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

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utChap. IV. Poetical <strong>and</strong> Phamajlical. 53:1now but <strong>the</strong> true piety left ; he, who <strong>is</strong> worJJjipped hy us Corijiians, lein^ thlonly true God, <strong>the</strong> lord <strong>of</strong> nature, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> maker <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> [ubjlances. From whencewe may obferve, thaf, according to Athanafms, <strong>the</strong> Pagan poetick gods wersno real things in nature, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>the</strong>y could be no o<strong>the</strong>r, than <strong>the</strong> fcveralnotions <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> powers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> one fupreme God deified, or feveralnames <strong>of</strong> him. So that Athanafms h<strong>is</strong> poetick Gods, Or o\ rsy.^oi -srouirarsiuv-.&£uo,uEv(3i 3-£oi, Gods fabidoufly devifed by <strong>the</strong> poets, were chiefly th<strong>of</strong>e two kinds<strong>of</strong> Pagan gods, firft mentioned by us ;• that <strong>is</strong>, <strong>the</strong> various confiderations <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> one fupreme Numen, according to its general notion, expreflcd by fomany proper names ; <strong>and</strong> ftcondly ii<strong>is</strong> particular powers diftufed thorough <strong>the</strong>world, fever<strong>all</strong>y perfonated <strong>and</strong> deified. Which, confidered as fo many diftinftdeities, are nothing but meer fiction <strong>and</strong> phancy, without any reality. And4rhrs do^ <strong>the</strong> Pagans <strong>the</strong>mfelves in Athanajius acknowledge : IVa,- yx^ «f aJ-oi'P \l\ [Tom.uSi Apij'' TrAarlovIa Si TaTKf, u; ovTXi ol uroirirai -nrp<strong>of</strong> dTrol,rr,v twh axsovrau, 'They'fay, that <strong>the</strong> names <strong>of</strong> th<strong>of</strong>e gods are meerly fi£litious, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong>re does nowhere re<strong>all</strong>y exif a>r)> fuch Jupittr, or Saturn, or Juno,

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