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

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THE TRUEINTELLECTUAL SYSTEMO FT H EUNIVERSE.BOOK I.CHAP.Lt. The fatal necejfity <strong>of</strong> oil human aElions <strong>and</strong> events maintained upon threefeveral grounds y which are fo many falfe hypo<strong>the</strong>fes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> intelleSIual fyflem<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> univerfe. 2. Concerning <strong>the</strong> ma<strong>the</strong>matical or ajlrological fate. 3. Concerning<strong>the</strong> opinion <strong>of</strong> th<strong>of</strong>e^ who fupp<strong>of</strong>e a fate fuperiour to <strong>the</strong> hig'eji Deity.4. The moderation <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> difcourfe. 5. The A<strong>the</strong>ijlical hypo<strong>the</strong>fts or Democriticalfate being founded upon <strong>the</strong> atomical pbyfiology : <strong>the</strong> necejftty <strong>of</strong> givingan account <strong>of</strong> it, <strong>and</strong> that firfl briefly defcribed. 6. The antiquity <strong>of</strong>th<strong>is</strong> phyftology, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> account, which <strong>is</strong> given <strong>of</strong> it by Ariftotle. 7. Aclear <strong>and</strong> full record <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fame phyfiology ;'« Plato, that hath not been takennotice .<strong>of</strong> 8. That nei<strong>the</strong>r Y)tvc\ocnt\i%, wor Leiicippus, «or Protagoras, norany A<strong>the</strong>ifts were <strong>the</strong> firji inventors <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> pkil<strong>of</strong>ophy j <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> necejftty <strong>of</strong>being 1 1 oroughly acquainted with it, in order to tie confutation <strong>of</strong> A<strong>the</strong>ijni.9. The tradition <strong>of</strong> P<strong>of</strong>idonius <strong>the</strong> Stcick, that Molchus an ancient Phoenicianwas <strong>the</strong> frjl inventor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> atomical phyjiology. 10. That th<strong>is</strong> M<strong>of</strong>chi<strong>is</strong>,<strong>the</strong> inventor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> atomical phyjiology, was probably <strong>the</strong> fame with Mochus<strong>the</strong> phyjiologer in Jambliclius, with wh<strong>of</strong>e fucceffas, priejls <strong>and</strong> prophets,Pythagoras converfed at Sidon. 1 1. O<strong>the</strong>r probabilities for th<strong>is</strong>, thatPytiiagoras was acquainted with <strong>the</strong> atomical plyfiology. 12. That Pythagorasto Monads weie atoms. 13. Proved plainly, that Empedocles, whoxvasa Pythagorean, phyjiologized atomical'y. 14. Ibe fame fur<strong>the</strong>r convincedfrom Plato, Ariftotle, Plutarch a»^ Stobjeus. 15. That Arnxz^orss wasa fpurious Atomift, or unjkilful imitator <strong>of</strong> that phil<strong>of</strong>ophy. 16. That Kcphantus<strong>the</strong> Pythagorean, Xenocrates, Heraclides, Diodorus

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