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it muft be formed by Intelligence, which, as it is the principal 

 thing in the formation of the fyftem, very properly holds the 

 fecond place next to the firfl; caufe, or author of the fyftem. 

 The third conftituent principle of the fyftem, is the 'Trvsjfjt^cc ^ayiov, or 

 Ho/y Spirit, By the Platonic philofophers it is called very properly 

 •J/u^jj rov y.-^cy^ov, or a?uma miindi^ as from it is derived that anima- 

 tion, motion, and adtion, which makes the whole of nature a living 

 fyjlem. This principle, in beings intellectual, is what we call will ; 

 in the animal life it is what we call appetite or /^^^r*?, producing the 

 motions of the animal ; in the vegetable kingdom it is that life^ by 

 which things grow, are nourifhed, and are reproduced ; and in mi- 

 nerals, and other things, which are commonly faid to be inanimate, 

 it is the principle of motion, or the element alii fe^ as I call it, and which 

 by Ariftotle is faid to be a kind of life^ or y'^X'^ '^'^' ^^ ^*^ exprelTes it; 

 by which he means, that, as it produces motion, it fo far refembles the 

 animal and vegetable lives, tiiough different from them in other ref- 

 peds, having neither fenfation, appetite, growth, nourilhment, nor 

 reprodudtion : But it is a more general life than either that of the 

 animal or vegetable ; for it moves all bodies unorganifed as well asi 

 organifed *. 



Thefe three principles of the intelledual world, though diftind 

 fubftances, make but one Being. And thus we have the three in onc^ 

 and the one in three; and the unity of the Godhead perfectly pre-- 

 ferved. Nor, indeed, without fuch union, could we have any con- 

 ception of the Deity: For we could not conceive a Deity without 

 intelligence, nor without a fpirit of life and animation j without both 

 which he never could have produced the univerfe : Neither can we 

 conceive a Supreme Being, who produces nothing: So that bath intel- 

 ligence; 



* See what I liave faid of this kind cf life, which is fo univerfal in nature, that 

 Ariftotle gives it the name of N^ifurc, in vol. 2. of this work, p. o^o. and In voL 

 5. of Origin of Language, p. 421. and the pafT^igcs there referred to. 



