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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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which37'Heraclitus h<strong>is</strong> God,B o o k Lfaithy that Cod always rcmaineth or rejleth <strong>the</strong> fame^ he underfianth not th<strong>is</strong><strong>of</strong> that reft which <strong>is</strong> opp<strong>of</strong>tte to motion^ <strong>and</strong> which belongs to [uch things as mayhe moved ; but <strong>of</strong> a certain e<strong>the</strong>r reft, which <strong>is</strong> both above that motion <strong>and</strong> itscontrary. From whence it <strong>is</strong> evident, that Xenophanes fupp<strong>of</strong>cd (as Sextus<strong>the</strong> phil<strong>of</strong>opher alfo afRrmeth) God to be incorporeal, a being unhke to <strong>all</strong>o<strong>the</strong>r things, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>of</strong> which no image could be made. And nowwe iinderft<strong>and</strong>, that y/r///c//(? ' dealt not ingeniioufly with Xf«o;)/'^«f.r, wh.enfrom that exprefTion <strong>of</strong> h<strong>is</strong>, that God was -rCpaiip<strong>of</strong>i^v?, ox fphery-fomu lie wouldinfer, that Xenophanes made God to be a body, <strong>and</strong> nothing elfe but <strong>the</strong>round corporeal world animated -, yet was repugnant alio to ano<strong>the</strong>rphyfical hypo<strong>the</strong>f<strong>is</strong> <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> fame Xenophanes., dn-^Ug; v-Ai«c ehxi jcj cc/.y.-j:',:;, that,<strong>the</strong>re were infinite funs <strong>and</strong> moons ; by which moons he underftood planets,affirming <strong>the</strong>m to be <strong>all</strong> habitable earths, as Cicero tells us ^. Wherefore, asSimplicius refolves, God was faid to be

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