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'Atzh&ohgU Attic* Lib. i. Cap: i. %s
Sbmber they were, quoth he, but these only are reckoned, g Paus. Atsicj
tyiter, Embus, Hercules, h?tllo,Mars, Van, Diana, IshW
Gcrej.Sais or Minerva, Lama, as I have gathered, which
all at once to have been made known to the Greekes} and
that by the M^ians is too hard a taske sor me to prove.
The Athenians I am sure had twelve Gods in especiall ho-
nour, whose § pi&ares they had drawn out in a Gallery in'
Or amicus', and had an Mtar eTefted3called hB»iiws <MSs&
®i£y, on which a little before the Sicilian warre, amandis- h Plut.inKs-
niembred himselswish a ftone ^uhich was accounted pro- ciapag. 387.
digious. By thefe twt Ive would they fwear in common dis- z6-
courfe, iMamr St&f. The heathens thinking that they • A;£0 j,
did honour thoseGods,by whom they fwarejas 1 haveelse- Eqq.p.jo&A'-
where spoken.But they were not confined to fo small a nij*
ber as? twelve.For how could it be, when they ran through
the seaven forts of Idolatry? Firft worfhipping the Sun,and
punnissaing with death the negleft thereos;as you may read
in k P/«t<jrcb in the lire of Pericles. Secondly deisy ing the ef- *_vide Bodi
seets of God, as Bread &c. For Clemens Alexandrinus inter- nHm Pe"
pret's &ntt3Certs, £ctW, corne or food. Thirdly the poeti- monoloSia» i
call Gods. Furies and revengers of wickednejfe, as Mastore;,
Falamnai. Fourthly, the Pailions, as Love^nt), hjnty, like-
wife, and Imfudence, to whom Epimenides built an Altar at
hthens. Fistly the accidents os groth and nourisiimenr,
hence Atwo, and Iballo two dettyes, om^aphv, to increase, St
SaMc^ toflourissij to which may be put Clothe, Lacfce/j.f,and
hirofos, the three fatall fifterp. and Eipfyf&n Neceflriy, taken
Sometime for death it selse.6'y,the Thcogonie or pedsgree _
of their Gods,able to make up the fumme of which Hewer .H-£5<-C^> .
fpeakes.TeU [MOioi, Three thousand. Seaventhly anig«
norance of the providence &bounty os God toward them,
sainedfJerc«/« therepeller ofevill, and £.[zkU^m the
God os Physick. And is this serve not, I can adde an eighth
way.namely hospitaruy,& good entertainment os strange
. E 3 &»
Sbmber they were, quoth he, but these only are reckoned, g Paus. Atsicj
tyiter, Embus, Hercules, h?tllo,Mars, Van, Diana, IshW
Gcrej.Sais or Minerva, Lama, as I have gathered, which
all at once to have been made known to the Greekes} and
that by the M^ians is too hard a taske sor me to prove.
The Athenians I am sure had twelve Gods in especiall ho-
nour, whose § pi&ares they had drawn out in a Gallery in'
Or amicus', and had an Mtar eTefted3called hB»iiws <MSs&
®i£y, on which a little before the Sicilian warre, amandis- h Plut.inKs-
niembred himselswish a ftone ^uhich was accounted pro- ciapag. 387.
digious. By thefe twt Ive would they fwear in common dis- z6-
courfe, iMamr St&f. The heathens thinking that they • A;£0 j,
did honour thoseGods,by whom they fwarejas 1 haveelse- Eqq.p.jo&A'-
where spoken.But they were not confined to fo small a nij*
ber as? twelve.For how could it be, when they ran through
the seaven forts of Idolatry? Firft worfhipping the Sun,and
punnissaing with death the negleft thereos;as you may read
in k P/«t<jrcb in the lire of Pericles. Secondly deisy ing the ef- *_vide Bodi
seets of God, as Bread &c. For Clemens Alexandrinus inter- nHm Pe"
pret's &ntt3Certs, £ctW, corne or food. Thirdly the poeti- monoloSia» i
call Gods. Furies and revengers of wickednejfe, as Mastore;,
Falamnai. Fourthly, the Pailions, as Love^nt), hjnty, like-
wife, and Imfudence, to whom Epimenides built an Altar at
hthens. Fistly the accidents os groth and nourisiimenr,
hence Atwo, and Iballo two dettyes, om^aphv, to increase, St
SaMc^ toflourissij to which may be put Clothe, Lacfce/j.f,and
hirofos, the three fatall fifterp. and Eipfyf&n Neceflriy, taken
Sometime for death it selse.6'y,the Thcogonie or pedsgree _
of their Gods,able to make up the fumme of which Hewer .H-£5<-C^> .
fpeakes.TeU [MOioi, Three thousand. Seaventhly anig«
norance of the providence &bounty os God toward them,
sainedfJerc«/« therepeller ofevill, and £.[zkU^m the
God os Physick. And is this serve not, I can adde an eighth
way.namely hospitaruy,& good entertainment os strange
. E 3 &»