-------------------------------------~--~- The f-eund Attribute of God. , God id t~e firfl ·;t,;:bout_all ,~•H{e. · 1<f-.tl. '·'· GoD <J»ithout All-CAUjes~ c:f'he fecond Attri~ute of Go n.· THenextAttri~ute,which likewife maybe drawne from thisRlace, is this: That God it the]irjlfllitbout all&aufe.r, ha- :, - ving h# heing and hegiHningfrQm himfilfe. This I finde fet downe in Revel.' 1 .-8. I am ALP" A ttnd '0 M·Ed A) the beginning and the ending) faith the LoB. D, which if, ~hich was, IVld rrhich is to come, theA/mi:,htie; that is_, what Alph~andOmegaare in the lerters,that I am to the creatures: I am the firfr, and the laft ; ·that is, if I fhould fuffe-rthe -creat~res to fall, then I 1bouldbe the laft, and I Rew/.~.~4- _amHe they would returne~unro,Ret'.3· 14. Chrifl according _to his God-head, is faid to be the he– ginning,ofthe &retttionofGo o, Ifai. 44· 6.1Am the Jirfl,•ndlt~fl: The meaning of it is, that bee is · witboutall c.aufes, that he isfrom himfe/fe, Andhy himfelfe, t~nd ofhim(elfe, and for himfelfe, RDm, 1 1. 36. that is, bee is the fidl:, bee never had any .efficient caufe, as all the creatu-res have; that which bath no efficient caufe, bath no end; that • whichbath no end,hath no forme;(for the forme dot:h but ferve to carry a thing to fuch an endh . that which hath no forme, hath no matter, for. the matter is dependent on the forme; and fo confequently, be is_withour all caufe. But wcte ! will fhew you the grounds oftbis,they are thefe ~a,fo• ~~ { three! _ , ~re fci~:~~~ He is without all caufe; foriftherewereany , fv;:dtcLo7d• . caufcaf him; that caufe muftneeds bee caufed, · either
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