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

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

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374 ^^ow fome made Love tM olcUfi ; B o o k I.cut out; <strong>and</strong> again, ex univerfa mente divhia delibato ejfe cni-os nojlros \th<strong>is</strong> in a'l probability was to be underllood alio ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> third or fcconddivine hyp<strong>of</strong>taf<strong>is</strong>, <strong>and</strong> not <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firft, which was properly c<strong>all</strong>ed by him tohkt.L. i.c.6.'iii <strong>and</strong> f-o'viZ?, a Uniiy <strong>and</strong> Monc.d; <strong>and</strong> alio, as Plutarch ' tells us, to aj^af<strong>is</strong>y,iy.^6- Tom. gQoiJuep it [elf. Arlfiotle plainly afHrmeth, that fome <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ancient <strong>the</strong>ologersIV. Oper.J^[-pQpigf,- i;fig Pagans made sfarji or loi:e to be <strong>the</strong> firft principle <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> things,that <strong>is</strong>, <strong>the</strong> fupreme Deity ; <strong>and</strong> we have already fhcwed, that Orpheus wasone <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe. For when fpuf —oAOTEfTrnV <strong>and</strong> crcAi/'uy.n?, delightful Love^ anithat, ivhicb <strong>is</strong> not blind, but full <strong>of</strong> wifdom <strong>and</strong> couv.fcU <strong>is</strong> made by him to be«Jt(;t£A£j <strong>and</strong> tn-ffTSu-^Toi', felfpsrfeoi <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> oldefh <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> things., it <strong>is</strong> plain, tha<strong>the</strong> fiipp<strong>of</strong>ed it to be nothing lels than <strong>the</strong> fupreme Deity. Wherefore fince,Pythagoras <strong>is</strong> gener<strong>all</strong>y affirmed to have followed <strong>the</strong> Orphick principles, wemay from hence prefume, that he did it in th<strong>is</strong> alfo. Though it be very true,that Plato, who c<strong>all</strong>ed <strong>the</strong> fupreme Deity txyx'^'i), as well as Pythagoras, diddiflent trom <strong>the</strong> Orphick <strong>the</strong>ology in th<strong>is</strong>, <strong>and</strong> would not acknowledge Lovefor a name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fupreme Deity -, as when in h<strong>is</strong> Symp<strong>of</strong>ion in <strong>the</strong> perfon <strong>of</strong>.^^^//^lO he fpeaks thus :

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