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preme Mind; for that could not be, unlefs he were embodied in them, 

 the only way in which, as 1 have faid, mind can move body: But 

 to maintain this, would be the grofleft impiety. — My meaning there- 

 fore is, as I have faid, that the motion of all bodies is produced by 

 inferior minds, which proceed from that Siibflance (or pcrfon, as we 

 call it) of the Divinity, the Holy Spirit^ which gives life and adion 

 to all the beings in the unlverfe. 



Thus far our inquiry has gone concerning the Divinity: And what 

 we are next to confider is, what his attributes are, and whether he 

 be, as 1 have faid he is, a Being of infinite wifdom and goodnefs 

 as well as of power. And, as it is only by the works of God that 

 we know he exifts, the fame works muft let us know what qualities 

 or attributes we are to afcribe to him. 



The prime attribute of the Divinity is intelligence, being the 

 firft proceffion from him in his only begotten Son, who is the prin- 

 ciple of intelligence, called in Greek 7.0705, and in our Engllfh tran- 

 flation exprefled by a very improper name, word. This word, in 

 the Englifh language, denotes, and only denotes, an articulate found 

 expreffing fome perception or idea of the human mind, but never 

 can denote intelligence of any kind, and much lefs the principle of 

 intelligence, that is the Second Perfon of the Trinity and the firft 

 procefPion from God the Father. The word in Greek is ufed to 

 denote intelligence exprcfTed in fpeech, as well as intelligence in the 

 mind of the intelledual being j but, as it is ufed in the dodrine of 

 the Trinity, it can denote nothing but intelligence, and, as Ihave 

 faid, the firft principle of intelligence *. The firft thing to be 



Vol. VI. 1 confidered 



• See vol. I. of Origin of Language, p. 7. in the note ; alfo what I have fa'd upon 

 this fubjed in the fourth volume of this work, p. 382. where I have Ihown that the 

 Greeks make the diftinction betwixt >i«-/<i{ iilixttrix, and Aoyo; ^ftjef.Ko? ; and where 

 1 have alfo fpoken of the doftrine of the Trinity. — See alfo Val. V. of this work, p, 

 190.— I have treated the fubjeft at length in Chap. VI. of the firlt Book of this vol. 



