A32723:1117
Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. If God were changeable, He were not Infinite and Almighty. All change ends ⟨p. 220⟩in addition or diminution; if any thing be added, he was not infinite before; if any thing be diminished, he is not infinite after. All change implies bounds and limits to that which is changed; but God is infinite, His Greatness is unsearchable*: We can add Number to Number without any end, and can conceive an infinite Number; Yet the Greatness of God is beyond all our Conceptions: But if there could be any change in his Greatness for the better, it would not be unsearchable before that change; if for the worse, it would not be unsearchable after that change: Whatsoever hath limits and is changeable, is conceivable and searchable; But God is not only not known, but impossible in his own Nature to be known and searched out, and therefore impossible to have any diminution in his Nature. All that which is changed arrives to something which it was not before, or ceaseth in part to be what it was before.
5. If God were changeable, He were not Infinite and Almighty. All change ends ⟨p. 220⟩in addition or diminution; if any thing be added, he was not infinite before; if any thing be diminisht, he is not infinite after. All change implies bounds and limits to that which is changed; but God is infinite, His Greatness is unsearcheable*: We can add Number to Number without any end, and can conceive an infinite Number; Yet the Greatness of God is beyond all our Conceptions: But if there could be any change in his Greatness for the better, it would not be unsearchable before that change; if for the worse, it would not be unsearchable after that change: Whatsoever hath limits and is changeable, is conceivable and searchable; But God is not only not known, but impossible in his own Nature to be known and searched out, and therefore impossible to have any diminution in his Nature. All that which is changed arrives to something which it was not before, or ceaseth in part to be what it was before.
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