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Show ia canennaaes reer Lhefirft Booke of the first part Caiar.6.§, af sod quod existit ; For Mosss /aith, He who is P¥ato, That which ts. Now« Ia Timeo. Cuar6.§.7. ncom incom. pofsible digne profaird; Tt ts as hard tofind ont the Creator of theVmiuer/all, as. it is imp]sible, The King,thoriginall ofall, of allthe end, For chofe in holybreft he all didcomprehend, Whenceall to bleffed light,his wondrous powerdidfend. Now befides thefe former teftimonies;thatall the learned men ofancient times were swat the canfe ofthe worlds creating,and the oripinall of all things.Apvix1 vs the Platonift,; Sammus Deus infinitus eft nonfolumloci exclufione, fedetiam nature diguitate: Et nihileh Deofimilius Cgratins,quam dir animo perfecto bonus ; The molt high God ws alfo an infnit God, wot onely by exclufion ofplace, but by the diguitic ofmature: meither x there anythin wmorélike or more acceptable to God than aman of a perfed? heart. Tu aves atfvmedthat not foftupidand ignorant,as the Egyptians, Grecians, and other Nations by them in- tested were,I will onely repeate two orthree other opinions, andleaue the Reader-to thofe large and learned Collections of lafime Aartyr,Clemens, Latlantius, Eafebius, Ens oubinwsPenucer, Plefsiss Daaeus, asid others. For Cleanthesthe Stoick, being» demanded ‘of what nature God was,defcribed himbythefe attributes and properties: Bonusixflus, God comprehendedall things, and that God was of all things the moft:ancient: Quis nunguam efecepit Becaufe he neutr had any beginning. Leno, that Godbeheld euenthe thoughts ofmen. Athenodoras; thattherefore all men ouglitto be carefull in theactions San ttussfeipfum pofsidens, viels, fpeciofas, eptinaus, Sener liker, Semper commodus, tutus beantifult, be,feuere, gloriofusscbaritds oC. Good, iuft, holy, poffe/sing hinnfelfe, profitable, free, always doing good, fafe without feare, glorious and fe4e-charitie., E2 .cHARMYS affiimed, that God who beheldall things, and pierced euerynature, wa: onely and es oftheir'life, becaufe God was euery where prefent & beheld all done: Bur what canbe more agreeableto 4H/es ftorie ofthe Creation, than this- opinion and defcription of Celumterrad, uninsformefuit': Sed camfuifjent abiunita amplexnmutno, Emerfit omnis in lacem res progentta, Heauen and Earth one forme did beare: But when dif-joynedonce they were ; From mutuall embraces, Gennfg, mortalinn. Oftrees,birds;beafts, fithes,and men The ftill-remayning. races. Arbores,auesfere,qus/7, alfert mare, 1 Allthings to light appeared then; Andasin Pythagoras;in Socrates,andin Plato :{o we: findthe fame excellent vnderftatding in Orphews,who euery-where expreffed the infinite and fole powerof one God; though hevfe the name ofJupiterthereby to auoide the enuie and dangerofthe time: y but that heecouldattribute thofe things to the fonnes of men; and mortall creatures, which hedothto this Zwpiter,thereisno man who hath eticr heard of God, that can imagine: : Nomina Deorum({aith Mrranvv1a ) qos ORPHEVS canitinon decipientium dem nuit 2 guibus malum & non bonum prouenit fed naturalium soiivtisbune dininarumé, fist nomina; The names ofthofe Gods whom Orpheus doth fing, are not ofdeceining Desi frowhowsenill comes, andnotgoodne/fe.but they are the names ofnatural dininevertits Yea, that heyet reacheth higher,and {peaketh of God himfélfe,this his inftruction to pasccleninhdapsoneareora eanform, cende viam,folum afpice > ; di Regem. Vnws ta pice mundi te0Nahe eff ex[egenitus, anf ex co omnia natafunt if ; werd Ya illis werfatur 3 EC quifguans nimi. j: a p pot fleft mor tntuert i afed ipfe 0 talinm, , Db i, 0F%sits wibilo i tt om sd Then tnarking this myfacred {peech;but truely lend Thy heart,that's reafonsfphere,and the risht w And fee the worlds fole King. Firft,he is fimplyay afcend, one Begotten of himfelfe, from whom is borne alone a elfe - ae eer ftill:nor could it ere befall mortalleyeto feehim oF And againethefame Author, idee IvP ITER omnipotens >primus.cy Ultimus idem: Iverrer ef caput & medium :lov1s omnia Iveirere/fundamen humicflellantis Olympronnie: i. j I VPYTER CH masest& feemina nefcia mortis, Spiritus eft cunctisvalidivis ly py TER ignis, Et pelagi radix,Sor,Lyya, ef Iveirer ipfe Rex &origofimul rerum ct, terminus