GKap. XI. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 193 



leads. And It is very naairal it ihould do fo; for, as Logic expliuns 



the operations of the human mind in forming ideas, which make a 



kind of intelledtual world in man, and, as man is the image of God 



here below, it is very natural that there fhould be an anology betwixt 



the produQions of his mind and thofe of the Divine. 



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But, if the reader has not ftudied Logic fufficiently, this illufira- 

 tion of the dodrine of the Trinity, which Logic affords, wili not 

 to him be convincing. I would, therefore, advife him to lludy him- 

 felf, and to learn to know hlmjelf ; which, according to the fay.ng 

 of the feven wife men of Greece, and to the infcription upon the ga e 

 of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, is the beginning of all wifdom. 

 Now, if he knows him/elf^ he will know that he has, within his 

 cloaths, three diftinft fubftances, which make but one man ; ttic in- 

 tellectual, the animal, and the vegetable : i f v/hich three every 

 fmgle individual man is compofed ; fo that of the three there io but 

 one being, nor without any one of the three could we conceive him 

 to be man. 



And here we may obferve, what I have taken notice rf clfe- 

 where*, how imperfect St Auguftine's notion of the Trinity w >, 

 when he fays that there were not Three Perfons only in the Trinitv 

 but that there might be any other number : Whereas it is evident 

 that three conftituent principles or efficient caufes of the univerfe on- 

 ly could be, viz. the Firft Perfon of the Trinity, the Author of tiie 

 whole univerfe; 2^/, Intelligence, the firft production from the Fn-ffc 

 Caufe, and the Second Perfon of the Trinity ; and, j^/, the Principle 

 of Life or Animation, produced from the Second Perfon, and who 

 is the Third Perfon. 



Now, let us confider how the ideas of Plato agree with the f f- 

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* Vol. 4. p. 392. 



