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

So as to their Order, the Power, as in it self considered, as an Active Vital Power, is first in our conception, and doth as it were act by the Understanding, and the Understanding by the Will, and in execution so go forth with the Will, that the effect is immediately to be ascribed to it.

So as to their Order, the Power, as in it self consider'd, as an Active Vital Power, is first in our conception, and doth as it were act by the Understanding, and the Ʋnderstanding by the Will, and in execution so go forth with the Will, that the effect is immediately to be ascribed to it.

§. 26. Though all the Divine Faculties or Principles are adumbrate (or made manifest) in the Creation or Frame of the world, yet the Omnipotency is therein to us most eminently apparent.

It is infinite Wisdom and infinite Goodness which shineth to us in this wonderful Frame. But we first and with greatest admiration take notice of the Omnipotency. To consider the innumerable number of the Orbs, the multitude of the Fixed Stars, which may be called so many Suns, and to think of their distances, magnitude, powers, orders, influences, communications, effects, &c. and how many millions of these, for ought we know, there may be, besides those which are within our sight, even though helped by the most perfect Telescopes; it striketh the Soul with unspeakable admiration at the Power that created and maintaineth all this. When we think of the unconceivable rapid, orderly, perfect, constant motions of all these Orbs, or at least of the Planets and circumjacent bodies in every Vortex: All these thoughts do make the Deity, or first Being, to be just to the mind as the Sun is to the eye, the most Intelligible of Beings, but so Incomprehensible, that we cannot endure to gaze too much or near upon his glory.