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by tlie pafTions of our animal nature, and by tbe errors of our judg- 

 ment, as I have (hown in the preceding volume, in vvh:tt I have 

 written on the beautiful'^. It is that which makes the happinefs of 

 the intelledual nature ; for it is not merely the perception of truth, 

 and of the order and arrangement of things in a lydem, but it is 

 the beauty of fuch an order of things f, which gives delight to the 

 intelligent being, and is his only delight. And, therefore, we mud 

 fuppofc that the happinefs, even of the Supreme Being, niufi; con- 

 fift in the contemplation of the beautiful: And fuch was his happi- 

 nefs, when, as Mofes tells us, he confidered his work of Creation, 

 and faio that It ivcis be.iutiful^ as the paffage is tranflated in the Sep- 

 tuagint, and no doubt ought to be tranflated. And it was the great- 

 eft happinefs that the beautiful could give, as it arofe from the view 

 of his own works ; for though we are delighted with the beauty in 

 the works of others, we are much more pleafed with it in our own 

 •works. And it is in this way I underfland whpt is faid in Scripture 

 of God doing things for his own glory, that is to enjoy the deliglit 

 which the contemplation of the beaulijul or the glorious gives him. 



And here I conclude the comparifon betwixt the Divine intelli- 

 gence and the human; from which as it appears that the Divine 

 intelligence is infinitely fuperior to ours, fo i think it is fliown that 

 our intelligence is fuch, that we are very properly faid in Scripture 

 to be made after the image of God, or, in the language of a Heathen 

 writer before quoted, to have in us Divinae partlcula anrac. 



Our intelle£l, fuch as it is, is our governing principle in this life. 

 Buf we are moved alfo by inftindl to do feveral things. Of the differ- 

 ence betwixt inrtin£t and intelledt I {hall fpeak in the fequel of this 

 work. Here it will be fufficient to obferve, that, when we are mov- 

 ed by inftindl, we a£l as the brute animals do : But when wc adl ■ 



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• Vol. V. Book III. Chap. 7. alfo vol. II. Book II. Chap. 5. -}• Ibidem. 



