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4. When, therefore, we discuss the nature of the human mind, we
discuss a single subject, and do not double it into those two which I
have mentioned, except in respect to its functions. Therefore, when
we seek the trinity in the mind, we seek it in the whole mind, without
separating the action of the reason in things temporal from the
contemplation of things eternal, so as to have further to seek some
third thing, by which a trinity may be completed.
But this trinity must needs be so discovered in the whole nature of the
mind, as that even if action upon temporal things were to be
withdrawn, for which work that help is necessary, with a view to which
some part of the mind is diverted in order to deal with these inferior
things, yet a trinity would still be found in the one mind that is no
where parted off; and that when this distribution has been already
made, not only a trinity may be found, but also an image of God, in
that alone which belongs to the contemplation of eternal things; while
in that other which is diverted from it in the dealing with temporal
things, although there may be a trinity, yet there cannot be found an
image of God.
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