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On
the
Nature
of
God.
13
down feverally
in Creatures,
are
united
into
one
excellen-
cy
in him;
for
a
water
may
have
the quinteffence
of many
herbs
in
it
;
there
are
many things
in
the water
at
that
time; though
but
one drop
of
water, yet
there
are many
things
in it:
So
there
is fuch
an
union
of
all excellencies
in
God, that
I
fay
it
is
but
one in
God; there
is
an
indivifible
union of all variety
:
Things
that
are:various
in-
the Crea-
ture,
they are all united in one
in God,
that
mull needs
be
a glorious
excellency
indeed.
If
one
man
had
all
the beau-
ty
and
firength, and all
the
wifdome
that
all
the men
in-
the
world ever had,
or have;
and
united into
one,
what
beauty, what firength, what wifdome would
that
one
mar
have
!
now
it
is
to
in
God, that all
beauty,
and wifdome,
and firength,
are
unitedinto
one excellency,
fo
that God
he
is
one
otherwife
than
any
other
Creature
can
be one;
o-
ther
Creatures
may bee made
one
by
compofition,
but
now
God
hee
is
not
one
by
the union
of many
things
together
;
for
there
is
but
one
thing
in
God, God
is
but
one,
there is
a
variety,
as
wee
conceive,
as
the
Sun
when
it
fhines
upon
different
glafhes,
red,
orblew,
or
yellow,
it
hath
a
variety,
I
but all
this
is
but one
Sun,fo
all the-attributes
ofGod that
we fpeak divers times
of thefe
are
the
feveral manifeflati=
ons
of
that
one
excellency
that
there
is
in
God,
all
united
into
one;
therefore
-by
this
the
Saints
cometo
be-
the
more
.
happy,
for
they
may
not
onely enjoy
all'the good
that
there
is
in
the
Creature, but
injoy
it
all in
one,
and wee fay,
the
ttronger
is a
thing,
the
more
it
is
united ;
now
in
God
ali
good
whatfoever
is
united
in one, all
good
in the
Crature
yea-
and all
good
in
himfelf,
that
is, all his
attributes
;
fo
you
mutt
conceive
of
God;
onely the
manifeation
is
di-
vers;
and
therefore
you
mull
not
conceive
that
there
is
any
one
thing in
hitn more
than
another;
you
may
not
conceive
of
God,
as
if
there were more mercy
than
juflice,
.
or
more
juilice
than mercy,
or
more
of either
of
thefe;
than there
is of
truth,
wifdome, and holinefs
:Indeed
God
may
mani-
felthimfeif unto
-the
Creature,
morein
one,
than in'
the-o..
ther,,
but
as
they are
in-his
own beeing-they
are
not,
-
onely
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