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change, orJJjadozv of change. 2d!v, If he hqJieves that the Mate- 

 rial world is the production of Divinity, and not a chance-produc- 

 tion, but formed according to a plan of the mofl: perfed: wildom, 

 he mufl: likewife admit that there is not only a material world, but 

 an intelledual, in which all the forms, or ideas, of the feveral 

 thmgs in the material woild exift, not embodied or incorporated 

 with matter. And, lajllj, if he be learned in the antient philo- 

 fophy, he will know that thofe forms of things, being embodied, 

 make what we call the ideas of things, giving to every thing here 

 below life and movement, and, at the fame time, conftituting the 

 eflence of every thing, and making it that which it is, and nothing 

 elfe '*. — That there are fuch ideas of every particular thing, I have, I 

 think, mofl: clearly proved f . And, indeed, the wonder is, that ever 

 our philofophers fhould have imagined that there could ho. general 

 ideas, if there were not /)<3r//a//^r, or that an idea could be abfl:rad:- 

 ed from any corporeal fubftance, if it did not exifl there J. And 

 lajily, good philofophy teaches us that thefe ideas, being immaterial 

 fubfl:ances, are eternal and unchangeable, whatever bodies they may 

 animate, or in how many foever different forms they may appear. 

 And, therefore, however tranfient and fleeting the corporeal forms 

 may be, the inward forms or ideas continue ftill the fame, and there- 

 fore are of the number of thofe things which have a fixed and per- 

 manent exiftence. 



The queftion, then is, How are things of this kind to be appre- 

 hended ? Is it by organs of Senfe ? Can we, in that way, perceive 

 the Supreme Mind, or Mind of any kind ? Can we form any no- 

 tion of the intelle<5tual world ? Or, with refpedt to the animated 

 forms we fee here below, can we perceive any thing other than 



fhape, 



* Vol. ii. p. 71. and following. 



f Ibid. p. 76. 



X Ibid. p. 75. — 85. 



