Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

but in his Divine nature he is present with, and walks in the midst of the golden Candlesticks. If we understand it of a presence by his spirit in the midst of the Church, doth it invalidate his essential presence? No, he is no less than the Spirit whom he sends; and therefore as little confined as the Spirit is, who dwells in every believer: and this may also be inferred from Joh. 10.30. My father and I are one; not one by consent, tho' that be included; but one in power: for he speaks not of their consent, but of their joint power in keeping his people. Where there is a Unity of Essence, there is a Unity of Presence.

but in his Divine nature he is present with, and walks in the midst of the golden Candlesticks. If we understand it of a presence by his spirit in the midst of the Church, doth it invalidate his essential presence? No, he is no less than the Spirit whom he sends; and therefore as little confin'd as the Spirit is, who dwells in every believer: and this may also be inferr'd from Joh. 10.30. My father and I are one; not one by consent, tho' that be included; but one in power: for he speaks not of their consent, but of their joint power in keeping his people. Where there is a Unity of Essence, there is a Unity of Presence.

2. Here is a confirmation of the spiritual nature of God. If he were an infinite body, he could not fill heaven and earth, but with the exclusion of all creatures. Two bodies cannot be in the same space; they may be near one another, but not in any of the same points together. A body bounded he hath not, for that would destroy his Immensity; he could not then fill heaven and earth, because a body cannot be at one and the same time in two different spaces; but God doth not fill heaven at one time, and the earth at another, but both at the same time. Besides, a limited body cannot be said to fill the whole earth, but one particular space in the earth at a time. A body may fill the earth with its virtue, as the Sun, but not with its substance. Nothing can be every where with a corporeal weight and mass; but God being infinite, is not tied to any part of the World, but penetrates all, and equally acts by his infinite power in all.