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

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Chap. IV. A Pajfage <strong>of</strong> ^^hocl^s defenrJed. 365-drinus, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs ; to avoid unneceflTary tedioufncf', we fhal! here pafs by.Only we think fit to obferve concerning that one famous paflage <strong>of</strong> Sophocles ',Ei? ra,7q aAJiSfiaio-ii;,£if sViv ©so,-,rio'v1i« T£ ya-poTr-ov oijjw<strong>is</strong>;, Kxvi[j.uv j^ixv, &C.Unus pr<strong>of</strong>eSlo,um<strong>is</strong> eji tanlhn Detts,Cieli foUque machinam qui condidit,Vadumque ponti carulum, i^ vim fpirilus^ (j^c.There <strong>is</strong> in truth one only God, who fnade heaven <strong>and</strong> earth, tbefea, air, <strong>and</strong> winds,&c. After which folJoweth alfo fomething againft image-worftiip ; thatthough th<strong>is</strong> be fuch as might well become a Chriftian, <strong>and</strong> be no where nowto be found in th<strong>of</strong>e extant tragedies <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> poet (many where<strong>of</strong> have beenl<strong>of</strong>t) yet <strong>the</strong> fincerity <strong>the</strong>re<strong>of</strong> cannot reafonably be at <strong>all</strong> fufpedted by us, ithaving been cited by fo many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ancient fa<strong>the</strong>rs in <strong>the</strong>ir writings againft<strong>the</strong> Pagans, as particularly A<strong>the</strong>mgcras, Ckr/iens Alex<strong>and</strong>rinus, Juflin Martyr,Eufebius, Cyril <strong>and</strong> Theodoret ; <strong>of</strong>v/hich number Cto^';;^ tells us*, that itwas attefted likewife by that ancient Pagan hiftoriographer Hccataus. But<strong>the</strong>re are fo many places to our purp<strong>of</strong>e in Euripides, that we cannot omit <strong>the</strong>m<strong>all</strong> in h<strong>is</strong> Stipplices we have th<strong>is</strong>, <strong>wherein</strong> <strong>all</strong> men's ablbkite dependenceupon Jupiter, or one fupreme Deity, <strong>is</strong> fully acknowledged ', .n Ztu,Ti irxx T8f raXaiTB'MpajBsoTa;$pev£(ii AeJ/kcj ; c-a yip tj^r,aTrijxtfix,Miferos quid homines, O demn rex £3" pater ^Sapere arbitramur ? Peudet e nutu tuoRes n<strong>of</strong>ira, faciniufque ilia qiue vifum tihi.We have alfo th<strong>is</strong> excellent prayer to <strong>the</strong> fupreme governour <strong>of</strong> heaven <strong>and</strong>earth, cited out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fame tragedian2oi Tuy TravTwv [/.tSeovri yj'ViyrieAavov te ^/^ u Zeuj £it' 'Ai'Jji?'OjOfia^o,a£.©J rtfJ-Ei;*2u yx^ h Ti ^io7g TO?; »favi;(?, •'X^OVMV ^ "AlJl |«£T£J^£l,- XC^r,;'[n£/*\|/ou ju,£v (pM,- xj/uj;;^*?? dvip'xvTxT; (3«Aoj(A£vai? aSAwf TrpowaSEii;IIoS^EV £j3Aa:J-0V, Tl'f fi^x xxxuv,Ti'vi Sii (J.x-AX^'M vj ^vcxuewi« Ex Stoboei Eclog. apud Hjgon. Grot, in s Ver -;4, :;5, -;o.Excerpt, veter. Comicov. & Tragic, p. 148. « Apud Clement. Alex<strong>and</strong>. Stromar. Lib.V-* Stromal. Lib. V. p. 717. p. 6S8. Vide Hug. Grotii Excerpta, p. 4; 1•Tibi

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