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depends for its exiflence, is properly and emphatically faid to be the 

 Exijling One, by way of eminence *. 



Thus, it appears, that we have, from Nature, the faculty of dif- 

 covering this wonderful union in the fyftem of the Univerfe, which 

 to know, is the perfection of Human Nature ; and that we are in 

 the conftant exercife of this faculty from the time we firft begin to 

 form Ideas, to Think, and to Reafon. 



M 2 CHAP. 



*Ey» nf«i i Of, — the Septuagint tranflation of a paflage in the 3d chapter of Exo- 

 dus, where Mofes having alked God his name, the anfwer is, as we have tranflated 

 it very improperly, I think, • I am that I am.' See what I have faid upon this 

 fubje£l, and upon the infcription, Ei, on the Temple of Delphos; Orig. of Lang. 

 Tol. 2. p. 84. 'i''^ 'J' '• 



