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with the Trinity of the great world, this laft mentioned Trinity is 

 a fubjecl of infinitely greater importance than the Trinity of our 

 little world j for it contains the fyftem of the divine nature, which, 

 as I have (hown in the preceding volume*, muft neceflarily compre- 

 hend one Supreme Being, the Author of all things, and from him 

 proceeding Intelligence, and from Intelligence a Spirit of Life and 

 Animation, both fo eflential to the firft being, that they are to be 

 confidered as making with him but one being, confifting of three 

 fubftances. 



And here we may obferve a wonderful conformity betwixt this 

 fyftem of divinity, and the fyftem of the world produced by divini- 

 ty. Of the antient philofophers, fome maintained that the univerfe 

 was one,, others that it was many; but others of them, and among 

 them Heraclitus, maintained what I hold to be the true opinion, 

 that it was both one and many: And Proclus, a commentator upon 

 Ariftotle, tells us that the one in the many^ and the many in the one^ 

 comprehended the whole Theology of Plato j and he might have 

 added, the whole fyftem of the univerfe, which is compofed of ge- 

 nufes, fpeeiefes, and individuals. Now, that the genufes and fpeciefes 

 confifts of the one and many is evident. But I fay further, that every 

 individual of every fpecies is one and ma7iy : For every individual 

 muft have all the properties of the fpecies to which it belongs. 

 It muft likewife have all the properties of the genus of that fpe- 

 cies; and, if there be a fuperior genus, (which there muft be, 

 one or more, till we come up to the higheft genufes, that is 

 the Categories,) alfo of that genus ; for as the genus contains the 

 fpecies virtually, the fpecies being derived from it, fo the fpecies 

 comprehends the genus adually, having all the qualities belonging 

 to the genus in it. And in like manner the individuals of every 

 fpecies comprehend all the properties of that fpecies, and by confe- 



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