The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures

Arg. 2. It may be demonstrated, That God is Omnipresent from his preservation of all things in their beings. Thus God is present with whatsoever he preserves, but he preserves every thing in its being, therefore he is present every-where. There is required as great a Power to preserve Creatures from falling back into their first nothing, as there was to make them at first out of nothing; for Preservation, as the Philosopher speaks, is nothing else but a continued and a ⟨p. 445⟩prolonged Creation. Now he cannot create any thing at a distance from it, because no Creature is fit to convey a Creative Action, and because also what ever Virtue or Power is in God it is his Essence; therefore if he create or preserve by his Power, he creates and preserves immediately by his Essence, and so his Essence must be whatsoever his Operations are. But God exists not only in the World, but infinitely beyond the World also, that may be demonstrated thus:

Arg. 2. It may be demonstrated, That God is Omnipresent from his preservation of all things in their beings. Thus God is present with whatsoever he preserves, but he preserves every thing in its being, therefore he is present every-where. There is required as great a Power to preserve Creatures from falling back into their first nothing, as there was to make them at first out of nothing; for Preservation, as the Philosopher speaks, is nothing else but a continued and a ⟨p. 445⟩prolonged Creation. Now he cannot create any thing at a distance from it, because no Creature is fit to convey a Creative Action, and because also what ever Vertue or Power is in God it is his Essence; therefore if he create or preserve by his Power, he creates and preserves immediately by his Essence, and so his Essence must be whatsoever his Operations are. But God exists not only in the World, but infinitely beyond the World also, that may be demonstrated thus:

1. First, From the Infiniteness of his Nature and Essence.