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DISCOURSE II.
Shewing by Reason that every First Principle is an Identical Proposition.
THe great Architect of the Universe knew in Himself, or saw clearly and distinctly in his own Divine Understanding, what he intended to make, and this to the least thing in Nature, as is granted by all who hold such a Soveraign Be∣ing: Also, there being nothing able to check or cross his omnipotent Efficiency, we cannot doubt but they flow'd from that First Source of all Es∣sence and Being without any Errour, Mistake, or (as we may say) monstrous Abortion, but perfect∣ly adjusted and proportion'd according to their se∣veral degrees of Being, to the Idea's in the Divine Understanding of their Creator. Hence each of them gain an Establishment in their Peculiar Na∣tures or the respective Portions of Being assign'd them, (or rather which they essentially are) and a kind of participated Immutability and Eternity by their Conformity, Proportion or Essential Rela∣tion to those Divine Ideas. Wherefore since all our Knowledge is either taken from the Things, or else proportion'd to them; also since there nei∣ther is nor can be any consideration in things so primary, so fundamental or immoveably grounded as is this, 'tis manifest that the First, most firm and