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And, 'twas for want of the help of this Notion that that Keen Wit, Discartes blunder'd so horribly in stating the dependence of Proposi∣tions of Eternal Truth, upon the Intellect of God. He saw it 'twas necessary (as indeed it is) to make God the cause of Truth, and that truth must some way or other de∣pend upon him. But then he makes it depend upon the Mind of
God as Conceptive, and that things are so only because God is pleas'd so to conceive them. And this he carries so high, as to say, that e∣ven in a Triangle, three Angles would not have been equal to two Right ones, had not God been pleased so to conceive and make it. Now I am for the dependence of truth upon the Divine Intellect as well as he, but not so as to make it Arbitrary and Contingent, and Consequently not upon the Divine Intellect as Conceptive, but only as Exhibitive. That is, that things are therefore True in as much as they are conformable to those stan∣ding and immutable Ideas, which are in the mind of God as Exhibi∣tive, and Representative of all the whole Possibility of Being.