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according to which the Deity ads and governs Mankind, 
3. That Necefllty not being Intrinfecal to the Nature of every 
ihing, but Men having fuch a Power over their own Aflions 
as to render them accountable for the fame 3 there is therefore 
a Diftriburive Juflice running chrough the World* 
The firft of thefe (againft Atheifiii) taketh up this whole 
Book : which is divided info five Chapters. Whereof,the firft 
is an account of the Atomick Phyfiology^ as made the foundation 
of the Democrifick Fate, that is, the Atomick Atheifm , or 
Material neceffiry of All things without a God. 
Of the Atomick Pbjffi^logy he difcourfeth principally two 
things : i . That it was not the Inveacion of Dcmocritus or heu' 
cippui 5 but of much greater Antiquity. Proved from the Tra- 
dition tranfmitted by Fojidonm, fc. that it was derived from 
Mofchus ^ Thcenicim^ living before the Tr^j/i^ Wars, and pro- 
bably the fame with Mochu^^ mentioned in Jamblkhm. From 
Arijlotles Teftunony hereof. And in that Fythagoras^Empedccles, 
and moft of the Ancient Phyfiolcgers, were Atomifis. And by 
other Arguments. And t ha c therefore, all that was trueof De- 
mocYtim and Leucipptis.is Gnly,that they were the firft Atheizers 
of the Ancient Atomick Fhyjiology, 
2. Thauhis Atomick Phyjiology , rightly underftood, is no 
Nurfe CO Atheifa^, but the greateft defence againftit : being 
founded up-n this Principle , That Nothing can be caufedby 
Nothing.From whence it was concluded. That in Natural Gene- 
rations there v/as no New real Entity produced : And confe- 
quently, That the qualities and forms of Inanimate Bodie?, are 
no Entities really diftinfifrom the Magnitude,Figure,Site5 and 
Motion of Parts. And, that Souls are fubftances Incorporeal, 
nor generated out of Matter. AfTeried by Pythagoras^ Farmt" 
nideSiEmpedocles, Amxagoras^ and all the beft of the Ancients. 
That upon the fame Principle was founded, the Pythagorick 
Do6rines of the Pr^zexiftence and tranfmigrAtion of Souls. 
And, that whoever admits andunderftands the Atomick^Fhyfio* 
logy, muft alfo acknowledge Incorporeal Subjlance : which is the 
overthrow of Atheifm. Ffom thefe Premifles he concIudes,That 
the ancient Mofchical Phyfiokgy confifted, of Atmical Phyjiphgy 
and Pneumatology.kwd was mangled by Democritus, who fuper- 
feded thtir Pneumatology : and by Plato and JriJlotUj whofu- 
perfGd^d ih^Y Atomology* 
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