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

Chap. IV. ivith the 0/^ Egyptian Theology. j^oabout God, for he Is ell or the zchole, {1 u' thofc things belong to -parts.) And tiic/Jrcane CiS«//(7;?, though that thirteenth book, to which it is llibioined, befuppofuicioLis,yet harps much upon this point of the Egyptian theology, that Godis all : uVvtrii jWEAAa 101/ r^q kTitew," jtJpis^, hJ to Trav, j^ -o h' Iam about to praife theLord of the creation, the all and the one. And again. All the pou:ers., that arein me, praife the one and the all. Book the fifteenth, icv rt; iTrr/jifmr) to n-eiviC) %j ^cfi(TOu, ro 7ry.v, tx ekoj X'jaa/; a.TToKi^ i\i ht. livillbegin with a prayer to him, ijcho is the L'.rd and maker andfather and bound ofall things; and tvho being all things, is one; and being one, is all things;for the fulnefs of all things is one and in one. And agan, /^o'^ui t»Qlt iry.'irx £—iv' Ei Si tcxvtx fj,ofix, TtxtJX y.px o Qioq' vxvrx »v ttoiwi/, exjtou ttouT'^11 things are parts of God, but if all things be parts of God, then God is allthings i wherefore he making all things, doth, as it were, make himfelf.Now, by all this we fee, how well thefc Tiufmegiftick books agree withthat ancient Egyptian infcription in the temple of Sats, that God is all, thatwas, is, andjhallbe. Wherefore the Egyptian theology thus undoubtedlyafTerting one God that was all things ; it is altogether impoinble, -that it fhould •acknowledge a multitude of felf-exiflent and independent deities.Hitherto we have taken notice of two feveral Egyptian names for one andthe fame fupreme Deity -,Haramon and Neith : but we fliall find, that, befidesthefe, the fupreme God was fometiines worfhipped by the Egyptians underother names and notions alfo ; as of IJis, Ofiris, and Serapis, For firft,though Ifis have been taken by fome for the moon, by others for the wholeearth, by others for C^rt-j or corn, by others for the land of £^i;/>/, (whichthings, in what fenfe they were deified by the Egyptians, will be elfewheredeclared) yet was fhe undoubtedly taken alfo fometimes for an univerfal andall-comprehending Numen. Foi: Plutarch 'affirms, that J/is and Neithwere really one and the fame god among the Egyptians, and therefore thetemple of Neith or Minerva at Sais, where the torementioned infcription wasfound, is called by him the temple of Jjis ; fo that I/is, as well as Neithor Ai/wA-t'a among the Egyptians, was there defcribed, as that God, who isall that was, is, andfhallbe, and whofe veil no mortal hath ever uncovered ;that IS, not a particular God, but an univerfal and all-comprehending Nu^men. And this may be yet further confirmed from that ancient infcriptionand dedication to i\\t goddefs Ifs, ftill extant at Capua :T I B I.V N A. Q^V ^>E S.D E A.i-Delfide &Ofii-. p S;4,.Tohi. II. Oper. .OMNIA.ISIS,Where