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being- compofed of a body mofl: artificially formed, as anatomifts 

 well know, and aUb of three minds, the inielle<Slual, the animal, and 

 the vegetable *, befides that mind which belongs to his body, by 

 which all bodies fall, that is, tend towards the centre, or go on in 

 the diredion in which they are impelled ; but which, as it is com- 

 mon to all bodies, unorganized as well as organized, I do not reckon 

 as any part of the compofition of man, by which he is diftinguiflied 

 from other animals. And this fo wonderful compofition is fo well 

 arranged and put togethcr,-as not only to make us fit to be the govern- 

 ing animal here below, and to ferve all the purpofes of a moft arti- 

 ficial life in this world, but to prepai'e us for a better in the next, 

 if we moke a proper uie of the talents that God has beftowed upon 

 us, and of our time. 



Of the compofition of man, and of the Trinity in liim, I have 

 fpokcn elfewheret; and I will only add here, that our intelledtual 

 or governing mind is quite different and feparate from the reft of 

 our compofition, and particularly !rom our body, of which it is not 

 a quality, as fome people imagine, but a fubftance altogether diffe- 

 rent. A\ hat proves this is, that the intelleiflual mind adls by itlelf 

 without the body, which, fo far from affiiUng it in its operations of 



thinking 



* There are, I know, many of our modern philofophers who maintain that there is 

 but one mind in our bodies ; and that it is the fame mind which thinks, moves our 

 bodies, concods and digefts our ^{(ftuals, nouriflies us, and makes us grow. Bur, as 

 I have elfewhere obferved, (Vol. I. p. i66.) it is impoffible to fuppofe that the fame 

 mirid flioulJ perform operations io exceedingly different : And, bcfides, fuch a fuppofi- 

 tion would put an end altogether to the fyftem of man ; for it is the three minds in 

 him which make him a fyftem. But I think tlie opinion of an Alexandrian philofo- 

 ph'er, whofc name I have forgot, is Tery probable, ■ hat the animal mind is produced 

 out of the intelleftual, and the vegetable out of the animal : For it is according to the 

 order of nature, that what is inferior of every kind fliould be produced out of what 

 is fuperior of that kind ; and it makes the Trinity in our little world moft perfeftly re- 

 ferable the Trinity in the great world. 

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