Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

The Apostle resolves it, Rom. 1.19, 20. The invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse: They know or might know, by the things that were made, the Eternity and power of God; their sense might take a Circuit about every object, and their minds collect the being and something of the perfections of the Deity: The first discourse of the mind upon the sight of a delicate piece of workman-ship, is the Conclusion of the being of an Artificer and the admiration of his skill and industry. The Apostle doth not say, the invisible things of God are believed, or they have an opinion of them, but they are seen and clearly seen: They are like Crystal glasses which give a clear representation of the Existence of a Deity, like that Mirror reported to be in a Temple in Arcadia, which represented to the Spectator, not his own face, but the Image of that Deity which he Worshipped.

The Apostle resolves it, Rom. 1.19, 20. The invisible things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse: They know or might know, by the things that were made, the Eternity and power of God; their sence might take a Circuit about every object, and their minds collect the being and somthing of the perfections of the Deity: The first discourse of the mind upon the sight of a delicate peice of workman-ship, is the Conclusion of the being of an Artificer and the admiration of his skill and industry. The Apostle doth not say, the invisible things of God are beleived, or they have an opinion of them, but they are seen and clearly seen: They are like Cristal glasses which give a clear representation of the Existence of a Deity, like that Mirrour reported to be in a Temple in Arcadia, which represented to the Spectator, not his own face, but the Image of that Deity which he Worshipped.

The whole world is like a looking-glass, which whole and entire represents the Image of God, and every broken piece of it, every little shred of a Creature doth the like, not only the great ones, Elephants and the Leviathan, but Ants, Flies, Worms, whose bodies rather then names we know: The greater Cattle and the Creeping things