A N

ESSAY

Towards the

THEORY.

OF THE

Ideal or Intelligible
WORLD.

Defign'd for Two Parts.

The Firft confidering it Abfolutely in it
self, and the Second in Relation to
Human Understanding.

PART I.

By JOHN NOR RI S, Rector of Bemerton,
near Sarum,

Tu cuncta Superno
Ducis ab Exemplo, pulchrum pulcherrimus ipfe
Mundum mente gerens,fimiliq, ab imagine formans.

Boethius. 3 de Confol. Met. 9.

LONDON:

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