The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

But if it were doubtful whether the world were not eternally the Body of God, yet would it be undoubted still that he caused it. And that there were the difference of a cause and an effect, in order of nature, though not in duration. As if a Tree or a mans body were supposed eternal, yet the root and spirits of the Tree, and the principal parts and spirits in mans body would be the causal parts on which the rest depend.

§. 8. It remaineth therefore most certain, that something is a first Cause to all things else, and that he is the Creator of all things.

For if the world be not uncaused and independent, it hath a Cause; and if it have a Cause it hath a Creator: For when there was nothing but himself, he must make all things of Himself, or of Nothing: not of Himself, for He is not Material, and they are not parts of God (who is indivisible:) He that thinks otherwise, should not kill a Flea or a Toad, nor blame any man that beateth, or robbeth, or wrongeth him, nor eat any creature; because he doth kill, and blame, and eat a part of God, who is unblameable, and can injure none, and is to be more reverenced.