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on
the Nature of
God.
bath
all
excellencies
united
in
one
that
are
fcattered
up
and
downih
Creatures; yea,
all
the attributes
of God are
in
him
but
one.,
hee
bath
in
him all
poffible
good
whatfo-
ever;
all
things
that
arein
God, are
equally
in'him, they
are all
infinitely
in
him, they are
eternally,
immutably
,
efíentially,
purely, without
mixture, originally, hee
is
the
-
fountain of
-all
good
to
the Creature;
all
excellencie
in
the
Creature doth
abfolutely depend upon
hun
;
bee
is
excellent in
his
operation,
hee can
do whatfoever
hee
will,
bee can do
the greatefl
thing
as
eafily
as
the lealI, and
one
aa
from
eternity,
is
enough
to
do all
that
ever bee
hath
done
;
Hee
can communicate
as
much
of himfelf
as
hee
will to
his
Creature,
and
bee
bath
never
a
whit the lefs
in
himfelf; ,there can
bee
no
comparifon
between
him
and
the
Creature, the
hicheft
Creature
comes
not nearer
him
than
the leaf},
and
hee
is the highefl
end of
all
things
whatfoever;
and
this
God
is
our
God;
this
is
the God
that
wee
profefs
to
ferve,
that
wee profefs
to
worthip, and
thefe
are
to
bee
the
thoughts
that
wee
-are
to have of
God
when we come
before
him;
Now
you
cannot but
imagine
that there mull
needs bee abundance
of
flreams
of
Ufe
and
Application
that
mull
follow
from thefe things; all
that
I
have
done,
it
is
but to prefent. what God
is.
Nov
meethinks
I
hear many
that
give
their
minds
to
landertland
what
God
is , even
"fayiug
within
themfelves,.
Oh
that
wee did but
acknowledge.
God
to
bee:thus,
furely
there
is a
farther
excellency in
God than
wee have imagin-
ed,
and
might
wee
have but further
fight into-
thefe
things
that
have
been thus briefly
prefented
to
us
,,
0h
of
what
excellent
ufe
might
all
thefe. be
!
I
shall endeavour
there-
fore
to
prefent but
to
you, and
even
as
briefly
as
I
have
done
the.other,
the feveral
des
that
may
flow
from
all thefe things,
I
will
onel.y
give you
a
hint of one
or
two
now.
Oh what
inf
:ire caufe
have
wee
alt
to
let
afimmed
of
thefe
life:
low
thoughts
wee
have
had
of
God
If
God,
bee thus
as
hee
hath.be
n:
(but
a
little)
prefented
tous
now, and
by
what
wee