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Rh but for Prudentia, tis an active habit directing the mind in its actions, & Art is an effective or operative habit with right reaon. Divinity then conits partly in contemplation, partly in action. Therefore Divinity may bear the name both of Sapience, and Prudence; Sapience o far forth as it apprehends the Principles by means of the inteligence being divinely illuminated, and from thence demontrates the concluions by means of Science; Of prudence, o far forth as it directs the mind of man in it its actions. III. There is a twofold principle of Divinity the one by which it is, and that is GOD; the other by which it is known and that is the Word of God.

IV. Gods word at firt was unwritten, before Moes his time; but after Moes it was written when God in his mot wie counel would have it to be ealed and confirmed by Prophets and Apotles.