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

Chap. IV. the fame Natural God. 493comtnon fpeech of all men makes Jupiter to reign in the heaven. Agamy hethat is, faid to rule under the earth, is in a certain verfe of Homer, calledZeus or Jupiter too, namely the infernal or fuhlerraneous Jupiter togetherwith Proferpina. And lafily, ^fchylus, the fan of Euphorion, calls thatGod, who is the king of the fea alfo, Jupiter. Wherefore this fiatuary madeJupiter with three eyes, to ftgnify, that it is one and the fame God, whichruleth in thofe three fevcral farts cf the world, the heaven, the fea, and theearth. Whether Paufanias were in tht right or no, as to his conjedlureconcerning this three-eyed ftatue of Jupiter, it is evident, that himfelf, andother ancient Pagans acknowledged Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, to be butthree feveral names, and partial confiderations of one and the fame God,who ruleth over the whole world. And fir.ce both Proferpina and Cereswere really the fame with Pluto, and Salacia with Neptune; we may wellconclude, that all thefe, Jupiter, Neptune, Salacia, Pluto, Proferpina, andCeres, though feveral poetical and political gods, yet were really taken butfor one and the fame natural and philofophical God.Moreover, as Neptune was a name for God, as manifefting himfelf in thefea, and ruling over it, fo was J«»5 another name of God, as adling in theair. This is exprefly affirmed both by Xenocrates in Stohceus i, and Zen»in Laertius '. '^And St. Auf in propounding this qucere, why Juno wasjoined to Jupiter as his wife and filler, makes the Pagans anfwer thus to it,^ia Jovem (inquiunt) in athere accipimusyin aire Junonem ; becaufe we callGod in the ccther Jupiter, /;; the air Juno. But the reafon, why Juno wasfeminine and a goddefs, is thus given by Cicero *, Effaminarunt autem eum,Junoni?«^ trihuerunt, quod nihil eji acre moUius; they effeminated the air, and-attrihuted it to Juno a goddefs, becaufe nothing is fofter than it. Minervawa'5 alfo fometimes taken for a fpecial or particular God, and then was it nothing("as Zeno informs us) but a name for the fupreme God, as paffingthrough the (hish-rr) aether : which gave occafion to St. Aujtin thus to ob- C. D. I, 4.je£t agai ft ih P gin theology. Si eiherispartetn fuperiorem Minerva tenets':- 'o.dicitur, ^ kac occaftone fingere poetas, quod de Jovis capite nata Jit, cur non '• "4-1ergo ipfa pctius decrum regtna deputatur, quod Jit Jove fupericr ? If Minervahe faid to poffefs the highefi fart of the criher ; and the poets therefore to havefeigned her to have been begotten from Jupiter'j head, why is not Jhe rathercalled the queen of the gods, Jhuefhe is fiperior to Jupiter ? Furthermore, a«the fupreme God was called Neptuve in the fea, and Juno in the air, fo bythe fame reafon may we conclude, that he was called Vulcan in the fir*.Laftty, as the fiirv and moon were them-fe'ves fometime worfhipped byth^Pa