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

-«54Euripides and other Greek Poets Book I.Tibi{cunSlorum domino) vifium,Salfamque molamfero, feu DitiSyTufive Jovis nomirie gaiides :Tu namque deosfuperos hUerSceptrum tra£las fiiblime Jovis •,Idmi regnum terreftre tenes.Te lucem animis infunde virum,^i fcire volunty quo fata mentisLuStaJit ortu, qutt caufa malt ;Cui ca:licolu}n rite litandoRequiem Jit habere laborum.Where we may obferve that ZrJ? and "Ah:, Jupiter and Pluto, are both ofthem fuppofed to be names equally belonging to one and the fame fupremeGod. And the fum of the prayer is this, That Godziould infufe light into thefouls of men, whereby they tnight be enabled to know, -what is the root, fromwhence all their evils fpring, and by what means they may avoid them.Laftly, there is another devotional paflage, cited out of Euripides ', whichcontains alfo a clear acknowledgment of one felf-exiftent being, that comprehendsand governs the whole world :Ze TOU AuTO^UI, TOV £11 aii3-£pi!o"Oi TTlpi jtAEU ^^?, TTipia op^VOiiX"Ox,^'^ EvJtAE;^^?*otju.tf'ip^ojsu w •Thoufelf-fprung being, that dojt all enfold.And in thine arms heaven*s whirling fahrick hold!Who art encircled with refplendent light.And yet ly'fi mantled o'er infhady night \About whom, the exultantflarry firesDance nimbly round in everlafting gyres.For this fenfe of the third and fourth vcrfes, which we think tlie words willbear, and which agrees with that Orphick pafiageThat God being in himfclfa moft bright and-dazling light, is rcfpc5Iive!y to us, and,by reafon of the weaknefs of our underftanding, covered over with a thick cloud ;as alfo with that in the fcripture, clouds and darknefs are roundabout him :I fay,this fenfe we chofc rather to follow, as more rich and auguft, than that othervulgar one, though grammatically and poetically good alio ; ThiJt fucceffiveday and night, together with a numberlefs multitude ofjlars, perpetually danceround about the Deity.Ariflophanes in the very beginning of his Plutus diftinguilheth betwixt ZrJ?and 3-£oi, Jupiter and the gods ;'XI,-» Afud Clement. Alexand. ubi fupra, p. m;.