Chapter 4.—The Trinity and
the Image of God is in that Part of the Mind Alone Which Belongs to
the Contemplation of Eternal Things.
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things were to be withdrawn, for which work that help is necessary,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.