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on
the
.Nature
of
God.
and
its nothing
prefently;
fo
that
the influence
that there
is from-God
to
the creature
,
it
is
to
maintain
the creature
in
his
being
;
every
moment the Lord mufl put forth
as
in-
finite
a
power
to
maintain
thee and mee
,
and every crea-
ture,
as
hee did
at the
firíl for
the
making
of
the world.
Heb,
j.3
And
this
is
Gods excellency
to
uphold all things
,
they
do
fo depend
upon him.
If
a
work -man make
a
houle,
hee
goes
away
the
houle can (land without him ; but when
God
built the
world ,
the world could not fland one
moment
without
him.
And
not
onely God mull
have
an
influence
into
the
creature co.prefervethe being, but
iikewife
to
¡li-
able the
creature to
the creature cannot
a6t
one
mo..
ment without God,
no
creature can
Ihir
in the
leafl degree,
except the Lord concur with
it
;
therefore
the
Name
of
God
A&xy.2.8...
alone
as
excellent
;
By
him,
faith
the Scripture;
wee
live,
wee
move,
wee
have
our being
;
not
onely wee
are
upheld in our
being and
lives, but
wee move
,
wee
cannot
air
one
mo-
ment
,
but
God
mul}
concur,
with
his
creature
for
the
mo-
tion
and
a,flion
of
it.
i
S
Further
,
God alone
i,
excellent
in
hit
operation, in
bis
power ,
in the
manner
of his working;
though God give
a
power
to
other creatures
to
work
,
yet God
works
in
a
different way from all
other
creatures.
Firl ,
God
hee
doti, whatfoever
hee
?tearer
either
in
heaven
or
earth.
The will of God
;
as
I
íhewed
you
before
,
it
cannot bee
beyond Gods power ,
God cannot
will
to
do
more
than bee
hash
power
to
do
Therefore the
Lord
hee
Pfal.
dodo whatfoever
bee
gaffes
in
heaven
and
earth.
The power
Pi-21.135'C'
of
every creature can
but
work
within
the
fphere
,
fo
far
as
Etrlef
3.3,_.
the
caules
give
a
vertue and
efficacy fo
far
it
is able
to
work, and no
further.
Secondly,
The
power
of
God appears
in
this,that
the
Larst
doth
the
greatefi, and
the
mofi
di
tcrek
things, as
ear
as
hee
loth
the
leaft
and
the
ealitff; as
thus,
God
makes
the
whole
world
as
eafily as hee can make a
crum
of
dirt
;
God can
make
the
Heavens,
Sun,
Moon and
Stars,
and
all the
Seas
and Earth,
wizh
as
much
cafe
as
hee
can make
a
lye. God
D
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cap,