248 AChain (I- Principles. Aph. 4. not through any defect of power in God, that tuch things cannot be done, but through want of capacity in the things, which are (imply impofsible. So then , when we afcribe Almighti- nefs to God the meaning is that whereever divine Underflanding can be a principle ofdirection, and divine will a principle of injunEion , there divine power can thew it Pelfan ableprinciple of execution. Or in p1,4iner terms, That God can do whatfoever he will : and the onely reafon why things that do either argue imperfethon, or imply contra- dition fall not within the compafs of his power, is becaufe they are filch, as for want of goodnefs or entity cannot become objects ofhis will. 4. 6. Now ifthe perfection ofGod be fo veryhigh in regard of his Omni- potent fovereignty,thinkofthine own lowness, (Oman, or rather, O worm, and no man ) and be confounded within thy felf, upon comparing thy fervile condition by nature with his So.ve-
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