to apply them, that this God was not made for this Houfe or that House, but for more Houfes than one. There feemed then to be Room for a Game, and many knew that fome of the learned Clergy had always been unwilling to play, and another Sort were more convenient. Great Advantage had been made a little before by having docile Teachers. After those learned Clergy had taken Oaths to one, they were not willing to take Oaths to another. Thofe, who had then newly taken Oaths, perhaps would not break them; they had done what they could by this new Teft, but wanted to do fomething a fhorter Way, they were in hafte to put it upon a neighbouring Plan. The old Aleim and the Zeal of the People for that Time hindered it, and took the Power out of his Hand; let thofe who live look to it next Time. Then the Scene altered, and as a certain Lady used to fay, If one cannot have what one loves, one must love what one can have. Thefe People have all along infinuated ftrongly, nay, publifh'd it, that fome are of their Opinion, if ever they can impofe upon the People fo far as to believe that, they may then have another fair Chance to play their Game.

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While our Philofophical Author and my Partner were at Odds, and my Partner fure of demolishing him, we went on briskly, and he kept fair with all the Party of -vifited them, and they vifited him and employed him in his Faculty, and at the fame time he pretended to keep clear, and keep fair with me; fo I had not only from him, but from their own Mouths, a full Account of all their Defigns, divine or diabolical, and political or anarchial, the moft openly from the Author of Motion Effential to Matter, and of Pantheifticon, who, being rogued by my Partner, to justify himself to me, and having no Sufpicion of me in fuch Company, made a full Confeflion of all their Designs, and of all the Villanies and Forgeries they had committed to accomplifh them.

It was neceffary then that our Author for the Reasons aforefaid, fhould take in new Allies; fo the Reviver of Jupiter, who could prove by Gravity, and an infinite Vacuum, that Jupiter's Subftance was infinitely extended, and that he was Wife, Powerful, &c. and prove that Jupiter's Subftance conftituted infinite Space, or Vacuum for our Author's Orbs to move freely in; and infinite Power, Projec

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tion, Gravity, &c. to move them; and another whom I knew not, were taken in, and were under Pretence of tranflating his Optics into the Language of Jupiter, when he fpeaks, by the Confent of the Author, as one of them fays, to drefs it up, add, &c. Whether Side the Propofal came from, as the God was to fupport the Philofophy, and the Philofophy the God, I cannot determine. But it feems the God-maker had the stronger Party, and that our Author's Intereft was low, fo they had him faft, and as they had publifhed his Philofophy, they forced him to publifh their Deus. But there are always Friends among them ready to make each of them affift others, affign them each their Parts; and to prevent or make up any Breaches; our Author ftill avoided determining what was. the Agent, or of which Sort the Power was, the Queries were vaftly extended in Number and Length; he was apprized of the two Agents I affign, but he would not fo much as call them by their common Names, nor admit either, but would have the Space empty, and the Powers one would think immaterial, as before cited, Optics by Clark, 1706. p. 309. To what End is it to feign two Sorts

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"of Ether where there is no reason that "we fhould admit even one." However they flipped in by way of Query, the Spirit of their Jupiter, Ibid. p. 315" Does it "not appear from Phænomena, that there " is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omniprefent, who in infinite Space, as "it were in his Senfory, fees the Things "themselves intimately, &c."

Some Time after this, his ingenious Correfpondent Collins, and feveral others, threw out several Pieces in various Shapes, all to the fame Purpose, But as my Defign is only to meddle with what relates to our philofophical Author, and his Deus, and not with Hiftory, I fhall leave them to fome other.

At the End of the next fix Years in 1712, when Jupiter could not be of fuch Service to the Cause, as he had been before; his Reviver was refolved to appear in another fhape, and try what the Name and Appearance of Scripture would do; dreffes up what he calls the Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity, could not, nay, would not observe Chrift's Directions, who referred him to the Hebrew Scriptures for Evidence of himself; bur trikes off two Perfons, and makes them according to his first Plan, Demonft. p. 208. most perfect rational Creatures, fu

perior to to Men, who cannot do Evil, &c. I fuppofe he refers to Acts xiv. 12. Befides Jupiter Mercurius, and fome other Perfon, Apollo or, &c. for they fuppof ed there were several fuch under Jupi ter; has ferved the Scriptures, as his Correfpondent Collins ferved the Hiftory detected by Dr. Bentley in his Phil. Leipf fhewed you in the New Teftament, that Chrift appeared, fpoke of himself, and was spoke of, under the Form of a Servant; and fhewed you not, that 'tis recorded in the Old Teftament, that he a greed to do fo, and to fuffer others to do fo; and gives the remaining Perfon pretty near the fame Definition, as he gives to Jupiter; and I think means the fame, as you will fee when he could fpeak freely, when he acted the Part of, or under a Philosopher. And 'tis likely by the favourable Reception he met among the Ladies, had promised them to introduce a Juno, or a Venus, a Goddess, and to make fome of them Priefteffes, and to have allowed them to wear Infignia. He has fhewed abundantly that he knew nothing of the State of the Cafe, in what he could read; and because he could not read the chief Part, has cited several Texts, which in the Original, fhew that every