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

upon5 18 Accidents and AffeSlwn perfonated^ Book I.whole world, that being invifible, he hath made himfelf vifible in hisworks, and confequently was to be worfhipped and adored in them. WhetherSocrates and Plato^ and their genuine followers, would extend this anyfurther than to the animated parts of the world, fuch as the I'un, moon, andliars were to them, we cannot certainly determine. But we think it very probable,that many of thofe Pagans, who are charged with worfhipping inanimatethings, and particularly the elements, did notwithftanding direcl theirworfliip to the fpirits of thofe elements, as Ammianus Marcellinus tells usJulian did, that is, chiefly the fouls of them, all the elements being fuppofedby many of thefe Pagans to be animated, (as was before obferved"• 23 »^i'/'conccrnxng Proclus ; ) and partly alio thofe dsemons, which they conceivedto inhabit in them, and to prefide over the parts of them *,whichaccount it was faid by Plato, and others of the ancients, that irx.rx S^ta»wAJi'fi, all things are full of gods and daemons.XXXIII. But that thefe phyfielogical gods, that is, the things of natureperfonated and deified, were not accounted by the Pagans true andproper gods, much lefs independent and felf-exirtent ones, may further appearfrom hence, becaufe they did not only thus perfonate and deify thingsfubftantial, and inanimate bodies, but alfo meer accidents and afix'flions offubftances. As for example, firft, the pafTions of the mind ; rx nx^rn ^eouVivo//t(rav, rt S-fsuf tTi^u»; They accounted thepajfions of the mind to be gods, or at leaft worfhipped them as gods -,thatis, built temples or altars to their names. Thus was Hope^ not only a goddefsto the poet Theognis *,"EATTff £1/ ai/9fla7rw(n juov» htoi; t(r9Xi9 ^'deoI'*(where he fancifully makes her to be the only Numen, that was left to mf nin heaven, as if the other gods had all forlaken thofe manfions and theworld ;) but alfo had real temple"; dedicated to her at Rome, as that confecratedby Attilius in the Forum Olitoriutn, and others elfewhere, whereinfhe was commonly pictured or feigned, as a woman, covered over witha green pall, and holding a cup in her hand '. Thus alfo Love and DJIrewere gods or goddefles too, as likewife were care, memory, opinion, truth,virtue, piety, faith, juftice, clemency, concord, viflory, &c. WhichVi£lory was, together with Virtue^ reckoned up amongft the gods by Plautusin the prologue of his Amphitryo ; and not only fo, but that there wasan altar ereded to her alfo, near the entrance of the fenate-houfe at Rnrne^which having been once demoiirtied, i^ywwrtfi'K; earneftly endeavoured thereftauration thereof, in the reign (Alheodoftus\ he amongft other thingswriting thus concerning it, ^ 'Nemo colendam neget, quam profiteiur optandam\ Let no man deny that of right to he worfhipped^ which he acknow^ledgeth to be wifhedfor^ and to be defirable. Befides all which, £1:^17 was agoddefs to thefe pagans too, and fo was Night (to whom they facrificed acock) and Sleep and Death itfclf, and very many more fuch affeclions ofthings,Orat. XXXr V. Tom. I. Oper. p. 546. Cap. X. p. 748.' In Sententiis, Verf. 1131, ii^z.p. 115. * Epiftolar. Lib. IX- Epi/l, LXI. p- 441.» Vide Voffium. de Idololatr. Lib. VIIJ.