Of GOD’s INFINITY

1. What is it for God to be [infinite]?

It is to be absolutely without all bounds or limits in his being and perfections.

2. What does the infinity of God imply in it?

His incomprehensibleness, immensity, and omnipresence.

3. What is it for God to be incomprehensible?

It is infinitely to transcend the most enlarged capacity of men or angels, as to his being and perfections.

4. What is the immensity of God?

As it includes his omnipresence, it is that perfection of his nature, whereby he is every-where present with all and every one of his creatures; and infinitely exceeds all their limits and boundaries.

5. What is the difference betwixt the omnipresence and immensity of God?

The omnipresence of God is included in his immensity, and though not separable therefrom, yet may be conceived as having a respect to created substances, with every one of which he is intimately present; whereas his immensity extends infinitely beyond the boundaries of all created substance.

6. Is God every-where present only, as to his knowledge and power?

He is every-where present also as to his essence or being, as is evident from Jer. xxiii. 23, 24.

7. How may this be evinced also from reason?

Reason teacheth us, that no creature can subsist by itself, without the presence of God to uphold it in its being and operation: “In him we live, and move, and have our being.”

8. How is God present with the church here on earth?

He is present, with the church visible, by the ordinances and symbols of his institution; Exodus 20:24 and with the church invisible, or believers, by the inhabitation and operation of his holy Spirit. Ezekiel 36:27

9. How is he present in heaven?

By the most bright and immediate displays of his glory; all the inhabitants of the upper sanctuary seeing him as he is, and enjoying him without interruption for ever.

10. How is he present in hell?

In a way of tremendous power and justice, upholding the damned in their being, that they may lie under the strokes of his vindictive wrath for evermore.

11. What may we learn from God’s omnipresence?

That no affliction or temptation can befal the saints without his knowledge and sympathy.