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

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Chap. IV. never<strong>the</strong>kfs a Monarchifl. 403<strong>the</strong> heavens, made or created to dijluiguijfj day <strong>and</strong> n'ght, by its diurnal circumgyrationupon its own ax<strong>is</strong>, in <strong>the</strong> middle or centre <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ivorld. ¥ot PlatOywhen he wrote h<strong>is</strong> Timaits, acknowledged only <strong>the</strong> diurnal motion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>earth, though afterwards he <strong>is</strong> faid to have admitted its annual too. And <strong>the</strong>fame might be fur<strong>the</strong>r evinced from <strong>all</strong> h<strong>is</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r writings, but efpeci<strong>all</strong>y h<strong>is</strong>book <strong>of</strong> laws (toge<strong>the</strong>r with h<strong>is</strong> Epino-m<strong>is</strong>) faid to have been written by himin h<strong>is</strong> old age, in which he much infills upon <strong>the</strong> godfhips <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fun, moon<strong>and</strong> ftars j <strong>and</strong> complains, that <strong>the</strong> young gentlemen oi A<strong>the</strong>ns wftrt <strong>the</strong>n fomuch infeded with that Anaxagorean docVrine, which made <strong>the</strong>m to benothing but inanimate ftones <strong>and</strong> earth ; as alio he approves <strong>of</strong> that <strong>the</strong>nvulgarly received cuftom <strong>of</strong> worfliipping <strong>the</strong> rifing <strong>and</strong> L-ttingfun <strong>and</strong> moon,as gods, to which, in <strong>all</strong> probability, he conformed himfclt : 'AvjireAAoW<strong>of</strong> te ^' ^

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