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

'^ 4.77je Origin of the Book I.abfolute in bodies themfelves, which is nothing but iheir'difFerent mechanifm,or difpofition of parts in refpecl of figure, fice and motion ; and partlyIbmething that is fantaftical in the fentient.That the atomical phyfiology did emerge af^er this manner fromthat principle of reafon, that nothing comes from nothing, nor goesto nothing, might be further convinced from the teftimony ofyirijlotle,'writing thus concerning it: 'E>c tb ym^xi l^ dxxriAm ravx^tltxIvuTTri'sy =1) aax' £»' yocp Tvccv TO yno i/,i:o]i Oivxlx'/i J/iufiSai r> 6^ ovjav n (^[Art oviuti'rvTuv i\ TO fivj, IX iJ.il ovtuv yive^ou diivoilov, Trept yip rauTJi? oyioyvju-ovo-jct T»?f S'o^r,;ayroaliq ol srifl (pucitct' to Aeitod hh o-u^jSy-i'ven/ s^ tx'jx[xr,i; hou.iiTxV i^ oului/ jlasu xx)iVJTroiayovluv yiv£&a,i, Stx Si a^f/.txporriTX tmu ofxuv t^ a.\ixiBr,Tuv ry.Zi. "Ths ancientfhyfiologers concluded, that becaufe contraries were made out of one another,that therefore they u-ere before {one laay or other) inexiflent ; arguing in thismanner, that if whatfoever he made, mufi needs be made out cf fomething orout of nothing, and this latter (that any thing fhould be made out of nothing)is impoffible, according to the gefteral ccnfent of all the ancient phyfiologersthen itfolloius of necsffity, that all corporeal tl-ings are made or generated out ofthings that v^ere reaUy before and inexiflent, though by reafon of the fmallnefsof their bulks they ifere infenftble to us.Where Arifiotle plainly intimates, thatall the ancient philofopliers, whofoever infifted upon this principle, that,nothing comes from, nor goes to nothing, were one way or other atomical, anddid refolve all corporeal things into o'-^a? tivj^j oix y-ki o-p.i>tpoT*)r« avanS-ziTftf )o,u.rv,certain moleculie or corpufcula, which by reafon of thdr fmallnefs were infenjible tous, that is, into atoms. But yet there was a difference between thefe Atomifts,forafmuch as Anaxagoras was fuch an Atomift, as did notwithftanding holdforms and qualities really diftind from the mechanical modifications of bodies.For he not being able (as it feems) well to undcrftand that other atomicalphyfiology of the ancients, that, exploding qualities, folved all corporealpliJenomena by mechanifm and fancy ; and yet acknowledging, that thatprinciple of theirs, which they went upon, muft needs be true, that nothingcould of itfclfcome from nothing nor go to nothing, fram'd a new kind ofatomology of his own, in fuppofing the whole coi poreal world or mafs ofmatter to confift of fimilar atoms, that is, fuch as were originally enduedwith all thofe different forms and qualities that arc vulgarly conceived to be inbodies, fomc bony, fome flcfhy, fome firy, fome watery, fome white, fomeblack, fome bitter, fome fweet and the like, fo that all bodies whatfoever hadfome of all forts of thefe atoms (which are in a manner infinite) fpecificallydifi"ering from one another in them. ^ -nxv h ttjs.tI (/.{jj-i^^xi, awn ttxv tx wx