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fe£t that can be imagined. It is therefore not to be wondered that 

 in Egypt, the parent country of all arts and fclenccs, thofe ideas, 

 which we call the ideas of Plato ^ were truly the ideas of the Egypti- 

 ans, and were part of their religion and philofophy, as well as the 

 dodlrine of the Trinity ; and accordingly Plato learned them both 

 in Egypt ; nor indeed, without both, is it poffible to make a 

 fyftem of the univerfe, in which all things do not proceed imme- 

 diately from the fn-fl caufe, but from caufes fubordinate to that 

 caufe. The firft of thefe are the fecond and third perfons of the Tri- 

 nity, and from them all the inferior fubordinate caufes, whuh I 

 have mentioned, producing every thing in the univerl'c : So :'•■ all 

 things in it are either producing or produced, that is conlizh,'.-^ or 

 heiuq; coritained, than which a greater order or connection of things 

 cannot be imagined. 



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