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Secondly,¹ consider the manner how the Lord did all these things. You know he did no more, but say, Let there be light, and there was light: Let the trees bring forth, let the fishes multiply, and the air be filled with fowl, and it was so. Now to do such things with a word, with such facility, is a sign of an infinite power: for when one can do great things, with his breath, or little finger, we are apt to say, what could he do if he put his whole strength to it? So the manner of his working doth show the infiniteness of his power.

Secondly,¹ consider the manner how the Lord did all these things. You know he did no more, but say, Let there bee light, and there was light: Let the trees bring forth, let the fishes multiply, and the aire bee filled with fowle, and it was so. Now to doe such things with a word, with such facility, is a signe of an infinite power: for when one can doe great things, with his breath, or little finger, we are apt to say, what could he doe if he put his whole strength to it? So the manner of his working doth shew the infinitenesse of his power.

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Thirdly,¹ the further any thing is off from being, the more power it requires to bring it to Being. As take base materials, and there is greater power required, to make a fair building of them; to make a goodly statue of a crooked piece of wood, is harder, than that which comes nearer in propinquity to it. Now no being at all is in a thousand times greater distance, than the basest materials are from such or such a being, and therefore the power must be infinitely greater that brings it to being. Now the Lord hath done this, therefore his power must be infinite great. To make this more plain to you; Consider what it is that restrains mans power, so that he can go no further: it is because the matter will not permit him. If you give him clay, and straw, he can