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On
the
Nature of
God.
adde
to
him
;
no
if
there
were
t.en
thoufand worlds
more,
although
God
did
poífefs
them
all,
yet theywould
not
adde
one whit
unto
what
is
in
God
hiinfelf;
therefore
though
the
Ood
bath an.
Lord
bath
made the
heaven and
earth,
and
all things
there-
on
and
in,
yet
wee
mutt
not
think
that God
is
ever
a
whit
the
bet
-
gloattributed
isattr
ter
for
there
things,
or
bath
the
more
glory;
hee
ad_as_
glory,his
attri-
buted
glory
is
much glory
and
bleffednefs
in himfelf,
as
now
hee bath,
or
augmented
or
can have
;
when all
the
Angels
and
Saints
(hall
bee
eter-
diminifhed by
nally bleiiing God in
heaven
,
yet.
they can adde nothing
mans
obedience
or difobedi-
to
Gods glory
Wee
fay
the
Sun
is
a
glorious
creature,
b
ante, therefore
but doth that
adde
any
light
to
the
Sun
?
fo for
Saints and
finners
are
Angels
to
be
praifing
and blelling
God,
what doth
that
laid
to
rob
adde
to
God
?
And
inthis
the
Name
of Ged
is
excellent.
God
of
his
gia-
r),ind
Saints
to
5
But
further,
in
the
fifth
place, His
Name
alone is
ex-
.
give
him glory;
cellent
sn
this
thing,
that
his excellency
is
univerfal,.
that
is,
but
his
efi;ntiai
all excellencies
that
are
in
all creatures in
heaven and
glory
cannot
earth,
they are
all in him
virtually,
and
eminently
,
hee
bee
increafcd
bath them all
in
his
own
being,
Pfal.94.g.`Shall
not hee
dim;n ;lhed.
that
made
the
ear
hear ,
bee
that
formed
the
eye
/hall
not hee
fee?
the argument
there
will confirm this
to
us,
that
what
-
foever
is
in the creature
that
bath
any
excellency
in it, that
excellency
is
in God in
an
eminent
way
;
the
creature,
one bath
one,
drop of
excellency,
and another bath
another drop of excellency
in
it
,
aixl
fo
a
third
a
third,
every creature
bath
its particular
excellency in
it,
but
God
.
is
an
univerfal good,
all
excellencies in all
creatures
are
in
Gcd,
all beauty , all
comfort,
all goodnefs
,
whatfoever
íiath any
lovelinefs
or
defireablenefs in
it
,-
I
fay
it
is
all
in.God
,
and
I
know
not
any one confideration
that
will
help
us
more
to under(landGod
while wee are
here in
the
flefi-i
than
this,
for
in
regard of
our
weaknefs,
wee can
know
little
or
nothing
of
God,but
by
looking
into
the
creaL
cure,
and
fo
rifing
from them.
Now then
when
wee
come
to
look
upon the creatures,
and wee
fee an excellency in one
creature , and another in
another , Now
if
wee can conceive
as
it
were
the
quirt
to
fence
of
all. thefe.
excellencies
drawn out
,
and con-
ceive.