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O
tke.11fature
of
_Gad.
of
the
damned thould
bee
at
an
end
z
fo
that if
a
drop bee
taken out
of the
Sea
it
is
the
leis
:
but God
is
iuch an
in-
finite ocean of
beeing,
of
excellencies, of
happiness,
that
let
him
let
out
,
and communicate never
io much
of
him
-
felf
,
yet
hee
hash as much Hill
as
ever hee
had
:
God
huh
let
out
excellency , and good
to
all
his
creatures
ever
fince
the
wold
began, all the good, the comfort,
the
happinefs, the fweetnets, the beauty
and
excellency
of all
creatures
have been from God
that
infinite
fountain,
but
now
this
fountain
is as
full
as
ever
it
was
,
and will bee
as
full
ro
all eternity
as
ever
it
was
:
And
here lyes
the
excellency
of God
beyond
all creatures whatió-
ever.
z
7
In the
next
place,
God alone
is
excellent
,
there
is ne
eomparifen to
bee
made
between
him and
any
thing
elfe
;
as
thus,
Take
the
creature
in what wee
think
it
comes
nearca
to
God,
and
the truth
is
to
fpeak
properly ,
it
conies no
nearer to God than
thofe
things
that
wee think come lets;
as when wee
fay
that God
is
a
great God
and
fills
all
pla-
ces
,
if
you
thould
fuppofe
a
body
thatlhould
fill
all
this
world,
it
is
no nearer
CO
Gods
inunenfity,than
a
moat
that
oyes
in the
Sun
:
or thus
, Take never
fo
many thoufand
years,
as
wee
fpoke
the
lafl
day
,
if
an
Accountant
that
fhould write
down
figures
all
his
life time , they: would
come wee
think,
to
an infinite fumme;
yet all
thofe
infinite
millions
of years come no nearer
to
Gods
eternity
, than
bne
minute doth , and
the
reafon
that
I
give
is
unanfwer-
able,
becaufe
that
there mutt needs bee
alwayes
an
infi-
nite
diftance
between what
is
finite,
and what
is
infinite,
and
greater than
an
infinite diaance there cannot
bee;
now
take
fuch a
body as
fhould
fill
the
fpace between
heaven and
earth
,
there
remains
í}i11
an
infinite
dif}ance
between
the
Immenfity of
God, and
this
body, and take
fo
many numbers
of
years
as
poflibly can be imagined
by
Men
or Angels,yet there
will remain an infinite
dif}ance
between
Gods eternity
, and thofe numbers
of
years
;
now
greater
than
an
infinite
diflance
there
cannot
bee;
therefore all
thofe