nctíouo ,1aítO. 353 humane reafon ; no, not that of Adam could not reach it. Indeed there are Eirange paffages touching it in Trifmegiftus and Plato : Try: megijius faith, God who is Mind begat .óyor, the Speech or Word which is another Mind, and ....,:- with that Speech another which is the Fiery. God and Spirit of the God-bead. Plato fpeaks of a nóyos BHÓTaaos , A molt Divine Word and of the begotten Son of the Good; and the learned; Grotius faith, Ap:id Platonicos reperias , 1:+7ro- sdries 7rHs iZ gyros, three Perfns in one. But fure thefe men knew nothing of this Myftery ; if they fpake fomewhat like, they fpake not the fame ; or if the fame, they borrowed it from Mofes. Plato is called the Atticizing M- frs ; and his 11, atoxá, one and many, is an old tradition derived from the Jews; and his 7a óv, is taken from Jehovah, or I am, Or, which is moil probable, the notions of the Trinity in Plato and Tr;/megifius were foilled into their works. How many Books have been put out under the names of the Apofiles and ancient Fathers, which have not been truly tùch? Such impofture in the Primitive times was very ordinary : And if Men would be thus bold with Apoftles and Fathers, what might they not do in Heathens ? Belide s,torne think there are clearer notions of a Trinity in force of the Heathens, than in Mofes's Books, and fo byconfequencetheHeathens thould know more of, it than 1 frael ; which is contrary to the Scriptures, which tell us, In Judah it God known, Pf. 76. I. and He bath not dealt fo wish Aa any
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