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On
the
Nature
ò
f
Gad.
ever; whenfoever
thou
thinkefl of
God,
or
fpeakea of God,
do not
onely
compare
him
with
that
which is
in the Crea-
ture,
but when
thou haft
made thy
comparifon,
let
thy
thoughts bee
infinitely
above
it;
there
is no
one
attribute of
God doth help
us
more
to
underhand
what God is,
than
when
wee conceive him
to
be
infinite
in
all
that
hee
is
or
bath.
8
Yea
and further,
All
the
good
that
there
is
in God,
and
excellency,,
it
is
eternally
in
him
;
it
may
bee
fuch a
Creature
hach
an
excellency,.
but how long hath
it
had
it
?
it
was
not
long before
but
it
was
nothing
:
but God
bath
been what
hee
bath
been
(if
wee
may
fpeak
fo)
hee
bath
been
eternally;
now
that
is
a
mighty fwallowing confidera-
tion; the confideration of
eternity;
as
a
man
that
is
an Ac-
countant, if
hee
writes
a
figure
of one,
add
but
fix
ciphers
to
it,
and
it
is
ten
hundred thoufand,
now
if
hee
fhoud
be
adding and adding all
his
life
time;
yea
if
hee fhould
have
lived from the
beginning
of
the
world
to
have
added
to
the
figure
of
one
,
what
an infinite
fumme would
this bee
!
but
it
is
nothing to eternity; either if you look
back
to
eternity
it
is
nothing,
or
if
you
look forward
to
eternity,
it
is
no-
thing; (the
Saints
indeed (hall live
eternally
in
refpea of
that
which
is
to
Come,
the
fouls
and
bodies
of the Saints
(hall
bee eternally
for
time to
come with
God,
and
the
fouls and bodies
of
the
ungodly ftiall bee
eternally
in Hell)
Now
all the
excellency
that there
is
in God,
is
eternally
ire_
God,
which
way
foever
you
look.
9
Further,
Not
onely
eternally,
but immutably
in
him;
and
therefore
his
name
is
alone excellent, it
is
immutable,
that
is,
God
hath
fuch
an
infinite excellency,
that
it
is impof-
fable
that
hee
can
bee
better,
or
other than bee is; if God,
fnould
bee
otherwife
than
bee is,
hee would
infkantly ceafe
.
to
bee
a
God;
the
beeing
of God
bath
that
excellency
in
ir,
.
that
there can
bee
no
addition,
no
fubftraaion, add
any
thing
to
hire, and
you
deflroy him,
take
any
thing from
-
him, and
you
defiroy
his beefing,
alter
any thing in him,
and
hee
ceafes
to
bee
God;
fo
the.Scripture.
faith,
with
him
there-