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

andChap. IV. the Parts and Members of Gad. ^ gjBanimam w.undi {quern Gr/eci vacant y-oTfj-ov) (jj hunc ipjiim mmdunt ejfe Deuvt,Sedjicut hominem fapieutem, cum fit ex corpore ts? ammo, tamen ah animo didfapientem \ ita tmmaum Deum diet ab animo, cum fit ex aiumo Cs? corpore. Ithefame Varro difcoiivfitng concerni)tg )iatural theology, declaretb, that, according tabis oixjn fenfe, God is the foul of the world., {which the Greeks call Coftnos)and that this world it felf is alfo God. But that this is fo to be underfioo^that as a wife man, though confifing of foul and body, yet is dencminated wife.6nly from his mind or foul ; fo the world is dencniinated God, from its mind at^fflul only, it confifting both of raind and body.Now if the whole animated world be tlie fupreme Gqd, it plainly followsfrom thence, that the feveral parts and members thereof muft be theparts and members of God •, this was r-eadily acknowledged by Seneca ' ;Membra fiimis corporis magni ; IVe are all mmibers of one great body : and ' Toturnhoc Deus efi, focii ejus i£ membra funuis ; This whole world is God, andwe are not only his members, but alfo his fellows or compcuiions ; as if ourhuman fouls had a certain kind of fellowlhip alio with that grjat foul ofthe univerfe. And accordingly, the foul of the world, and the whole mundaneanimal, was frequently worfhipped by rhe Pagans, in thefe its feveralmembers; the chief parts,of the world, aiid the moft important things ofnature ; as it were by piece-meal. Neverchcleis it doth not at all follow fromthence, that thefe were therefore to them really fo many feveral gods ; forthen not only every man, and every contemptible animal, every plant andherb, and pile of grafs, every river and hill, and all things &\{c whatfoever,muft be fo many feveral gods. And that the Pagans themfelves did not takethem for fuch, Origen obferves againil that alfertion of Celfus ; That if the•whole were God, then the feveral parts thereof mufi needs be gods, or divine ^^ 5-p- 234^{MS, zrcoi Si T8T01; X, TX (pxjTO,' £1 Hi fj.ifn T» y.o(r^H x, oi Ttorx^oi, xj r« oa-/i, xj a,l^x\a.(r