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all. The ancient Egyptian Theology, that God is All, τὸΠᾶν. Pan, God diffus'd through all. Eicton, Emeph, and Phtha, the Egyptian Trinity. Poets, depravers of the Pagan Theology. Hesiod's Theogonia, meant of the Inferior gods. Sophocles, Euripides, &c. asserters of one Supream. Consent of the Latin Poets herein. Epicurus, the only Philosopher asserting many Independent gods. Pythagoras's Monad. His Tetractys, the Tetragrammaton of Hebrew Name of God consisting of four letters. Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno Eleates, Empedocles, Timæus Locrus, Euclides, Antisthenes, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Speucippus, Xenocrates, Theophrastus, Cleanthes, Cicero, asserters of One Supream. So, Symmachus, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen, Maximus Tyrius, Plotinus, &c. Varro's Natural Theology, distinct from the Mythycal and Civil. Vulgar Pagans acknowledg'd also Many gods, yet One Supream. The Roman and Samothracian Trinity or Cabiri. Κύριε ἐλέη?ον, the Pagan Litany to the Supream God. Pagans held the World to be one Animal. Not cut off from the Deity. Their knowledge of One Supream asserted by the Hebrews. Testified in Scripture. They worshipped the rest as Mediators. The Supream God Polyonymous amongst them. Pan, Janus, Genius, Saturn, &c, all Names of the Supream God. More popular and Poetick Gods, the same. The Philosophick and Physiologick Theology different. Apuleius's reduction of the Pagan Gods to Plato's Idea's. God, according to the Pagan Theology, pervadeth all things. A higher strain of the Pagan Theology, that God is all things. The parts of the World personated and Deify'd, their Physiological Theology. This, not Varro's Natural. They hence approve of worshiping God in his Works. Accidents and Affections by them personated and Deify'd. Of those Pagan Theologers, who made God the Soul of the World. To these, the parts of the World, the parts of God. This Mundane Animal worshiped in its several parts. Of the Platonists supermundane and Eternal Gods, Ἒν, Νοῦς and ψυχὴ. This Trinity of the Pagans derived from a divine Cabala. A Trinity of Gods. Homoousian. Yet dependent and subordinate. The agreement and disagreement of this, and the Christian. The Tritheistick Trinity of some of the Fathers. The true Notion of Ὁμοοό?ι?. The Cabala of the Trinity, altered by Junior Platonists. Proclus's Monad, before the Trinity, &c.
The last Chapter confutes all the Atheistick Grounds; de-monstrates
