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

Chap. IV. their Gods to the Divine Ideas. 529-different notions and partial confiderations of him, according to his univerfaland all-comprehending nature. Janus, as the beginning of the world, andthe firft original of the gods. Whom therefore that ancient lyrick poetSeptimius Apher, accordingly thus invoked ' ;O cate renim Sator ! O PRINCIPIUM DEO RUM!Stridula cui limina, cut cardinei tutnultus,Cui referata mugiunt aurea clatiftra mundiGenius, as the great mind and foul of the whole world. Saturn, as that hiddenfource and principle, from which all forms and lives iffiie forth, and"into which they again retire ; being there laid up as in their fecret ftorehoufe: or elfe, as one of the Egyptian or Hcrmaick writers exprelfeth it,that which doth zsi-vla, •kohTv xJ tiV £a„Tov a.TroTroii7v, make all thitigs cut cfitfelf,and unmake them into it felf again ; this Hetrurian Saturn, anfwering to theEgyptian Hammon, that likewife fignified hidden, and is accordingly thusinterpreted by Jamblichus *, o tw «^xu»i rm xcxpupi^usvjjv Xoy^jv Jwz^p tl^ (pxiaym, he that bringeth forth the fecret power of the hidden reafons of things(contained within himfelf) into light. God was alfo called Athena ox Mi'nerva, as wifdom difFufing it felf through all things : and Aphrodite Urania^the heavenly Venus or Love. Thus Phanes, Orpheus his fupreme God, (fo calledaccording to La£fantius ', ^da cum adhuc nihil ejfet, primus ex infiniteapparuerit ; becaufe when there ivas yet nothing, he firfi appeared out of thatinfinite abyfs ; but according to Proclus, becaufe he did Upxii-n-j tx; voxtz; hila.^,difcover and make manifefi the intelligible unities (or ideas) from himfelf ithough we think the conjefture of Athanaftus Kircherus + to be more probablethan either of thefe, that Phanes was an Egyptian name ;) this PkaneSyI fay, was in the Orphick and Egyptian theology, as Proclus upon Plato*^^imceus informs us, ftiled «Sfo\ Epor, tender and foft Love, And Pherecydes.^raj 'likewife affirmed, i\i;%^i^T(x. [ji.eTa.QiQ\v3a.i tov Ala fAiKXovTx S'rffxnt^yt'iv, thatJupiter was turned all itjto love, when he went about to make the world. Befideswhich, there were other fuch names of the fupreme God, and more thanhave been mentioned by us ; as for example, Summanus amongft the ancientRomans, that afterward grew obfolete : of which St. Aufiin thus ; Romanive'C. D. I 4.*.teres nefcio quern Summanum, cui noStuma fiilmina tribuebant, coluerunt magis}};-^^-^}-'quam Jovem, ad quern diitrna fulmina pertinebant. Sed pojlquam Jovi tem-^^f^\plum infigne ac fublime conflru£lum efi, propter adis dignitatem, fie ad eum multiiudoconfuxit, ut vix inveniatur, qui Summani nomen, quod audiri jam nonpot efi, fe fall em kgiffe yneminerit. The ancient Romans worfhipped I know notwhat god, whom they called Summanus more than they did Jupiter. But afterthat a fiately and magnificent temple was ereSed to Jupiter, they all betookthemfelves thither ; in fo much that the name o/Summanus, now not at all heardyis fcarcely to be found in ancient writings.Again, as the Pagans had certain other gods, which they called f^eciah,{0 were thele but feveral names of that fupreme God alfo, according toY y y 2 particular' Apud Tei-entium Maurum de Litteris, » Inftitut Divin. Lib. I. cap. V. p. 31.tsff,. incer Gi-ammaticos vetei-es a Putfchio e- 4 In OEdipo jEgyptiaco, p. 49S.ditos, p.2;