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

p466'1'he Hebrews Notmv B o o k I.with admiration of both thefe worlds, the vifibte and the invijihk, have netonly deified the whole of them, but alfo their feveral parts, as the fun, andthe moon, and the whole heaven , they not fcrupling to call thefe gods. Whichnotionand language of theirs Mofes refpeSled in thofe words of his. ThouLord the king of gods ; he thereby declaring the tranfcendency of the fupremeGod above all thofe his fubjecls called gods. To the lame purpofe Philowriteth alfo in his Commentary upon the Decalogue, ^r^c-av Sv rr,v toi«ut>]i#tfffiffi'av diruadaivoi, r\ti a,hx(p\ig (pucfi fAi? TfOTK'JvWf-tEu, il -xj xx^apuTipx; >^ (x.5xvxruTipa?iQioci; sAap^ou, oi,SiX(px S aXXnXuv rot, yvjofxevx, y,«6' o yiyoMvi, 'nri\ xj TrxrnaKTOiVTUV TTODTTr? TUt OAUV' Kj TTOtilTOV T»TO Xy 'ttpVTxloV TrXOxyflXf/.X ^riAlTfJ(jUU,lV IVcit, xo(7|a!(, x^tuv iv x'jroTi; oXoj^ict^x.rui'j jj.(0{,>]i tm; ^iuv TrfiOTroXone>^ ^ifXTTivrct), fixiAa^rxvtsn, ri; uTrnxon; t» clo^ovl'^ (tiimiwojIc;' They, who Worfhipthe fun, and the moon, and the whole heaven and zvorld, and the principalparts of them as gods, err, in that they worflnp the fubjecls of the prince \whereas the prince alone ought to be worfhipped. Thus, according to Phihithe Pagan polytheifm confifted in giving religious worfhip, befides th^fupreme God, to other created underflanding beings, and parts of the world,more pure and immortal than men.Flaviusjofephus, in his Judaick Antiquities ', extolling Abraham'';, wifdomand piety, writeth thus concerning him ; TrfUT(^ i-j To\y.x ^lov a.iTo(pwxSfx\ir]ixtx^'yo-j Twu oXuv fvx, which fome would underftand in this manner, thatAbraham was the firfl, who publickly declared, that there was one God the Demiurgusor maker of the whole world; as if all mankind befides, at thattime, had fuppofed the world to have been made not by one, but by manygods. But the true meaning of thofe words is this, that Abraham was thefirfl., who, in that degenerate age, publickly declared, that the maker of thewhole world was the one only God, and alone to be religioufly worlhipped ;accordingly, as it follows afterwards in the fame writer, Z xxXu; 'iyji y6m rhriyriv ^ rr.v fuj^afiriav ccTroviytiv^ to whcm alone men ought to give honour andthanks. And the reafon hereof is there alfo fet down, rm St Xoittuv, cl iC, nirpoi 1'jiocifji.ovixv uvvriXeT, nxrx Trpcrxywj rri'j rovm Tra^i^irj ixy.ro'j Xp ou xar oixiiavl^iv' Becaufe all thofe other beings, that were then worfhipped as gods, whatfceverany of them contributed to the happinefs of mankind, they d:d it not bytheir own power, but by his appointment and command; he inflancing inthe fun and moon, and earth and fea, which are all made and orderedby a higher power and providence, by the force whereof they contributeto our utility. As if he fhoiild have faid, that no created beingought to be religioufly worfhipped, but the Creator only. And this.' Lib. I. Cap. VII. p. 28. Tom. I. Oper. Edit. Havercamf.agreeth