éh, 44 Verf. 7, eAvExpafttioa uponthe Book of s.: Chap. 3 T. empty fpace,.youmayput fomevvhat more into a Veffel,but when it is as full as it can hold, what can you put into it ? Who can make the Ocean fuller, which bath in it the fullnefs of all waters? All that we cangive to God is not fomuch an encreafe tohim, as a drop of the Bucket is to the whole Ocean. Who can make the Sunb. ighter ? all we do to, or for God, is not fo much as aCandle to the hun. What can he receive, who bath all things in himfelf? God is infinitely full, therefore there isno giving to him,nor re- ceivingbyhim at our hands.That word which is one of the Titles of God holds forth as much, he is Elfhaddi, that is, AGod every, wayfall, every way fufficient, he is all-fufficient for as, and he is mil quidet :pi- Self-fufficient. Some cf the Heathens had filch notionsandglim- esa5 t}1ir 3>'1ts, .meting apprehenfions of Go:t.. Plato faith, The exercife ofGod- ncn autan ' lineffe, or ofWorjhip, is acceptable to God, but is not at all profs- lss. Plato in Euthyphra. table to God. It is manifeft, faith Ariflotle, that god needs no Innufe dm eft.. frrends, nor any thing to help. him. The Sacrifices of the letvs goodnuDare were great and royal Offerings ,_ they brought, their Sheep,. Deau, neo ami- and Oxen , and Bullocks ,.and Goats in abundance , yet the tef ebK' Lord would have them know he had no needof them, (Pfal. fo, tthtt, lib. 7. ) Iwill not reprove thee for thy Sacrifecesiand burnt o f fcrings to h c. z, have been continuallybefore me ; I will take no Bullock, out ofthy heule, nor he-Goat out ofthy Folds,for every Beafi of the Forrefl is mine, and the Cattel upon a thoufand Hills : Iknow allthe Fowls of the (Mountaibs, and the wild Beafls of the Field are mine.I f!were an hungry,! would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and theful- neffe thereof. Some conceive that Eauaimes efpeciallyat thole gigs. If thou bringef-i or givefi many facrifices, what recetveth heat thy hand ? The Lo-d dóth not call for facrifices becaufehe is hungry ; that is, bath need of them. The Lord (Zeph. a r.t. threatens the gods of the Heathen, thathe would fiarve or famifh them ; that is, 'he would defiroy the means of their Worfhip : But who can<famiih the Lord, whole the world is, and the fulnefs of ir ? Now if God receives nothing at our hands by way of fupply, or addition, then Firff, No Creature is necef°ary unto God; We all depend on him,he is altogether neceffary to us, but , we are not neceffaryto him ; we are and ought tobe his Servants, but he Both not need our fervise 3 we need fuch agaffer, fuch a Lord, we need to have
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