Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

If God be, he must be somewhere; that which is no where, is nothing. Since God is, he is in the world; not in one part of it; for then he were circumscribed by it: if in the world, and only there, though it be a great space, he were also limited.^* Some therefore said, God was every where, and no where. No where, i. e. not ⟨p. 244⟩bounded by any place, nor receiving from any place any thing for his preservation or sustainment. He is every where, because no creature either Body or Spirit, can exclude the presence of his Essence; for he is not only near, but in every thing;^* In him we live, and move, and have our being. Not absent from any thing, but so present with them, that they live and move in him, and move more in God, than in the air or earth wherein they are; nearer to us than our flesh to our bones, than the air to our breath; he cannot be far from them that live, and have every motion in him. The Apostle doth not say, By him, but in him, to show the inwardness of his Presence.

If God be, he must be somewhere; that which is no where, is nothing. Since God is, he is in the world; not in one part of it; for then he were circumscrib'd by it: if in the world, and only there, though it be a great space, he were also limited.^* Some therefore said, God was every where, and no where. No where, i. e. not ⟨p. 244⟩bounded by any place, nor receiving from any place any thing for his preservation or sustainment. He is every where, because no creature either Body or Spirit, can exclude the presence of his Essence; for he is not only near, but in every thing;^* In him we live, and move, and have our being. Not absent from any thing, but so present with them, that they live and move in him, and move more in God, than in the air or earth wherein they are; nearer to us than our flesh to our bones, than the air to our breath; he cannot be far from them that live, and have every motion in him. The Apostle doth not say, By him, but in him, to shew the inwardness of his Presence.