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

484 Pan, Janus, Genius, Saturn.; Book I.Faft. I. And asiain in this of Ovid ;[Ver. 1.7]^lirquid ubiqiie vides, caelum, mare., nuVila, terras^Omnia funt noftra daufa patentqiie maiiuMe penes efi unum vafti cujiodia miindi.From which paflfages it alfo appears, that Janus was not the meer fenfc-]efs and inanimate matter of the world, but a principle prefiding over it.And without doubt all the beginnings of things were therefore referred totWK Janus, becaufe he was accounted the moft ancient god, and the beginnino-of all things. St. Auftin concluding him to be the fame with Jupiter^therefore quarrels with the Pagans (that is, with their civil theology) forC. D.l. 7. thus making two gods of one: Cum ergo Janus mundus fit^ iS Jupiter mun-'•10-dusfit, unique fit mundus, quare duo dii funt JAnns (^ ]upkcr? ^tare feor-[P->3>-]y-^;„ hahent templa, feorfum aras, diverfa facra, di(J'imilia fimidachra? Sipropiera, quia alia vis eft primordicrum, alia caufarum, ex ilta Jani, ex iftaJovis nomen accepit : nunquidfi unus homo in diverf,s rebus duas habeat po-^teftateSy aut duas artes, {quia frngularum diverfa vis eft) idea duo dictmlurartifices ? ^c. Since therefore Janus is the world, and Jup'ter is the world,and there is but one world, how can Janus fl«i Jupiter be two gods? Whyhave they their temples apart, their altars apart, diftin£l facred things, andftatues of different forms? If becaufe the force of beginnings is one, and theforce of caiifes another, he is therefore called }.\m\sfrom the former, and Jupiter/rcw the latter; I ask whether or no, if one man have two feveral artsabout different things, he therefore be to be called two artificers ? Or is thereany more reafon, why one and the fame god, having two powers, one over thebeginnings of things, and another over the caufes, fhould therefore be accountedtwo gods ? Where, when Jupiter and Janus are both fliid to be the world,thisls to be underifood properly not of the matter, but the foul or mindCD. /. 4. Q^ jj^g world, as St. Auftin himfelfelfewhere declares •, Sit Jupiter corporeirp' '5Ihujus mundi animus, qui univerfam iftam molcm, ex quatuor elemefitis confiru£lamat que compa£iam, implet {5? mcvet ; Let Jupiter be the mind of thiscorporeal world, which both filleth and moveth that whole bulk, compoundedand made up of the four elements. Neverthelefs, as the foul .ind body bothtogether are called the man, fo was the whole animated world, by the Pagans,called God. Nov/ the forementioned argumentation of St. Auftin,though it be good againft the Pagans civil theology, yet their other arcaneand natural theology was unconcerned in ir, that plainly acknowledging allto be but one God, which for certain reafons v/.5s worfhipped under feveralnames, and with different rites. Wherefore Ja-nus and Jupiter^ beingreally but different names for one and the fame fupreme God, that conjeftureof Salmafius feems very probable, that the Romans derived theirJanus from Zx-.or, the jEtolian Jupiter.GENIUS was alfo another of the twenty feleft Roman gods •,and that thiswas likevvife a univcrfal Numen, containining the whole nature of things,appears