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2 6 Anaxagoras an Incorporealiji. Book I.To th<strong>is</strong> fenfe : He <strong>is</strong> happy, who hath h<strong>is</strong> mind richly fraught <strong>and</strong> Jlored with<strong>the</strong> treafures <strong>of</strong> divine knowledge ; but he miferable, wh<strong>of</strong>e mind <strong>is</strong> darkenedas to <strong>the</strong> belief <strong>of</strong> a God. And, fecondly, by denying God to have any humanform, or members,''Oj f/.SV yxa ^fOTl7, XE^aA-^ Kxlx yijX X£)£«r«t, &C.Or o<strong>the</strong>rwifeto be corporeal,'Hy-iTifOii;, n P(^Ep(7t Aafiui.And <strong>the</strong>n p<strong>of</strong>itively affirming what he <strong>is</strong>.Only a holy <strong>and</strong> ineffable mind, that by fwift thoughts agitates <strong>the</strong> wholeworld.XXV. And now we fh<strong>all</strong> fpeak fomething alfo <strong>of</strong> Anaxagoras, havingfhevved before, that he was a fpurious Atomift. For he hkewife agreed with<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r Atomifts in th<strong>is</strong>, that he afTerted incorporeal fubftance in general as<strong>the</strong> aftive caufe <strong>and</strong> pri nciple <strong>of</strong> motion in <strong>the</strong> univerfe, <strong>and</strong> particularly anincorporeal Deity diftinft from <strong>the</strong> world ; affirming, that <strong>the</strong>re was befidesatoms, Nouf o Jizxcir/^-wi; -n xxl 77-av7au alVio,-, ('as it <strong>is</strong> exprefs'd in Plato'*)An ordering <strong>and</strong> difp<strong>of</strong>ing mind, that was <strong>the</strong> caufe <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> things. "Which mind(as Arifiotle tells us ' ) he made to be i^owv tmv o-J\m aTrAouv ^ di^iy^l ^ xx-^apov, <strong>the</strong> only fimple, unmixed, <strong>and</strong> pure thing in <strong>the</strong> world. And he fupp<strong>of</strong>edth<strong>is</strong> to be that, which brought <strong>the</strong> confufed chaos <strong>of</strong> omnifarious atomsinto that orderly compages <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world that now <strong>is</strong>.XXVI. And by th<strong>is</strong> time we have made it evident, that th<strong>of</strong>e atomicalphyfiologers, that were before Democritus <strong>and</strong> Leucippus, were <strong>all</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>mIncorporealifts ;joining <strong>the</strong>ology <strong>and</strong> pneumatology, <strong>the</strong> d<strong>of</strong>trine <strong>of</strong> incorporealfubftance <strong>and</strong> a Deity, toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong>ir atomical phyfiology. Th<strong>is</strong><strong>is</strong> a thing exprefly noted concerning Ecphantus <strong>the</strong> Pythagorean in Stob^us^,*T.x.2!xJ]o? iy. MEv TMV a.to[j.uv (TMcg-xvxi rov xoa-fjiov, SiOiKi^T^xi at xtto STpoi/oia?' Ecphantusheld <strong>the</strong> corporeal world to conjijl <strong>of</strong> atoms, but yet to be ordered <strong>and</strong>governed by a divine providence : that <strong>is</strong>, he joined atomology <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ologyboth toge<strong>the</strong>r. And <strong>the</strong> fame <strong>is</strong> alfo obferved <strong>of</strong> Arcefilas, or perhaps Archelaus,by Sidonius ApolUnar<strong>is</strong>''Poji' Apud Tzetz. Chiliad. "XIII. Hift. 4 In Pl<strong>is</strong>don. p. 1595. Oper.CCCCLXIV. V. 80. & Ammonium in Com- * Dc Anima Lib. 1. cap. II. p. 6. Tom. II.nie-.n. in Ai-iftotel. Tnpi ipuMvi'ta.(j f^l. 107. Opiif.Edir. Aldin ' ^ « E-^^log. Phyfic. Lib. I. cap XXV. p. 4S.">» Apud Ckm. Alex<strong>and</strong>r. Stromat. Lib. V. Caun. XV. in Epithalamio Polemi &p.

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