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ciple of vitality, that from thefe two caufes all the other caufes of 

 things in the univerfe proceed in due fubordination one to another. 



This fubordination therefore of caufes in the univerfe, I think, is 

 eflentially conneded with the dodrine of the Trinity ; and thefc 

 fubordinate caufes we mufl; neceflarily fiippofe to be immaterial I'ub- 

 ftances, fuch as the ideas of Plato \ for we can have no conception 

 of material fubftances producing all this variety of minds and bodies, 

 and all the things we fee in the univerfe. 



I have faid a good deal in the preceding part of this work of the 

 connedion betwixt the dodrine of the Trinity and the ideas of 

 Plato : But what I have faid here fhows that the connedion is moft 

 intimate, fo intimate, that thefe ideas are all contained in the per- 

 fons of the Trinity, and from them difFufed over the whole univerfe, 

 and forming every thing in it. The Firfl; Perfon of the Trinity, or 

 the Supreme God, as all things proceed from him, mufl: necelTarily 

 contain all the ideas which conftitute the univerfe. Of thefe ideas 

 he has communicated to his Son, the fecond perfon, all the ideas of 

 intelligence ; and a mofl: general idea this is, as there is nothing in 

 the univerfe that is formed without intelligence; which we are told in 

 icripture, in terms the mofl: explicit, where it is faid, that every 

 thin" was made by the Son or fecond perfon of the Trinity, that 

 is the principle of intelligence, and nothing without intelligence. 

 To the third perfon of the Trinity he afligned thofe ideas, which 

 give life and adion to all the beings of the univerfe, not only to 

 animals and plants and other bodies organized, but to bodies unor- 

 ganized ; and in this way he gives life and animation to all things 

 in the univerfe, fo that every thing in it is in adion, and operating 

 for lome end or purpofe, direded by intelligence. Now where a 

 whole fyftem is the produdion of intelligence, and is alfo moved by 

 mind conduded by intelligence, that fyftem muft be the nioft per- 



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