, a legion may be in one man, and have room enough. If there
were a wall of brass or tower, having no opening, neither above nor
beneath, no body could enter but by breaking through, and making a breach
into it, but an angel or spirit could storm it without a breach, and
pierce through it without any division of it. How much more doth the Maker
of all spirits fill all in all! The thickness of the earth doth not keep
him out, nor the largeness of the heavens contain him. How then do we
circumscribe and limit him within the bounds of a public house, or the
heavens? O! how narrow thoughts have we of his immense greatness, who,
without division or multiplication of himself, fills all the corners of
the world,--whose indivisible unity is equivalent to an infinite extension
and divisibility! How often, I pray you, do you reflect upon this? God is
near to every one of us. Who of us thinks of a divine Majesty nearer us
than our very souls and consciences, "in whom we live and move, and have
our being"? How is it we move, and think not with wonder of that first
Mover in whom we move? How is it we live and persevere in being and do not
always consider this fountain-Being in whom we live and have our being? O,
the atheism of many souls professing God! We do speak, walk, eat, and
drink, and go about all our businesses, as if we were self being, and
independent of any, never thinking of that all present quickening Spirit,
that acts us, moves us, speaks in us, makes us to walk and eat and drink,
as the barbarous people who see, hear, speak and reason, and never once
reflect upon the principle of all these, to discern a soul within. This is
brutish, and in this, man who was made of a straight countenance to look
upward to God, and to know himself and his Maker, till he might be
differenced from all creatures below, is degenerated, and become like the
beasts that perish. Who of us believes this all present God? We imagine
that he is shut up in heaven, and takes no such notice of affairs below,
but certainly, he is not so far from us, though he show more of his glory
above, yet he is as present and observant below.

V. If he be a Spirit, then as he is incomprehensible and immense in being,
so also there is no comprehension of his knowledge. The nearer any
creature comes to the nature of a spirit, the more knowing and
understanding it is. Life is the most excellent being, and understanding
is the most excellent life. _Materia est iners et