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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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The COntents.
and (e +a Be AII Cod. Not barely as noted by MaceobiuS. Thus vere al IbC
Malter, but by reason of the Soul thereos. PaganS Wortd- W orstripverS, in disserent
PaGC534, 535
Nom if the WVhole Worid Animated
be the Supreme Ood, then must all ihe
ParEs and Members of the Worid be the
Parts and Members of One God; but
not themselves therefore property se Many
Senses: but not asa Dead and Inanimme
Thing, but cither as the Body oF Ood,
or else as his Temple or Lmagc. PaBC
537,53
Furthermore, ihe Pasans Dniversally
achmomledeine ihe Wortd 1o bean Animal
Oods. This affirmed by Orisen, as the those of rhem nho supposed it not 10 be 1be
Tiuc Sense os These Parans, aeainst that First and Highes Ood, conceived it 10 be
unvary Assertion of C eluS, That I5 the either a Second, or else a Phird Cod;
Whole vere Cod, then must che Several and so WVorstripped it, not onely as a Tem-
Parts thereof necds bc Cod5.
535
Dle or Image, but also as the Son of the
Wherefore thoneh these PasanS Dcited First Coc. Celus pretended ihe Chricti-
the PATES OF che Worid and NatureS OF ans 10 have called iheir JcuS, Ihe SOn ot
Thines, as vell as the POWerS OF che Ood, in lmitation of these PABaNS, ho
Mundane Soul; vet did not the Intellieent Atyled ihe Worid so.
amonest them Worstip them severally, as
So many Pruc and Proper Oods, but one-
539, 540
Thus have me made it fully 10 appeaI,
That, accordine tothe Sagine os Ancisthe-
Gy as the PartS and MCmbErS Of OnC CrCAE nes, the Muny POpular COcS of IhC P-
Animal or Cod; or rather Worstip the
sreat Mundane Soul (The Lise of the
Whole Worid) in them all. This proved
From S. Austin.
536,537
The same plainly declared also by ihe
Paans in AChanasius, That not Ihe Di
vided PartS of the Worid vere by them
acconnted so many several OodS, but
SAHS vere but One and che SaIC NATU-
ral God; or, accordine 10 that os luelides,
their Many Oocs vere but Mlany Names.
S0 that neither their Poccical, nor uet
their Policieal Pheolor, mas loott upon by
them as True ane NacurII.
540
Nevertheless, ihe Witer PAGANS PCrr-
rally concluded, that ibere ouelot 10 be ano-
the Whole, made ux of them Al, Onc iher TheOlOBY, besides ihe NaTUITAI, sitty
Ood; mhich yet mieht be morstipped in Calculated for ihe Vulsnr, and havine a
its Teveral ParIS.
537
Mixture of Falsehood and l’abuloluuy in
it. Varro and Scaevola aereed, that IhC
The Parans beine thus divided, a5 10
their Opinions, concernine the Nacural Vulear beine Oncapable os ihe Fruc and
Nacural TheolOeY, it mas expedient (or
and True Theoloer; some os them Nor-
them 10 be Deccived in cheir Relision.
Sipped the Worid as ihe Body oF Cod,
but others onty as his Imase or Temple.  Scrabo also, that the Mlear cannot by Phi-
lolophick Renton, and Pimeh, be currieet
Lhus Plutarch, thoneh distikine the Dei-
vins of Tnanimate Thines, did noroith. on 10 Piety; but this nust be done by
standine approve of Worstrippine Cod in Supersticion, and by itse help of Pables,
che Whole Wortd, as his most Sacred and Prodisious Relaions. Ile sne
lemple. And Ihe Pertian Magi, allom- partly actmomledeed by Synetuus for truC.
ne of no Artisiciall Temples, made with Plato also; That it is Harc eo sinel our
mens hands. Norstipped God sub Dio, Ood, but Impoltible 10 dectare him 10
and upon the TOpS OEMOuntainS, as con- che VulB; and therefore a necessity of.
cervine the Whole Worid 1o be his Na- Civil Theoloer, distinet from ihe NALU
540, 543
cural Temple. For the same Reason dic ral and Philolophical.
XXXV. We conse nom 10 1benext chive
ihey condemn also ArtitiCiaIL SCatUCS and
Images, concludine Fire, Parth, and WNa- Proposed, That, besides this Scemine aril
ter, and ihe like Parts of the Worid, 10 be Phancacticte Polycheilm of 1hC P381IS,
ihe Nacural Imases ot che Deity. Thus which mas nothine but ihe Polyonymy ol
Dino in Clemens Alexandrinus. This One Cod, they had anorter LE call Poly-
Disserense amon est 1he Pasan Theolozers  cheilm, even in sheir Nacural and Phuilo.
Cophiete