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The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures
The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Exekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by H. Clark for J. Robinson, 1696
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.
Arg. 2. Secondly, From the Infiniteness of his Perfections, we may argue thus: That which is infinitely perfect, must be infinitely great, but God is infinitely perfect; so that there is no Perfection which we can imagine but is eminently in God, therefore he must be infinitely great, so as there can be no space which we can imagine, but he must be present in it: But we can imagine an infinite space beyond this World, therefore God is there, because there is no Perfection imaginable which God hath not. Whatever is infinitely perfect, must be infinitely great, as appears from this, because the greater a thing is, the more perfect it is of that same kind, as a great piece of Gold is more excellent than a less; and therefore from this Perfection of God, it appears, that he is every-where, he being all Perfection.
Arg. 2. As it is demonstrated from God's Infiniteness and Perfection, so likewise from his Almighty Power, God can create another World greater than this, even in that imaginary space which we can conceive beyond this World; therefore certainly God is now existent there.
Arg. 3. God's Omnipresence may be §3argued from the Eternity of God. God was infinitely existent before the Creation of the World, since he is Eternal, and the World but Temporal; the World hath stood only but some few Thousands of Years, and before the Creation of the World there was nothing but God; and God existed eternally in himself; therefore, though beyond this World there be nothing, yet God will be there actually existing in that same imaginary space beyond this World, as he did exist in an imaginary space before this World was created.