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

Chap. IV. hi the Monarchy of the whole, 067Though the fenfe of OivV/hath been fjfficiently declared before, yet we cannotwell omit fome other paflages of his, as that grateful and fenfible acknowledgment,'§luod kquor i^ Jpiro, cislumque & lumina folisAfpicio {poffumne ingratus immemor ejje?)Ipfe dedit.And this in ths third of his Metamorph.Ilk pater reSlorqiie deum^Jgnibiis armala eft,cut dextra trifulcisqui nutu concutit orbem^Virgil's theology alfo may fufficiently appear from his frequent acknowledgmentof an omnipotent Deity, and from thofe verfes of his before cited out'of y£«. 6. wherein he plainly aflerts one God to be the original of all things,at lead as a foul of the world ; Servius Honoratus there paraphrafing thus,Dius ejl quidam daviniis fpivitus, qui per quatuor fufus elementa gignit univerfa ;•God is a certain jpirit, ijchich, infufed through the four elements, begetteth all'things. Neverthelefs, we fhall add from hina this alfo of Vtitus her prayerto Jupiter, Mn. i-O qui res hominumque deumque^ternis regis imperils, ^fulmine terres!Which ^(?«7« again, yEn. lo. befpeaks the fame Jupiter after this manner,O pater, Ohominum divumqtte aterna poteftas !Where we have this annotation of Servius, diviltnque aterna poteftas, propteraliorum numinum difcretionem ; Jupiter is here called the eternal power of thegods, to diftinguiftj him from all the other gods, that were not eternal, but madeor generated from him.Neither ought Horace to be left out,Lib. I. Od. 12.in whom we read to the lame purpofe.^lid prius dicamfolitis parentisLaudibus ? qui res hominum fif deorum,§ui mare ^ terras, variifque mundumtemperat horis,TJnde nil majus generatur ipfo.Nee viget quicquam ftmile aut fecundum :Proximos illi tamen occupavitAnd again, . 3. Lib. Od. 4.^li terram inertem,* Metamorph. Lib. XIV. verf. 172.qui mare temperatB b bPallas honores'.Ventoftmi