Ja 1, 13 Ha 1, 13 Ps 144, 3 Ps 34, 10 Ba 3, 36 Ap 15, 4 1 K2,2 2 M 1,24 they that fear Him shall not lookest Thou upon them that Who can search out His Jb 36 ways? or who can say to Thy eyes are too pure to Him: Thou hast wrought inbehold evil, and Thou canst iquity? not look on iniquity. Why One is good, God. 7. HIS PERFECTION, WHICH CONTAINS IN AN EMINENT DEGREE THE PERFECTIONS OF ALL Great is the Lord, and from all evil, Who didst All my bones shall say: This is our God, and there Mt 19 Who is the blessed and only 1 Ti6, mighty, Who only hath immortality. I will show thee all good. Ex 33, Who shall not fear Thee, He that planted the ear, Eci 24, O Lord, and magnify Thy shall He not hear? or He Name? For Thou only art that formed the eye, doth He holy for all nations shall not consider?-In Me is all come, and shall adore in Thy grace of the way and of the sight, because Thy judgments truth, in Me is all hope of are manifest. life and of virtue. : Shall not I, that make others to bring forth children, Myself bring forth? saith There is none holy as the Is 66, Jn 1, Mt 5,4 Ba 3,25 Ps 144, 3 Jb 36,22 8. HIS INFINITY. Behold, God is high in His Behold, the Gentiles are Is 40, 1 strength, and none is like as a drop of a bucket, and Of His greatness there is no end. are counted as the smallest It is great, and hath no dust.—And Libanus shall not end; it is high and immense. be enough to burn, nor the W11, 23 Am 9, 1-4 Je 23, 23 Ps 138, 7 13 beasts thereof sufficient for Thee is as the least grain of counted to Him as nothing| I shall be satisfied when Ps 16, 15 The whole world before There shall be no flight lead me, and Thy right hand for them, and he that shall shall hold me. And I said: flee of them shall not be de- Perhaps darkness shall cover livered. Though they go me: and night shall be my down even to hell, thence light in my pleasures.-But shall My hand bring them darkness shall not be dark to out: and though they climb Thee, and night shall be light up to heaven, thence will I as the day: the darkness bring them down. And thereof, and the light therethough they be hid in the of, are alike to Thee.-For top of Carmel, I will search Thou hast possessed my reins: and take them away from Thou hast protected me from thence: and though they hide my mother's womb. themselves from My eyes in Heaven is My throne, and the depth of the sea, there the earth My footstool: what will I command the serpent, is this house that you will and he shall bite them ;-And build to Me? and what is if they go into captivity be- this place of My rest? fore their enemies, there will He is not far from every Ac 17, 28 I command the sword, and it one of us; for in Him we live shall kill them. And I will and move and be. Is 66, 1 W1,7 Is 6, 3 The Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world; and Am I, think ye, a God at that which containeth all hand, saith the Lord, and not things hath knowledge of a God afar off ?-Shall a man the voice. be hid in secret places, and I All the earth is full of His not see him? saith the Lord. glory. Do not I fill heaven and Peradventure thou wilt Jb 11,7 earth? saith the Lord. comprehend the steps of Whither shall I go from God, and will find out the Thy Spirit? or whither shall Almighty perfectly?- He is I flee from Thy Face?-If I higher than heaven, and what ascend into heaven, Thou art wilt thou do? He is deeper there: if I descend into hell, than hell, and how wilt thou Thou art present.-If I take know?-The measure of Him my wings early in the morn- is longer than the earth, and ing, and dwell in the utter- broader than the sea. most parts of the sea :-Even Dost not thou think that J622, 12 there also shall Thy hand God is higher than heaven? 3K 8, 27 and is elevated above the Walk before Me, and be Ge 1 perfect. If heaven and the heavens I set the Lord always in of heavens cannot contain my sight: for He is at my Thee, how much less this right hand, that I be not house which I have built? moved. Ps 1 10. HIS IMMUTABILITY. Jn 3, Ps 101, 26 In the beginning, O Lord, mandments, unto a thousand Thou foundedst the earth; generations. and the heavens are the He that hath received His works of Thy hands:-They testimony hath set to his seal shall perish, but Thou re- that God is true. For He mainest; and all of them Whom God hath sent speakshall grow old like a gar- eth the words of God. ment: and as a vesture Thou The triumpher in Israel 1 K15, : shalt change them, and they will not spare, and will not shall be changed.-But Thou be moved to repentance: for art always the self-same, He is not a man that He and Thy years shall not should repent. fail. Je 1, 11 Mt 24, 35 He 6, 17 Dt 7,9 God is true, and every Ro 3, What seest thou, Jeremias? man a liar. If we deny Him, He will 2 Ti2, 1 ing. And the Lord said to also deny us: if we believe God is faithful, Who will 2T3, Wherein God, meaning strengthen and keep you the heirs of the promise the Every best gift, and every Ja 1,17 Thou shalt know that the changed. Hath He said then, them that love Him, and to! I am the Lord, and I change Ma 3,6 's 40, 28 Ps 89,2 11. HIS ETERNITY. Jb 36,26 Is 57, 15 Knowest thou not, or hast| The Lord shall reign for Ex 15, 11 thou not heard? The Lord ever and for ever. is the Everlasting God, Who The number of His years hath created the ends of the is inestimable. earth: He shall not faint nor Thus saith the High and labour, neither is there any the Eminent that inhabiteth searching out of His wisdom. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity Thou art God. Ps 101, 25 Thy years are unto generation and generation. W9, 13 W9, 16 Jb 36, 23 26 16 11, 7 Eci 42, 23 12. eternity. The mercy of the Lord is Ps 102, 17 from. eternity. His power is an everlasting power. Da 7, 14 I was set up from eternity. Pv 8, 23 ever. HIS INCOMPREHENSIBILITY. Who among men is he who | His works! and what we can can know the counsel of God? know is but as a spark. 39 or who can think what the Who first hath perfect Eci 24, 38- that are in heaven, who shall As thou knowest not what Ecl 11, 5 Who can search out His knowest not the works of ways? or who can say to God, Who is the Maker of all. Him: Thou hast wrought Lo, these things are said in Jb 26, 14 iniquity? Remember that part of His ways: and seeing thou knowest not His work, we have heard scarce a little concerning which men have drop of His word, who shall sung. All men see Him, be able to behold the thunevery one beholdeth afar off. der of His greatness? - Behold, God is great, ex- Who hath numbered the Eci 1,2-9 Ro 11, 33 Je 32, 19 W17,1 Eci 18, 2 Ro 1, 19 all things?-To whom hath comprehensible in thought: ful King, and greatly to be Who only hath immor- 1 Ti 6, O the depth of the riches prophesy in part. But when Great in counsel, and in Thy judgments, O Lord, God:-When a man hath are great, and Thy words done, then he shall begin; cannot be expressed: there- and when he leaveth off, he fore undisciplined souls have shall be at a loss. erred. Cold cometh out of the Jb 37, 22 Who is able to declare His north, and to God praise with 14. GOD KNOWN BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE. That which is known of seen, being understood by the God is manifest in them. For things that are made: His God hath manifested it unto Eternal Power also and Dithem. For the invisible vinity: so that they are inthings of Him, from the crea- excusable. 24 tion of the world, are clearly By these good things that W13, 1 |