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

4.8o Tlje fuprerne God polyonyfuous, Book I.the other gods are divided, and fame of them are invoked for one things andfome for another ; this is looked upon by them as the Coryph^us of all the gods,who contains the beginning and end of all things, and ivho is able to fupply allwants. Cneph is alfo defcribed by Eufebius ' as that divine intellect, whichwas the demiurgus of the world, and which giveth life to all things, as heis by Plutarch * faid to be d-yhr^^ or unmade ; fo that this was alfo anotherEgyptian name of God ; as likewife was Emeph and EiHon in Jamblichus ' ithough thefc may be fcverally diftinguifhed into a trinity of divine hypoflafes.Laftly, when Ifis, which was fometimes called Multimammea, andmade all over full of breads, to fignify her feeding all things, thus defcribesherfclf in Apuleius "•, Summa numinuin, prima ccelitum, deorunt dearujnquefades un if or mis, cujus numen unicum multiformi fpecie, ritu vario, jwmineip.ultijugo totus veneratur orbis -, as flie plainly makes herfelf to be the fupremeDeity, fo doth (he intimate, that all the gods and goddefTes werecompendioufly contained in her alone, and that fhe (i. e. the fupreme God)was worptpped under feveral perfonal names, and with different rites, overthe whole Pagan world. Moreover, this is particularly noted concerningthe Eo-yptians by Damafcius ' the philofopher, that, to vor,TO)i Jr-i^wac-iv si,-TToXXuv S^i/ i'^iOTTiTO,-, They multiplied the firfl intelligible (cr thefupreme Deity)breaking and dividing the fame into the names a)id properties of many gods.Now, the Egyptian theology was in a manner the pattern of all the reft,,but efpecially of thofe European theologies, of the Greeks and Romans."Who likewife, that they often made many gods of one, is evident fromtheir beftowing fo many proper and perfonal names upon each of thofe inferioro-ods of theirs; the fun, and the moon, and the earth; the firftwhereof, ufua'ly called Apollo, had therefore this epithet of TroAuw/.^a^commonly given to him» the god with many names. Which many propernames of his Macrobius infifteth upon in his Saturnalia, though probablymakino more of thi m than indeed they were, And the moon was not onlyfo called, but aifo D.ana, and Lucina, and Hecate, and otherwife ; infomuclithat this goddefs al o hath been ftyled Polyonym:us as well as her brotherthe fun. And laftly, the earth, befides thole honorary titles, of bona dea,and magna dea^ ^uS mater deorum, The good goddefs, and the great goddefs,and the mother of the gods, was multiplied by them into thofe many goddtfll-s,ot Vcjla, arid Rhea, and Cybele, and Ceres, and Profcrpina, andOps, l^c. And for this caufe was fhe thus defcribed by JEfchylus ^ ;K«i rar« "kOOm-j ovofjiuTuv juojtpl //.la*Et "Tellus multcrum nominum fades una.Now if thcfe inferior gods of the Pagans had each of them fo many perfonalnames beftowed upon them, much more might the fupreme God be polyonymousamongft them ; and fo indeed he was commonly ftyled, as thatlearned• Ex Porphyrlo, Pr*par. Evangel, Lib. III. • Metamcrph. Lib. XII. p. 258, 259. Edit,Cap. XI. p. 115. Ehneiiliorfli.• De Ificle & Ofiride, p. 357. Oper. ' MS. ^i;'\ it