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 intimately preſent to it, as that Being is to itſelf. It would be an Imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into another, or to withdraw himſelf from any Thing he has created, or from any part of that ſpace which is diffuſed and ſpread abroad to infinity. In ſhort, to ſpeak of him in the Language of the old Philoſophy, he is a Being whole Centre is every where, and his Circumference no where.

In the ſecond Place, he is Omniſcient as well as Omnipreſent. His Omniſcience indeed neceſſarily and naturally flows from his Omnipreſence ; he cannot but be conſcious of every Motion that ariſes in the whole material World, which he thus effentially pervades, and of every Thought that is ſtirring in the intellectual World, to every Part of which he is thus incimately united. Several Moraliſts have conſidered the Creation as the Temple of God, which he has built with his own Hands, and which is filled with his Preſence. Others have conſidered infinite Space as the Receptacle, or rather the Habitation of the Almighty; But the nobleſt and moſt exalted Way of conſidering this infinite Space is that of Sir Iſaac Newton, who calls it the Senſorium of the Godhead. Brutes and Men have their Senſoriola, or little Senſoriums, by which they apprehend the Preſence and perceive the Actions of a few Objects, that lie con-