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

Chap. IV. and majiy ftihjiantlal Powers. 543words before cited; »i tuv fj-h 5im tZv 'yvjvT\xm ^ tuv m^^uttuv vxTri^ Ion' (a?"O;j.r\o(i^ iTrovof^x^ei) rrcirnri; ^l rw cixoym i^ -j, that perhaps he ii'as faid tobe the father of all the generated gods, and of men, [as he is alfo flyled in Homer)but the maker of all other irrational and inanimate beings. From v/hich palfageof P/w/iZ/'t^'s it plainly appears, that the o MtaTxra ©to.;, the one highejlGod, being every way ^yimm^, utimade and unproduced, was thought to bethe maker or father of all the other gods, therefore called yim:\ra\. Which isfurther plainly declared elfewhere by the fame Plutarch in thefe words ; Ylxx- Sjmpof. I. S.i-n-owij-dl^ovit^- Plato calleth the one unmade and eternal God the father and makerof the world, and of all other things generated. And though fome of thofemany gods of Plato's were by him alio called xiSiot, or eternal, yet were theyJikewife ymY,ro\ too, in another Icnfe, that is, produced and derived, by way ofemanation, from that one, who is every v/ay xytvAd^, underived and independentupon any other caufe. And tluis Proclus univerlally pronounces ; Tw tnxi S-sol, Tied. p. 1. 5.ndi'fliq 01 &£ci. Six Tov TTcuTov e^^kti Gto'u* All the gods oiie their being gods to the'-l-^^- '5^]firJlGod; he adding, that he is therefore called ttj!}/)! rJij ^fom]^, the fountainof the godhead.Wherefore the many gods of the intelligent Pagans were derived from oneGod, and but ^Trxoyo] Sv^ixy-ei^, (as Plutarch fomewhere calls them) the fubfervientpowers, or miniflers of the one fupreme, unmade Deity. Which (ashath been before obferved) was frequently called by thefe Pagans 0=;; God^y.xT i^ox,w, or in way of eminency -, as likewife were thofe other inferior, orgenerated gods, in way of diftinftion from him, called 3to!, the gods. Andaccordingly the fenfe of Celfus is thus reprefented in Origen, Qii^