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

Chap. I. Incorporeal Suhjlance ajjerted by the Anchnts. 19from him. And iiuny fuch the philofopher there fays he had met withal.The other he rtprelenis in this mdnner ; Oi Ts-po; auVsf «;x,(pi(!-£-&J; Sciy.-jvTxt, as he Writes in another place ' ; for incorporealthings, which are the greateft and niofi excellent things of all, are (faithhe) difcoverable by reafon only, and nothing elfe. And his fubterraneous cave,fo famoufly known, and fo elegantly defcribed by him *, where he fuppofesmen tied with their backs towards the light, placed at a great diftance fromthem, fo that they could not turn about their heads to it neither, and thereforecould fee nothing but the fhadows (of certain fubftances behind them)projedled from it, which fhadows they concluded to be the only fubftancesand realities, and when they heard the founds made by thofe bodies that werebetwixt the light and them, or their reverberated echo's, they imputed themto thofe fhadows which they faw -, I fay, all this is a defcription of the ftateof thofe men, who take body to be the only real and fubftantial thing inthe world, and to do all that is done in it ; and therefore often impute fenfe,reafon, and underftanding, to nothing but blood and brains in us.XX. I might alfo fhew in the next place, how Ariflotle did not at all diffeHtfrom Plato herein, he plainly aflerting ', a-Wm ia-ixv wapa ra di^nri,another fubjlance bejides fenfibles, iirix-j ^^furw y.x\ Kix'-^oKriAivrfj rm «i^«twv, afubjlance feparable and alfo aciually feparated from fenjibles, xn'mrov ouViav, animmoveable nature or effence (fubjeft to no generation or corruption) adding,that the Deity was to be fought for here : nay, fuch a fubftance, 5iv f^iyi^'^iivD ivSiyj.rxt tp^tit', xxxx a,[j.ipyg xj a.Sixi^iiaq ivi, as hath no magnitude at all,but is impartible and indivijible. He alfo blaming Zejio (not the Stoick, whowas junior to Ariflotle, but an ancienter philofopher of that name) for ma-D 2king» laPolitico, p. 182. Oper. J MetaphyC Lib. XIV. cap. VTI. p. 4S0.» DeRepub. Lib. VII. p. 4S5. Tom. IV. Oper. & in multis aliis locis.3