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 Q. 4. What are the perfections of God?

A. Power, wisdom, goodness, justice, mercy, holiness, truth, beauty, eternity, immensity, and many others, of which we can have no idea. So that God is infinitely powerful, infinitely wise, infinitely good, infinitely just, infinitely merciful, infinitely holy, infinitely true, infinitely beautiful, eternal, immense, and unchangeable.

Q. 5. What do you mean by infinitely powerful?

A. I mean that God can do all things whatsoever He pleases, and in what manner He pleases; so that nothing is impossible or difficult to Him.

Q. 6. How does this appear from Scripture?

A. On this head the Scripture declares (i.) That "with God all things are possible," Mat. xix. 26; and that " no word shall be impossible with God," Luke, i. 37. (2.) That He created this world, and all that it contains, out of nothing, by His word alone; for "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," Gen. i. i. "He made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all things that are in them," Ps. cxlv. 6. "In Him were all things created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominations, or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and in Him," Col. i. 16. "He spoke the word, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created," Ps. cxlviii. 5. (3.) That He can do in all creatures whatsoever He pleases; for " whatsoever the Lord pleased He hath done in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths," Ps. cxxxiv. 6, (4.) That "all things are in His power, and that there is none that can resist His will," Esther, xiii. 9; for " He alone is mighty, the King of kings, and Lord of lords," i Tim. vi. 15.

Q. 7. What do you mean by infinitely wise?

A. I mean that God knows all things, past, present, and