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Ghap. IV. Genume Platonick Trinity. 623tffan'iam, anmo.m mundi z-ocaverunt. 'In the next place Eufchitis Ctefari- p,-.Ev. Lm.enfis gives a full and clear teftimony of the concordance"^^and agreement 20-'^'''of the Platonick, at lead as to the main, with the Chriftian 54'trinity,which he will have to have been the Cabala of the ancient Hebrews,thus : TWi r«^ 'Etajjsioij Xoyi'jiv y.irx Tov iripi, ttxIpo; x, 'Yi« hoyo'j, h TfiVv) rx^uro ''Ay toil Uvay-x y.a.1x\iyojT^y x, rru yi dywv j^ y-xxx^iU]) Tpix^x tJ7ov uVoTi3-fjw.evi)!iTQV TjOTTOv, w? XV Tr„- T|)iTrjf JuviZ|iA£aj TTxa-xv xnrsp^eSrimiix^ yer/irw (p-J7iv' Sa-xvirpuTW y-ij run Six tb Ti» cruf-^irwi/ vof^wv aViwy, TfixriK (?£ xiro rS ttbuth Ai'ti's*S-sa oVidj x;ci nXarcov roiaiUTa rivx vji^alo Six 7r,i ircoi Aiovjiriou iwiToXri:^ &C.9",&^ oracles of the Hebrews^ placing the Holy Ghojl, after the Father andthe Son, in the third rank, and acknowledging a holy and Mefj'ed Trinityafter this manner, fa as that this third power does alfo tranfcend all creatednature, and is the firfi of thofe intelkulual fubjlances, which proceed fromthe Sony and the third from the firfi caufe : fee how Plato enigmatically declareththe fame things in bis epiftle to Dionyfius, in thefe words. Sec Thefethings the interpreters of Plato refer to a firfi God, and to a fecond caufe,and to a third the foul of the world, which they call alfo the third God.And the divine Scriptures in like manner rank the holy Trinity of Father,Son, and Holy Ghofi, in the place or degree of a principle. But it is moftobfcrvable what Athanafius affirmeth of the Platonifts ; that though theyderived the fecond hypoftafss of their Trinity from the fird, and thethird from the fecond, yet they fiippofed both their fecond and thirdhypoftafes to be uncreated ; and therefore does he fend the Arians tofchool thither, who, becaufe there is but one ' Ayi-vvAf^, one felf-originatidBeing, would unflcilfuUy conclude, that the Word or Son of God niufltherefore needs be a creature. Thus in his book concerning the decreesof the Nicene council ; t;^^r,(TXi/'lo -kx^ 'EAAriUMV Aoittov rh >J'^iv ts 'Ayimrts' p ^ ,,."'I'vx TTCopda-ei Xj t»t8 tb oio/.ta1(J^, Iv toij yevnroTg ttxXiv xJ Tor; y.li(r[j.x(ri (nivxM^-fAutri rov Tn S'fB Aoyor Si b xdtx tx yivvtrx yiyoviv' il fji.h Sv xyvo^vli^ ro oviux5'twj xvxi^v'/liKnv, iSci y.xh7v auTBj ttx^x rm x'jroT^ Siiuxoruv xCro, on xj ov AeVbitjslit TB 'Ayx^^ Nbv, >^ rov ix. tb Nb -^[i^^ry xxlroi ytvaa-xovlii to" i'^ u'j s'tinv, b'x i(po^'n~S'JJTKV ofjiui' y.Xi x\irx inreTv Ayivnrx' fiJorff on y.xi tbto Xiyovlii; in iKxrlxc-i to«j-parov £^ » X511 rxjrx Tripxixf >t) 'f X; ojutb? btw Xiynv, >i u.rjSoXu; Xsynv vio] mjJh (ffa;