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2. In pretending to know, if any thing can be added, how much, or how little can.

1. In saying nothing can be added to, or be without the compass of, what is infinite. For then there could be no Creation, which I cannot doubt him to grant. Before there was any, was there not an infinitude of Being in the eternal Godhead? And hath the Creation nothing in it of real Being? Or will you say the Being of the Creature is the Being of God? I know what may be said (and is elsewhere said) to this, and 'twill better serve my purpose than his.

2. In pretending to know what can, or cannot be added. Or that, in the way of necessary eternal Emanation, there cannot be an infinite addition; tho not in the way of voluntary, or arbitrary and temporary production. The reason of the difference is too obvious to need elucidation to them that can consider. But for your part (I must tell my Antagonist) you have concluded your self, even as to that which carries the greatest appearance of impossibility, come off as ⟨p. 76⟩you can.¹ You say, a Body of an Inch square, is not only not infinite in extension, but is a very small Body; yet it hath this infinite power, to be divisible to infinity. So, I suppose, you must say of half that Inch, or a quarter, or the thousandth part of it, much more of two, or twenty, or a thousand Inches. You say, indeed, this Body it self is not infinite. Nor will I insist upon the trite and common Objection against you. How can any thing be divisible into parts which it hath not in it? Which yet Men have not talked away, by talking it often over. Still haeret lateri —Nor of an infinite Power's being lodged in a finite (and so minute a) Subject. But, in the mean time, here are Infinites upon Infinites, an infinite Power upon an infinite Power multiplied infinitely; and still these infinite Powers greater and less than other, as either the Inch is augmented,