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

562 Godf not a Mundane Soul, BookI»And it is cerrain, that the more refined Platonifts were themfe'ves aifoof this perruafion ; and that their third God, or divine hypoftafis, was neitherthe whole world (as fuppoled to be animated) nor yet j-^^c''tyx-oTy.rj;, the im-?ned'iatc fciil of this iv.undane nnimal., but only \'vyji i7r;oyJ(s-i/.uKf j'Of, the opificer and creator of the world, and therefore no creature.Now the corporeal world being fuppofed, by thefe Platonifts alfo, to be ananimal, they muft therefore needs acknowledge a double foul, one \'^}(y\^iynoa-'Mov, the immediate foul of this mundane animal, and another ^jyj\'.>C7re^y.oa-[/.io]!, a fupermimdane foul, which was the third in their trinity ofgods, or divine hypofhafes, the proper and immediate opificer of the world.And the lame, in all probability, was Plato^s opinion alfo ; and thereforethat foul, which is the only Deity, that in his book of laws he undertakes toprove, was 4"^X^ u7r£^xoV^.i©^, a fuper-mundane foul, and not the fame withthat ^].'vx^'^'y^°'^h''^i^^^^^ ^^^ftndane foul, whole genejis, or generation, isdefcribedin his Timicus -, the former of them being a principle and eternal ; and thelatter made in time, together with the world, though faid to be olderthan it, becaufe, in order of nature, before it. And thus we fee plainly,that though fome of thefe Platonifts and Pythagoreans either mifunderftood,or depraved the Cabala of the trinity, fo as to make the third hypoftafisthereof to be the animated world, which themfelves acknowledged to bewo.'upa and hiMispy^fj-ivov, a creature and thing made ;yet others, of therefined of them, fuppofed tjiis third hypoftafis of their trinity to be not amundane, but a fuper-mundane foul, and irii^mpyavj not a creature, but thecreator or opificer of the whole world.And as for the fecond particular propofed ; it was a grofs abfurdityin thofe Platonifts alfo, to make the fecond, in their trinity of gods,and hypoftafes, not to be one God, or hypoftafis, but a multitude ofgods and hypoftafes ; as alfo was that a monftrous extravagancy of theirs,to fuppofe the ideas, all of them, to be fo many, diftindt fubftances.and: