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

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Chap. IV. not <strong>the</strong> Firft, but Second. 585highcft Good, that <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>the</strong>re <strong>is</strong> fome fubftantial thing, in order <strong>of</strong>nature fuperiour to Intelleft. Which confideration Plato much infifteth upon,in h<strong>is</strong> fixth book De Republica. Now upon <strong>the</strong>fe fevcrai accounts do <strong>the</strong>PJaconifts confidently conclude, otj o\- xaEiTTwv At-Vo^ ri, voO' >^ ai'iSWuf, tt*- pv />. 512.fa^tou -rxxiTx oyA. au'roj m TxZia- That <strong>the</strong> fupreme Deiiy <strong>is</strong> mo-re excelknti^'^^^'^'^-^<strong>and</strong>bettenhan <strong>the</strong> Aoyo; {Rcafon, or <strong>the</strong> IVord) IntelleSi <strong>and</strong> Senfe, '^^ '^^'''^-^o XiV'ivg <strong>the</strong>fe things^ but not being <strong>the</strong>fe bimfelf. And to yeiiy-no)! i'^ ochrov hiya; '''woAuc »j Trasf to J'e ii'j (fjiAovsTi oJ Aoyo;' Trug Sv £5 cux. Xoyo'j :\oy^' xai ttcSj to it?.\^' L "'^^'uyu^oiiSi; t^ dya^QV- That^ ivhich was generated from <strong>the</strong> firjl principle, wasLogos {fVord or Reafon) manifold; but <strong>the</strong> firjl principle it fetf was notWord : if you dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore, how IVord^ or Reafon, fjculd proceed fromthat which <strong>is</strong> not IVord or Reafon ? zvc anfjver, as that, which <strong>is</strong> boniform^ fromgoodnefs it felf. With which PJatonick <strong>and</strong> Pythagorick Doclrine exadlyagreeth Fhilo <strong>the</strong> Jew alfo ',«' t^o' toj Ao'j/f, 0£o\- HfEiVo-wv »'?-»« « Tr^ia>\oyiY.r, (pjl xxt Tin tgaijiTU xaSsj-wr* kTsz,cJ(r£i/S-£,aK *iv yiir,rov f^ouoiwS-jj^af 27;^/ G^^ which <strong>is</strong> before <strong>the</strong> H^^'ord or Reafon^<strong>is</strong> better <strong>and</strong> more excellent than <strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong> rational nature •, nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>is</strong> it fit, thatany thing, which <strong>is</strong> generated, fijould be perfe£Ily like to that, which <strong>is</strong> origin<strong>all</strong>yfrom it felf <strong>and</strong> above <strong>all</strong>. And indeed, we fhould not have fo much infilledupon th<strong>is</strong>, had it not been by realon <strong>of</strong> a devout veneration, that wehave for ail <strong>the</strong> Scripture-myfteries ; which icripture feems to give no fm<strong>all</strong>countenance to th<strong>is</strong> doctrine, when it makes in like manner an eternal Word<strong>and</strong> Wifdom to be <strong>the</strong> fecond hyp<strong>of</strong>taf<strong>is</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divine Triad, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> firftbegottenSon, or Off-fpring <strong>of</strong> God <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r. And Athanafms, as wasbefore obferved, very much complieth here alfo with <strong>the</strong> Platonick notion,when he denies, that <strong>the</strong>re was any y.iytx; or

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