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On

the

Nature-of

God.

í

9

in

all places

but God

is

every moment in

every

place.

Thirdly,God

is not

in

every Flace to

fill

heaven

and

earth,-that

Dew

ejl

nuliif,

is,

one

part

in one

place , and

another

in another

,

as

a

inclu

fie,

fed

ti-

great thing

that

fills

fuch

a

room

,

one

part

is

in

one

place,

biquc

female*

and another

is

in

another.; but

God

fills

heaven and

exijtnctiam.

earth, that

is,all

of

God

is

every where, all

that

God

is,

is

in

every place

:

Yea further,

God

is as

much beyond every

Ce,?tri

r

place,

as

hee

is

in

every place

;

hee

is

as

much

beyond the

4eut

an

a

bi.,

circumference of the heavens , and

the

earth,

as

hee

is

in

them

;

yea

if

God

Ihould make

ten

thoufand worlds

more ,

hee

would fill all thofe

as

well

as

bee doth

this,

without any motion

at

all

,

hee

would

not

move

from one

place to

another

to

fill up

ten

thoufand

worlds

(if

there

were

fo

many new ones

made)

but in

the

fame

in

Rant

in

which

they

were all

made,that

immenfe being

of

his

would

fill up all. Surely

God

is

a

molt

excellent

Being

then

above

all other

things whatfoever.

Fourthly (for

I

intend but meerly to prefent the chief

things

of the

excellency

of God

before you

,

and

not to

Hand

handling of thefe

at

large,

for every one

of

them

might

require

a

large tra

&ate

,

but

now

onely

to prefent

before

you

what

a

God

it

is

that

you

have

to

deal

with)

God

is

4

Being

that

is

All

J'n

cient

in

himfelf

;

Hee (lands

in

no need

of

any

creature

;

in

Ads

17.

z;.

verfe. Hee

hath

need of

nothing,

of none of

us,

bee hath enough

within

himfelf;before

the

world

was,God

was

as

blelfed

in

himfelf

as now

hee

is

;

there can

bee

nothing

added

to

him,

there is

fuch an

excellency

even inGods

being

its felf,that

there

can

be

nothing added

to

him;

wee are poor

creatures,that hand

in need

of

a

thoufand things

continually, the

air

to

breathe

ïn,the

earth

to

bear us,

fire

CO

warm us, cloaths

to

cover us,

meat

and

drink,

a

thoufand

things; wee

hand

in need

of

the meaneh creature, and

if

God

should

take

away

the ufe

of

fome

mean contemptible

creature,

our lives would bee

made miferable

to

us

;

but that

is

the

excellency

of Gods

being

that

hee hath

need of

nothing,

hee

bath

all

within

himfelf,

all

the

creatures

in heaven and

earth,

cannot

G

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