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1. I must neither here confound the ordinary Reader by the many Metaphysical difficulties about UNITY; nor yet wholly pass them by, lest I confound him for want of necessary distinction.

2. UNITY is sometimes the attribute of an Universal, which is but Ens rationis, or a General Inadequate partial conception of an existent singular being: and so All men are ONE as to the species of Humanity; And all Living things are One in the Genus of Vitality: And so of Bodies, Substances, Creatures, &c. It is much more than this that we have before us.

2. UNITY is sometimes the attribute of an Vniversal, which is but Ens rationis, or a General Inadequate partial conception of an existent singular being: and so All men are ONE as to the species of Humanity; And all Living things are One in the Genus of Vitality: And so of Bodies, Substances, Creatures, &c. It is much more than this that we have before us.

2. Some think that the word [ONE] or [UNITY] signifieth only Negatively an Undividedness in the thing it self: But this conception is more than Negative, and taketh in first in Compounds that peculiar Connection of parts by one form, and in simple spiritual beings, that more excellent indivisible ⟨p. 11⟩essentiality and existence, whence the Being is intelligible as such a subsistence as is not only undivided in it self, but divisible or differenceable from all other existent or possible beings, so far as it is one.

2. Some think that the word [ONE] or [UNITY] signi•ieth only Negatively an Vndividedness in the thing it self: But this conception is more than Negative, and taketh in first in Compounds that peculiar Connexion of parts by one form, and in simple spiritual beings, that more excellent indivisible