'i ' ' ( 7) ' of you, WHat is there inGod ?· God is 'in .t~e Pro– niife, all that is in. God, is here affured to theGodly. The Phzlofophers of ola attained to fo1ne glimmer– ings of the exccllencie5 th.at are in God, by thefe ,3. way~ · · . I. Per _ vi~m NegationU., coqceiving of him as a Being, re1nove4. from all things, fignifyi~g imper– feCtion: a,s ignorance, impotence, in,iquity, corrup– tibility , co~pofition, alteration , o_r any limits or bounds of th1s Effence, Power and Glory·. · , . z. Per viam caufatitath·~ conceiving of him, -as the .F,ountain of all other ~eings ; and thence cot).. duding, that whatfoever Ex~ellencies, or per.fe6l:i– ons are fcattered ur and down 'in the wholc''Crea– tion, are · all u'nited in him, frol)l whom they had , their Originall. · ··;) · ~" , · · ; ·. Per viam eminentite, by way efExcellency; fo tlia~ whatever perfections, wha·tever goodnefs is to be found in any Creature, though i.t be· n0t to be foundjn God,form~tliter,yet there is that ii1 hiln(be being the firfl: ·caufe ofall) that cloth infinitely_, fu– perabund~ntly anfwer them all. Though there be not , the fame Specifick Excellencies \n him, nor thofe , very pleafures anJ ddights ifii.ting from. him, which ' the creatures yield ; yet there are fucb Excellen_cies, . , ,fuch perfeCtions as ~ranfcend and ,lurpa.{fe .them all. The Scriptures tell ,u5 more pohtively , . a'nd plainly ; ,that God is Aimighcy, Omnifcient, O;n– niRre[ent, Infinite, Ecernal,Unchan9"eablc,Ail-fuffi- • I D .. ' bent, Holy, Righteous, Gracious; the Portion, the Protetbon, the Rewarder, ye~ the exc~eding great ~{eward of them that dilig;:ntly feek him. And this . is hr, that is in the _pr01;nite. ,God is _in the.pron1ife. I mutt not inlarge in this fpatious Field ; I fhall k~ep nearer the Text , and fhall confine my B 4 felf
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