. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur : in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaq[ue] ex parte veterum religio explicatur . em,opifictsJui,qui in c&io derit,cognofcendi gratiajta ejfe h*c adJpecJabilia adhoc nos hortatur,impe//unt, &•amquammanu ducunt; ita vt nemo dicerepofit,Jibi, quominus di-\inum numen nojfetydefuijfe magiflrum; cum nufqua deficiant,qu£,Ugitispene intentisjUudnobis commolirent. Sed,prout efi humanaibido, qua ad gloriAplus aquo interdumferrifolemus,reges,& quifdHanti aliqua virtute cateris mortaiibus olim- antecel/ebant, cumrnnia immortait
. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur : in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaq[ue] ex parte veterum religio explicatur . em,opifictsJui,qui in c&io derit,cognofcendi gratiajta ejfe h*c adJpecJabilia adhoc nos hortatur,impe//unt, &•amquammanu ducunt; ita vt nemo dicerepofit,Jibi, quominus di-\inum numen nojfetydefuijfe magiflrum; cum nufqua deficiant,qu£,Ugitispene intentisjUudnobis commolirent. Sed,prout efi humanaibido, qua ad gloriAplus aquo interdumferrifolemus,reges,& quifdHanti aliqua virtute cateris mortaiibus olim- antecel/ebant, cumrnnia immortait Deo referre debuiffent accepta,fanequaimpie,quodft Dei proprium,fibi arrogarunt, populis vei vi coac/is, vel beneficijsUec~tis,quofibi diuinos (ofacinus audax) deferrent honores.^ eo tmpietatis efideuentum, vt & hominufimuiacrapro Dijsolenda proponerentur, vt, vbt ficfitia hac numinaper mortem, authfenttam ejfe nequirent,ibi, eorum effigie iUata,,iiuinis honortbm afficerentur. K_Atque hacratione detesiandusfat-orum Deorttm cultw, cnm exfaruis initifs ejfet exortus, pAtiUatim 9 ->. H - vmticrfum terrarum orbemperuafltmam^ vbipoeta emerfefunt} htic v iatiflimum campttm ad excurrendum na&ifluisfabulis, acflgmentis c^re^iaminchoata nnper idototatria operam nauarunt:accejjcrunt & picforcs, quibus vna cumpoetis femper aqua Jttit qttalibet flngendi poicHas; hipcne(^iYantibmflgnis,actabutis rudes hominumanimos adinftniam/edegeruM: natura enim. nejcio quo pac7o ad remflffam ac cotoribm rcprafentatam magii■ afficimur,quam adveram. Itaque pictores, atquepocta, cumfua commenta miriflce in poputis >nonflne ingenti quoquefuo quaHu proban animaduerterent., ammum adie. certtnt,vtnotta quotidiemonstraparerent:qua vt nemo tempore pro-. cedcnte attderet improbare,fttcis etiam quibufldamilttueruU hacflunt arcana illa intima retigionis myHeria, qua tineamcntis externis in- nui conflnxerunt; quaperfuafo cum hominum animos occupaffetjta cceperunt omncs retigioflc
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