1. God is Infinite in his Perfections. None can set bounds to terminate the greatness and excellency of God*. His greatness is unsearchable, Sept. [Greek or Hebrew] there is no end, no limitation; what hath no end is infinite; his Power is infinite†, which doth great things and unsearchable, no end of those things he is able to do; His Wisdom infinite*. He understands all things past, present, and to come; what is already made, what is possible to be made; his duration infinite *. The number of his Years cannot be searched out, †[Greek or Hebrew]. To make a finite thing of nothing, is an Argument of an infinite Virtue; Infinite power can only extract something out of the Barren Womb of nothing, but all things were drawn forth by the Word of God, the Heavens and all the Host of them; the Sun, Moon, Stars, the rich embellishments of the World appeared in Being, at the Breath of his Mouth*, the Author therefore must be infinite: And since nothing is the cause of God, or of any Perfection in him; since he derives not his Being, or the least spark of his glorious nature from any thing without him, he cannot be limited in any part of his nature by any thing without him; and indeed the infiniteness of his Power and his other Perfections is asserted by the Prophet, when he tells us that the Nations are as a Drop of a Bucket, or the Dust of the Balance, and less than nothing and Vanity†, they are all so in regard of his Power, Wisdom, &c. Conceive what a little thing a grain of Dust or Sand is to all the Dust that may be made by the rubbish of a House, what a little thing the heap of the rubbish of a House is to the vast heap of the rubbish of a whole City, such a one as London; how little that also would be to the Dust of a whole Empire; how inconsiderable that also to the Dust of one quarter of the World, Europe or Asia; how much less that still to the Dust of the whole World; the whole World is composed of an unconceivable number of Atoms, and the Sea of an unconceivable number of Drops; Now what a little grain of Dust is in comparison of the Dust of the whole World; a Drop of Water from the Sea, to all the Drops remaining in the Sea, That is the whole World to God. Conceive it still less, a mere nothing, yet is it all less than this, in comparison of God;
1. God is Infinite in his Perfections. None can set bounds to terminate the greatness and excellency of God*. His greatness is unsearchable, Sept. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 there is no end, no limitation; what hath no end is infinite; his Power is infinite†, which doth great things and unsearchable, no end of those things he is able to do; His Wisdom infinite*. He understands all things past, present, and to come; what is already made, what is possible to be made; his duration infinite *. The number of his Years cannot be searched out, †〈non-Latin alphabet〉. To make a finite thing of nothing, is an Argument of an infinite Vertue; Infinite power can only extract something out of the Barren Womb of nothing, but all things were drawn forth by the Word of God, the Heavens and all the Host of them; the Sun, Moon, Stars, the rich embellishments of the World appear'd in Being, at the Breath of his Mouth*, the Author therefore must be infinite: And since nothing is the cause of God, or of any Perfection in him; since he derives not his Being, or the least spark of his glorious nature from any thing without him, he cannot be limited in any part of his nature by any thing without him; and indeed the infiniteness of his Power and his other Perfections is asserted by the Prophet, when he tells us that the Nations are as a Drop of a Bucket, or the Dust of the Ballance, and less than nothing and Vanity†, they are all so in regard of his Power, Wisdom, &c. Conceive what a little thing a grain of Dust or Sand is to all the Dust that may be made by the rubbish of a House, what a little thing the heap of the rubbish of a House is to the vast heap of the rubbish of a whole City, such a one as London; how little that also would be to the Dust of a whole Empire; how inconsiderable that also to the Dust of one quarter of the World, Europe or Asia; how much less that still to the Dust of the whole World; the whole World is compos'd of an unconceivable number of Atoms, and the Sea of an unconceivable number of Drops; Now what a little grain of Dust is in comparison of the Dust of the whole World; a Drop of Water from the Sea, to all the Drops remaining in the Sea, That is the whole World to God. Conceive it still less, a meer nothing, yet is it all less than this, in comparison of God;
- *Psal. 145.3.
- †Job 5.9.
- *Psal. 147.5.
- †Job 36.26.
- *Psal. 33.6.
- †Isa. 40.15.17.
