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quence the genus, which, as I have faid, is certahily comprehended 

 in the fpecies. Thus, for example, the individual man is of that 

 fpecies of animal called man^ and therefore he muft have in him all 

 the qualities of that fpecies, by which it is diftinguifhed from other 

 fpeciefes of animals; and he muft alfo have in him all the proper- 

 ties of the genus animal^ which neceffarily belong to every fpecies 

 of that genus. He is, therefore, intelligent, by which the fpecies 

 man is diftinguifhed from the fpecies of other animals on this earth. 

 And he muft alfo have in him what belongs to the genus animal^ 

 and is common to him with other animals. He muft alfo have in 

 him what belongs to the genus above animal^ that is body; and, 

 laftly, he muft have what belongs to the genus above that, namely 

 fuhftance^ which is one of the Categories: So that as he is an indi- 

 vidual, he is only one^ but as belonging to a fpecies and to the ge- 

 nufes above that fpecies, he is many. 



Thus it appears, that the whole fyftem of the univerfe, and even 

 the individuals of that fyftem, confift wholly of the one in the 

 many^ and the many in the one. So that the Supreme Being, the 

 head of that fyftem, if he were fo different from the other beings of 

 the fyftem, as to be only one and not more, there would not be that 

 unity in the fyftem which we muft conceive to be in a fyftem fo per- 

 fect as that of the univerfe. The fubftances, which the dodlrine of 

 the Trinity joins with the nature of the Deity, are not only per- 

 fectly confiftant with it, biit fo effential to it, that we could not 

 have an idea of Deity without them. Thefe are, as i have faid, 

 Intelligence and the priaciple of Vitality ; wituout both which we 

 could not conceive the Deity to have produced the univerfe; and, as 

 that produdlion is effential to his nature, we could not have other- 

 wife conceived him to be God. 



Such being the fyftem of the univerfe, it is evident that the fyf- 

 tem of Theology, contained in the do<^rine of the Trinity, would 



have 



