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

and366 ''T'h Confent of Latin Poetsy Bo ok I.^n falfas lites falfis tejlmoniisPetunt, quique in jure ahjurant pecuniam^Eoyttm referimus noniina exfcrifta ad Jovem.Cotidie Ille fcit, quis hie qnarat malum.Iterum Ille €a7n rem judicatam judical.Bonos in aliis tabulis exfcriptos habet.Atque hoc fcelejii illi in animum indticunt fuumJovem fe placare pojfe donis, hojliis;Sed operant ^ fumpliim perdunt, quiaNihil Ei acceptim ejl a perjuris fupplicii.Where Jupiter, the fupreme monarch of gods and men, is /aid to appointother inferiour gods under him, over all the parts of the earth, to ohferve thenations, manners and behaviours of men every where -, to return the namesboth of bad and good to him. Which Jw^xttxjudges over again all unjufijudgments,rendring a righteous retribution to all. And though wicked men conceit,that he may be bribed with facrifices, yet no worfhip is acceptable to himfrom the perjurious. Notwithftanding which, this poet afterwards jumbles thefupreme and inferiour gods all together, after the iifual manner, under thatone general name of gods, becaufe they are all fuppofed to be co-governoursot thwj rid iFacilius, fiqui pius eft, a Diis fupplicans,^am qui fceleflus ejl, inveniet veniam fibi.Pcen.AB.'y. Again the fame poet elfewhere brings in Hanno the Carthaginian with thisSc. 4. form of prayer addreffing himfelf to Jupiter or the fupreme god ;Jupiter, qui genus colis alifque hominum, peV quern vivimusVitale avum ; quern penes fpes vitaque funt hominum omnium.Da diem hunc fofpitem, qu^efo, rebus meis agundis.In the next place, we have thefe verfes of Valerius Soranus, an ancientand eminent poet, full to the purpofe, recorded by Varro ' jJupiter cmnipotens,regum rex ipfe demnque.Progenitor genltrixque deum, Deus UNUS ijf OMN IS.To this fenfe : Omnipotent Jupiter, the king of kings and gods, and the progenitorand genitrix, the both father and another of thofe gods ; one God and all gods.Where the fupreme and omnipotent Deity is ftyled progenitor &" genitrix deorum,after the fame manner as he was called in the Orphic theology fxnrco-'TT^Tu^ and d,pp£voBri\^j;, that exprelTion denoting the gods and all other thingsto have been produced from him alone, and without any pre-exillent matter.Moreover, according to the tenour of this Ethnick theology, that one Godwas all gods and every god, the Pagans fuppofed, that when ever any inferiourdeity was v/orfhipped by them, the fupreme was therein alfo at onceworfliipped and honoured.^Though* De Lingua Latina, p. ;i. Edit. 1581. in Svo.