petiouo faftN did reach God himfelf; or as if He, like our Mechanicks on Earth, could not work with- out Tools or Materials : Or, as if the Gulf between Nothing and Being were fo great, that Infinite Power could not fill it up, and fetch over a Creature from Nullity into Being. The Epicureans fancying the World to be made by a fortuitous concourfe of 4tomer luckily meeting together in the framing of it ; as if the blind Particles of Matter could range themfelves into a World full of delicate Order and, Harmony ; or as if the various parts, re- gular motions, and orderly difpofitions in the great Univerfe could be but a chance; or as if the admirable confent and confederation of all the parts therein, in which contraries confpire and agree together for the good of the whole, were but a fortunate cafualty. Such were the dreams of the Sophi; but the Believer by Faith underfiands, That the Worlds were framed by the Word of God,Hebr. i r. 3. And over and a- bove may experience a Creation, a pretic _;s New - creation in his own Heart ; We are his work nanfhip created in Chrift f efus, faith the Apoftle, Eph. 2. to. In this Creation Almigh- ty Power is as much laid out as in the Olá ; and the Produc s of it are much more excel- lent than the other. Spiritual Light excels Na- tural ; and the Firmament of Faith the out- ward One. The Living Water within exceeds the great Ocean ; and Chri(t in the Heart., the Sun in the Heavens. Graces are tranfcendent Creatures, and furpafs even the Immortal Soul, 384
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