2 -v.

An ejj'ay on the

gent cause; as Democritus , Epicurus , Lucre-tius , Hobbes ; as also Aristotle , tho’ he is notexplicit as to the materiality of the soul (a),and certainly was no Atheist (b). Others,

(«) He fays, it is not body, and yet cannot be without

body,— KslU Ctat TQVTO VTTQ?Mfibj3oiVQVO-W oiS^OKE? [/,?)?£ GtVsV

cvf60cl&‘ ilvcci, i^r,Ts trustee n vuftoe (th ciix. er*, cu-

fjuocl^ Se r*. K act tguto h cruftccU VTretg^n, De Aniflia., lib.2. cap. 2. It seems then it is some power or property ofbody, the subject of other powers and properties. This ispoor for the prince of philosophers. He comes nearer thetruth in another place, as shall be observed elsewhere.

(b) He ascribes in the following comparisons foresightscrder , government , and justice to God. KaJoAs is, oWsp.

»v)i kd( 3sgviiTu;, s» etj jfia.1i b is lv ota-

Asi il vofiof, h rfaroir&a al y sifitlv' raSra ©so; In xlc-fAta. And

to shew that the comparison comes short he adds, n ai,

w«S’ oVo», rol'c [Civ j xccjjvulyfbv to ’Kohvx.'im lav te, wo-

Av/vdpipW tb itaAuTrov, uwovov tc, vaant; xey^a^urf/Jvov aaficzlt-

X Ki «VSe»£*af *• t. a. DeMundo cap. ii. ubi de Deo. Onemight make variety of observations from this place, uponthe inconsistency of the present Aristotelian Atheist. Nor isAristotle himself (tho’ no Atheist) consistent, who makesGod the sole determining principle in his incorruptible ,ingenerable , necessary world [iv yap ii (ostvof, conti-

nues he, 7ravT«. X.HEI, x) Tsi^dftv, bora |3aA£lai, x) oVw;, Iv iia-

<pogo« te A necessarily existing world could

have no determining principle of its manner of existence,no change or vicissitude in it. But all this only by the by,

because