f • ---------- - G () n TCithoul all Ct:ufes. fountaine, that bath water originally, bath not the pa,rt, but d~ wb~le, though afterwards it runnes,~ntomaaybrookes; and ifthere were but Olle fount~ine,as there is but one Sunne,then all thew~terwould be in that fountaine,as the light · is in the Sunne. · Now to apply this, looke upon all the crea– .tu,res,and you fila! find that they haveal but part -ofbeing;the Angels have onepart~menanother, and othercreatures another parr,&c.which isan argument that__there is a wh~.le, which is G o o • -' blefledfor ever. . . Befides it argues that he bath wholnelfe ofbe– ing from himfelfe; for heth~thath but part ofa ·thing,doth borrow it,and thereforemu~come to :theOFiginall ; for nothing is borrowed but it is from another,and not from it felfe; therfore,fee– -ing the creatures have buta part ofbeing, it pre– fuppofetb that there is a whole, that there is an.. immenfe being,that is ofhimfelf; and fromhim– fe]fe,and bath it not from any creature. . ·: ~eAfon ~· Laftly,there.is nothing that the eye bath feene or that theeare hath heard, but it is poffible not tobe; there is almoft nothing but is fubjed: to corruption; ,but if it be not fo, yetthey have a poffibility not to be;!l~ the heavens,though they arenot corrupted, yet they maybe : now what. _foeverhaJh,apoffibili.t-y,n?HPbe, it !s certaine · that it.wa-s not,& tbatw;htch-was not ts brought toaboingbyhim, thttt #: ·fo,that you muft come 1 to fornething'ivhich.-u,_ that is .tliecaufe, and the begionipg,and end,ing., ·.that is without caufe, .1 · - that
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