A27107:107
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
A27107:107
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
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The absolute Attributes are such, which cannot in any sort agree to any Creature, but to God alone.
These are two: simpleness and infiniteness.
aSimpleness is that whereby God is void of all composition, division, multiplication, accidents, or parts compounding, either sensible, or intelligible: so that whatever he is, he is the same essentially.
It hinders not God's simpleness that he is three: because God is three, not by composition of parts, but by co-existence of Persons.
bInfiniteness is that whereby all things in God are void of all measure, limitation, and bounds above and beneath, before and after.
From these two do necessarily flow three other Absolute Attributes.
1. Unmeasurableness, or ubiquity, whereby he is of infinite extension,c filling heaven and earth, containing all places, and not contained of any space, place, or bounds, and being no where absent, is every where present. There are four degrees of God's ⟨p. 25⟩presence: the first is universal, by which God is repletively, every where; inclusively, no where.
1. Vnmeasurableness, or ubiquity, whereby he is of infinite extension,c filling heaven and earth, containing all places, and not contained of any space, place, or bounds, and being no where absent, is every where present. There are four degrees of God's ⟨p. 25⟩•resence: the first is universal, by which God is repletively, every where; inclusively, no where.
Secondly, Special, by which God is said to be in Heaven, because that* there his Power, Wisdom and Goodness, is in a more excellent manner seen and enjoyed: as also because that usually he doth from •hence pour forth his Blessings and Judgments.
Thirdly, more special, by which Godb dwelleth in his Saints.
2. Unchangeableness, whereby God is void of all change, both in respect of his dEssence ande Will.
2. Vnchangeableness, whereby God is void of all change, both in respect of his dEssence ande Will.
3. Eternity, whereby God is without beginning of days, or end of time; and without all bounds off precession, or succession.
Thus far of the absolute Attributes; now of the relative, or such which have reference to the Creatures.
1. The Life of God is that, by which, as by a most pure and perpetual Act, he not only liveth of himself, but is also that ever and over-flowing Fountain of life, from which all Creatures derive their ⟨p. 26⟩glives, so as that in him, they live, move breath, and have their being. And because only his Life differs not from hish Essence therefore God is said only to have Immortality, 1 Tim. 6. 16.
1. THe Life of God is that, by which, as by a most pure and perpetual Act, he not only liveth of himself, but is also that ever and over-flowing Fountain of life, from which all Creatures derive their ⟨p. 26⟩glives, so as that in him, they live, move breath, and have their being. And because only his Life differs not from hish Essence therefore God is said only to have Immortality, 1 Tim. 6. 16.