Vie Poo; And this is theliigheft notionof Gods Relation tous, and of all Religion. Note, that the AttributesofGod muff not be call togetheron aheap, but diftinetly laid down. Firft, The Attributes of his Effence, (that he is One, Etern41, Immenfe, Neceftary, Inde- pendent, Immutable, &c.) Then the Attributes proper to each Perfen, and thofe proper to each Attive Principle, (which fum- marily are Perfection.) And then the Attributes of Gods Rela- tions, which are fo very many, that I may not here flay to namç any more. TheProof that there Is a God, is fo evident in Nature, that he is well called a Fool inScripture, Pfal.r4. r. who deniith h. All things which we fee in the World preach God to us, telling us, That they have a Caufeabove them and in them, which mull needsbe able to make and uphold the world, (becaufe we fee that it is madeand upheld , while every part is infufficient for it felfand nopart made it felf) : And he mutt have as much wifdom as is vifible in the effeets, in the order of the Univerfe ; Andmore goodnefs thanall the World bath, becaufe it hath none but from its firft Laufe. So that One melt powerful, wife, and good fi'rft caufe, that is, G.0 D is fo notorious to Reafon, that he is mad that .queflioneth it. And this GOD can be but O NE, becaufe Two Infnites,Two Almighties moil wife, moll Good, and firft Caujes, &c. is a contra- dittion. For if there he Two, One is but Half, and fo not In- dike or Perfelt : And that One is not thecaufe of the other, nor 1115` End, &c. That God isimmenf, is evident ; Becaufe all the world muff becontained in Him ; elfe he had made that which is Greats; thanHimfelf, and operatethwhere he is not : And he can have no bounds whobath nothing to bound him, and bath no pro- per locality. And he that is infinite in Duration, mutt be fo too in Degree or Effence. That God is Eternal, is moll evident ; ecaufe elfe there was a Time imaginable before there was a God, and fo before am thing. And then there never would have bten any thing. For nothing can make nothing. The reti I pals by. I muff tell the Reader here, That though this firfl Lefl'on what G O D is, be the hard,fl and highe(t in Divinity, yet order com- mandeth us to fet it fitti : And till God be known, nothing is well known. Therefore I advife you to read this over, and un-' derfiand as much of it as you can , and thenpafs On to the refl.. And whenyou have gone through all, come back again, and 1r' f 3 learn
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