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

Chap. IV. Figments of /atier Platonijls, 569^econd epiftle, where he defaibes his Trinity ', he doth not fay of the firfl-,TTfpi T8 TTfMTci/ tx vcuTx, abcHt tbc fivft art the firji j as he doth of the fecond,Svjii^m TTfpi T« h^Tc^ci, and of the third, TpiVou v£ji\ rx rpirx, nhout tb; fecond arethe fecond, and about the third the third : but of the firft he faith, Ttpi to\about the king of all things are all things.^ and for his fake are all things ; andhe is the caufe of all things, that are good. Wherefore here are no particularHenadesand Autoagathotetes, Unities and Goodneffes, about the firfl: To'^EuandT-ij/Jov, One and Good ; but all good things are about him, he being boththe efficient and final caufe of all. Moreover Plotinns, throughout all hisworks, difcovers not the leafl: fufpicion neither of thefe Henades and Agathotetes,this language being fcarcely to be found any where in the writings ofany Platonifts fenior to Froclus ; who alfo, as if he were confcious, that thisaffimentum to the Platonick. theology were not fo defcniible a thing, doth.liimfclf fometime, as it were, tergiverfate and decline it, by equivocating inthe word Henades, taking them for the ideas, or the intelligible gods beforementioned. As perhaps Syne/tus alfo ufes the word, in his firft hymn, whenGod is called by himThe firfi Ilenad of Henades, and the firfi Monad of Monades ; that is, thefirft idea of good, and caufe of all the ideas. And as for the particular iVcfj,Minds or Intellefls, thefe indeed feem to have creptup fomewhat before Plotinushis time ; he, befides the paflTage before cited, elfewhere giving fome intimationsof them, as Enn. 6. /. 4. C. 4. 'AAAa wu; 4/j;i^«i ttoAAixi xj w7 TToKXo) ;p. S4-, 84S.But how can there be many fouls, and many minds, and not only one, but manyentia ? From which, and other places of his, Ficinus concluded Plotinusliimfelf really to have afierted, above the rank of fouls, a multitude ofother fubftantial beings, called voe? or vo". Minds or Intelk5ls. Nevertheiefs,Plotinus fpeaking of them fo uncertainly, and making fuch an union betwixtall thefe Noes and their particular refpedive fouls, it may well be queftioned,whether he really took them for any thing elfe but the heads and fummitiesof thofe fouls ; he fuppofing, that all fouls have a mind in them, the participationof the firft Mind ; as alfo unity too, the participation of the firftUnity-, whereby they are capable of being conjoined with both: ^^'^ ^^^'^'^ Emi.l'^.c.M.>)iji.~v eivxi, Xy vu v-^"/^!, Xj Xi-ixv, x, ^lov' uTTrts to xh'TfOii i