Part II. ScHEMES oF SENTENCES AND AMPLIFICATION$. 22j fame Sayings of learned Heathms, quoted by the Apof1:le. This Leader of the Chrif– tian Hoil:, and this invincible Orator, pleading the Caufe of Chriil:, difcreetly uro-es that accidental View of the lnfcription of that heathenifh Altar, as an Argument" to prove the true Faith. He learned of the true David, to fnatch the Sword out of the Enemy's Hand, and chop off Ius Head w1th h1s own W eapon, &c. Of tillS ""'Yea~n, or Jnfcription on that A!tar Ludovicus Vives fays, ·• ' That in the Attican Fields there ' were very many Altars dedicated to unknown Gods, hinted at by the Evangelifl: ' Luke, /ltls xvii. as alfo by Paufanias in his /ltticks, e.w, ayvwTWV {3wp.OI, (the Altars ' of unknown Gods) which Altars were the Invention of Epimemdes the Cretan.' For when that Country was vifited with a fore Plague, they confulted the De!phian Oracle, whole Anfwer is reported to be, That they muit offer Socrifi<:es, but named not that God to which they fhould be offered. Epimenides, who was then at Athens, commands rhat they fhould fend Beail:s (intended for Sacrifice) through the Fields, and that the Sacrifices fhould follow with this Direction, that wherever they !hould ftand, there they muil: be facnficed to the unknown God, in order to pacify his Wrath. From that Time to the T1me of Diogenes L aertius, thefe Altars were vifited. More of this may be [,·en in Sixtus Senenjis, Lib. IJ. Biblioth, '!'it. /lr,e /lthenieJ!fis Jlljcriptio. See alfo Woljius Tom. I. Letlionum M emorabilium, Page 4· Verfe 20, &c. So much of Schemes or Figures. Schema hujus Mundi citius prolabitur Undis. 1 'Jefu I In folo fpes rata, jirma quies. Cmlo t Cor. vii. 31. il~X~x'Yu To %'1fM% T8 xo~T~.ta 78TH. Pr-eterit hujus Mundi Figura. • In Lib. 7· de Civit. Dei Cap. 17.
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