idem. Namprins occuluit,magno post numine,facruns Cor referans bonus indulcemdedit omnia lucem . deen ‘The {pitit ofallis Gop, the Svnnéand Moons,and whatis higher, widerDens caufa bonorum : nialorumautem omminm non caufa: Gods abfolutely good, ani fol affuredly) the caufe ofall that isg00d : but ofanything that ts enstl he is mo canfe at all: and againe,Charites Dei{uit canfafaclionts mundi, Cc originis omninm rerum.) The loue of Gid the Worlds beginning in Ewripides,Scholler of Anaxagoras? of the Eliftory of the World, Thefirt of all is Gonsand the fame laftas he. | Gop is the head and midft,yea from himall things be. Gopis the Bafe ofearth, and of the ftarredskie. He is the male and female too, fhall neuerdie. prehenfible naturejandiofthe dithcultie either te conceiue,or cx pre fle the {amesheegi. ueththis teftimonie: Genitorem Vatuerfitatis tam difficile eft inuenire, quam inuentumin if he were founastofpeake of bim worthily. And whatican be!more agreeable to the pe Legib.t.10.. Maieftieof Gods Nature,thanthis propertie by P/ateacknowledged ¢ Dews bonus, ¢ Laertins. + ™~ 2 g uery wherepowerfull agreeing with Democritys+ Rex emmium sp/efolus; Hee ts) the only:Ring of Rings : and with Pindarws the Poet, Deas vHns, Patere creatorfamines, tthe optimiss artifex,qas progre/[us figalis dinerfosfecundum meritaprabet, One j0d, the Pas ther, the moft high Creator,ana best artificer, who.gineth te exery thing aouces proceedings according techer deferts. This God (faith ANTES THENE S ) cannot bee refembled to any thing andtherefore notelfembere knowne ; N.iftinpatria ilaperepni, cuins. ‘waginens aullaca babes: Sane onely athat eucriafling Countrey, vlofe image thou Daft sone stall. Hereofalfo XznoruHanes CoLroPpHoNivs: Yaus Deus ater cos. ©: homines AXIDBBS HEC -CORa pore, nec mente mortalibusfimilis-s There ts one.God among gods. and menmoit powerfull neither corporally, nor mentally ike wuto mortals ; and Xen OPHON, Deas.gui oRia Guattty 9 O ombiaguiefierefacits magnas poten{g, quae omnibus igith; gualisanternformafit,: ne= mini paternifi ipfifolisqui lucefia onnnia perlufirat 5 God. who Pakeeb, al things, and[en teth all things at reff, great andmigntte, ast, manifest teal: bat of whatSorte hee ty Ht, is maanife/ito none, faue onely to binwyelft, who ilaminateth A pings with hisowne light. Finally,Plato faith : Totiws rerum natura Canfas ratio, &r orien Deas)Lunas Anitesh gen nitor,eternus animantinns fo[pitator, afsiands snd[sk epifexs five propagatione genitat, net, loco, neg. tempore vile comprebenfas, cog,paacts Cogitabiles, aerRes tfabiles : Godisthe can/eginuna,anaor iginall of the whele nature off things, the molt high Father of the foules theerernallpreferuer of lining creatures, ibe continuallfrapser ofbis marl Mbagetter with- ont any Sropagation,comprehended neither in any § lace, Hor sinme,s therefore few cap CONS 6 bimin thought, none can expreffe what hee. Thesetore wasit faid by 34 HiERo™ Ey St Danan prints enim cuncios Philofophornm reuolias libros, neceffe eff UE $b ets repertas aliquamParser cip, vaforum Dei, vt apud PLATONEM ,fabricatorem mural, Deum :apud ZENONE M, Stoica~ rum Principem, in eros C> immortales animas (7. ifthon confider all the bookes ofthe Phi- lofophers thon canft_not but. find ia them[ome part of the Veffels, of Ged, "ia PLATO, God the Creatorof the world sin Lim0, Prince ofthe Stoicks, Hell and immortalfontes, Ore. Andthis is certaine,thatif we lookeinto the wiledomic of abA ges, wehall finde that theré never was man of folid vnderftanding ox excellent iudgement 2 heuer: anysnan whofemindethe Atte of education hath notlhended; whofeeyes a foolith fiperftition afterward blinded ; whofe apprehetifionsare fobersand by apenfiue infpectihath not 1. but that he hath found by an varefiftable neceflitic,one true God,andeuerr ingall for'ewercaufing,andall foreyer fuftayning; whichino.man amongthe h with more reuerenceacknowledgid,or more deartiddlylexpre t,than that otiani Hermes howfoenerit fayled afterwasd in his polteritic : all being at length dauillith policie of the Egyptian Priefts put pofely'obfeured; who inucnted new Sodsiandthofe innumerable bet forting (4s the Deuill perfwaded them) with vulgar €apacitics,and fitreftto kecpe in‘aweand ol dertheir commom people, $. VILL : |