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

.fJ-XTttVCh a p. I. That Pythagoras was an Atheijl. 1mocritus, and had no fiich atheiftical original neither. And there wants notother good authority for this, thu Pythagoras A\d borrow many things fromthe Jeivs^ and tranfiate them into his philoibphy.XI. But there are yet other confiderable probabilities for this, that Pythagoraswas not unacquainted with the atomical phyfiology. And firft fromDemocritus himfelf, who as he was of the Italick row, or Pythagorick fuccefllon,fo it is recorded of him in Laertius ' , tliat he was a great emulatorof the Pythagoieans, and fecmed to have taken all his philofuphy fromthem ; inibmuch that if chronology had not contradided it, it would luvebeen concluded, that he had been an auditor of Pythagoras himfelf, ofwhom he tcftified his great admiration in a book entitled by his name.Moreover fome of his opinions had a plain correfpondency with the Pythagorickdoctrines, forafmuch as Democritus '' did not only hold, (p;.£5ai arojWH,-£v Tu o'Ato J'lvawE'v;^?, that the atoms "xere carried roioidin a vertex ; but altogetherwith Leucippus, rrv yn o')(j'i^xi, ^rfol to juiVov J'iVK,u£vr)y, that the earthwas carried about the middle or centre of this vortex (which is the Sun) turningin the mean time round upon its own axis. And juft fo the Pythagorickopinion is expreflld by Arijtotle^., t^j yr,)/ ev tm^ ir^M iuxn xj»Aw (pecoiAhy.v zrcc)TO fj.(7ov vShtx xx\ Trjj vuioxv zi^tiTr That the earth, as one of the Jlars {X.h2.t isa planet) being carried round about the middle or centre (which is fire or thefun J did in the mean time by its circumgyration upon its oivn axis make day andnight. "Wherefore it may be rcaftjnably from hence concluded, that as Democritushis philofophy was Pythagorical, fo Pythagoras his philofophy waslikewife Democritical or Atomical.XII. But that which is of more moment yet, we have tiie authority ofEcphantus a famous Pythagorean for this, that Pythagoras his monads, fomuch talked of, were nothing elfe but corporeal atoms. Thus we find it inStobteUS *, ra,' n-^0;«yc)fixaj M'/.aJ'ac ar©-' —piJTSr' x^i'^hxti (Toiixx-iyjc, EcphailtUS(who himfelf' afTcrted the doftrine of atoms) firft declared, that the Pythagorickmonads ivere corporeal, i. e. atoms. And this is further confirmedfrom what Ariftotle ^ himfelf writes of thefe Pythagoreans and their monads,T«f Movaiix; uTro\ciu.ixji!(7iv ix^ jj-iys^'^' they fuppofe their moyiads to'have magnitude. And from that he elfewhere makes monads and atomsto fignify the fame thing, ioiM Six(pi^ii Mov^J'a? X'.yuv r, a-u^anz a-fxiK^x- It is allone to fay monades or fmall corpufcula. And GaJJ'endus ^ hath obfcrved outof the Greek epigrammatilt % that Epicurus his atoms were fometimescalled monads tooETTiV.iJpOV IXiJOVHi TO XIVO-J ^JITIIV KXI TJVcS JCl MoV^'tiSJ.XIIT.« Lib. IX. Sigm. 5S. p. 570. « xMctapliyf. Lib. XI. c. VI. Tom. IV.» Lib. IX. Segm. 44. p. 575. Sc Segm. Op:r. p. 4x4.' DeAnimS, Lib. II. c. VI. p. 15. 50. p. 567. Tom.» DeCoelo, Lib.n. c. 15. p. 658. Tom. II. Oper.I. Opei-. 8 Phyfices Sea. I. Lib. III. c. IV. p. z^(^.4 tclog. Phyf. Lib. I. cap. XIII. p. 27. Tom. I.Oper. 8c in Notis ad Lib. IX. D'.og.fol. Laertii p. 70. Tom. V. Oper• Siob. ubi fupi-a, Lib. I. C. XXV. p. 48. 9 Aniliolog. Graecor. Epigram. Lib. I.XV. p. 52. Edit. FraiKof. iOo3. Fol.Edit. I'lancin. 1575.