12. The attributes of the eternal cogitative Being.
Though this discovery of the necessary existence of an eternal
Mind does sufficiently lead us into the knowledge of God; since it will hence follow, that all other knowing
beings that have a beginning must depend on him, and have no other ways of knowledge or extent of power than
what he gives them; and therefore, if he made those, he made also the less excellent pieces of this universe,--all
inanimate beings, whereby his omniscience, power, and providence will be established, and all his other attributes
necessarily follow: yet, to clear up this a little further, we will see what doubts can be raised against it.
