The divine life in three treatises

3. The Immensity of God (which is the next Attribute to be considered) must have this Effect upon thy soul: 1. The Infinite God that is everywhere comprehending all places and things, and comprehended by none, must raise admiring reverent thoughts in the soul of the believer ⟨p. 22⟩We wonder at the Magnitude of the Sun and the Heavens, and of the whole Creation; But when we begin to think what is beyond the Heavens, and all created Being, we are at a kind of loss. Why it is God that is in all, and above all, and beyond all, and beneath all: and where there is no place because no Creature, there is God; And if thy thoughts should imagine millions of millions of miles beyond all place and measure, all is but God, and go as far as thou canst in thy thoughts and thou canst not go beyond him. Reverently admire the Immensity of God. The world and all the Creatures in it, are not to God so much as a sand or atom is to all the world. The point of a needle is more to all the world, then the world to God. For between that which is Finite, and that which is Infinite, there is no comparison. Isa. 40. 12, 15, 17. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? and meted out Heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?—Behold the Nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance• ▪ behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing,—All Nations before him are as nothing: and they are counted to him less then Nothing and Vanity.]

3. THe Immensity of God (which is the next Attribute to be considered) must have this Effect upon thy soul: 1. The Infinite God that is everywhere comprehending all places and things, and comprehended by none, must raise admiring reverent thoughts in the soul of the believer ⟨p. 22⟩We wonder at the Magnitude of the Sun and the Heavens, and of the whole Creation; But when we begin to think what is beyond the Heavens, and all created Being, we are at a kind of loss. Why it is God that is in all, and above all, and beyond all, and beneath all: and where there is no place because no Creature, there is God; And if thy thoughts should imagine millions of millions of miles beyond all place and measure, all is but God, and go as far as thou canst in thy thoughts and thou canst not go beyond him. Reverently admire the Immensity of God. The world and all the Creatures in it, are not to God so much as a sand or atome is to all the world. The point of a needle is more to all the world, then the world to God. For between that which is Finite, and that which is Infinite, there is no comparison.