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# Title: A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 2; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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ThC COnteNES.
Humane MemberS. Thus the PAGANS (Ser PacanS sometimes understood, De-
condemned by Prudentius also, for Feign- mons in Cenerall, or Collectively; that
ins Thinos Incorporeal, Wich Counter- is, whosoever they vere that vere appoin-
Ceit Members. These Cods plainly FX- ted 1o preside over those several Thines,
Ploded by Cotta, or Cicero in disenise; or dispense them. As A. OlUS in ArriaNIS.
as havine onely Vim Rerum, but not seems to be taken for the DemOnS appoin-
DCOTM +hC FOrCC OF ThineS, but not ted by Cod Almistey to preside over thc
OE Oods in them; or beine but Naturae Wincs.
RCrum, and not FISUTX DEOTIM.
PaBC 524, 525
Lactancius his Reason, ihy the Con-
PaC 520, 52F sentes and Select Gods, vulcarly morstrip-
Wherefore the True meanine of these ped by the Romans, conld not be Single
Ocised Natures of Thinss contd be no DemOnS or An∞elS.
other thenthis, that Cod vas 10 be ac-
And from Arictocles Observation a
homledeed and worsipped in AIIchines; cainst Z enO, That accordine 10 L. aW o
or, as the Pasans themselves declare it.
Ciril Theolooy, One God mas chief for
that the Force oF every chins WaS, both
onethine, and another for another; Con-
Soverned by Ood, and it TelF Divine. cluded, that these Political Cods vere
lliny of this Breakcins and Crumbline OE, not properly the Subserriene Ministers of
ehe Deier intO PATES, Fvery one Wor- the Supreme; and therefore contd be no-
Pippine that in God, and For a Cod,
thine, but severat Names and NOcionS of
ohich himself most stood in necd os. This One Natural Cod, accordins 10 his Va-
dividins of the Simple Deier, and NNor-rions Povers and E Fects.
Chippine it Brohenty by parcells and piece-
525, 526
And thus does Volus himsetf af-
meal as manifested in al the Severat termards confess, That, accordine to
the Natural TheoloBy, aH the PQBaH
fustius Censured, and Flecantiy Perstrin- Oods vere but Several Denominz-
eed, by Prudentius aeainst Symmachus. tions OF onc Cod. Where norvith.
Where Prudentius erants, that Symma- standins this Learned and Industrions
Chus, who declared, that it Was Onc ching Philologer, seems 1o take the NaturaL
irtrich all worttipped; nhenhe sacrisiced and Philolophicke Theoloey, for tbe
10Victory, did sacrisice 1o Cod Almislur, Phyhiolosieal, he makine ise Ood chere-
under that Partiall Norion as the Giver OF the Nature oF chines. Whereas the
OFVictory. This in the F Erptian AIIC. Nacural TheolOOY, vas ihe TruC anc
Borr, Otiris Mansled, and Cut in pieces Real, and Philolophical, opposed both10
by Trphon. Victory and Vertue, as the Fictions of the POctS, and the Incti-
vell as Neptune, Mars, and Bellona,
but several names or Notions of supiter,
tutes of La-makcers and Policicians.
As Varro assirmeth, that in Cities those
in the Prolosue of Plaucus his amphi- thines vere Worstsipped and believed, ac-
eryo.
521, 522
Vocius his opinion, that these Deitied
Accidents, and Natures of Things, as
vell as the other Pasan Invisible 60d5,
vere commonty lookt upon by the Vulear,
as so manu Sinele Substancial Minds, or
Spirits Created by che Supreme Cod,
cordine to False Opinions, ohich had no
Nature, nor Real SubSictence, neither in
iheWorid nor withont it. The Cod of the
PayanS not the Nature OE chings, which
contd be the Numen of none but of Ache-
ists; but an Understandins Being, ibc
Creat Mind, or Soul ofthe Wwhole Woria
and appointed o preside over those severat pervadine al thines. Thus unquestiona-
thines respectively. Where it Is actnomlede-
ed: that neither the Political, nor the PO-
erical Gods of the PayANS, vere tatien so
much as bythe Vulear, for so many Inde-
Pendent Deities.
523, 524
Probable, that by these Cod6, ihe Wi
bly true, that the Mang Pocrical and PO-
licieal Gods, vere but several Nlames or
Nocions, of One Natural, Real, and
True God. Desides which there vere o-
ther Inferiour Ministers of this Supreme
Ood, actnomledsed to be The InstrumenEs