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APPENDIX. Chap. II. 



fli-uij , .iiift ^ifcri^c to it the properties of the vegetable 



lir>^ acvl ev^n of the Jowcit of all that which moves inaniaiate bo- 

 dier, and which 1 call the Elemental Life. 



This, I UurJv, is a proof mod evident and diredt, from the r^ature 

 of Deity, That he is a being of fuch a kind, as that he cannot move 

 Bouy diredly and immediately : Nor ought we to be (hocked at the 

 expreffion, ' That thereisany thing which the Deity cannot do ;' for 

 it is commonly faid, and with the greatcil truth, that the Deity 

 cannot ad unjuftly and maliciouily, or that he cannot make both 

 fides of a contradiction true ; and the reafon is, that God cannot 

 alter his own nature, nor the nature of things, which is part of his. 

 nature, and therefore is as unchangeable as his nature. 



And here we may obferve how wonderfully the analogy of na- 

 ture is preferved, upon the fuppofition of the Divine Intellect being 

 fuch as I think I have proved it to be, and how true that antient no- 

 tion is, of man being a microcofm^ or little ivorld^ in which his in- 

 telli"-ence governs and direds, as the Divine Intelligence does in the 

 great world ; but only governs and direds, without operating di- 

 rectly and immediately upon matter, or mixing in any w^ay with fo 

 vile a fubftance. In this v/ay confidered, the fyftem of nature is all 

 of a piece, and Man, who is the image of God here below, re- 

 fembles him as much as it is pofTible a being fo inferior can do. 



The '^reat objcdion that I have heard made to this fyftem of mine 

 is, that, if it be true, God is not prefcnt every where, nor that uni- 

 verfal Being, which by all theifts he is fuppofed to be ; for, as 

 Mind, when it moves Body, is prefent with every particle of the 

 body, and ading upon it, if the Deity does not move bodies, he is 

 not prefent in thele bodies, nor ading upon them, and confequently 

 his energies and operations, nay even his exiftence is not univerfal. 



But 



