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

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forpyA Nous or Logos caUed Autopa.t^r. Book I.so?, ap(^(ioiii>c yoi^ a,e\ ^ [/.ovo^ a'luvio; o v?s' Plato thus declareth concerning <strong>the</strong> firflgood^ that from it was generated a certain mind incomprehenfible to mortals •, inwhichftibjijling by it felf^ are cojitaincd <strong>the</strong> things, that truly are, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> effences<strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> beings. 7h<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> <strong>the</strong> firji fair, <strong>and</strong> pulchritude it felf, which proceededor fprung out <strong>of</strong> God from <strong>all</strong> eternity as its caufe, hut notwithft<strong>and</strong>ingafter a peculiar manner, as felf-begotten, <strong>and</strong> as its own -parent. For it wasnot begotten from that, as any way moved towards its generation ; hut it proceededfrom God as it were felf-hegottenly. And that not from any temporalbeginning, <strong>the</strong>re being as yet no fuch thing as time ; nor when time was afterwardsmade, did it any way affeSl him •, Mind <strong>is</strong> always timelefs, <strong>and</strong> aloneeternal. Here, befides <strong>the</strong> eternity <strong>of</strong> Mind or Intelledt, <strong>the</strong> fecond divinehyp<strong>of</strong>taf<strong>is</strong> in <strong>the</strong> Piatonick trinity, <strong>the</strong>re are o<strong>the</strong>r flrange <strong>and</strong> unufual expreffionsconcerning it -, for though it be acknowledged to have been generatedfrom <strong>the</strong> firft original Deity, yet <strong>is</strong> it c<strong>all</strong>ed osuTOTraTuj) <strong>and</strong> aJruj'Ei-nTo;, its ownparent,<strong>and</strong> its own-<strong>of</strong>fspring, <strong>and</strong> faid to have fprutsg out auroj/o'vuf, felfbegottenly.Now becaufe th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> fo great a riddle or myftery, it <strong>is</strong> worth <strong>the</strong> while toconfider its true meaning <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> ground <strong>the</strong>re<strong>of</strong>; which <strong>is</strong> thus declaredby Forphyrii<strong>is</strong>. Mind, though it fprung from <strong>the</strong> firfl good or fupreme Deityfrom eternity, yet <strong>is</strong> it faid to bt felf-begotten, becaufe it did not fpring fromthat, as any ways moved towards its generation, but as always (l<strong>and</strong>ing flill, - or quiefcent. Which d<strong>of</strong>trine was before delivered by Plotinus after th<strong>is</strong>6 fp. aS-.I manner ; » ximtltvl©' Cpccnov ytyviSixi, si yc^p mvi-XivKC^ uvth n yilmno, r^nov azTixitvu TO ytvo[JLivov ,u£T« Tru jt'vTiTiv a,v yiyvotro, >c, B ^lure^or Jii' tsv axfimrK ouli^,fiVi Siureco-j fJ.iT a-jTC, a 7rpo(r]/vJTa,vl

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