. Korean the Orphick theologers be chargedwith making God all in the fecond Scoical fenfe, as if they denied all incorporealfubftance, they plainly alTerting, as Z>^;;j^yf/«j and others particularlynote, S-c-o\ ao-£o//.2Tov, an incorporeal Deity. But as for the third way, it isvery true, that the Orphick theologers did frequently call the world, thebody of God, and its kveral parts his members, making the whole univerfeto be one divine animal ; notwithftanding which, they fuppofed notthis animated world to be ti.e firft and higheft God, but either Siuri^ov ^lov,as the Hermaick or Trifmegiftick writers call it, the fecond God; or elfe, asA'":iWf«/«^ and others of the Platonifts fpeak, TjiVou flsov, the third God ; thefoul thereof being as well in the Orphick, as it was in thePythagorick andPlatonick trinity, but the third hypollafis ; they fuppofing two other divinehypoftafcs fiiperior thereunto, which were perfeftly fecrete from matter.Wherefore, as to the fupreme Deity, thefe Orphick theologers made him tobe all things, chiefly upon the two following accounts : firft, becaufe allthings coming from God, they inferred, that therefore they were all containedin him, and confequently were in a certain fenfe himfclf ; thus muchbeing declared in thofe Orphick verfes cited by Proclus ' and others,TlxJTX Txh Xfuxj/jitf, aj9-(5 (p«©J £; TroAuJ/Jiflsj*Which Apuleiits'- thus renders,J^amque fjjiu occultans, dukes in luminis orasCun£fa tulit, facro verfans fub peSiore curas.The fenfe whereof is plainly this ; That God at firft hiding or occultly containingall (kings within himfelf, did from thence difplay them, and bring themforth into light, or difiinct beings of their own, and fo make the world. Thefecond is, becaufe the world produced by God, and really exifting withouthim, is not therefore quite cut off from him, nor fubfifts alone by itfelf asa dead thing, but is ftill livingly united to him, eflcntially dependent onhim, always fupported and upheld, quickned and enlivened, adled and pervadedby him ; according to that Orphick paffige', 'Ev / auVir? «JtoV -rrmviVcTc-laiGod paffes through and intimately pervades all things.Now it is very true, that fome Chriftian theologers alfo have made Godto be all, according to thefe latter fenfv.s v as wlien they affirm the wholeworld' Comment, in Timium Platon, Lib. II. ^ Apud Jjilin. Martyr, in Cohortat. adGentes. & in Apol. II. & apud Ciemenc. kkx-» Libro de Mundo p, 25. andiin. Euleb.&c.P- 25- ^ , , , ,