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

§. 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.

§. 27. Whether the whole world be animated, or inanimate: Whether the whole have one constitutive Soul or not: Whether each Orb have its particular Soul or not, are things unrevealed, and beyond the Certain knowledge of the natural mind. But it is certain that the first Being is not the proper constitutive Form or Soul of the world▪ but yet that he is much more to it than such a Form or Soul, even the total, perfect first Cause of all that it is, and hath, and doth.