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Plato's Eternal, Ineffable, and Perfect Principle of Truth: Zeno's Maker and Father of all: and

Plotin's Root of the Soul:

who as they thus styled the ETERNAL WORD, Sso for the appearance of it in man, they wanted not very significant words:

A Domestic God, or God within,' say Hieron, Pythagoras, Epictetus, and Seneca.

Genius, Angel, or Guide,' say Socrates and Timæus.
The Light and Spirit of God,' says Plato:

The Divine Principle in Man,' says Plotin:

The Divine Power and Reason, the Infallible Immortal Law in the Minds of Men,' says Philo: and

The Law and Living Rule of the Mind, the Interior Guide of the Soul, and Everlasting Foundation of Virtue,' says Plutarch.

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Of which you may read more in the first part of The Christian Quaker,' and in the Confutation of Atheism, by Dr. Cudworth.'

These are some of those virtuous Gentiles commended by the apostle, Rom. ii. 13, 14, 15. who though they had not the law given to them, as the Jews had, with those instrumental helps and advantages, yet doing by nature the things contained in the law, they became a law unto themselves.

WILLIAM PENN.

FINIS.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS, PRINTER,

GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET.

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