u.s .1{ea{on 2. He isAlmi,h· .ry, The lnjini!enefft of Goo. - :therm.ftt,ernor forme, bee is inftnittand incomi .prehenfible. And tbat is the reafon that-he bath an.unlimited etfence)becaufe all limitation pro-. ceeds either from the matter -arfrom the forme : . · tb.e:forme is contra.d:ed by thematter:againe,the mauer-wouldbee indefinite, but it iscontraCted andbpund~dby the forme, and ili1.1t up into fu~~. 'acon1pa£fe. Now Godbathneithermatternor : forme.,nor nothing like it; therforehe is infinite. All the creatur~Es,they have their feverall kinde5; the A.ngels they have no matter, yet they have fomething in tbemanfwerable tomatter.&forme, - wheriA th~yagree, and difagree withother crea– tures.: and therefore theyareone kinde of crea– tures, andmananother; which ihewes that they have formu to bound and limit them, in that the effenceof theAn'gel goes fo far,and no farther; and fo:rhe eifence ofman,&c.But in ·God,there is no 6militudeofany fnch thing, there isno E./Je receptum, the;eare 1.10 limits inhim, nothing to bound hiseffence: whereas creatures areEntit~ in– a certaine kind,he isfimpliciter En1, and therefore , with out,all Hmitation,and fo mull-be immm[e. ·· Secondly,Hc isomnipotent and Aimighty,h~ candoewhatfoe.ver he\Vill:Wbence I reafon, If :beehave an infinitepower, it cannot bebut in an · injiniteeifence; for M" thing if. in fi/Jrking -,fo it if in being : an in-ftn,.ite effeCl: fuppofcth an infinite cJufe: theref~re when his·power is infinite, that muft ncedes-bee infinite,inwhkli·it is rooted"and fromwhence it proceeds. · · · · · · Thirdly, Tbat1which -i~ :beyond alJ .that wee ~,can ·~---~-----------------------------
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