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on
the
Nature
of
God.
what power any
creature hath ,
or
what thing
it
can do by
any excellency
it
bath,
that
God
can do
;
look
what com-
fort
it
can bring
by any good
it
bath in
it
, the fame com-
fort
God can
bring
;
fo
that
all
is
to bee
refolved
into God;
not
that God
hath all formally in him,
as
fire
,
air
,
meat,
and
drink,
but
what good
there
is
here
,
what excellency
there
is
here ,
it
is
eminently in
God,
that
is,
God
is
able
to
do
of
himfelf
by
his
own
being , whatfoever any crea-
ture
is
able
to
do,
though all
the creatures in the
world
fhould bee annihilated (taken
away)
and
thou
onely
let
live, God
by
his
immediate
power
is
able
to let
out
to
thee
all
thofe variety
of
comforts
that
all the creatures
the
world had before could do
:
Now
when wee can
finde
all
made up in
God
(as we fay
fometimes,that in
fome one
good
difh, there
is
alldi-fhes
made
up
(
that
is
but
a
fimi-
litude) but
here
-it
is
really
that
whatfoever
any
childe
of
God
lofes
in the creature ,
fuch a
one can finde
it to
bee
made
up
in God)
Indeed
this
is
the
art
and skill
of
Re-
ligion
:
Godlinefs
doth
teach
this
art
and skill,
to
make up
whatfoever
is
wanting in
a
creature,
in
God
himfelf , and
that
is
the chief
ground
of
the
fatisfaaion
and
content-
ment
of
a
gracious
heart in the want
of
creature-
comforts;
and
becaufe the
men of
the
world
have
na
skill
in
this
myftery
,
they think it a
meer
notion
,
a
conceit of men
,
they
are
not
able
to
apprehend any
reallity
in
it,
therefore
it
is
that
they
vex
and
fret
fo
much when
they
want
creature
-
comforts
,.
for they
know
not
whither ro
go
to
make
them
up in
any
other being
:
But the
Saints know
that
all
is
nt
God
-,
all excellency- in
all
creatures
is
in
God,,
therefore
when
you
look thus upon
God,
as having,
all
good
that
all creatures
have
,
and
tharin
himfelf;
and
when
you
come:
thus
to
God
as
fuch
a
being
fo
much
above
all creatures
,.
then
you
have in fame
meafure
a
right
ap-
prehenfion
of
God
:
And
that
is
the-fifth
thing.
6..
But
fixthly,
The
Name
of
Ged is
excellent
#áove
ßa11:
For
not
onely all excellencies in the
Creature
are
in
him
;
but
alt
thofe
varieties
of
excellencies
that
are
featured
up.and