Chap. I. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 6:^ 



BOOK II. 



Of the Attributes of God, and particularly of his In- 

 telligence, 



CHAP. I. 



^the Exiftence and Nature of God confidered in the preceding Book ; 

 — This to treat of his Attributes. — 'Thcfe to he learned from his 

 njDorks as well as from his Nature and Exi/Ience. — His Jirjl At- 

 tribute Intelligence. — This tiniverjally admitted to be neceffary to 

 the Supreme Being. — The Intelligence of Man compared with that 

 of the Supreme Being. — By fuch comparifon only can we form any 

 Idea of that Intelligence. — All our Ideas arife from our Senfations ; 

 — the Ideas of Divinity congenial with him, innate and effential 

 to his nature. — Our progrefs from Particulars to Generals : — That 

 of Superior Intelligence the reverfe : — But after Ideas are formed 

 our progrefs the Jame with that of Superior Intelligences. — The Di- 

 vine Mind contains the Ideas of all things poffbie to exi/l: — The 

 cafe of our Mind very different. — All the Ide.a of the Divine Mind 

 realized, — majiy of ours Entia Rationis. — The Divine Ideas conti- 

 nually prefent, fo that no Idea excites another : — We pafs from one 

 Idea to another ;' — in Syllogifm and Definition we have /o?ne thing of 

 this Divine Faculty. — Of Mr Lockers grofs error in conjounding 



Ideas 



