Of Goth Omnipre[ence. habits with God as well as th€ great:eft Princes, for God is cvery:where prefent and fees all things . Go4 iJ not only prefcnt· in the ~Vorld, ?ut he iJ infitlittly exiftmt nl{o without the JVorld, POjition 2; .a11d bf)'ond a!J things but bimfdf. He IS in all that Vart TraCt of Nothing which we can im3.gine, and beyond the H i&hcit Heavens : What ~cafon can fay for this, I !hall anon fhcw. In the mean t1me fee that one pofiuve place of Scripture, T Kings 8. 27. Behol~ the _Heavtm and H_uucn of Hta'Vt'IIS can?ot C~tuain IJim. And if God be not contamed m them, certamly he theu m11ft be JOfimtely beyond and above them: He furmounts the Heaven. of Heavens, that is, the- very higheft and uppermoft Heavens, which St. Paul calls the Third Hea'!.lcn, 2 Cor . 12. 1 hat glorious Place in which God doth moft fpecia11y manifeft himfelf and wip do' to all Eternity. The Scripture tells us, that though the Hea':len of the glprified Angels and S:;intJ be the place in which God will efpecially manifeft .his pr{'fence, yet it is not that ·place unto which God will or doth confine his prcfence~ /fai. 66. y 2. Thu1 faith the Lord, the Heaven is my Throne, and the Ellrth is my Footj!Qo/. Where is the l-Joufe that ye build unto mt? And where is the Place (If my Rejf ? For all thofc things bath ·mine J-Iand made. As if God Ihould have faid, Do not t hink 10 cJoifter me up within the Walls of the Temple; no, 1 am fet Ulmn the higheft Heavens, as ur-on my Throne, and·they are all under me, ·a.nd 1 am exalted far above them. Many fuch glorious Expreffions there arc of God)s l nfin itenef~ and lmmenfity fcattercd \lp and down the Scripture, which 1 01all not now fpend time to recolleCt: The Scripture, you fee, owns it for a truth, Th:tt God is Infinite in his Efi'ence beyond the whole \Vorld, which is one of thofc Divine Properties which pofeth Re.ifen to conceive, how it is poffible, that fince beyond the World there is nothi ng, that God jhould cxift there;· but though Reafim cannot apprehend it, yet from Rea, im, as well as from Scripture, it appears it mufl: he fo. As God e."':ifts t"..ery~n'hcre, fo ali and whole God exifts e'l!ery~whcre. So th<:t all God Pofiti~n 3· is here, and all God is there, and all God is i n every place, and in every t hina: This is i ndeed a great and moft unconceivable My!tery, but yet it muft needs be fo, bccaufe God is indivifible and fimple and not componnded of Parts; and therefore where~ever there is any of God's EJ]Cnce, there is all his E!/ena, otherwife part of his Ej[mcc would be here, and part there, aad part of it elfcw here, which would be utte rly repugnant to the fimple and uncompounded Nature of God. God's Attributes are his Effence: Now t here is no where, where God· is, but t here are ·all his Attr ibutes, and therefore where God is there is all his E/]1ncr. He is a Spirit, m(Jfl Wife , moft Powerful, moft Jufl, and the like, here and there, as well as in Heaven above; yea, and what is more, to the a!tonifhment of Reafon, than all this, God is every~where Omniprefent, ar.d in enry place. And though it be common to all Spiritual Beings, becaufe they have no parts, to have a tot<ttity in the whole, and a totality in every part: (Indeed it is cxpreOCd in the SthGolJ, that Spirits are all in the whole, and all in every part;) yet·hercin God hath a peculiar way of fubfifting from other Spirits, that not only his Fjfence alone is in every part of the World, but alfo his Prefence is in all and every part of the World : So that God is every where prefenr, which is beyond the reach of our apprchenfions; yet it is undoubtedly true, for God's Omfliprefence beinz that Attribute which belongs to him, he is Prefent every-where and in all things. Now for the Rational Dcmonfirations whereby it n1;ay be evinced, th::!t God ii Omniprcfcnt. · That God is prefellt every~ where in this \Vorld1 that I fhall make good by thefe Arguments: (1.) Argument 1. Firfl: from his Unchangeab1enefs, thus: If there be any place where God is not, then God may be there; becaufe he is Omnipotent; bu t if Gad may be there, where he is not <JCtua\Iy alfc, then it muft be by rhotion to that place; but it is impofiible that God fhould be able to move from 0!1-C place to another, beeaufe he is immutable: The-refore hence it clearly fo llows, that there is no place where God is not, and where he was not from all Eternity. (2.) Arg, 2. It may be demonftrated, 'That God is Omniprtfont jrGm his prefir· Vlftion of all things in their beings. Thus God is prefent with whatfoevcr he pre~ fcrves, bllt he prcfen'es every thing in its being, therefore he iS' prefenr everywhere. There is required as great a Power to prcferve Creatures from falling b3Ck into their li.rft Nothing, as there was to make them at firft out of Nothing ; for
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