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one Motions, and the Motions of many other Beings on this Earth. 

 And it is for this reafon that he is faid to participate of Divinitr, 

 and to be in fome fenfe the God of this lower world. And by this 

 exercife of his Intelled in the government of his own Animal Na- 

 ture, and other Natures here below, we are to underftand that he 

 may fit himfelf for a nearer approach to Divinity in another State; 

 for whicli purpofe, when he firft came into this ftate, dominion 

 was given to him over the F'ifi of the Sea,, and over the Fowl of 

 the Air, and over every living thing that movcth ?ipon the Earth, — 

 See what I have further faid upon the diftindion betwixt God, Na- 

 ture, and Man, in a Note upon page 360. where I have made a 

 diftindlon which, I am afraid, will not be underftood by thofe who 

 have not fludied the Antient Philofophy, betwixt aElitig with Intelli- 

 gence and by Intelligence: But it may be thus explained by the ac- 

 tions of men themfelves. A Man, being direded by another Man 

 of fuperior undcrflanding, may perform many things without know- 

 ing for what end they are intended, and, confequently, without 

 knowing that what he does is the necefl'ary means for attaining that 

 end. Such a man ads by Intelligence, while the man who direds 

 ads with Intelligence. Now, it is precifely in this way that the 

 Minds which animate the Brute, the Vegetable, and the unorganized 

 'ody, ad under the diredion of the Supreme Intelligence*. 



3ut, though I have faid that God direds the Motions of the A- 

 ni"\l. Vegetable, and unorganized Body, but that Man direds his 

 ownMotions, I ,muft not be underftood tq mean that the Supreme 

 Being or Inferior Intelligences under him, .do not influence our ac- 

 tions. This, I think, I have fufficiently explained in the Firft Vo- 

 lume y, where I hope I have fhown, to the convidion of the read- 

 er, that 'lis may be done in perfed confiftence with the freedom of 



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* See wha( have furtlier faid upon this fubjeft, Vol. I. p. 216. 

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