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loglan of them ali *. Of the conformity betwixt this Platonic 

 Trinity and the Chriftian I have fpoken in the Firft Volume of the 

 Origin and Progrefs of Language t. What our modern divines 

 think of that conformity I cannot tell ; but, from a pafTagc of Eu- 

 febius, in his P raepar at io E'v angelic a, w\\\q\\ I have quoted %-> it ap- 

 pears to me that he undcrflood the do^lrine of St John, upon the 

 fubjed: of the Trinity, and of Plato, to be the fame. And, if fo, 

 it is impoffible to believe that, according to the Chriftian Theology, 

 the Supreme God is the immediate Author of the Motion of any 

 Body. 



And here it may not be improper to add fometliing, in further 

 explanation of what I have elfewhere faid, concerning the prefcnce 

 of the Human Mind in different times and places, which, though 

 I have not made to be omniprefent, I have fliown to be prefent, 

 both in places very diftant from the place w^here our Body is, and alfo 



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* See Ennead. 5. Lib. i/Cap. 8. and Lib. ii. Cap. 1. and 2. with tlie Notes of 

 Marfilius Ficinus, who has been at the pains, not only to tranflate, which was 

 a moft difficult taflc, but to illuftrate with large notes and obfervations, an author 

 the moft obfcnrc of any that I know, at the fame time moft valuable to thofe who 

 defire to enter into the depths of the Platonic theology. By the account which Por- 

 phyry, his fcholar and the writer of his life, gives of him, he wrote as one infpi- 

 red, and would not fubmit to the trouble of revifing or correcting what he had writ- 

 ten. See what I have further faid of him, Vol. i. p. 140. The edition of him b*' 

 this Marfilius Ficinus muft have been a work of prodigior'- labour, and which reqm'- 

 red very great abilities and knowledge of antient philolophy j and I think he mav be 

 juftly reckoned among the chief reftorers of the antient philofophy in Italy but 

 which, I am afraid, is loft there, as well as in other parts of Europe. 



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-\ Ibidem. There is another Chriftian author, Cyrillus, wlio,.in the Stli book 

 of his Anfwer to Julian the Emperor, gives the fame account of the trinltv of Plato 

 taken from a work of Porphyry the philofopher that is now loft. There Porii!ivr\' 

 calls the fecond perfon of Plato's trinity Qio<; S'r.uicv^yosf that is, //'<■ God luh macU the 

 world ; which is perfeOly agreeable to the Chriftian dodrine. 



