or hear, or smell, or taste, or touch. The heavens
are glorious indeed, the light is full of glory, but he is not like that.
If all your senses should make an inquiry, and search for him throughout
the world, you should not find him. Though he be near at hand to every one
of us yet our eyes and ears and all our senses, might travel the length of
the earth and breadth of the sea, and should not find him even as you
might search all the corners of heaven ere you could hear or see an angel.
If you would saw a man asunder and resolve him into atoms of dust, yet you
could not perceive a soul within him. Why? Because these are spirits, and
so without the reach of your senses.

II. If God be a Spirit, then he is invisible, and dwells in light
inaccessible, "which no man hath seen or can see." Then our poor narrow
minds, that are drowned, as it were, and immersed in bodies of clay, and
in this state of mortality, receive all knowledge by the senses, cannot
frame any notion of his spiritual and abstracted nature. We cannot
conceive what our own soul is, but by some sensible operation flowing from
it, and the height that our knowledge of that noble part of ourselves
amounts to, is but this dark and confused conception that the soul is some
inward principle of life and sense and reason. How then is it possible for
us to conceive aright of the divine nature, as it is in itself, but only
in a dark and general way? We guess at his majesty, by the glorious
emanations of his power and wisdom, and the ways thereof, which he
displays abroad in all the work of his hands, and from all these
concurring testimonies, and evidences of his majesty, we gather this
confused notion of him, that he is the fountain, self independent Being,
the original of these things, and more absolute in the world than the soul
is in the body, the true _Anima mundi_, the very life and the light of
men, and the soul that quickens, moves, and forms all this visible world,
that makes all things visible, and himself is invisible. Therefore it is
that the Lord speaks to us in Scripture of himself, according to our
capacities,--of his face, his right hand, and arm, his throne, his sceptre,
his back parts his anger, his fury, his repentance, his grief, and
sorrow,--none of which are properly in his spiritual, immortal, and
unchangeable nature. But because our dulness and slowness is such in
apprehending things spiritual, it being almost without the sphere and
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