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# Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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CHAP. IV. Zenophanes bis Onc and AII
Wheretore We ChalI nom sum ux all concerning pythaeoras in chis
Conclution OE SC. Crril 5, 188 dn oPaS, Eva 2E EWat NEye  2 SNCVOEOV
i raricor aexlu ceraerW Z ~ arS DWMEECOV DSreg  W 2 C WV, i ro Cun. F ul. 1. L.
Zcoroinoir ~ ONCOV _, nVnNCoV neevcoV nion C iV. rapiulos ) rae raeila rax avre
h Tli Ex 28 un dilo eis ro evos nimC,W nazbila Dxiveto. Behold ve see,
clearly, that Pythagoras held there vas One God of the irhole Dniverse,
the Principle and Cause os alt thines, the Mlluminator, Animator and
Duickener of the Whole, and Orieinal os Motion; from whom allthines,
vere derived, and broueht ont of Non entity into Beins.
NexE +o Dythacoras in order oEtime, was Kenophanes the Colorhoni-
an, the Head ot the Elcarick Sect oF Philolophers, Who chac he was
an APerter BOchOF Many Gods and One Cod, CutticientIY ApPCAES FrOI
thac Verse oE his betore cired, and actested boch by Clemens Alex an-
drinus, and sextus che Philolopher,
Fis Deds tv X Deotor jy ade lo OIot peSC
There is One Oodqe the Greatest both amonest Cods and Nien. Concern:
ins utich sreacest Ood, this ocher Verse oF Xenophanes is al(0
vouched,
Kai a raers De noroiovos, aperi rarla negs alrci.
Thât he moveththe whole vorid oithont any labour or toil, merely by Mind.
Besides which, Cicero and otters tell us, thac chis Xenophanes philoso:
Phizins concernins che Supreme Deity, Was wont to caIl ic ev ses nov,
One and All, a5 being One most simple Beins chac virtually concein-
ethall chings. BuE Xenophanes his Theolophy, or Divine Philo.
Cophr, is mostFully declared by simplicius out oE Theophrastus in chis
ManBeF, MIaV ; TW aexW, iro1 Ev 2d oi de eeV, _ 3ZE HEHEPG C poV 3 In Aristor.
aerete cV, 8EC nIVSpVOV 32 neEuSV, =ero piulu 7 nonoBcviOV. Y TapuvicS 8. 2 ys. L. 5. 55.
Sd C, NANOV VTOTIDECat DOV OOEODPQSCS QuoNOVEEGS EraIEMOVn V 
DborCS isoelaC, Tlu umulu 2 7878 doEuS. 1d 7d ev 78r0 us rav, Y Deov
ENEgEV o ZCVOPRIS. dv Eva p SCINNOI E 2B HAVTCV NPG71GOV EIvaL XNG-
SIcor ruee Dnou dVTcOV, spoicos aveeynn Vndexe naor 2d negleir. 2d; avtcov
updSOV n, aC 15OV, Deos. aitor ES cinWEV i 3XE) àXCCG X∞ NE-
ECGC uOV Eva. Dion aencie qu u ro uin dr, c05 37 àeXlW ézOV pn Z pEOOV
UHE ZE C. 7ECaIVEIV ) TCES aNMNa ra nNeico. CoDDQTNnoICOS;  T niv-
o apaveci n r necuiaer. animror pets, ecc. Theophractus affirmeth, ibat
Xenophanes the Colophonian Parmenides his Mlaster, made One Prin-
ciple of al thines, he calline it one and Au, and determinine it 1obe
neither Finite nor Infinite (in a certain sence) and neither Movine nor
Restine. Which Theophractus also declares, that Kenophanes in this, did
not orite as a Natural Philosopher or Physioloser, but as a Metaphysician
or Theolocer onty; Xenophanes his one and All, beine nothine else but
Cod. Whom he provedto be one solitary Beine fromhence, because C0d
isthe Best and nost Poversul os all thines, and there beine many de-
erees of entity, there must necds besomethine supreme torule over all.
rhich Best and most Pomersul Beins ean be but One. He also did de
monstrate