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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 COnFeNLS.
Arius rohe maintained Anorher Word and, Opiticers. Thouch Nous or Mind vulearty loche
Wisedom, Senior to that Word and Wiledom upon as the Eliebest Principlo of all ihines, vel
in Christ. These PlatoniCs, so far from deny- Plato set before it, One Mon Simple Cood.
ins ibe Ecerniey oEche Word, that they rather, Ir hen Nous said by Placo, 1o be zoruenc, of ibe
attributed 100 much to it, in matine it SelF. Same Kind, with the First Cause os allthines:
begocten. WBerefore Placo, asserrine the Lter.
ebis all one as if hehad afirmed it 10 be ouoboror,
niiros bis Second Aypostalis, NouS or L0805, CO. Fsencial or Consubllancia l with it. P~8. 578,
and not of ihe Worid, did ihereby, accordins 10
Achanalius bis oon Doctrine, make it 20 be no
PaGC575
PtatoS Third Aypostalis, PTChe, on ihC
Suveriour Mundane Soul, called by him ZCus.
Nor is there apoforce at all in that Testimony from Cui as also the Cause and Founcain oE
Creature.
e Macrobius, cired by Petarius, 1o the contrary,
herein the Firs FIy Poctalis is said to have Cre-
Lite, and ihe Prince and RinB OF aII chings.
And wben said 10 b0 enzore, ihe OAprins os
ared Mind from it setf. and ihe Second to bave the Hixhest Mind, thereby made ContubitanciaII
Created Soul; because these AncienE PaGanS with it also. S0 that Placo S irhole Friniey H0.
did not confine the mord Creare, to sueh a nar.
rom sense as Chriltians commonly do; but used
et generally for al manner of Production. Peta-
moousian.
Thoneh Bythe Demiurous or Opiticer, Placo
commonty meant the Second Aypoctasis, Mind
vius his mistate, chiesty from that Spurious or Incellect; vet AccieuS, Amelius, PlOcinuIS
Friniey of ihe larter Platonists, nhose Third andorhers, called ihe Third or ihe Hister P(y-
Cod is by themselves called moinua, a Crea- che also, Wy that Name. WBeresore accordin
cure. But this nos the Doctrine os ihe AncientS. 10 ihe Genuine Platonick, aud Parmenidian
57C
Nevertheless. (ome more Reason 10 doubt,
ohether Placos Third Arpostalis vero Lter-
nal, because in bis Timxus, he Generates ihe
Mundane Soul. This Controversy decided, by
supposins a Double PErche, irneruor, and ime-
roopuor, a Mundane, and Supra. Mundane
Soul; thefirst of these called by PlocinuS, a HCa-
venly venus, and a Separate Soul. IrBere-
Trinier, allihe Threc Eypollales sernc. Crea
TOurS ofthe mbole Worid. Tbus FicinuS often
and Proctus. Porphurius bis Afirmation ihac
ihe Deier accordine 10 Placo, Lixtends 10 Threc
Arpoctales.
Ibid.
Cerrain theresore, ibat Arius did not PIaco
nire, but rather achanalius and ihe Nicene
Pathers; ubo normithstandine made not PlacO.
but the Scripeures, their Foundacion. IB0 GC-
Fore iboneh ihe LOrver VenUS, or Mundane nuine Prinier os Placo and Parmenides, a
Soul, accordine 1o Plato, made in Time 10gC-
ber with ibe Worid; vet ihe Flisher Divine
Soul, or Dleaventy Venus, ihe Son of ChrOnuS
vithout a Morher, his Third FIypONalIS, L.
ternal, and wirhout Becinnine.
576,57
Tbis furrher Lvident from hence. Because
Placo in his Epistle to Diony(iuS, affirmeth as
vellos ihe Second, and Third, as of ihe FirH,
abat in all ihose rhines that are Coenate 1e our
Humane Sout (or Creaturely) ibere is esir
2012ro Blochine like Chereunto.
57
Midale berroixt ibat of Sabellius, and 1Bst et
Arius: it beine neirber a Friniey of Words and
Names, as tbe Former; noc an Hecerooutious
Trinier, a Consused Jumble of Cod and Crea-
cure rocetber; bus Flomoonsious and HlomO-
genealI: al EternalI. Necessarily Lxistent,
Intinice or Omniporent, and CrCAIOUT. 579,
580
Secondly, The Threc Lypoctales of Platos
Bat ihat it may vet more fully appear, bon
Far ihe most resined Placonick and P’armenidian
Frinier, does either Aeree or Disaeree, with ihe
Scrixture and Christian Doctrinc, Luo tbines
Prinier pot oncto ab E ternaII, but also NCcCI- furiber 10 be Observed concernine it. FirH ihac
Carilys Existene, and Absolutelr Unannihilable.
ihe Placonists UniverCally asserred an L Nencia II
Nor conld the First any more lxist without ihe Dependence os ibeir Second and Third HV-
Second and Third, ihen ihe Sun without iis postates upon ibe FirA, as also a GraduaII Sub-
Primarr LighC, and Sccundary Splendor. ordinacion in them. Zbus PlOcinus; ChionOS,
hese accordineroPlocinus, ihe Three Princi-or ibe Second HypOctalis, is in a Midale ScacC
ples osthe Univertes sorbut ipere contd be nei- beroixt his Pacher ertio is Greater, and his Son
IBer MOrO, nor Perver. They also who called ibe
Sccond, AucOpatOF, signisied thereby, ibe NC.
CeMY its LXittence.
577, 570
Tbiralo. Theso nc Tlaconicle IIypolta.
reS, as Eternall, ana Necessary, so litervise
eoto is Inseriour. And thas in phis Rcernal Ge-
neration or Emanation, no Proeress Vprvard,
but all Domumard, and a Graduall Descent.
580, 561
Nore of the Dependence and GraduaII Sub-
Univer (aI or Comprehentire of the Whole ordination of ihe Sccond and Third Erpoltates
Worta pbat is, Intinice and Oimmipocent. of ihe Placonick Priniey 1o the FirII. Lact
Theresore callea Principles, and Caules, and follomine HypOstalis called iyre, and nne