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

Chap. IV. and Aratus his Zeus, the true God, 475For we are his off-fpring, and interpreting the fame of the true God, inwhom we live and move^ and have our being ; we have alfo here a plainScripture-acknowledgment, that by the Zeus of the Greek ifh Pagans wasfometimes at lead meant the true God. And indeed that Aratus liis Zeuswas neither a man born in Crete nor in Arcadia, but the maker and fuprcmegovernor of the whole world, is evident both from the antecedent and thefubfequent verfcs. For Aratus his phenomena begins thus.(which in Tully's verfion is ab Jove tnufarum fritnordia) and then follows adefcription ofthisZ^«j or Jupiterrov vSlTTOT cvicig luuivKai AijCiEvf;' TTxvTti Si Alo; xe^oriixi^x TrxvieCTo this fenfe ; Him, of whom we men are never filent ; and of whom allthings are full, he permeating and pervading all, and being every where ; andwhofe beneficence ice all conltantly make ufe of and enjoy : for we alfo are hisoff-fpring. Where Tbeon the fcholiaft writeth thus ; -txvj vceTrovTu; e "A^xto?rtfj Tuv a,i~puv ott^isvai ixiXho)]) S'icriv, tov Trxlipx tb'tui/ >c, S'numip'yov, Ai'iz, £u rrccoroi;7r^o^ Sriy.ivpyoviiriy^odpofMwr This agreeth with that title of Jupiter, when he is called thefather of gods and m:n : for if he made us, and all ihefe other things for ourufe, we may well be called his, and alfo fiyle him our father and maker.And that this was the only notion, which the poet here had of Z.-'«j or Jupiter,appears undeniably alfo from the following words j as,— S *)7ri0f auOcwTrcicrjAt'^iK