:

AN

ESSAY

Towards the

THEORY

OF THE

Ideal or Intelligible

WORLD.

Design'd for Two Parts.

The First confidering it Absolutely in it
felf, and the Second in Relation to
Human Understanding.

PART 1.

By JOHN NORRIS, Rector of Bemerton,

• near Sarum.

Tu cuncta. Superno

Ducis ab Exemplo, pulchrum pulcherrimus ipse
Mundum mente gerens, fimiliq; ab imagine formans.

Boethius. 3 de Consol. Met. 9.

LONDON:

Printed for S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornbill, near the Royal
Exchange; and W. Hawes, at the Rose in Ludgate-ftreet.
near the West End of St. Paul's Church, MDCCI.

Museum 8-6-46 56079 2.

TO

The Right Worshipful Sir THOMAS COOKES,

Of Bently, in the County of

WORSTER, Baronet.

SIR,

I

Know no Person to whom the Address of this Work can be more due, or from

whom it may expect a more Fa vourable Acceptance, than your worthy felf, whose generous Bounty to the Publick, and therefore truly Great, because Living Cha