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mediate caufe of the movement of body, he muft be incorporated 

 with it ; for we have no conception of mind moving body other- 

 wife * : And if, in this way, he move unorganized bodies, there is 

 no reafon why he may not, in the fame way, move organized bo- 

 dies ; fo that thefe philofophers may deny the exiflence of the ani- 

 mal and vegetable minds as well as of the elemental, and make God 

 the immediate author of all the motions in the univerfe: And, ac- 

 cordingly, this is the dodlrine both of Spinoza and of Dr Prieflley; 

 and they carry it fo far as to maintain, that God is the immediate 

 author of our motions too ; fo that we have no mind in us any 

 more than animals, vegetables, or unorganized bodies: And I think 

 they argue more confidently than Mr Baxter, who fays that God is 

 only the immediate author of the motions of unorganized bodies f. 



It is to be obferved that this mind, the principle of motion ia 

 unorganifed bodies, is univerfal in nature, even in animals that have 

 intelleft, fuch as man. And therefore, as it is a principle which goes 

 through all nature, and is eflential to all natural bodies, Ariftotle 

 calls it by the name oi Nature %. 



Andl 



* See Yol. lir..p. j2(5. and Vol. II. p. 47, 



f See Vol. III. p. 8. and Vol. I. p. 207. 



X See Vol. II. p. 46.. and 51. ; Seealfo Vol. I, p. 85, 205. 230. and foUowuig, m 

 which I have given a particular account of this kind of mind. And. from the au- 

 thorities there quoted, and particularly the authority of Proclus, quoted in p. 51. of 

 Vol. II. it appears that the Platonic philofophers confidered it as the ar.'ima mundi, 

 which iperva.tled.all> bodies, organized and unorganized, in fliort the whole material 

 world; and he further makes it the Idea of every thing, which gives life to tlie moft 

 lifelefs thing, and makes things which would otherwife perifh, immortal : So that it 

 is plainly the Idea of Timaeus, in his treatife De Atiima Mwidi, which joined with 

 Matter, he fays conftitutes Body, that is, a fubftance which is apprehended by our 

 finfes.' Add! if we fuppofe it to proceed from a Divine Seipg, that.bejng muft be the 



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