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 scale of Exiſtence. But the wideſt of these our spheres has its Circumference. When therefore we reflect on the Divine Nature, we are so used and accuſtomed to this Imperfection in ourselves, that we cannot forbear in some measure ascribing it to him in whom there is no ſhadow of Imperfection. Our Reason indeed aſſures us that his Attributes are infinite, but the Poorness of our Conceptions is ſuch that it cannot forbear ſetting Bounds to every Thing it contemplates, till our reaſon comes again to our Succour, and throws down all thoſe little prejudices which riſe in us unawares, and are natural to the Mind of Man.

We ſhall therefore utterly extinguiſh this melancholy Thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the Multiplicity of his Works, and the infinity of thoſe Objects among which he ſeems to be inceſſantly employed, if we conſider, in the firſt place, that he is Omnipreſent; and in the ſecond, that he is Omniſcient.

If we conſider him in his Omnipreſence: His Being paſſes through, actuates, and ſupports the whole Frame of Nature. His Creation, and every part of it, is full of him. There is nothing he has made, that is either ſo diſtant, ſo little or ſo inconſiderable, which he does not eſſentially inhabit. His Subſtance is within the ſubſtance of every Being, whether material, or immaterial, and as