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

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492 More popular <strong>and</strong> poelick Godjs^ Book I.Z;ur, t'.V 'AiVjijWhe<strong>the</strong>r thou had/i raihrr be c<strong>all</strong>ed Jupiter or Pluto.Laftly, Hermefia7iax <strong>the</strong> Colophonian poet, in th<strong>of</strong>e verfes <strong>of</strong> h<strong>is</strong> fafterwardto be fet downj makes ?luto in <strong>the</strong> firft place, (with many o<strong>the</strong>r Pagangods) to be re<strong>all</strong>y one <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> fame with 'Jupiter.That Neptune was alio ano<strong>the</strong>r name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fupreme God, from ano<strong>the</strong>rparticular confideration <strong>of</strong> him, namely, as ading in <strong>the</strong> fcas, (at leafl. accordingto <strong>the</strong> arcane <strong>and</strong> natural <strong>the</strong>ology <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pagans,) <strong>is</strong> plainly declaredby divers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ancients. Xenocrates in Stobceus i, <strong>and</strong> Zeno in Laertills^, affirm, that God as afting in <strong>the</strong> water <strong>is</strong> c<strong>all</strong>ed P<strong>of</strong>idone or Neptune.ZJ^iV.D. /.2.X0 <strong>the</strong> fame purp<strong>of</strong>e Balbus in Cicero: Sed tamen h<strong>is</strong> fabtd<strong>is</strong> fpret<strong>is</strong> ac re-XXVril.p^diat<strong>is</strong>, Deus pertitiens pernaturam cujufqiie rei, per terras Ceres, per inariap. 2996 iNeptunus, alii per alia, poterunt intelUgi^ qui qualefque fint. Sic. But <strong>the</strong>fepoetick fables concerning <strong>the</strong> gods being defpifed <strong>and</strong> reje£fed., it <strong>is</strong> eafy for usto underjl<strong>and</strong>, hozu God paffing through <strong>the</strong> nature <strong>of</strong> every thing., may be c<strong>all</strong>edby feveral names, as through <strong>the</strong> earth Ceres, (<strong>and</strong> Pluto) through <strong>the</strong> feasNeptune ; <strong>and</strong> through o<strong>the</strong>r parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world by o<strong>the</strong>r names : fo thar <strong>all</strong><strong>the</strong>fe titular gods were but fo many feveral denominations <strong>of</strong> one fupreme^^^^•^3 Deity. And Cotta afterward thus reprefents <strong>the</strong> fenfe <strong>of</strong> th<strong>is</strong> <strong>the</strong>ology,p. ^soQo 1 * Nt-ptunum ejfe diets animum cum intelligentid per mare pergentenu idem de Cerere : Tcur meaning <strong>is</strong>, Neptune <strong>is</strong> a mind, "uhich with underjl<strong>and</strong>ing paj/esthrough <strong>the</strong> fea, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> like <strong>of</strong> Ceres through <strong>the</strong> earth. Laftly, to name noDijP't. ;o.more, Maximus Tyrius agreeth alfo herewith, xxhei rov jmev aU <strong>is</strong>i/ Tr^ei^^vTolov,[Cap.XXlX. &C. rov Si noa-EiJw, TrviUfxa, Six y-^; ?cj S-aAa'Titi? I'^i', otxovoiJt,vv ccvtuv tw rairjv >^ twp. Z90.] (x,^fi.avla.r Tou are to c<strong>all</strong> Jupiter that princely mind, which <strong>all</strong> things follow<strong>and</strong> obey, &c. <strong>and</strong> Neptune that fpirit, which pajfing through <strong>the</strong> earth <strong>and</strong>fea, caujes <strong>the</strong>ir Jiate <strong>and</strong> harmony.Laftly, that <strong>the</strong>fe three Jupiter, Neptune, <strong>and</strong> Pluto, were not three re<strong>all</strong>ydiftinft fubftantial beings, but only fo many feveral names for one fupremeGod, (according to <strong>the</strong> true <strong>and</strong> natural <strong>the</strong>ology <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pagans) <strong>is</strong> thusplainly declared by Paufanias in h<strong>is</strong> Corinthiacks * ; he <strong>the</strong>re expounding <strong>the</strong>meaning <strong>of</strong> a certain ftatue <strong>of</strong> Jupiter with three eyes, ("c<strong>all</strong>ed <strong>the</strong> countryJupiter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Trojans) in th<strong>is</strong> manner: T^u^St o(p^»,XiJ.i^ 'ly(jn tw) tw Si avTnT(>ii.i.ixi^ono MjTov Aix ya^ h vpccvif (ioca-iMvuu, vto; /;*£« Xo'j/«f- xonog Troivluv if^tv«v8fU7rui», 'Ov Si cii^Civ (poc(r]v Ctto yri;, 'iriv iV<strong>of</strong> jilv' Oi^-ri^v Ai'« ivou.^.Cw }^ txtov,Ai^uXo? St Ev

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