Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

5. The Immutability of Gods Will doth not infringe the Liberty of it. The Liberty of Gods Will consists with the necessity of continuing his Purpose. God is necessarily good, immutably good; yet he is freely so, and would not be otherwise than what he is. God was free in his first Purpose; and purposing this or that by an infallible and unerring Wisdom, it would be a weakness to change the Purpose: But indeed the Liberty of Gods Will doth not seem so much to consist in an indifferency to this or that, as in an independency on any thing without himself: His Will was free, because it did not depend upon the Objects about which his Will was conversant. To be immutably good, is no point of Imperfection, but the height of Perfection.

4. As God is unchangeable in regard of Essence, Knowledge, Purpose; so he is unchangeable in regard of Place. He cannot be changed in Time, because he is Eternity; so he cannot be changed in Place, because he hath Ubiquity: He is eternal, therefore cannot be changed in time; He is omnipresent, therefore cannot be changed in Place: He doth not begin to be in one Place wherein he was not before, or cease to be in a Place wherein he was before. He that fills every place in Heaven and Earth, cannot change Place; He cannot leave one to possess another, that is equally in regard of his Essence in all; He fills Heaven and Earth, Jer. 23.24. The Heavens that are not subject to those changes to which sublunary Bodies are subject, that are not diminished in quantity or quality; yet they are alway changing place in regard of their motion; no part of them doth alway continue in the same point: But God hath no change of his Nature, because he is most inward in every thing; He is substantially in all Spaces, real and imaginary; There is no part of the world which he doth not fill; no place can be imagined wherein he doth not exist. Suppose a Million of worlds above and about this, encircling one another; his Essence would be in every part and point of those Worlds; Because it is indivisible, it cannot be divided; nor can it be contained within those created limits of Millions of worlds, when the most soaring and best coining fancy hath run through all Creatures, to the highest Sphere of the Heavens, and imagined one world after another, till it can fancy no more: None of these, nor all of these can contain God; for the Heaven of Heavens