A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

Now these Attributes are of two sorts. First, primary: Secondly, secondary. Primary, are those which declare unto us the essence of God, as he is absolutely in himself, of which there being no similitude in the creatures, they are attributed unto God alone, without communication to any other. And in this number are Gods Simplicity, Infiniteness, Eternity, Immensity, Immutability, and Omnipresence, all-sufficiency, and omnipotency. His simplicity is an essential attribute, by which is signified that ¹the divine essence is undivided and absolute, without composition, parts or accidents, invisible, impassible, and all essence, so that whatsoever is in God, is God. His Infiniteness is, whereby is signified, that he is in his essence uncircumscribed, and above all measure of time, place or any thing else, but simply immense and incomprehensible. The Eternity of God is ²an essential attribute, which signifieth that he is infinite and uncircumscribed by time, first and last, without beginning or ending, absolute without succession, wholly all, always and at once. His immensity is an essential ³attribute, whereby is signified, that the divine essence is without dimension and circumscription of place, wholly every where present, within the world, and without the world, containing all things, and being contained of nothing. His Immutability is an essential property, whereby is signified, that the divine nature being infinite, absolute, most simple