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

Chap. IV. contain Egyptian DoSirine. 333being only the dijf'Anlion of the body, and the life or foul's paffi :g ir.to the invifibleor inconfpicnous. In which book it is alfo affirmed of the world, yl-Mi^x\, fi£'a(^ ay'ra xa5-' sy.x'j-rii/ ny-ffji-j h tm d^xviT, that every day fame part orother of it goes into the invif:bU\ or into Hades ; that is, does not utterlyperifh, but only difappears to our fight, it being either trandated into fomeother place, or changed into another form. And accordingly it is laid ofanimals, in the twelfth book, (^i^Ajet^si, iy^ Lx d-n-oXriTCA, d/X i'la vix y^nTxi^that they are diffohed by death, not that they might be deflroyed, but made a-gain aneiv. As it is alfo there affirmed of t\it world, that it doth tt'-.vtx sroicTvy.x\ £iV ix-JTO]) xTTOTTonTv, fudke all things out of itfe/f and again unmake them intoitfelf % xzi JizAuDv uT>^\!Tx x-jy.-iiil!, and that dijfolving all things it doth perpet dailyrene-iv them. For that notliing in the whole world utterly perifhsth, as it isoften declared elfewhcre in thefe Trifmegiftick writings, lb particularly in thistwelfth book of FicinUS, a-J^n.^rx^ i xoV;/.^ dfj-irxSh-^Tf^y^ tx Je ,et£^r) aJia zs-XjTXuEr«bA>!TJ5, x}h 01 ^P^xotHv r\ a.xoX>.iy.i:oy The uhole ''d)orld is Unchangeable^ onlythe parts of it being alterable ; a:-id this fo, as that none of thefe neither utterlyperifhcth, or is abfolutely dejlroyed; srZ; y.ir,'^ n S-j-jx-xi p^ix-Si'/xi t? i/(phxcT-g,n xis:>Xf^xi Ti T» htH ; For how can any part of that be corrupted, whiihis incorruptible., or any thing of God perijh or go to nothing ? all which, byCafaubon's, leave, we take to have been originally Egyptian doftrine, andthence in part afterwards tranfplanted into Greece. Moreover, when in thePiiinandcr, God is ftyled more than once, (pio; y.x\ ^c^r, light and life, thisfeems to have been Egyptian alio, becaufe it was Orphical. In like mannerthe appendix to the fermon in the mount, called \iy.vix,^ix xpv-rrV., or the occultcanticn, hath fome flrains of the Egyptian theology in it, which will'be afterwards mentioned.The refult of our prefent difcourfe is this, that though fome of the Tn'fmcgitlickbooks were either wholly counterfeited, or elfe had certain fuppofititiouspallciges inferted into them by fome Chriftian hand, yet there beingothers of tiiem originally Egyptian, or which, as to the fubftance ofthem, do contain Hcrmaical or Egyptian do6lrines (in all which one fupremeDeity is every where aflertedj we may well conclude from hence, thatthe Egyptians had an acknowledgment amongft them of one fupreme Deity.And herein fcveral of the ancient fathers have gone before us ; as firftof a.]l 'Jujiin Martyr ', ' Ayy-u:'j zaxf^p^oM tov ^lov ovoy-d^n, 'Ep/A?ij J't ax^i^g xx\(pxviiug Xiyii, Sfju vo;nxi lASj iri "xxXiTroM (p^a