Part IX.

PTTHA6 OKAS.
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{d)Jamb.cv^. (^d) Seeing that contumelies, pride, and con- r Nkntion- Law, often tranfport men to unjuft a-
edbyiJr”)«f.^ions, he daily exhorted, {e) that the law Jhould be affifted^ and inju ftke oppqfed. To which end he alledged this diftinfVion : The firft of ills, which infinuateth into Houles and Cities, is Vnde ; the lecond, Contumely \ the third, DeJlruSion. Every one therefore ought to expel and extirpate Pride, accuftoming themfelves from their youth to a temperate raalculine life, and to be free fromllan- derous repining, contentious reproaching, and hateful Icurfility.
Wickednefs dijobeys 'the Divine Law^ and there¬ fore tranfgrejfeth.
A wicked man fuffers more torment in his own con- fci ence^ than he who k punijhed in body and whipped.
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C H A ^P. VI. Law-making.
(laith (a) Jamblichus) he confli'tu-
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ted another excellent kind of fujiice^ the Le- gijlat ive part ^ which commandeth that which ought tobe done^ and forbiddeth that which ought not to be done^ which k better than the Judicative part j for ihk refembles that part of medicine which cureth the Jick^ but the other fuffers them not to fall fick^ but .1 ; . . ■ . takes care afar off of the health of the foul.
(b)D.^gufitn. Tizrro affirms, that Fythagoras delivered thk difcipline (of governing States ) to hk. Auditors laji of alf when they were now learned^ now wife^ now nappy ; for he faw fo many rough waves therein^ that he would not commit it ^ but to fuch a one as was able to fhun the rocks^ . or^ if all fait d.^ might jiand him- f elf as a rock amidfl thoje waves.
CeJ Stob. (c) They who punifh not ill perfons^ would have the good injur'd.
(b) God is one. He is not (as Ibme conceive)
out of the world, but intire within himfelf, in ^ compleat circle furvey ingall generafions. He is the Temperament of all ages, the Agent of his own powers and works, the Principle of all things, one, in heaven luminary, and father of all things. mind and animation of the whole, the motion of all circles. ,
( c) God (as Pythagoras learned of the Magi,(0 Porph. vir, vvho term him Oromafdes) in his body refembles
Light, in his foul, Truth.
(d) He laid, that God only is wife.
(f) He conceived that the firft, (being) God, is Strom. neither fenlible, nor palfible ; but invilible, 2.rA(0 Plut.\tx intelligible.
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SECT. 3.
(bj cap.
f c) cap. 6.
TheoretickPhilofophy., its parts andfirf of the Science concerning Intelligible s.
WE come next to the Theoretick part, to which more particularly belongs that lay¬ ing of That by Philofophyhe had this
advantage^ To admire nothing for., Philofophical -difcourfe takes away wonder., which ari/eth from .doubt and ignorance., by knowledge and examination of the facility of every thing.
Theoretick Philolophy feems to have been di- .videdbythe Pythagoreans into two parfs^ They firft (laith (b) Jamblichus) delivered the Science of Intelligibles., and the gods next which.,' they taught jail Phyjick. To the Science of Intelligibles belong thefe heads, wherewith C'c) Jamblichus begins his recapitulation, Of the gods^ of heroes, of dtemons.
C H A P. II.
Of Gods, Daemons, Heroes.
NExt to the fupreme God, there are three kinds of Intelligibles, Gods, Demons, He¬ roes ; that Pythagoras thus diftinguilhed them, is manifeft from his (a) precept, that ITe mufi in paj Laeru worjhip prefer Gods before Damons, Heroes before Men : But in (b) Jamblichus, he feems either to,rN- obferve a different method, or to confound the^^^^*'^ ’ Terms; teaching firft of Gods, then oi' Heroes, laft of Demons ; which order perhaps is the fame with that of the Golden Verfes,
Firji, as decreed, th' immortal Gods adore.
Thy Oath keep : next great Heroes, then implore Terreftrial Damons with due fdcrijice.
By Terreftrial Damons feetns to be underftood (not Princes, as Hierocles-, but) the Daemons themfelves, confin’d to feveral offices upon earth ;
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(c) All the air is full of Souls, which are eftee- pcj Laert. med Daemons and Heroes ; from thefe are fent to ' men dreams and prefagesoflicknefs, and of health; and not only to men, but to Iheep allb, and to other cartel ; to thefe pertain expiations and \averruncations, and all Divinations, Cledons, and the like.
CHAP. I.
Of the Supr earn God.
OJ tailanu, r)ljhagoras defined what God is, thus, (a) A X mind which commeateth, and is diffufed tbrougb every part of the World, and through dll Nature from whom all animals that are produced receive Jife,
CHAP. III.
Of Pate and Fortune,
( Moon, are governed according to Pro- Phot. vidence and firm order, and the Decree
of God, which they rollow : but thofe beneath the Moon by four caufes, by God, by Fate, by our Eleffion, by Fortune. For inftance, to go aboard into a Ship, or not, is in our power : Storms and Tempefts to arife out of a calm, is by fortune for the Ship being under water to be preferved, is by the Providence of God. Of Fate, there are many 'manners and differences : it differs from Fortune, as having a determination, order, and confequence •, but Fortune is fpontaneous and cafual, as to proceed from a boy to‘ a youth, and orderly to pafe through the other degrees of age happens by^ one manner of Fate. [Here the Text feems deficient.^
F f f (b) Man