324 AN TIE NT METAPHYSICS. Book IV. 



iinckrftand the omniprefencc of God : For that one and the fame 

 Bchig fliouKl exifl: every where, and fhould be fpread and diffufed 

 through all fpace, is what I cannot conceive ; nor do I think that 

 it is reconcileable to that Unity which we muft fuppofe in the Di- 

 vine Nature. But he is prefent every where by v,'hat proceeds from 

 him. And in this refpeft the Sun is, of all corporeal things, the befl 

 image of Divinity : For he is every where prefent here below by his 

 rays and by the light which thefe gives us ; but he himfelf is in 

 the heavens, and at a prodigious diftance from us. 



And in this way I think may be illuftrated the operations of our 

 animal minds, which move at once feveral parts of our bodies and 

 in different ways. Now we have but one animal mind ; and that 

 mind cannot be divided any more than any other immaterial fub- 

 flance : But there is nothing to hinder the influence from it to pro- 

 ceed at once to different parts of our bodies. So that here, as in 

 other things, our lili/e world refembles the great. 



But befides that proceffion from Divinity, which I have compared 

 to the light of the fun, he has undoubtedly proceeding from him 

 many immaterial beings, of intelligence no doubt greater or lefs 

 and fubordinate to one another, fuch as angels and arch-angels ; 

 the angels of nations, of which Daniel fpeaks ; alfo the angels 

 of churches, of which we hear in the revelations ; and likewife, as 

 1 have Ihown, the angels who have the care of individuals. Of in- 

 telligent beings, however, I am not to fpeak at prefent, but only of 

 thofe minds which move the bodies of this earth, not only animated 

 bodies, but thofe that are called inanimate, fuch as earths, ftones, 

 metals, and minerals. To fiiy that they are all moved by a prefent 

 Deity, I think would be impious ; becaufe it would be fuppofmg 

 that the Deity is embodied with them, that being the only way in 

 which mind can move body. At the fame time they cannot, as I have 



fhown, 



