Book 1
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But this poetical fable ought to be rejected, he thought, together with Callimachus, who thus saith: If you believe a God, it must be meant That you conceive this God omnipotent.
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But God cannot do every thing; for, if it were so, then God could make snow black, and the fire cold, and him that is in a posture of sitting to be upright, and so on the contrary. The brave-speaking Plato pronounceth that God formed the world after his own image; but this smells rank of the old dotages, old comic poets would say; for how did God, casting his eye upon himself, frame this universe ? Or how can God be spherical, and not be inferior to man?
