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Do<strong>and</strong>"488 God c<strong>all</strong>ed Vt2imdiy Boos Lteftified by Plularch (who <strong>is</strong> a competent witnefs in th<strong>is</strong> cafe, he being aprieft <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> /Apollo) writing thus concerning him in h<strong>is</strong> defedl <strong>of</strong> oraclesfag. 413. I'iTi ji'Aio; JJ-ii' £*T£ xuai(3p »iAiii, xai 7raT«^, xai tTfiKuvx t« o^iktS irxvloi;, ax nWs(pfoyiii, Whe<strong>the</strong>r Apollo ^^ <strong>the</strong> fun., or whe<strong>the</strong>r he be <strong>the</strong> lord <strong>and</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fun., placed far above <strong>all</strong> fenftbli <strong>and</strong> corporeal nature, it <strong>is</strong> net likely,that he fhould now deny h<strong>is</strong> oracles to <strong>the</strong>m, to whom himfelf <strong>is</strong> <strong>the</strong> caufe <strong>of</strong> generation<strong>and</strong> nouripr/ient,<strong>of</strong> life <strong>and</strong> under/l<strong>and</strong>ing."Efwf, or Love, which Orpheus, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs in Arijlotle, made to be <strong>the</strong> firltoriginal <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> things : for it <strong>is</strong> certain, that <strong>the</strong> ancients diftinguifhed conploSMoreover Urania aphrodite, <strong>the</strong> Heavenly Venus or Love, was a univerfalNumen alfo, or ano<strong>the</strong>r name <strong>of</strong> God, according to h<strong>is</strong> more generarnotion, as comprehending <strong>the</strong> whole world; it being <strong>the</strong> flime wirh thatcerning a double ^«7/^j <strong>and</strong> Love. T\\\.k Paiifanias in Plato's Symp<strong>of</strong>ium,« y.Lv yi Tra Trpia-QuTipx ):ai ccfjiytrup OJp«v» d'v'yxTyio, rj-j Sn koci tspxvixv iiroi<strong>of</strong>Aei.Cot/.tv'71 Si vsuTiPa, Aio; xait A»wv>i?, vv St 7rc/,\iiriijt.ov x«X»|^tSii" uva.yKx7o)i Sri Kat "EpcJla, toi(>uiv Irspa (jwsoyov, 7r*vJ5],uov oa^wj xxXi73(xi, roj Si npx'AoV There are tWO Vcnus's,<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore two Loves -, one <strong>the</strong> older <strong>and</strong> without a mo<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> daughter<strong>of</strong> Uranus or heaven, which we c<strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong> heavenly Venus -, ano<strong>the</strong>r younger.^begotten from Jupiter <strong>and</strong> Dione, which we cell <strong>the</strong> vulgar .-Venus accordinglyare <strong>the</strong>re <strong>of</strong> neceffty two loves, anfwering to <strong>the</strong>fe tvjo Venus's, <strong>the</strong>one vulgar <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r heavenly. Tlie elder <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe two Venus's <strong>is</strong> in,-Plato faid to be fenior to Japhet <strong>and</strong> Saturn^ <strong>and</strong> by Orpheus ' <strong>the</strong> oldefl<strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> things, <strong>and</strong> n^!^^^ ytvirco^, <strong>the</strong> firft begetter <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong>. Upon which account,perhaps, it was c<strong>all</strong>ed by <strong>the</strong> oriental nations Mylitta or GenitriXy.as being <strong>the</strong> fruitful mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong>. Th<strong>is</strong> was alio <strong>the</strong> fame with Plato*&TO TT^urov y.aXav, <strong>the</strong> firjt fair; <strong>the</strong> caufe <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> pulchritude, order <strong>and</strong> harmonyin <strong>the</strong> world. And Paufanias* <strong>the</strong> writer ttUs us, that <strong>the</strong>re weretemples fever<strong>all</strong>y erefted to each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe Venus*s or Loves, <strong>the</strong> heavenly <strong>and</strong><strong>the</strong> vulgar <strong>and</strong> that Urania, or <strong>the</strong> heavenly Venus, was fo c<strong>all</strong>ed, lii) i^'Jlu-,xa^afw xai oiTrnXafj,(vu) 7ro9s (Tuf^drm, becaufe <strong>the</strong> Icve belonging to it was pure<strong>and</strong> free from <strong>all</strong> corporeal affe5lion : which, as it <strong>is</strong> in men, <strong>is</strong> but a participation<strong>of</strong> that firfl: Urania, or heavenly Venus <strong>and</strong> Love, God himfelf Andthus IS Venus defcribed by Euripides in Stobceus '» as <strong>the</strong> fuprcme NumenThus alfo byT^" 'A.^^oStTr\v ix °?^^ ^^^ '__jE[chylu!, 'Epa AAA iS^ CXM flTTOlf, K

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