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CONTENTS
OF

THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK I.

The Preface, in which the scope of the treatise is unfolded, together with the praise of Plato himself, and of those that received the philosophy from him.
What the mode of the discussion is in the present treatise, and what preparation of the auditors of it is previously necessary.
What a theologist is according to Plato, whence he begins, as far as to what hypostases be ascends, and according to what power of the soul he particularly energizes.
The theological types or forms according to all which Plato disposes the doctrine concerning the Gods.
What the dialogues are from which the theology of Plato may especially be assumed; and to what orders of Gods each of these dialogues refers us.