Sect. III.
THat the first of these three Natures cannot be multiplyed, who is but one, the principle and cause of all other Divini∣ty, is evidently proved by Platonists, Peripateticks, and our Di∣vines. About the second (viz.) The Angelick and Intellectuall, Platonists disagree. Some (as Proclus, Hermias, Syrianus, and ma∣ny others) betwixt God and the rationall Soul place a great number of creatures; part of these they call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Intelligi∣ble, part intellectuall; which termes, Plato sometimes confoun∣deth, as in his Phaedo. Plotinus, Porphyrius, and generally the most refined Platonists, betwixt God and the Soul of the World, as∣signe only one Creature, which they call the Son of God, be∣cause immediately produced by him. The first opinion complies most with Dionysius Areopagita, and Christian Divines, who as∣sert the number of Angells to be in a manner infinite. The second is the more Philosophick, best suiting with Aristotle and Plato, whose sense we only purpose to expresse; and therefore will de∣cline the first path (though that only be the right) to pursue the latter.